SXSW Open Science Panel

The Open Science Panel, hosted by John Wilbanks, at the 2006 South by South Interactive Festival will discuss the development of legal, economic and technical approaches to openness in science. This page is to help organize the panel's thoughts on what should be discussed at the panel.

Participants

Moderator: John Wilbanks -- Exec Dir, Science Commons

Barbara Cohen -- Exec Editor, Public Library of Science
Sri Kosuri -- Graduate Student, MIT/OpenWetWare
Antoun Nabhan -- Principal, Sagamore Bioventures
Susy Struble -- Sun Microsystems

Format

Everyone should be ready to give a five minute overview, no slides or at most two slides, as we get started.

1. John
   • intro
2. Barbara
   • open publishing experience
3. Susy
   • open standards
4. Sri
   • OpenWetWare
   • Synthetic Biology
5. Antoun
   • costs of innovation

We will try to keep this section under 30 minutes to have a larger discussion/Q&A session. If no one comes, we can occupy the time talking to each other.

Logistics

We are supposed to meet in the Green Room (Ballroom E) on Tuesday morning by 9AM. There is a tentative plan to meet for dinner and/or drinks on Monday night in Austin somewhere. At some point, we should send contact info to each other over email.

Conference Call Summary

The conversation we had seems to be a great place to seed discussions and thoughts after the short intros. I will summarize what I remember of the discussion here. Please feel free to edit away.

The discussion was centered around three major topics:

Intellectual Property

Antoun -- talked about how venture and new companies are operating under current intellectual property regimes. In emerging fields,

Technology

Suzy -- Standards

Culture

Reward structures. Publishing Models.

Related Stuff

2006 SXSW Interactive Panelist FAQ