SciFoo 2007 has finished, and by all accounts it was really successful with all sorts of good sessions. More importantly, the cube-with-the-stars-in-it freebie that my colleagues have brought back is really cool: I might have to try and wangle an invite next year!
But a weekend isn’t really long enough to do more than scratch the surface, and to continue the discussions started at SciFoo, Jean-Claude Bradley has set up an area on Second Nature called SciFoo Lives On.
Any SciFoo participants are welcome to put up the slides from their presentations and any other materials there, for all visitors to see – take a look at Jean-Claude’s blog for more details on how and why.
As well as static displays, Jean-Claude is also keen to see how running sessions in Second Life would work: participants would come to the SciFoo area at a chosen time and there would be a SciFoo style discussion – it would just be in Second Life instead. He has proposed a session on “Tools for Open Science” and there is a thread on the Nature Network Second Life group
where you can find details, dates, and suggest other sessions.
Jo, If you wangle an invite for next year can you wangle one for me too. I’d go just to interact with the SF authors.
I absolutely second that – Andrew would make a great guest for next year. He’s responsible for coding the molecules and reaction mechanisms that we’ve been demonstrating in Second Life. And he’s not even a chemist but a mathematician :)
Sessions have been going well.
Here is today’s on Medicine and Web 2.0