What people thought of the Collaborations Workshop 2009

If you wonder what people thought of the Collaborations Workshop, here are just a few of their thoughts:

“I think I helped to put across that scientists don’t understand computer science, and I feel that computer scientists are now actually trying to do something about it”

• Louise Price, UCL, London

“It was great to network with other researchers. The breakout sessions were a good, dynamic way to run the meeting. ”

• Phil Kershaw, British Atmospheric Data Centre, Chilton.

“the communication sessions… substantiated what we have been researching about communications problems between scientists and computer scientists… there were also a number of points that were new to me. It was very valuable!”

• Elizabeth Vander Meer, National e-Science Centre, Edinburgh

“It’s been a very useful way for elaborating plans and drawing in other partners to [our] project.”

• Peter Turner, Data-MINX, Sydney

“The Collaborations workshop has been extremely useful from the NGS’s point of view… seeing the full range of the Engage projects and their outputs, and seeing how the NGS can work with them is going to be extremely useful over the next three to six months. Getting them running and getting them available to users and other communities is going to be fantastic.”

• David Wallom, National Grid Service, Oxford

“I’m here to collaborate with the STFC, the NGS and a bunch of other very clever people”

• Alex Arana, Intersect, Sydney

“It is good to meet up with people that you don’t get to meet with on a regular basis”

• Andrew Price, School of Engineering Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton

“we need more scientists here and more collaborations with the scientists.”

• Steve McGough, Newcastle University, Newcastle

“The main thing that impressed me is the amount of group discussion that’s been going on between people with very different goals, and the other thing, from my point of view, is to come here and present the case for open development and how that can improve sustainability.”

• Steve Lee, OSS-Watch, Oxford