Here are the key points from the WG meeting on Dec 1, followed by a list of tasks to which you could you could contribute and upcoming events. If you’d like more detailed updates on projects or to view the full minutes, visit http://okfnpad.org/sciencewg-meetings

Updates

Panton Principles:
– Panton Papers are in progress and the BMC is willing to publish these once complete.
– Further publicity and info such as a web banner and PP related podcasts are in progress.

WG Community:
– The home of the Open Science WG is here http://science.okfn.org/ and we hope to have more content posted soon as well as links to the Wiki and other relevant pages.
– There should soon be a Google Calendar for all Open Science related meetings and events of interest – more details on how to contribute to both the blog and calendar pending.

Planned Events:
– An Open Data in Science event is being planned for February 2011 in Oxford.
– There may be scope for organising an Open Data in Science Workshop in the future.
– Speaker suggestions are needed for the OKCon science stream (see Things to Do below)
– See OKF/Open Science Related Events below for confirmed events.

IsItOpen Requests:
– Template letter by Heather and Peter can be found at http://okfnpad.org/isitopenLetters
– All requests have been answered and Heather has blogged about the results and tips/lessons learned at http://science.okfn.org/
– Might be time to pause and consider the process, maybe tips/lessons learned could be fed back into system.

Things to Do!

1) Heather Piwowar would like to draw people’s attention to a community hub for progress notes on tool support for tracking citations to nontraditional products. Please contribute if you have suggestions for how to move this forward! http://bit.ly/cFgi94
2) The annual OKF conference OKCon will be taking place again next year and we are looking for suggestions of speakers to invite for a science themed stream – check the pad for current suggestions and add your own.
3) Make some Is It Open? requests! For more information see Heather’s blog posts at http://science.okfn.org/ and visit http://www.isitopendata.org/ to make your request.
4) Iain Hrynaszkiewicz at BMC is continuing to draft open data goals following on from the BMC open data statement. He would like input and suggestions from the WG on documenting the steps to implementing the BMC open data statement. Look out for future emails from Iain regarding this and please contribute.

OKF/Open Science Related Events:

13-14th Dec 2010 – Open Access Open Data Conference http://www.oaod2010.de
WG member Iain Hrynaszkiewicz is attending. Get in touch if you are too, or if there are any OKF related points you would like Iain to raise/discuss.

15-16th Jan 2011 – Peter Murray-Rust is organising a 2 day hackathon involving the OKF and JISC in Cambridge, followed by….
17th Jan 2011 – Peter Murray-Rust Symposium
http://www-ucc.ch.cam.ac.uk/news/peter-murray-rust-symposium-17th-january-2011
More information on http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/.
Please register if you’d like to attend.