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17 Jan 2022: TL;DR We had a great session at FORCE2015 yesterday in Oxford – people liked it, understood it, and are wanting to join us.

17 Jan 2022: AMI and Brenda] We had a very well attended (full Unitarian Church) of Cambridge people wishing to hear about TTIP (“Tee-tip”) the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnershipl.

17 Jan 2022: I’m serious. From start to finish this was a superb three-day meeting of young people who know that current scholarship/publishing/university_practice has so many injustices and so

17 Jan 2022: Many people now feel that the CC-NC and CC-ND licences are counterproductive – I estimate that in “Open Access” alone this is costing >> 1 billion USD in forbidding re-use

17 Jan 2022: It’s been great to talke with the people who have … Continue reading.

17 Jan 2022: Whatever for? Well JISC ran a day for people to find out about their latest capital call … Continue reading.

17 Jan 2022: They paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to a PR “expert” Dezenhall whose speciality is dirtying people and organisations.

17 Jan 2022: It’s difficult to show demand for something that isn’t widely available and which people have been scared to use publicly.

17 Jan 2022: 14 people came which is a wonderful number – enough to get a sense of critical mass.

17 Jan 2022: Unless I get a licence I will be closed down. (I know some people would … Continue reading.

17 Jan 2022: maloney-and-issa/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3AScienceInTheOpen+%28Scienceintheopen%29 ) Cameron, like me, knows that Semantic science depends on people … Continue reading.

17 Jan 2022: Puntcon was a great success – wonderful weather and probably > 40 people of all ages. ... Also many people from the culture of openness and digital democracy – #mySociety, #OpenKnowledgeFoundation, #OpenRightsGroup, etc.

17 Jan 2022: I stress that these are people and organizations that make a real difference to me as a scientist. ... I stress that these are people and organizations that make a real difference to strongme as a scientist/strong.

17 Jan 2022: The http://www.blueobelisk.org is a very loose collaboration of people who work together … Continue reading.

17 Jan 2022: But in the spirit of the several posts from people looking back and looking forwards I thought I would offer a few.

17 Jan 2022: Legal language uses “chilling” to describe when people or organizations are frightened of being sued or otherwise penalized. ... These papers contain literally billions of dollars of unrealised value but very few people care about this.

17 Jan 2022: comments weren’t very good)br / no chemistry, genomics, genomicsbr / low awareness of trialbr / why do people not comment? ... CERN to manage (So organising a publishing project is small beer compared with lowering a 1200 tonne magnet down a shaftbr /

17 Jan 2022: Tomorrow a small group of people interested in “textmining” will have a Skype meeting under the auspices of the OKFN.

17 Jan 2022: As always I do not know what I shall say in detail until I get there and talk with people.

17 Jan 2022: The ACS gets paid by subscribers. If alien landed from a foreign planet, I couldn’t explain to them what all the fuss is about… Why should the ACS lobby to