[Tccc] Online scientific social networking (Updated the old petition: Replacing scientific conferences with a cheap and efficient on-line open system)
Pars Mutaf
pars.mutaf
Fri Nov 4 09:40:14 EDT 2011
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Emmanuel Lochin
<emmanuel.lochin at gmail.com>wrote:
> On 4 November 2011 14:00, Pars Mutaf <pars.mutaf at gmail.com> wrote:
> > General answer to this Steve's approach:
> >
> > Please let's compare it with the money we spend for 100s of conferences.
>
> Hi Pars,
>
> I'm quite confused ... the problem is a question of pace of review or
> a question of conference cost? Because taking into account only the
> cost related to the subscription of a conference is too simplistic.
> You miss the impact of conferences for local researchers that have
> difficulties to travel and the overall obvious impact on the economy
> for some countries.
>
Hi Emmanuel,
I don't understand. We say nothing against conferences although they are
obviously too expensive.
Pars
> Regards
>
> Emmanuel
>
> > (BTW dear chair the goal was to open a new discussion, but discuss it if
> > you wish of course)
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Pars Mutaf <pars.mutaf at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Bush, Stephen F (GE Global Research) <
> >> bushsf at research.ge.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I haven't been following the thread on this one, but just from reading
> the
> >>> petition, IMHO, it comes off sounding like spoiled children who want
> lots
> >>> of
> >>> free things.
> >>>
> >>>
> >> non-sense.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> If this is really necessary, time would be better spent developing a
> >>> business
> >>> plan to make it successful, or at least somewhat attractive to a
> business
> >>> or
> >>> agency, not just demanding a list of free things.
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Do it please. We are also working on it. The goal of the petition is to
> >> support the idea so that it is adopted.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> Steve
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: tccc-bounces at lists.cs.columbia.edu
> >>> [mailto:tccc-bounces at lists.cs.columbia.edu] On Behalf Of Pars Mutaf
> >>> Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 3:06 AM
> >>> To: TCCC
> >>> Subject: [Tccc] Online scientific social networking (Updated the old
> >>> petition:
> >>> Replacing scientific conferences with a cheap and efficient on-line
> open
> >>> system)
> >>>
> >>> Dear all,
> >>>
> >>> Based on your input and many discussions on different mailing lists we
> >>> have
> >>> updated the petition "Replacing scientific conferences with a cheap and
> >>> efficient on-line open system."
> >>>
> >>> The following new petition expresses much better our (signers) argument
> >>> and
> >>> the solution that we want:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/we-want-online-scientific-social-networking.html
> >>>
> >>> SO PLEASE MAKE ONE MORE EFFORT: Sign it and share it with ALL your
> >>> colleagues.
> >>>
> >>> Pars
> >>> _______________________________________________
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> >>>
> >>
> >>
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