Monkeymagic: Social Computing and the Organisation day
After the disappointment of Our Social World another Conference in the same area comes along - obviously Oxford had to compete with Cambridge!
Altogether different animal though - organised by Piers Young (who used to have me on his blog role - I must have bored him) and having some very interesting speakers and topics.
I f I had the money I would definitely sign up, primarily because of the speakers but also because of the small participant (Piers?)numbers and the Open Space session.
Oh well. Maybe I can take part virtually via any connections they have. Unless anyone fancies sponsoring me :)
P.S. I'm not going to get into the diversity debate thing - I wholeheartedly believe in diversity not least because science says its a good thing but it doesn't mean that because you're white and middle aged you can't make a contribution.
Hi Paul
Not bored at all - don't know what happened to the blogroll - you're still in my aggregator (obviously ;)
Let's see what we can do about getting you involved virtually, eh?
And yes, I'm also very much aware of the diversity issues, especially given that the day is supposed to help promote debate. (it'll be a little tedious if it's just back patting!)
We've kept the costs as low as possible given the low numbers. More people would have meant cheaper "entrance", but a different kind of conversation, especially in the open space session. Is that something you'd be interested in?
And Louise Ferguson has already, and quite rightly, rapped me over the knuckles for the lack of female speakers. All I can really say, is that it's a result of my limited network rather than intent. I'm learning though!
Posted by: Piers at September 14, 2005 05:45 PM