See below for a summary of key points from the WG meeting on Feb 16 2011, followed by a list of things you could contribute to and any interesting events that are coming up. If you’d like more detailed updates on projects or to view the full minutes, visit the meeting Etherpad.

The next meeting will be Wednesday 9th March, 17:30 GMT.

Updates:

1) Panton Papers Drafts:
The PP drafts are ongoing, please see the meeting Etherpad for an update from Greg on his Intellectual Property and Data paper and see previous emails for more information on who is doing what.

2) Advertising the working group and collaborative activities:
There are many groups with similar interests to our own, a few potential groups to get in touch with are listed on the Etherpad but please feel free to add others!

3) CKAN Package Parties/Hack sessions:

One way to collaborate with other subject specific groups could be to organise short time periods where we work to add/curate data packages on CKAN within a certain theme and make Is It Open? requests as applicable.

Egon Willighagen introduced the meeting to the topic of linked open drug data. There is already a group of packages added to CKAN but we could add others and send requests where the openness of data is not clear. A package party is provisionally scheduled for Monday March 7th at 19:00 GMT, for about an hour. More details to follow, but please put the date in your diary! If you know any other open sciencers in your area, why not make it a physical meet up? Preferably with cake, which always improves both attendance and productivity.

Hopefully this will be a regular activity, so if there is an open science data theme you think needs attention, please bring it up at a future meeting.

4) OKCon Science Participation:
The call for participation at the Open Knowledge Conference 2011 can be found here. It would be great to get plenty of open scientific data related proposals, so please forward this to any people or organisations you think would be interested.

There is a list of where the CFP has already been sent on the OKCon Etherpad.

5) Open Science Working Group page:
The home of the working group currently has a lovely but irrelevant landscape as its page header. Suggestions were sought for a new image and Amrapali has offered to generate an open science themed word cloud using Wordle.
Watch this space for an image revamp!

We also hope to embed or link to a calendar listing all meeting dates and relevant conferences and events submitted by group members or tagged as open science related on Lanyrd.

Things to Do!
1) Join the linked open drug data package party on Monday 7th March, 19:00 GMT
2) Send the OKCon CFP to any people/organisations you think might be interested in participating
3) Continue collaborating and commenting on Panton Paper drafts, see the meeting minutes here and here for more information.

OKF/Open Science Related Events:
30 Jun/1 Jul – OKCon at Kalkscheune, Berlin , see the website for more details and to register.