How can we plan the future?

First many thanks to Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport for free wireless. Much appreciated. Why can’t others be less mean?
Today we set ourselves the challenge of how to plan the future of eScholarship. As the report will appear later it would be unfair to anticipate their findings, but I can at least indicate my own suggestions and to say that they were well received.
We should look beyond classical adherence to publication-driven metrics and hiding the scientific output before (or even after) conventional publication. I highlighted what Jean Claude Bradley is doing by publishing his work as he does the experiments and that this type of activity should be promoted in the next decade. That we should build virtual communities based on discovering collaborators by ‘net contacts, drawn together by the force-filed of similar thought patterns. That we should cross discpline boundaries in searching for challenges to the world’s problems by pooling public knowledge and community expertise. Readers will see that J-C has built part of his laboratory in SecondLife.
That we should have the courage to trust young people’s vision and judgment. (Remember that many of the great chemists of the past were young – read Great Discoveries by Young Chemists: by Kendall J if you can get the book). I suggest that we should have a radical program of undergraduate eduaction where the new students – who have never known anything other than the e-universe. That there should be encouragement for these students to create their own proposals (how old were the founders of Google?)
We also discussed the governance of e-organisations like Wikipedia and the Blue Obelisk. How can funding bodies help such bodies develop? What happens when they reach a critical size? There is certainly an excitement among some of the delegates.