[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Urgent: invitation to give a talk in workshop aiming at definition of a "web environment" for the EU marine scientific community - Bremen - 21-23 May 2013

[Kul Wadhwa]

In case anybody is interested in giving a talk and participating in a
workshop for the
European Marine scientific community. Probably most relevant for somebody
based in the EU.

--Kul

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EuroMarine (http://www.euromarineconsortium.eu/) is organising a
workshop to define a "Web Environment" that will provide services to the
European Marine scientific community as an effective mean to reach
integration among individuals, institutions and consortia across the
fields of 'omics, biodiversity and ecology (see the attached programme).
Services will address social networking, common/customisable directories
(white, yellow and blue pages), news and events posting, scholarly
publications (data and papers), education and outreach.

Participants will include representatives of past and present EU
projects/initiatives/infrastrutures, and web service providers, such as
Google, Facebook, Twitter, Skype, LinkedIn, Thomson Reuters, Elsevier
and Wikipedia.Invited participants will benefit from free accommodation
& meals at the ATLANTIC HOTEL UNIVERSUM - CONFERENCE CENTRE BREMEN
(http://www.atlantic-hotels.de/universum/de/Start.html), and EuroMarine
will
reimburse in part their travel expenses (maximum amount to be determined).

*We would like to invite a Wikimedia representative to**give a 20'
talk**and participate in **workshop discussions. *

*Invited participants from commercial service providers / foundations
are expected to present (20 min) and discuss:
1. The range of services that they can offer to a research community;
2. Case studies of how apps, tools and services are customized by their
users.*

Invited participants from past and present EU Projects are expected to
present (15 min) and discuss:
1. Services that they provide(d) on the web to their partners and/or to
the public in general;
2. Their experience with commercial services such as Google, Facebook,
Twitter, Skype and LinkedIn (e.g. How they were used, how effective they
were, what was lacking);
3. How the project plans to archive/maintain the
services/products/deliverables that it developed (EuroMarine could act
as a central archive for past projects).

/Additional cont//extual information/: Euromarine (currently a project
funded by the European Commission) will become a self-sustained
consortium (with potentially 121research memberorganizations)in 2014.
Taking advantage of its durability, it will coordinate / promote the
development of the envisioned web environment (which short-lived
projects or networks are not able to achieve).

*Please let us know rapidly if you can join us in Bremen on 21-23 May
2013. An online registration form is available at
http://www.euromarineconsortium.eu/registration.*

Best regards,

Pierre-François Baisnée (and Stéphane Pesant, for the organizing committee)

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EUR-OCEANS Consortium Executive Director
Centre de recherche halieutique (CRH) - avenue Jean Monnet - BP 171
34203 Sète cedex - France
tel: +33 (0)4 99 57 32 44
fax: +33 (0)4 99 57 61 23
e-mail: pierre-francois.baisnee at ird.fr
http://www.eur-oceans.eu

-- 
Kul Wadhwa
Head of Mobile
Wikimedia Foundation