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Kirstie Whitaker - Video https://www.periscope.tv/lgatt0/1zqJVwAPkowxB

Why OpenCon Cambridge?
The organisers brought together OpenCon Cambridge because we're passionate about open access, open data and open education and we wanted to:

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Cameron Neylon Opening Keynote - Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqZc-bWT9mc

What are your personal motivations for being open?
Cameron Neylon - it contributed to my success, more people were reading what I wrote
Jenny Molloy - I was frustrated as a researcher by lack of access to data but even before that I liked the idea of an open source community and wanted to be part of one, to contribute where I could. I like that open sets up spaces where that is possible.
Michelle Brook - I care about open, because I care about enabling more people to have access to academic information and knowledge. It's about equality and fairness.

Richard Smith-Unna - Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8lwPo75fbg

What did Richard miss out? Do you have other tips from your work or experiences?
More what he included - loved the emphasisi on "making things" not just be about software, but instead about the possibility of making decisions, communities, policies.

Lightning talks!

Max Shinn on Open software for open science - Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfn0xopZnDw
License you work! Choose an appropriate license and add it to your code files, at least minimally and ideally with lawyer friendly language (this is documented)
Who in Cambridge can give advice on software licensing?

Richard Bowman on open source, low-cost 3D printed microscope - Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D2AZvs7Sls 
You can read more at http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.05394 if you like.  I'll be putting it on DocuBricks soon, but email me if you want the files now! rwb27 at cam

Justin Blanchard - not here

Nancy Pontika (@nancypontika) on COnnecting REpositories (CORE) - Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTm8A6ol19k

Tibor Auer on Describing and sharing data, provenance and results of a neuroimaging study - Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7gAi0Hs02g

Jenny Molloy (@jenny_molloy) on OpenPlant - open technologies for plant synthetic biology - Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2b4_iTPcLE
See http://openplant.org and http://www.synbio.ac.uk

Chris Forman (@rubiksplanet) on TReND Africa - not here

Fernan Fedirici on Open access, data and science education in Chile - Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvspaOX6QCs

Marta Teperek (@CamOpenData) on Open data at the University - Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMYDK0TDHwA
You can see activities at www.data.cam.ac.uk 

Tobey Wenzel on documenting open hardware for science - Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtPstSRzzp0
Our open source software and database talked about are available at DocuBricks.com
The collaborator I mentioned in my talk: Shuttleworth Fellow Luka Mustafa: http://irnas.eu/projects.html

Info: There will be a journal soon specifically for Open Source Hardware in an affordable open access formate. When it is out, you will be able to find it here: http://www.ubiquitypress.com/site/journals/

Fiona Nielsen (@glyn_dk) on Open data in genomics - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS3jV_VciZw

Nicole Janz - Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tavl6ASsyc
Does anyone know of similar workshops elsewhere in Cambridge?
Would you find this useful in your feild? Would this be a terrible idea because of 
More or less none of the experiment or data analysis scripts I see in Physics are anything like "replicatable".  It would be fantastic fo get all our PhD students (and postdocs and academics - though that's harder!) into the mindset of working in a reproducible way.

Comment by Tobey: DocuBricks can also be used to document a "recipe" to treat or replicate data and soon there will be lables and comment functionalities on the database for successful replications. This is also a key issue for open source hardware, but can be applied to other fields. DocuBricks is general to all documentations, and the scientific hardware projects will be concentrated on OpenLabware.org when it becomes neccessay.

Comment by Tibor Auer: https://github.com/ReScience/ReScience


Keren Limor-Waisberg - Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUeIVSGxu-c
http://literacytool.com/ is Keren's website
The Society to Science Meetup - http://www.meetup.com/Society-to-Science-Meetup/


Dan Horrex, Cambridgeshire Council Open Data Team - Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqPWkQpUGNE


Rupert Gatti on Open Book Publishers  (his talk has been moved) - Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46O_SDLN6tU


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