Communities

• Conferences (can be) overwhelming: 18,000 attendees!
  • How many synthetic inorganic chemists are attending this session?
• The intertwingling of industrial and academic communities:
  • Students need jobs!
  • Academics need (funding for) students!
• The intertwingling of opensource communities:
  • The Blue Obelisk Group: Go list your FOAF there!
  • Initially met at an ACS meeting (San Diego)
  • Intertwingle with Blogs, Wikis, E-mail
  • But very lossy, and again can be introspective
• Still, this talk was an outcome of the Blue Obelisk Community!