What Shirley said: The call for participation for the Open Science workshop at PSB 2009 is now up! We welcome anyone with an interest in open science to submit proposals for talks. Note that although space is limited for talks and demos, anyone who registers for the conference can present a poster, so we also encourage poster submissions! Please if you are interested in submitting a talk or poster get in touch.

Cameron Neylon

What [Shirley
said](http://onebiglab.blogspot.com/2008/03/psb-open-science-workshop-call-for.html):

> The [call for participation](http://psb.stanford.edu/cfp-opensci.html)
> for the Open Science [workshop](http://psb.stanford.edu/workshop.html)
> at [PSB 2009](http://psb.stanford.edu/) is now up! We welcome anyone
> with an interest in open science to submit proposals for talks. Note
> that although space is limited for talks and demos, anyone who
> registers for the conference can present a poster, so we also
> encourage poster submissions!

Please if you are interested in submitting a talk or poster get in
touch. We would like to have a good and robust discussion with a range
of perspectives on a range of topics. We are limited with respect to the
time available so there will be some tough decisions to make.
Nonetheless, please do get in touch; we would very much like to have a
good representation of posters as well as talks. If there is interest
then we can organise an unofficial session on the side of the meeting to
take things further, perhaps towards 'Open Science 2009'Â  a meeting in
its own right?


What Shirley said:  Please if you are interested in submitting a talk or poster get in touch. We would like to have a good and robust discussion with a range of perspectives on a range of topics. We are limited with respect to the time available so there will be some tough decisions to make. Nonetheless, please do get in touch; we would very much like to have a good representation of posters as well as talks.

Open Science at PSB &#8211; Call for submissions

Shirley has already [posted a quick
notice](http://onebiglab.blogspot.com/2008/03/psb-proposal-accepted-for.html)
on this but I thought I would follow up. Our
[proposal](http://precedings.nature.com/documents/1633/version/1) for a
session at the [Pacific Symposium on
Biocomputing](http://psb.stanford.edu/) on Open Science was successful
and we have been asked to put together a workshop session to run on
January 5 next year in Hawaii.

This is a slight departure for PSB. The workshop sessions are slightly
shorter than the traditional sessions and full papers will not feature
in the proceedings. However as [one of the
concerns](http://blog.openwetware.org/scienceintheopen/2008/03/08/what-to-use-as-a-the-primary-key-for-chemicals/#comment-1005)
was that getting full papers in six months before the meeting would be
difficult, that it might be a challenge to get people to submit
conference papers, and they would be out of date by the meeting, this
looks like a win-win situation. Also we have more or less complete
freedom to structure the session as we see fit.

The current idea is a series of talks followed by a panel discussion but
the details are negotiable. We will be putting out a call for
submissions soon, and we will be directly contacting some of you to
solicit submissions for a talk. Those giving a talk will have to
register (and pay) for the meeting by September 19. While there is
likely to be [some support
available](http://psb.stanford.edu/keydates.html) from the PSB
organizers there are no guarantees. We realise that this will make it
difficult for some people but at the moment we don't have any additional
sources of funding available. We are of course very happy to write
letters of support for local funding applications to support travel and
registration for the meeting.

In addition to this we need to put together a five page introduction
discussing the aims and background to the workshop. This is due on
September 22. Naturally we will be aiming to write this in the open and
will hopefully make a start on that soon. All assistance will be
gratefully received and we will almost certainly make significant use of
pre-existing material that is available. It might be appropriate to
start a discussion on how we manage authorship of such documents for the
future before we get too far down that road.

Finally on PSB another question: do people want to try and organise an
'extra' session for ourselves around the PSB meeting? How many people
think they can make it? This could be as simple as an evening in a bar
or restaurant or as formal as seeing if we can get a lecture theatre for
an extra half or full day. Obviously that would cost money -- which we'd
need to find from somewhere but if there is a strong desire for this
then we can look into it.

And finally, finally; there are moves afoot to organise an Open Science
workshop at the [BioSysBio
meeting](http://conferences.theiet.org/biosysbio/) in London (April
20-22, workshop would be on Monday 21st). Could people who are planning
to be at the meeting get in touch either in the comments or by email \[C
doit Neylon blat rl.ac.uk\] so we can look at what could be organised
for that? Again the thinking is a couple of talks followed by a panel
discussion. People from publishers (open access or not) and with
contrary views are particularly welcome. Lets have a good and vigorous
discussion!


Shirley has already posted a quick notice on this but I thought I would follow up. Our proposal for a session at the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing on Open Science was successful and we have been asked to put together a workshop session to run on January 5 next year in Hawaii.  This is a slight departure for PSB. The workshop sessions are slightly shorter than the traditional sessions and full papers will not feature in the proceedings.

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