<div dir="ltr"><div>Trevor: you're totally right about the importance of getting cross-pollination between projects happening. But the problem as I see it right now, is that these projects often have next to no discoverability; the forums and blog planet sites that Svetlana proposes in her post could be a vehicle for putting potentially related projects on the radars of just the people you're talking about. A lot of the time, that level of contact is all that's needed to trigger a major knowledge transfer from one group to another; I've seen it happen a million times at conferences ("hey did you know X is free and solves all your problems" happens all the time, to great rejoicing) - it'd be awesome if we could help that happen without the plane ticket :)<br><br></div>Svetlana: thanks for the blog post! I would love for the MSL forum to be the vehicle you describe, and would also be eternally grateful for your help in making it so. Also a big fan of the planet idea - please keep us posted on progress there, and I'll keep the idea in mind as opportunities arise.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 7:12 PM, W. Trevor King <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wking@tremily.us" target="_blank">wking@tremily.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 09:32:26PM -0400, Svetlana Belkin wrote:<br>
> I posted a blog post about having a meta community for Open Science:<br>
> <a href="http://ubuntusense.com/2014/09/30/thoughts-on-having-a-meta-open-science-community/" target="_blank">http://ubuntusense.com/2014/09/30/thoughts-on-having-a-meta-open-science-community/</a><br>
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</span>I think building a community is about bridge folks getting involved in<br>
pairs of projects to help ferry ideas between projects. Adding<br>
additional channels to pull people together reminds me of this [1] ;).<br>
A hub that does attract bridge people from the various sub-communities<br>
would help a bit, but without access to the full firehose of the<br>
constituent projects' core channels I think a number of opportunities<br>
for collaboration would pass by unnoticed.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Trevor<br>
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[1]: <a href="http://xkcd.com/927/" target="_blank">http://xkcd.com/927/</a><br>
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