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.
- John
- intro
- Barbara
- open publishing experience
- Susy
- open standards
- Sri
- OpenWetWare
- Synthetic Biology
- 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,
Sri --
John -- SC mission to simplify licensing restrictions?
Technology
Suzy -- Standards at Sun and in IT Development
Sri -- Initiatives in SB to set biological standards: Parts registry, BioBricks Foundation, et cetera
John -- Access to scientific data
Barbera -- Getting information resources to talk with one another.
Culture
Barbera -- Reward structures & Publishing Models.
John -- Science Commons
Sri -- OpenWetWare