sciencewg-apac-May2015

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sciencewg-apac-May2015 == Open Science Working Group APAC Meeting - May 2015 ==

When : 07 May 2015, 08:00 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
Facebook Event : https://www.facebook.com/events/1648780738676993/
Last call minutes: https://pad.okfn.org/p/sciencewg-apac-Mar2015 (& https://pad.okfn.org/p/sciencewg-apac-Jan2014)
Organiser : Scott Edmunds

Participants requested to add their name and Skype ID below :
Attending:
Scott Edmunds (s.c.edmunds)
Ranjith Raj Vasam (ranjithrajvasam)
Daniel Mietchen (daniel_mietchen)
Chen-Yi Tu (armigil)
Joe McArthur (joseph_mcarthur)
Rob Davidson (bobbledavidson)
Naureen Nayyar (iamnora80)
Fabiana Kubke (superfabs)
Subhashish Panigrahi (psubhashish)
Richard Littauer (richard.littauer)

Apologies:
Kostas Repanas (krepanas) will be in japan so most likely can't join this call

Watching the pad:

Agenda :
1. Introductions - who is on the call and what is your interest in open science?

Hong Kong
Scott Edmunds/Rob Davidson - Open Data Hong Kong/GigaScience

UK
Joe McArthur - Open Access Button/R2RC (newb to the call)

Thailand
Richard Littauer - MIT Media Lab
Naureen Nayyar - ScienceHackday Bangkok plus involved in WikiMania. Setting up Open Data ASEAN group (nice!)

Germany
Daniel Mietchen (OKF-DE & NIH) - making the research workflow open

Taiwan
Chen-Yi Tu - OKFN Taiwan

New Zealand
Fabiana Kubke - OA and CC in New Zealand

India
Ranjith Raj Vasam - Free Software activist and Open Knowledge advocate.
Subhashish Panigrahi - Free Knowledge activist, Wikimedian and Open Knowledge advocate

2. News/updates from your regions

HK/China: Retractions from mass peer-review fraud in China have started, in HK we had an Oped promoting use of Open Data to fight this type of academic fraud http://opendatahk.com/2015/04/oped-in-scmp-open-data-to-fix-academic-fraud/

See also a column by Chinese scientist in last weeks Nature that may be related to this (thanks CYT) http://www.nature.com/news/china-s-scientific-progress-hinges-on-access-to-data-1.17426?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20150430

Daniel wanting to know about wikimedia related events in the region. Anybody here know of anything?

Taiwan has an official government policy now for research data (Great!) http://www.odb.ntu.edu.tw/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Data-Policy-_v7.pdf
(for oceanographic data) . Data Repo managed http://www.odb.ntu.edu.tw/ (basically all PIs funded by Ministry of Science under Oceanography Department need to turn in their Data, traced back before 2011) (CYT)

I would like to go to wikimedia events in India related to Open Access, Open Data & Open Science. Are there any ? (-Ranjith)

The Mozilla global sprint in June is global: http://www.mozillascience.org/global-sprint-2015
There are multiple Indian language Wikipedia/Wikimedia outreach happening in India, maybe I could be contacted to update in a regular basis. (-Subha)

London science conference: https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Wikipedia_Science_Conference
R2RC - open access, but leading into open data as well. Working with OA India and NZ, keen to touch base with student organisations, early career researcher in our respective countries.
Open Access Button - need outreach and increased awareness in APAC. Need development help here. Have google groups, but best to go through website and GitHub https://github.com/OAButton

Creative Commons Licences Translated into Te Reo Māori (http://creativecommons.org.nz/2015/02/creative-commons-licences-translated-into-te-reo-maori/)

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

ScienceHackday says likely some sponsorship funds for events outside the US (contact ariel@sciencehackday.org & see https://twitter.com/arielwaldman/status/573669754176585728

There is a plan to have one early next year in New Zealand (-Fabiana)
There is a plan to have one in Hyderabad, India in this August.(-Ranjith)

Never too early to start thinking about plans Open Access week (October http://www.openaccessweek.org/). Theme this year is synergy/collaboration.

We are starting to think about that at UoA and possibly building some reources in conjunction with CCANZ (-Fabiana)
Need help translating wikipedia OA week page into different languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Access_Week (-Daniel)

4. Meetings/hackathons/workshops

Need for an "events" page to let people know about open-sciencey events (especially in the region). OA week usually good showing events then, but need something for the rest of the year. There is already a very N American focused one, but they can give people here editing rights (any volunteers?): https://twitter.com/MozillaScience/status/595995007229693952

News from OKFnAu on OKFest APAC: seems like it will be April 2016, with planning starting immediately after GovHack red carpet in July. See: http://au.okfn.org/2015/03/31/board-meeting-31-march-2015/
Any news or plans to attend OpenCon ( http://opencon2015.org/ ) - this year in Brussels - attendees get to meet with policy makers. 85% attendees get grants to go. 2000 applicants - 150 got in. Plans to take up satellite events to take up the slack. OpenCon team help with organisation of a really professional satellite event (10 around the world last year, though APAC under-represented). Applications for main meeting open on June 1st. Want help publicising, sponsorship, etc. in this region, plus keen to do more events here.
OKFN Taiwan may organize a OpenCon satellite event at Taipei, now in discussion https://taipeiio.hackpad.com/OpenCon-2015--f6ed218Zmmr (I would like to attend the main event, too)
WikiMania in Mexico City (https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) Naureen & Daniel both going.

Still early to hear about accepted sessions, but will be an OA one, see: : https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Free_as_in_Free:_Strategies_for_Advancing_Open_Access_on_Wikipedia), plus hackathon.

Wikimedia hackathon in Lyon in a few weeks - possibility for people to contribute remotely

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2015

BOSC - Bioinformatics Open Source Conference, July in Dublin (http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2015)

5. AOB?

Request from Jeroen Bosman we take a look & discuss their work cataloguing the >475 tools and workflows an open researcher can use. See http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1286826 and add info here http://bit.ly/innoscholcomm-list.

6. Next call(s). Any volunteers? (None during the meeting, but feel free to add your details here or email)