Hi all, seems like I missed this discussion completely. Just stumbled accross it because I was creating the usual BlueObelisk dinner wiki page.
My very personal opinion about publicising the blue obelisk dinner beyond the blue obelisk mailing list and getting more people involved is that this is a very bad idea . Again, this is my very personal opinion :-) I think, the meetings are just good as they are. There are plenty of opportunities to network in more party-like settings at the ACS meetings, and I certainly don't want to be responsible for organising blue obelisk parties and either getting funding for it or collecting the money from the participants. Would someone is like to do this? Unless someone jumps up and takes on this responsibility, I think the topic is settled :-) As has been pointed out by others, the current arrangements for the blue obelisk dinners do not scale easily, and even at the moment, when it comes to paying the bill in the end, things can become pretty embarrassing. For now I have taken the freedom to create the usual page for collecting the information about the dinner: http://blueobelisk.sourceforge.net/wiki/Fall_ACS_Conference_in_Boston%2C_August_2010 Cheers, Chris On 21/07/2010 15:51, Rajarshi Guha wrote: > I think that announcing it is not the problem. Organizing it for a > group larger than 10 people or so is the issue. Personally, for groups > larger than 5, I'm not much in favor of resteraunts with fixed > seating. So if anybody has suggestions on how/where to organizer a > (possibly) larger meeting, then it'd make sense to make a broader > announcement > > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Egon Willighagen > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Noel O'Boyle <[email protected]> wrote: >>> How about asking on the CCL in advance? Or posting on your blogs? >> >> And via the social networks... Blue Obelisk eXchange, Friend Feed >> rooms, more blogs, mailing lists for particular conferences... I'll >> try to remember to forward it the the ACSRDF2010 google group... >> >> BTW, I like the idea of making a list of stinking BO talks... let's >> try to create that ASAP... >> >> Egon >> >> -- >> Post-doc @ Uppsala University >> Proteochemometrics / Bioclipse Group of Prof. Jarl Wikberg >> Homepage: http://egonw.github.com/ >> Blog: http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/ >> PubList: http://www.citeulike.org/user/egonw/tag/papers >> > > > -- Dr. Christoph Steinbeck Head of Chemoinformatics and Metabolism European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD UK Phone +44 1223 49 2640; Mobile +44 7826 522319 Video meliora proboque deteriora sequor. ... Ovid, Metamorphoses VII, 20/21 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;226879339;13503038;l? http://clk.atdmt.com/CRS/go/247765532/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss
