[Tccc] Online scientific social networking (Updated the old petition: Replacing scientific conferences with a cheap and efficient on-line open system)

Emmanuel Lochin emmanuel.lochin
Fri Nov 4 10:07:40 EDT 2011


On 4 November 2011 14:50, Pars Mutaf <pars.mutaf at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Emmanuel Lochin <emmanuel.lochin at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On 4 November 2011 14:40, Pars Mutaf <pars.mutaf at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > Hi Emmanuel,
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>> > I don't understand. We say nothing against conferences although they are
>> > obviously too expensive.
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>> Sorry Pars but you wrote : "Scientific conferences cost too much to
>> the world ($500-1000 USD for registration not counting travel and
>> hotel), are harmful to the planet (too much traveling) and not always
>> useful"
>> This is a strong statement isn't it ?
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> Yes it is strong and it is true.

I believe this is a simplistic and narrow vision and this argument is
obviously against conferences. Anyway ... as already said, "just do
it".

Regards

EL

> (btw, where is the rest of the sentence? :-))
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>> EL
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