Another success of open notebook science

Speaking with a friend, I was told that people in her class gave a presentation about my OpenWetWare open notebook. That in itself is success, the fact that someone that I don’t know came across my notebook, and talked about the benefits of having an online account of lab experiments, protocols, etc without my intervention is pretty impressive to me. (From what I was told, they came across my notebook because of my connection to UNM and I suppose they were familiar with OpenWetWare in some capacity.)

My friend made it known that she knew me personally and I suppose talked with the group about having an open notebook. This part wasn’t clear to me, but at some point someone asked her what she thought about having an open notebook (not what she knew about what I thought) and apparently worked some magic.

From what I understand, she discussed sharing data in real-time, sharing protocols, etc including all the success I’ve had from keeping an open notebook. She told her classmates that she wanted to have one (right now timing isn’t right, but I’ll get through before I’m done at UNM) and they all got excited. She said they were really interested in me presenting to them all (and maybe a larger group) about what tools are available for ONS, what should be required for keeping an open notebook, etc.

At this point I was too excited to listen any more and all I could think about was teaching others about ONS. I mentioned in my previous post about giving an ONS workshop here at UNM and this is what I was alluding to. Since the semester is nearing an end I won’t be able to talk during class, but hopefully I can work something out so that I can give a workshop very soon. I’m already working with the UNM Graduate Resource Center to give a workshop on how to use Illustrator over the summer and I may expand that to lead a workshop about alternative presentation tools (basically what else exists other than powerpoint). I think I can enlist their help to create this other workshop.

Hmmm… IheartAnthony’s Workshops. Do you?

I like the sound of that!