It’s our pleasure to invite you to join the **Citizen Science Open Technical Workshop** to be held **Wednesday 30th January 16:00 CET** virtually using Google Hangout.

You can attend the meeting and send all your comments in this [Youtube channel](http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbkYEbbo8qMYbA3P5iLanGw) or this [twitter account](http://twitter.com/SOCIETIC_EU).

Over 2 hours, we’ll have expert talks and open discussions about technologies for volunteer computing and thinking projects like:

* [BOINC](http://boinc.berkeley.edu/), the popular volunteer computing desktop middleware used in scientific projects like [Seti@Home](http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/) where volunteers donate their computing resources for analyzing radio telescope data, [Einstein@Home](http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/index.php) where you could help analyzing weak astrophysical signals from spinning neutron stars, or CERN’s [LHC@Home](http://lhcathome.web.cern.ch/LHCathome/) where the users help the physicists to develop and exploit particle accelerators like CERN’s [Large Hadron Collider](http://cern.ch/public/en/lhc/lhc-en.html).
* [BOSSA](http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/BossaOverview), a distributed thinking framework for creating scientific projects where the volunteers perform tasks that require human intelligence, knowledge, or cognitive skills. An example of this technology is the project [Transcribe Bleek & Lloyd](http://boinc.cs.uct.ac.za/transcribe_bushman/) where the volunteers help to transcribe Bushman hand written documents.
* [PyBossa](http://dev.pybossa.com/), the OKFN’s framework for volunteer thinking projects where volunteers could participate in scientific applications like [Feynman’s Flowers](http://crowdcrafting.org/app/feynmanflowers) where the volunteers help to study how molecules interact with the surfaces they are stuck to, [ForestWatchers.net](http://forestwatchers.net/) where the users can help to detect deforested areas from satellite images in forests, or for example helping in damage assessment cases like with the [Pablo Typhoon](http://crowdcrafting.org/app/philippinestyphoon) or [oil spills by Shell](http://crowdcrafting.org/app/shelltranscription) experienced by the company in the Niger Delta (Nigeria).
* [Furnivall](https://github.com/Ibercivis/Furnivall), a framework for distributed volunteer science. It helps to organize batches of tasks, collect them form volunteers and it does all the related housekeeping.
* [Ourgrid](http://www.ourgrid.org/) a grid middleware based on a peer-to-peer architecture. This middleware enables the creation of peer-to-peer computational grids,
* and other technologies.

The speakers are:

* David Anderson (Univ. Berkeley),
* Daniel Lombraña (CCC),
* Francisco Sanz (BIFI),
* Eduardo Lostal (Ibercivis),
* Francisco Brasileiro (Univ. Fed. Campina Grande),
* Candida Silva (Univ. Coimbra),
* Juanjo Molinero (software developer).

The workshop is co-organized by the Ibercivis Foundation and the [Society as Infrastructure for e-Science project](http://www.societic-project.eu/) funded by the European Commission under FP7.