Hi Cameron,

I've recently become interested in open science and have been following the various blogs with interest. It was quite exciting to hear about the grant proposal, and I hope it is accepted! You and others have inspired me to start a blog of my own (co-authored with other lab members), which is only a week old, but I hope that it will help us organize our thoughts on open science - http://onebiglab.blogspot.com

Since you mentioned organizing an international meeting on the subject and publicizing open science, I'm curious what your thoughts (and anyone else's who reads this!) would be on participating in a session on Open Science at the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing at PSB. They don't traditionally cover non-primary research/methods tracks, but they do pride themselves on being at the cutting edge of biology and biocomputing, so I am hoping they will be amenable to the idea. If there was support from, shall we say, the founders of this movement, I think it would help a great deal towards making it happen.

Of course, it doesn't have to happen at PSB, and I would welcome the opportunity to participate in a session at some other meeting, but I like the idea of PSB because the attendees will likely be very interested in the topic, and the meeting is always held in Hawaii. ;) The next meeting is Jan 5-9, 2009, and the deadline for session proposals is Feb 8th.