NZAU Open Research conference

I attended most of all 3 days of the conference. The technology was surprising to me – collaborative online notepads were written on by attendees, and tweets were sent from one room to the other to find out what people were doing. The amount of activity on Twitter was enough that the hashtag #aunzor was hijacked by some unsavoury spammers. Notable speakers were Aidan Byrne, CEO of Australian Research Council (via Google Hangout), and Nat Torkington. Mat Todd from Sydney gave a very interesting talk about open lab book science. I am still thinking how open research methods would apply in mathematics. The overall standard of discussion was high, and in the end resulted in a declaration (soon to be finished) in support of open research. Overall a very well organized and inspiring meeting – congratulations to the organizers. This was my first ever panel appearance at a conference.