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  • From: Giorgos Cheliotis <giorgos AT smu.edu.sg>
  • To: <commons-research AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Commons-research] Workshops or Meetings?
  • Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:40:07 +0800

Hi Wojciech,
 
your tools are very close to my interests as I've been exploring SNA myself and have also been looking for alternatives to Excel+SPSS/SAS.
 
People have been throwing around some ideas about special panels/discussions on research-related topics, and one was about open access, open peer reviewing, etc. A panel or workshop on open research tools might be interesting as well. You can always submit a proposal through the isummit submission process, but to make sure that this crowd notices it I think it would be great if you flesh out your ideas a bit more and circulate on this list again.
 
In the end, depending on the number and quality of submissions we receive for research presentations we will try to balance such presentations against the demand for more discussion-oriented sessions.
 
Also you may want to consider presenting your tools and related stuff at the speed-geeking sessions planned for work that is research-related but not very academic in nature.
 
Giorgos

From: Wojciech Gryc
Sent: Thu 4/17/2008 2:48 PM
To: commons-research AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [Commons-research] Workshops or Meetings?

Hi,

I've been browsing the commons-research list archives and am curious whether presentations / meetings / workshops other than for papers are possible to suggest for this lab?

Specifically, I'd be curious to sit down with the research-oriented participants and discuss the tools and data sets they are using, how they're using them, the issues surrounding open data availability, and so on. If there's interest in this, I'm happy to submit a session or moderate one.

To provide a quick overview, my own research focuses on social network analysis and machine learning in the blogosphere, though I also do a lot of work in international development. There's two open source tools I've developed over the last 1.5 years or so: http://www.egotistics.net/ and http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/R_and_Calc

While I don't feel any of this merits a paper submission, I would be very interested in meeting with others to hear about their software, challenges to research, and potential ways we can collaborate. Would anyone else be interested in this?

Thanks,
Wojciech

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