Brookhaven National Laboratory will hold a one-day conference,
titled “Open Source/Open Science”, on Saturday, Oct 2, 1999, on the
Laboratory campus which is located on Long Island NY. This event
will bring together scientists and developers to exchange ideas
about the use of Open Source software (sometimes known as “free” or
“public domain” software) in science here at BNL as well as in
other university and laboratory institutions. There will be a
session of invited talks, a poster and demonstration area, vendors,
and tours of some of the Laboratory facility.
The talks will focus on small and large scale research projects
which have made use of Open Source software. Some leading Open
Source developers will talk about new software projects that could
have a major impact on software-intensive science. There will also
be a presentation on the Open Source software projects initiated by
scientists as they join the effort of distributing their work over
the Internet.
During the conference, the Laboratory will be conducting tours
of various reserach facilities on site, where Open Source software
is responsible for a large part of the research work.
The conference calls on authors of Open Source-like software
projects, which are related to science in any way, to submit their
work to be presented in a poster/demo session at Berkner. Computing
equipment and wall space will be made available for setting up
posters and demonstrate their software.
Attendance is limited to 400 attendees so we strongly encourage
those who wish to attend, to register through the conference web
site. There is a $25 registration fee to cover attendee specific
costs and to limit absenteeism.
Those who wish to attend the conference or submit an abstract of
your work, please visit the conference web site at
Thank you for your attention.
Open Source/Open Science Organizing committee.
- Steve Adler
- Malcolm Capel
- Ed McFadden
- Sean McCorkle
- Tom Schlagel
- Mark Sailer
- Tim Sailer
- Tom Throwe
- Ann Emrick
- Bonnie Sherwood
- Susan McKeon
- Donna Zadow