The Third Panton Discussion took place today at 2010-09-13:15:00 in the Panton Arms when Richard Grant of The Scientist/Faculty_of_1000 visited Cambridge.
I was the only OKF member able to be present, but this worked very well because it was really me-as-scientist that Richard wanted to talk to. As you can see the discussion was doubly recorded – Richard had a video camera and Adam Thorn had an audio recorder (near my hand).
After an introduction from Richard about F1000, etc. the conversation concentrated on Open Data – why? What are the difficulties? What are the incentives? We have got this all recorded and the next phase is to get it cut into chunks and post it, with intervening commentary.
Some of you are probably asking “where are the first two discussions?” It’s taking time and I and Brian have been pre-occupied, but we are going to chop them into snippets and post them. We are still keen for volunteers to transcribe, but we are not relying on this. So we’ll probably go a bit easy on the schedule until we’ve got into the swing of doing this.
It was good to meet, Peter, and an interesting discussion. I’ll edit the video in the next day or two.
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