Science Blogging Conference: Full Steam Ahead
Matt Brown
Monday, 14 April 2008 16:49 UTC
Good news all. The Royal Institution in London (where 10 chemical elements were discovered) have offered to host a European science blogging conference later this year, if we organise it.
Whoop!
ScienceBlogs are also onboard for this, so with you guys and their guys we’ll have an impressive gathering.
The first thing to do is pick a date.
To avoid clashes with the RI’s busy events schedule, and to make it easier for non-Londoners to attend, we think a Saturday would be best. The RI is available on these dates.
Aug 16th, 23rd, 30th
Sept 13th
So, what works best for people?
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Me, too. From _Nature_’s perspective, editors will be attending from their own pockets, and as it is a Saturday we don’t get to have a day out of the office “for work reasons” either, but are donating our “own time” ;-). But, we don’t mind, it is going to be great to have a European opportunity to meet Nature Network (and other science) bloggers.
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@Heather: I will probably be doing this ‘on work time’ which means in effect the cost of the train ticket into London will come off a grant or something. But its easier for me. This is ‘my research area’ in many ways.
Incidentally I would like to put in a partial vote for the unconference thing. But I would strongly recommend having a partial schedule so that it is possible to give people who intend to travel an ‘invitation to speak’. This will make it much easier for people to get travel costs covered
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Well, I’m a n00b to the NN blog, and Corie has been bullying me to go. I’ll be in the UK for a wedding in September and some of the dates look like they overlap. Looking forward to meeting y’all there!
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