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

Francesco Buccafurri bucca
Fri Nov 4 11:24:08 EDT 2011


Dear Alls,
but you really think that all life can be replaced
by on-line social networks?
A conference is a complex experience with a lot
of aspects that on-line meetings cannot reproduce at all.
The travel, the full immersion in the conference environment,
the coffe-breaks, the social events with the colluegues,
the human interactions are the real contributions of
a conference.
A lot of collaborations, ideas, projects start
thanks to a conference since it is really an "Event", that
change for a few days our routine, making everything
potentially impressive.
I definitely do not think that all this can be even
approximated by the most advanced social network platform...
I vote for an opposite petition!

Best Regards
Francesco

Francesco Buccafurri
Full Professor of Computer Science
University of Reggio Calabria - Italy

----- Messaggio originale -----
> Da: "Pars Mutaf" <pars.mutaf at gmail.com>
> A: "Stephen F Bush (GE Global Research)" <bushsf at research.ge.com>
> Cc: "TCCC" <tccc at lists.cs.columbia.edu>
> Inviato: Venerd?, 4 novembre 2011 13:42:19
> Oggetto: Re: [Tccc] Online scientific social networking (Updated the old petition: Replacing scientific conferences
> with a cheap and efficient on-line open system)
> 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
> > _______________________________________________
> > IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer
> > Communications
> > (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication.
> > Tccc at lists.cs.columbia.edu
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> >
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