All, During the recent ACS DivCHED 21st BCCE at the University of Northern Texas (UNT) Tony Williams, Harry Pence and I ran a couple of workshops on Social Networking and Online Public Compound Databases. We were required to charge participants even though none of us did this for the money, and although I have seen no money I believe we raised $360. After reading some of the threads on this list concerning the costs of BO dinners I had suggested to Tony and Harry that we consider using this money to support the BO dinner (I believe someone on the list had suggested finding a sponsor, although we are not "sponsors"). Both Tony and Harry were in support of this. So we would be willing to use the proceeds from our workshop to support the BO, and something like what this thread suggests seems even better than defraying some of the costs of the dinner (although we could potentially do both). So for what it is worth, if there is an interest I will contact UNT and find the exact amount of money we made and make that available however seems best.
Also, on a different level. I am in Chemical Education not Cheminformatics and am currently the chair of ACS DivCHED CCCE (Committee on Computers in Chemical Education). One of the things we are "supposed to do" is organize On-Line Chemistry Courses (OLCCs) http://www.ched-ccce.org/olcc/index.html and the last OLCC was run in 2004 with ACS CHAS (Division of Chemical Health and Safety) http://science.widener.edu/svb/olcc_safety/ . That course was taught in 8 different schools (where students registered and got credit for the class in their home institution) http://science.widener.edu/svb/olcc_safety/schools.html . Something I would like to suggest is a potential OLCC with CINF on open science and cheminformatics. Although I would hope we would move beyond the 1990's technology of the last OLCC the basic course structure is solid. If you go to http://science.widener.edu/svb/olcc_safety/lecture.html you will see that each week a "guest speaker" would present their "paper" and interact with the students, each participating school had a faculty member who functioned as the facilitator (the person who actually gave graded assignments and awarded the grades and this counted towards their teaching load). This allowed for "experts" to present material in schools which did not have resident "experts". At UALR this was actually both a graduate and undergraduate level course. My point is we could do this through the CCCE if there is an interest, and it would be an effective way to actually put stuff into the curriculum in schools that did not have the resources/expertise and capabilities. If there was an interest I would be willing to work on such a course. Sincerely, Bob Belford Dr. Robert E. Belford Department of Chemistry University of Arkansas at Little Rock www.ualr.edu/rebelford (501)569-8824 ----- Original Message ----- From: Peter Murray-Rust To: Geoffrey Hutchison Cc: BlueObelisk-Discuss Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 7:12 AM Subject: Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] Distributing Blue Obelisk Propaganda atACS It's a good idea - like Geoff I shan't be there. On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Geoffrey Hutchison <[email protected]> wrote: Hi guys, Unfortunately, I won't be at the Boston ACS meeting -- too many conferences this year. However, I have a suggestion which was prompted by Silicos -- they're the company which just donated their Spectrophore descriptor code to Open Babel. Let's distribute propaganda on the tables near the CINF sessions! Or, to be more accurate, would anyone be willing to print and deposit some propaganda on those tables? Silicos created this nice "quick reference" for the Open Babel API. Maybe we can come up with something for CDK, and maybe an overview sheet with a list of open source chemistry packages (courtesy of the Blue Obelisk)? Then we'd have three little piles of sheets to compete with the propaganda from everyone else. I like the idea of a 1 page (double sided) reference - I would see it as a list of all BO resources - data, specs, code with a 1-2 line description of each and appropriate pointers. It may take a little while to collate our material and it's important to get it reasonably comprehensive and accurate. We, for example, could - and should - contribute several of our programs (especially OSCAR and OPSIN) besides the original JUMBO. I imagine the print costs could be absorbed somewhere - but we would have to get started fairly soon. When you talk about "card" is this a real card or a PDF that can be printed on A4? Real card will cost more What do you think? -Geoff ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss -- Peter Murray-Rust Reader in Molecular Informatics Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry University of Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK +44-1223-763069 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss
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