On 01/04/15 16:58, Erik Bray wrote:
Generally I agree, though I don't feel completely comfortable in this case privileging good science done for profit over not. That's in contrast to my personal views that science should always be done for the sake of it. But in teaching SWC workshops my goal has always been to reach individual scientists and hopefully make it just a tiny bit easier for them to do *their* jobs; it's irrelevant who they're working for. Then again, if it's a matter of who's paying and what they're getting out of it I can see the other side, and so I think this proposal is reasonable.
I think the sticking point for at least some people here was that instructors under the current policy effectively donate their time. Now, donating your time to a fellow researcher whose main production unit are papers is distinctly different from donating your time to a company whose aim is to make money for the shareholders of that company. With the proposed pilot model people are still donating their time to the company in question, but at the same time their efforts will help float other workshops.
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