[Simon Hodson]

Dear all,
Particularly members in Europe.
CODATA recently received – at very short notice – an invitation to contribute to a strand on the Open Science Commons at the EGI Conference in Lisbon next week.
The original message was sent by Sergio Andreozzi to CODATA President, Geoffrey Boulton who was not available and so was passed to me. I cannot attend either. The text of that invitation follows:
EGI (an international e-Infrastructure providing data/compute intensive services to international research communities in Europe and beyond) has been developing the concept of Open Science Commons (http://go.egi.eu/osc) and we have a dedicated workshop to further discuss this concept with different stakeholders scheduled for May 19 in Lisbon (http://indico.egi.eu/indico/sessionDisplay.py?sessionId=100&confId=2452#…).
We still have an available slot to cover the viewpoint of data providers and commons. As I’m aware of your prestigious role within CODATA and your remarkable contribution with the “Science as an Open Enterprise” report, I wonder if you or some of your colleagues would be able to contribute to the workshop with a presentation. The goal would be to cover aspects of commoning research data, governance aspects, business models and possible identification of patterns that can be reused.
If so, we would be very happy to have a contribution at our workshop. I understand that this invitation is on a short notice and apologise for that.
Confirmed speakers are:
1. Jose Cotta, Head of Unit Digital Science, DG CONNECT, European Commission
2. Sverker Holmgren, chair of e-IRG
3. Sergio Bertolucci, CERN Director of research and computing
4. Massimo Cocco, Director of EPOS
5. Wainer Lusoli on behalf of Jean-Claude Burgerlman, Unit Science Policy, DG Research – first public presentation on the European open science cloud initiative part of the Digital Single Market following the 6th May Communications publication
6. Brett Frischmann, Professor and Director of the Intellectual Property and Information Law, Cardozo Law School
The information about the strand is at http://indico.egi.eu/indico/sessionDisplay.py?sessionId=100&confId=2452#… and the overall timetable is here: http://indico.egi.eu/indico/conferenceTimeTable.py?confId=2452#20150518
In subsequent exchanges, I mentioned the Legal Interoperability Group and Sergio suggested it would be useful to attend a workshop on open licenses scheduled for the Wednesday:https://indico.egi.eu/indico/sessionDisplay.py?sessionId=75&confId=2452#…
Unfortunately, other commitments mean that I cannot attend. I did wonder whether any of the European members of the Legal Interoperability Group may be a) interested in talking at the Commons workshop and/or b) attending the workshop on Open Licenses. Sergio suggested that some funding would be available:
In terms of financial support, according to our rules, we could provide:
– 100E for each registered day at the conference
– 250E contribution for a trip from the EU
For instance, if you attend two days, you would receive a contribution of 450E as a lump sum. You need to consider that from today only the onsite registration is available (240E/day or 600E/week).
I realise that this is terribly short notice. Do let me know if there is any interest and I shall put you in touch with Sergio.
With very best wishes,
Simon.
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