Science Foo Camp
8月11-13日，Nature，O’Reilly，和 Google 组织了第一次 Science Foo Camp（不知道将来会不会有第二次），地点在 Google 总部。
About 200 leading scientists, technologists, writers and other thought-leaders will be gathering for a weekend of discussion, demonstration and debate.
要理解这个 Science Foo Camp，首先得了解什么是 Foo Camp？
Foo camp is the annual invitation only, no-structure, no plan, tent on the lawns, hacker event hosted by publisher Tim O’Reilly. O’Reilly describes it as ” the wiki of conferences”, where the program is developed by the attendees at the event, using big whiteboard schedule templates that can be rewritten or overwritten by attendees to optimize the schedule. from: wikipedia
wiki of conferences 这个描述很有意思。会议日程由会议参加者现场决定，这是会议日程白板的照片。
虽然会议讨论非常开放，但是组织上很封闭的，只有被邀请的才能参加，参加者还得遵守 Chatham House Rule：
When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed.
所以虽然这个 camp 已经结束一天多，但见不到多少有信息量的文章。（与 Foo Camp 相对应的是 Bar Camp，更开放的非会议 unconferences。）对此一些人评论说，这不符合科学开放的性质，但是我想这个活动可能更多的目的是商业。
网络上关于这个 scifoo 的信息可以在 connotes scifoo tag 下找到。图片可以看 flickr scifoo tag。Nature 的 Nascent 上有些报道。
查看 scifoo Wiki 是需要密码验证的，但是有人泄漏了一些。：）我把内容转摘在帖子最后，留下来慢慢阅读，省的过几天找不到了遗憾。从这里可以了解一点这些聪明人都在想什么。也可以玩玩游戏：猜猜每一个提议的作者是谁。
I would like to talk about the future of the scientific method. How the scientific method was one invention the Chinese did not make before the west, and how the process of science has changed in the last 400 years and will change even more in the next 50 years. I’d love to hear others’ ideas of where the science method is headed.
我特别想知道，想谈这个的人是谁。“How the scientific method was one invention the Chinese did not make before the west？”我也想知道。
因为被邀请参加是很荣耀的事情，所以谁参加了？这是很好的八卦材料。参与者里当然包括了自然杂志的 Timo Hannay，和 O’Reilly 的 Tim O’Reilly。还有 RealClimate 的 Gavin Schmidt，Cosmic Variance 的 Mark Trodden 等等
blog reports:
Science Foo Camp report
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