Scientific Appeal to Community

dshatto writes "Help! This posting is to everyone who supports open source science: The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) will start taking shape in the next few months. This is the organization that will be spending $3 billion on stem cell and related research over the next 10 years. California has a chance to set a new model for scientific research. Models to consider for its intellectual property (IP) include open source models. I'm announcing a project that hopefully will:" Read more below... "

1. 1) Demonstrate the power, speed, and effectiveness that open source principles and distributed collaboration offer.

   2) Produce a temporary community of advocates for open source science that links supporters together in a self-organized network aspiring to the common good.

   3) Develop information resources that the Committee setting up the CIRM can use in its consideration of open source models for intellectual property.

Please go here for details:
http://www.bol.ucla.edu/~dshatto/PROSODICOL.html

Slashdot gets the scoop on this - I won't post it anywhere else until I gauge your response. Why? Because, well, I think it's cool, and I think it's the right community to get this project going.

I believe that together we can make a lasting impact on science.
David"

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Australian Open source biology

[Anonymous Coward]

There's a similar approach being adopted in Australia, as reported in Wired.