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sciencewg-apac-Jan2014 , == Open Science Working Group APAC Meeting - Jan 2015 ==

When : 21st January 2015, 8am UTC (visit http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html to convert into your timezones) - 16:00 Hong Kong/China/Singapore Time
How    : skype (there were requests for Jitsi, but everyone would need a webcam https://meet.jit.si/)
Topic  : Open Science : How can we use Free Software, Open Data, Open Access & OER to foster Open Science
* Recommended to refer to this wiki for any reference : http://wiki.okfn.org/Open_Science/APACMonthlyCalls
Last month minutes: https://pad.okfn.org/p/sciencewg-apac-Dec2014
Organiser : Scott Edmunds: http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/gigablog/author/scottedmunds/ 

Participants requested to add their name and Skype ID below :
Attending:

Watching the pad:
    Peter Murray-Rust (OK Advisory) [I'm impressed!]
    
== Agenda ==
1. Introductions - who is on the call and what is your interest in open science?

Scott Edmunds 
(s.c.edmunds) from Hong Kong / Shenzhen China
Open Data Hong Kong/GigaScience
Data publisher

Rob Davidson
Work at Gigascience with Scott - data publisher/developer

Cesar Harada
Ocean Robotics, "Protei" Open Hardware Shape Shifting Sailing Robot
CEO of MakerBay, 2nd largest Makerspace in Asia, interested in BioHacking

Bastien Douglas 
(dougbastien) From Hong Kong 
Founder of Open Data Hong Kong, 

Fabiana Kubke
Fron Auckland
Chair Advisory Panel of creative commons  Aotearoa New Zealand
Academic Editor PONE, PeerJ

Chen-Yi Tu from Taiwan (problems logging in)
OKFN TW/ Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University

David F. Flanders
Secretary to the Board for Open Knowledge Australia (day job is at Univeristy of Melbourne as Research Community Manager, go #OpenScholarship #OpenScience, etc.) See "ResBaz" http://resbaz.tumblr.com/
Matlab, Octave, iPython, RStudio, TileMill, CartoDB, Authorea, a la #swcarpentry and #datacarpentry

Kostas Repanas 
(krepanas) (Singapore)
A-star Open access policy

Peter Scarth
(peter.scarth) from Australia (Brisbane)
Joint remote sensing research program 
Software & System to support Govt / State policies
Mostly on Open Source
Terrestrial Ecosystems Research Network Open Data + GIS

Ranjith Raj Vasam
(temporary account) from India
Activity Leader, Free Software Movement of India.
Co-ordinator Open Data, India.
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== 2. News/updates from your regions ==
Open Access policiy in India  [unfortunately nobody present]
http://news.sciencemag.org/asiapacific/2014/12/india-s-major-science-funders-join-open-access-push

Open Access Policy Singapore
<Kostas> A-star Open access policy, funder and research actor. A-STAR encourages Green OA, but allows grant money to pay for gold OA
Starting to get some results
Trying to coordinate with other institutions National University of Singapore (NUS) + Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore Management University (SMU)
NRF : major source of grants in Singapore - requiring an open access policy
</Kostas>
Questions:
A-STAR, NTU, SMU focusing more on education and change of culture rather than strictly enforcing the OA policies

New Zealand
http://nzcommons.org.nz/
As Fabiana mentioned last time "The NZ Government is evaluating the adoption/iuse of the open gov data".
<Fabiana>Data policies in NZ relevant to government agencies, universities now being "encouraged" to follow. (NZGOAL)
No funders level mandate (as of yet)
</Fabiana>

Australia
Australia is still slow to action their policy on open access (at least in comparison in the UK).  Australia seems to be the last in the G8 science ministers to take up the actions which are recommended, David Willets from the UK as science minister seems to be the most cutting edge with policy forthcoming for open data policy in the research councils in the UK. Worth noting there is only two research councils in Aus (ARC and NHMRC) as opposed to the 6-8 in the UK. 

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Hong Kong 
<Cesar>
Ocean Robotics, sailing robots. Looking at developing 
1. Sailing robots, surface vessels to transport sensors : http://www.ted.com/talks/cesar_harada_a_novel_idea_for_cleaning_up_oil_spills?language=en
2. Radioactivity sensor : Fukushima (Japan) : http://www.medium.com/@cesarharada/mapping-river-and-seabed-radioactivity-around-fukushima-f5ea992af9e1
3. Plastic debris : 80% of the ocean have plastic : http://www.instructables.com/id/Remote-Controlled-Optical-Plastic-Sensor/
4. Oil spill spectrometer, Bangladesh : http://www.sites.google.com/a/scoutbots.com/wiki/home/research/sunderbans-oil-spill
5. Interest in building a biohacking facility. @ makerbay: largest R&D  facility in HongKong! 8000 ft2 for scientists, engineers, designers  http://goo.gl/kY3haI
</Cesar>
Questions for Cesar:

== 3. Ideas for open science projects in Asia-Pacific region == 

<David F. Flanders>
OKCon APAC 
David F. Flanders & Dr. Fiona Tweedie are preparring to host the first OKCon AsiaPac in Melbourne August 2015 (RedCarpet event following on from GovHack included as one of the evening dinners), with proposed #OKCon events following in Hong Kong (2017), ?Taiwan(2019)? and ?China (2021)?... announcement coming soon.
OKCon AsiaPac will be organised as a series of flagships: 
    
Would be good to have OKCon every few year
We should do it in Melbourne. 800 developers in 8 cities to do Open Gov Hacking  (GovHack)
We'd like to do as an unconference event
Organise different flagships. Scholarship Open / data / publication / Gov / with each a keynote
Around August/September (date still TBC)
Looking for captain / participating crew for the science flagship.
2017 is when the big event would want to happen in Hong Kong
Flagships:

List of people who would like to be kept informed open OKCon Asia Pac:
</David F. Flanders>

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== 4. Meetings/hackathons/workshops ==

Any plans for Open Data Day to share? (21st Feb) http://opendataday.org/ 

Open Tools for Global Science 2015

<Ranjith?>Ok, I'll let Jenny know by evening via email. (I'm talking to some Open Hardware Advocates in India..once we're done with our discussion I'll update it on email.)
<@petescarth> Running a "Green and Geeky" event later in the year linking open data with image data archives. Could link with Hack the Lab. Very interesting!<Rob>
Would love to know more about this as we have 3D printed a bunch of lab equipment and saved labs lots of money: http://theconversation.com/researchers-can-be-digital-blacksmiths-with-3d-printers-23475

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== 5. Other links/things not discussed. ==

At the #FORCE2015 meeting last week Leslie Chan presented on OCSDnet (Open and Collaborative Science Network) https://vimeo.com/116526778 (presented a video as currently in HK). 

Anyone able to write something for the open science WG blog? http://wiki.okfn.org/Open_Science/Communication#Blog 

Can nominate projects for the #OKFNAWARD until the end of the month http://premio.okfn.es/

Ideas to promote Force11 China(/Asia) chapters and future meeting https://www.force11.org/node/6219
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== 6. Next call(s). Any volunteers? ==


Ranjith Raj Vasam
Anybody else?

Still some technical challenges finding the perfect platform for communication.
Hangout and skype are good for Linux (but Hangout will exclude mainland Chinese participation)
I'll try to install BigBlueButton in OKFN servers... to serve as a permanent solution for our calls.
http://bigbluebutton.org/