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Is anyone else from

Greg — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 23:27:14 -0400

Is anyone else from nodalpoint going ? Speaking for myself, no. The web site clearly states that this is an exclusive, invite only event. Since I didn't get an invite... :)

O'Reilly have had a lot of push back over their Foo Camps. The general feeling is that an invite only, closed event that discusses open source, open science is somewhat ironic...

In response members of the tech community created BarCamp, an open version of FooCamp. More background on this little storm-in-a-teacup can be found here, here, here and here. Tim O'Reilly's response to all this.

Personally, the invite only aspect is not such a big deal, O'Reilly are free to invite who they like, but the irony will not be missed by the scientific community. Nonetheless, well done Pedro for being recognised as one of the leaders in thinking about Science 2.0, I look forward to the coverage (esp. regarding open science, online publishing) and maybe finding out what goes on in the googleplex :)

Will there be an open wiki or mp3's made available for those not attending ?

Nice one

chris — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 21:31:11 -0400

Well done Pedro - I understand it's quite a recognition to be invited to one of these. I'd like to see what ideas people have for actually implementing open science (as opposed to theorising about how it would be a great idea).

I look forward to reading your coverage.

Foo camps are not self-organizing

BrianHaugen — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 14:31:34 -0400

FOO stands for Friends Of O'reilly, the book publisher. FOO camps are invite-only, and O'Reilly keeps pretty quiet about who is there and what is discussed. Participants often write-up their experiences, but the event is for all purposes a closed event.

Nodalpoint @ Science Foo Camp

PedroBeltrao — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 06:57:44 -0400

(via Nascent) The official announcement of the upcoming Science Foo Camp is up at Nascent blog. A foo camp is a kind of self-organizing event where the program is built literally in wiki style. I don't know exactly why, but I get to go to Googleplex to hear an amazing group of people talk about their work and brainstorm some ideas that we have discussed here several times. Having seen the list of people attending and some of the expected/proposed discussions some of the things that will probably be on the agenda are unique authors IDs, open science (or science2.0), online science communities (like Synaptic Leap and OpenWetWare), data visualization and data management.