A possible way to go global (>7 countries) with... - Science 2.0

"An ESF Research Networking Programme is a networking activity bringing together nationally funded research activities for four to five years, to address a major scientific issue or a science-driven topic of research infrastructure, at the European level with the aim of advancing the frontiers of science." - Daniel Mietchen from Bookmarklet

Good grief, 15 months of review. This sounds like a possible way for a big open science consortium to be funded - if one can strip away the typical EU verbiage. I could represent Australia (where we have our own funding), but we'd just then need "Canada, China, Israel, Japan, Korea, Russia, USA and others". - Matthew Todd

in 15 months we could be past the singularity already :) - Jean-Claude Bradley

I'm all for it! Let's do some brainstorming! - Björn Brembs

OK, http://etherpad.com/pqDktXauOD is ready for brainstorming to start. - Daniel Mietchen

Additional development of interdisciplinary research methods would be useful, particularly if there is a focus on the learning and sharing aspects. - Mike Chelen

made a few comments and quickly skimmed the call. No harm in working something up though - we could use some of the old network proposal we wrote a year or ago...http://docs.google.com/View... - Cameron Neylon

Bah, I meant to say - it would be a good thing to start putting together some of these - if nothing else we can re-use the text until some of them get funded. Wasn't meaning to be negative. - Cameron Neylon

Cameron: advocacy for data repository, semantic publication, and community commenting could be influential and interesting - Mike Chelen

It might be interesting to see if writing this in public would get the attraction of funders with shorter review periods. - Daniel Mietchen

Daniel: :-) witty witty, drop them a line - Claudia Koltzenburg