SIGOSSEE launched in Brussels
04-February-2004
Last week we were invited by The European Commission to Brussels for what they call a concertation meeting.
Last week we were invited by The European Commission to Brussels for what they call a concertation meeting. The meeting brought together some 100 representatives of the European Minerva (http://minerva.euproject.net/) and eLearning Action Plan (http://europa.eu.int/scadplus/leg/en/cha/c11050.htm) projects (Minerva is the e-learning strand of the Socrates education programme). Prior to the concertation meeting, which took place on Thursday and Friday, we were invited to a meeting with two other projects - JOIN and FILTER, which the project officer, Brian Holmes, felt were close in aims to our project - to explore the possibilities of working together.
Rather than write a traditional meeting report, I have written this account of the meetings in the form of a blog - or web log - entry. The main reason for this is that as always with such meetings many of the most interesting discussions took place outside the formal meeting and I wanted to capture those discussions for SIGOSEE (http://www.ossite.org) partners and members of the Special Interest Group (SIG).
Scientists
04-February-2004
Scientists, he says, "are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working. beer- drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science".
Of course you have to account for cultural differences. substitute football (or soccer) for baseball and he's just about got the whole scientist thing summed up.
