Thursday, July 27, 2006

Chemists Without Borders Conference Call 7-27-2006




Steve's notes:





Bego's notes:

Chemists Without Borders Conference Call, 7-27-2006
1. Agenda
1.1 Introductions
1.2 Open Access
1.3 Legal
1.4 Funding
1.5 Education
1.6 Conference Presentations
1.7 Arsenic Project
1.8 Communications
1.9 Vaccines & Medicines
1.10 Unfinished Business
1.11 Feedback
2. Introductions
2.1 Steve Chambreau
» See also: : Conference Presentations
» See also: : Legal issues
2.2 Bego Gerber
» See also: : Funding
2.3 Rolande Hodel
» See also: : Vaccines & Medicines
» See also: : AIDSfreeAFRICA
2.4 Brian Wagner
» See also: : Arsenic Project
2.5 Brian Lynch
The CINF Division of ACS has explored recording of conference symposia via iPod technology [see Martinsen, D. P., ACS Chem. Biol. 1 [4], 195-197 [2006]]. Posting of sessions to the Internet reaches out to a much larger number of chemists than those able to attend in person. Brian Lynch and Lai Im Lancaster, St Francis Xavier University

» See also: : Communications
2.6 Heather Morrison
» See document: http://chemistswithoutborders.blogspot.com/2006/07/draft-open-access-position-statement.html
» See also: : Open Access
2.6.1 Hi Bego - I will be able to attend this time! Can you add a question about supporting the Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006 to the agenda? cheers, Heather
2.7 Gary DeBoer
» See also: : Education Project
3. Legal issues
3.1 AIDSfreeAFRICA
3.2 501(c)3
3.3 Perry Israel
RE: Conference Call Invitation for 07/27/2006 06:00 PM Bego--Unfortunately, I will be on an airplane at that time so I'll miss the call. However, I should soon have a Form 1023 for the group. Perry


3.3.1 Form 1023 coming soon
3.3.2 Enter Sub-topic
3.4 By-Laws
3.4.1 Membership issues
3.4.2 Voting issues
3.5 Previous topics
3.5.1 Trademarks
Ÿ Search
Ÿ Register words
Ÿ Register hexagon
Ÿ Doctors Without Borders
Ÿ Charitable
Ÿ Education
Ÿ Recruitment
Ÿ Registration fees
Ÿ Stacy will create list of categories
4. Open Access
4.1 Take an advocacy position!
4.2 Get feedback
4.3 Decision date
4.3.1 8/17/2006
4.4 Resolution calling for support
4.4.1 Annual General Meeting of Members
4.5 Union of Concerned Scientists
4.6 Cautions
5. Funding
5.1 Recruitment
5.1.1 Monthly invite others
5.2 Create a list of talking points for recruitment
5.3 Newsletter section talking points
5.3.1 What we need
5.4 Business Plan
5.5 Budget
5.6 Rotary Clubs
5.7 Lists of Funding Sources
6. Education Project
6.1 Arsenic water remediation
6.1.1 C&EN article
6.2 Pharmaceuticals recycling
6.2.1 Two professors interested
6.2.2 Santa Barbara city collection program
6.2.3 America's Heart Medical Supplies
6.3 Other ideas
6.4 Action in Chemistry for textbooks
6.4.1 Graphical image
7. Conference Presentations
7.1 Scimix
7.1.1 Chemistry Clubs
7.1.2 Hand out flyers
7.2 Engineers Without Borders
7.2.1 Team up
8. Arsenic Project
8.1 Permission from CA to harvest as much as we want
8.2 Access after October 15
8.3 Plan
8.3.1 Picking crew
8.3.2 College students
8.3.3 Holiday weekend
8.3.4 Harvesting
8.3.5 Drying
8.3.6 Grinding
8.3.7 Write protocols
8.4 Other technologies
8.4.1 No universal solution
8.5 Equipment needed
8.6 Grinders
8.7 Dryers
9. Communications
9.1 Recording for Internet and podcasts
9.2 VoIP
9.3 Foreign participants
9.4 Scheduling
10. Vaccines & Medicines
10.1 Malaria
10.1.1 Pooling money
10.1.2 Bob Hansens
11. Other Business
11.1 Colin Scholes - fundraising
11.2 Blog
11.2.1 Rolande's wish list
11.2.2 Newsletter
11.3 Email addresses
11.4 Schedule next meeting
12. Unfinished Business
13. Feedback
13.1 Plus
13.1.1 Tons of notes
13.1.2 Very productive
13.1.3 Very lively keeps me awake
13.1.4 All had input
13.1.5 Gets things done
13.1.6 Setting deadlines
13.2 Minus
13.2.1 Steve's hand

Steve's notes:




Saturday, July 08, 2006

Open Source Open Thread

Chemists Without Borders has been asked to take a position on open source access. Please let us know your opinions on this in comments. Please sign with first name and last initial.

ELMO

Conference Call notes 6/7/06

Here are the conference call notes from last Thursday:





ELMO