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FrancoisGrey

  1. Ghost in the Turing Machine: delighted to be invited to historic Bletchley Park for Over The Air mobile hack on 1-2 June #ota12
  2. After Open Source, Open Access, Open Data and Open Science, what next? Tsinghua to launch Open Wisdom Laboratory (OWL), copyleft Luping Xu.
  3. Is open hardware creating a more open world? Great article in iSGTW about this: bit.ly/Iv61za
  4. How open science could save lives: Portable Legal Consent provides new approach to cancer research econ.st/GRSOuH
  5. Who needs experts? Not sure, but better decide soon. It's my talk title for #SageCon Sage Bionetworks Congress this time next week.
  6. How does water squeeze through a nanotube? My take on our Computing for Clean Water project for World Water Day worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/viewN…
  7. Down with "crowdsourcing", a pejorative allusion to cheap labour and menial tasks. Up with "crowdcrafting": real innovation by volunteers.
  8. With a little help from our friends. DIY crowdsourcing with OKF pybossa.com DIY citizen cyberscience with P2PU p2pu.org/en/groups/lear…
  9. Magnitude 6.1 earthquake in Taiwan during Asia@home workshop Citizens & Earthquake Science. Talk about "good timing"! event.twgrid.org/isgc2012/asiaa…
  10. "Things are not as important as the relationships they engender." Tom Igoe, NYU and Arduino co-founder at London CC Summit #LCCS2
  11. Do we need a science of citizen science? Francois Taddei asks an intriguing question at #LCCS2
  12. I'm @ Second London Citizen Cyberscience Summit #LCCS2. A 12-year old participant just asked a professor a tough question. Right on!
  13. #LCCS2 Still tickets for Saturday CC hackfest in London - check out the Challenges that >100 participants will tackle cybersciencesummit.org/challenges/
  14. #LCCS2 Second London Citizen Cyberscience Summit 16-18 Feb. Tickets going like hotcakes. First day nearly sold out! lccs2.eventbrite.com
  15. Living the dream #ecohacknyc. Amazing projects and lots of hot coffee. Read about it at ecohacknyc.org
  16. Citizen cyberscience in the Big Apple - EcoHackNYC 4-5 November rhok.org/event/ecohackn… at the coolest venue itp.nyu.edu/itp/
  17. gamers beat scientists cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/09/… and citizens beat geniuses isgtw.org/feature/citize…
  18. Moon Festival in China. Celebrating 200,000 CPU-years of Computing for Clean Water - in one year. Who needs a supercomputer, anyway?
  19. Media Bonanza! Citizen Cyberscience Centre gets its 15 minutes of fame. See boinc01.cern.ch/media
  20. Fame at last! Citizen cyberscience is the focus of a CERN press release press.web.cern.ch/press/PressRel…