Re: [Fis] Hello from Milton Keynes
Dear David and FISers Thanks a lot for the news from Milton Keynes. It is quite understandable that you need some rest... actually the initial info on the conference has already produced a snow ball effect and ignited an intense exchange. Am sure that a nice cooperation will take form during next months. Let me also greet Vladimir's post. His mention of the noosphere information flows is quite close to some FIS central interests. This topic should be one of the chaired discussion-sessions we must organize during coming months too. In the MK conference I emphasized that -beyond definitional discussions- we must focus on a few information model systems, must work on APPLIED information science cases or topics, and should tackle relevant social problems in todays multiple information realms... The Moscow coming conference may be a good occasion to advance in these directions --even though the Western attendance will be low. Actually how many Westerner people attended Beijing 2010? Less than 10; but it was quite relevant for advancing the field. For future weeks/months let us try to return to the chaired discussion-sessions. Suggestions are welcome, either online or offline. best wishes ---Pedro David Chapman wrote: > Dear Pedro and FIS people, > > Thank you, Pedro, for adding Chris, Magnus and me to your list and for > your words about the DTMD 2013 workshop at the Open University. We are > pleased that you found it good, and we in turn are very grateful for > your extremely valuable participation as a keynote speaker. > > The video recordings of the workshop is now available on the workshop > website http://www.dtmd.org.uk/ (on this page: > http://www.dtmd.org.uk/webcast). You might also be interested in the > proceedings of the previous workshop in this series, DTMD2011, which > can be found here: http://www.dtmd2011.info/programme, and also the > papers that were published following DTMD2011 as a special issue of > TripleC: http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/issue/view/26 > > We are looking forward to participating in this discussion group but > the three of us are exhausted after planning and running the workshop > and have a big backlog of other jobs that need attention! So, thank > you for inviting us to lead a discussion session and we would like to > do that in the future, but I am afraid we need at least a few weeks > before we could take that on. > > By way of introduction you can read about the three of us as well as > the other members of the DTMD 2013 Programme Committee here: > http://www.dtmd.org.uk/committee > > Best wishes, > David > Dr. David A. Chapman CEng, FIET, FHEA > Senior Lecturer > Department of Communication and Systems > The Open University http://cands.open.ac.uk/ > Intropy blog: http://www.intropy.co.uk/ > T. +44 1908 652919 Twitter @dachapman > > The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt > charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). > On 13/04/2013 09:26, PEDRO CLEMENTE MARIJUAN FERNANDEZ wrote: >> Dear Joseph and FIS colleagues, >> >> Thanks for the friendly message. Let me introduce you all the >> organizing team of the Open University conference: Magnus Ramage, >> David Chapman, and Chris Bissell --they did a great job there and we >> are fortunate that they have joined our list too. As I invited them >> during the conference, they could chair our next discussion session, >> in a few weeks or days if they wish. A short text of around 500 or >> 800 words with some focus in themes discussed at Milton Keynes would >> suffice to kick off the discussion. As other people have recently >> joined the list, all of them should remind our_ strict limitation of >> a maximum of two messages per week._ This is a list emphasizing "slow >> thinking" and scholarship. >> >> By the way, my management experience during all these months has lead >> me to think and start work on a new theme: the information flow in >> complex organizations. The properties or limits of natural >> communication (conversation) in our social groups determine the >> structural patterns of complex bureaucratic organizations... >> terrible committees included! Next weeks I will post more on that. >> >> best wishes >> >> --Pedro >> >> >> >> >> - Mensaje original - >> De: "joe.bren...@bluewin.ch" >> Fecha: Viernes, 12 de Abril de 2013, 7:12 pm >> Asunto: RE: [Fis] FIS News (Moscow 2013) >> A: pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es, fis@listas.unizar.es >> >> >> > Dear Pedro, >> > >> > Glad to hear from you. Your silence was, of course, expressive, >> containing much information . . . >> > >> > Now all of us will be waiting impatiently to learn about the the >> new, exciting themes that were discussed at the Milton Keynes Conference. >> > >> > Best wishes, >> > >> > Joseph >> > >> > Message d'origine >> > >> >> De: pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es >> > Date: 12.04.2013 11:02 >> >
[Fis] Hello from Milton Keynes
Dear Pedro and FIS people,
Thank you, Pedro, for adding Chris, Magnus and me to your list and for
your words about the DTMD 2013 workshop at the Open University. We are
pleased that you found it good, and we in turn are very grateful for
your extremely valuable participation as a keynote speaker.
The video recordings of the workshop is now available on the workshop
website http://www.dtmd.org.uk/ (on this page:
http://www.dtmd.org.uk/webcast). You might also be interested in the
proceedings of the previous workshop in this series, DTMD2011, which can
be found here: http://www.dtmd2011.info/programme, and also the papers
that were published following DTMD2011 as a special issue of TripleC:
http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/issue/view/26
We are looking forward to participating in this discussion group but the
three of us are exhausted after planning and running the workshop and
have a big backlog of other jobs that need attention! So, thank you for
inviting us to lead a discussion sessionand we would like to do that in
the future, but I am afraid we need at least a few weeks before we could
take that on.
By way of introduction you can read about the three of us as well as the
other members of the DTMD 2013 Programme Committee here:
http://www.dtmd.org.uk/committee
Best wishes,
David
Dr. David A. Chapman CEng, FIET, FHEA
Senior Lecturer
Department of Communication and Systems
The Open Universityhttp://cands.open.ac.uk/
Intropy blog:http://www.intropy.co.uk/
T. +44 1908 652919 Twitter @dachapman
The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity
in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302).
On 13/04/2013 09:26, PEDRO CLEMENTE MARIJUAN FERNANDEZ wrote:
Dear Joseph and FIS colleagues,
Thanks for the friendly message. Let me introduce you all the
organizing team of the Open University conference: Magnus Ramage,
David Chapman, and Chris Bissell --they did a great job there and we
are fortunate that they have joined our list too. As I invited them
during the conference, they could chair our next discussion session,
in a few weeks or days if they wish. A short text of around 500 or 800
words with some focus in themes discussed at Milton Keynes would
suffice to kick off the discussion. As other people have recently
joined the list, all of them should remind our_strict limitation of a
maximum of two messages per week._ This is a list emphasizing "slow
thinking" and scholarship.
By the way, my management experience during all these months has lead
me to think and start work on a new theme: the information flow in
complex organizations. The properties or limits of natural
communication (conversation) in our social groups determine the
structural patterns of complex bureaucratic organizations... terrible
committees included! Next weeks I will post more on that.
best wishes
--Pedro
- Mensaje original -
De: "joe.bren...@bluewin.ch"
Fecha: Viernes, 12 de Abril de 2013, 7:12 pm
Asunto: RE: [Fis] FIS News (Moscow 2013)
A: pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es, fis@listas.unizar.es
> Dear Pedro,
>
> Glad to hear from you. Your silence was, of course, expressive,
containing much information . . .
>
> Now all of us will be waiting impatiently to learn about the the
new, exciting themes that were discussed at the Milton Keynes Conference.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Joseph
>
> Message d'origine
>
De: pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es
> Date: 12.04.2013 11:02
> À:
> Objet: [Fis] FIS News (Moscow 2013)
>
> Dear FIS Friends,
>
> Apologies for my long silence. As I have already said several
times, my
> science management duties are killing not only my time but also
my nerve
> (well, not completely!). Imagine what is happening with the
financing
> and organization of Spanish science these years...
>
> Anyhow, a couple of good news about our common Information Science
> endeavor. First, there has been an excellent conference in Milton
> Keynes, organized by the Open University, about Information ("the
> difference that makes a difference"). Quite exciting discussions
on our
> most dear themes, and some new ones that we have rarely
addressed here.
> The organizers, a very active team indeed, are cordially invited
to lead
> a discussion session in our FIS list to continue with the
conceptual
> explorations addressed in their conference.
>
> And the second news is about an imminent FIS CONFERENCE, MOSCOW
2013,
> the Sixth FIS, and the 1st of the ISIS organization. It will be
held
> this May, from 21 to 24 in Moscow. This time the Russian
organizers have
> followed a singular procedure, a relatively closed conference
centered
> in the diffusion of information science in the Russian scientific
> community. At the time being, to my knowledge (I could not
follow very
