Dear Konstantinos and dear all,

That's an important point. Open research is *not only* open journals,
but open conferences, open research projects, open Ph.Ds. etc.

I would like to comment some on these other issues:

1) The MTSR'05 (I am one of the organizers) is an on-line conference
that promotes the importance of on-line discussion, since the
proceedings are printed AFTER the discussions, so that there is time
to integrate them. See here:

http://www.metadata-semantics.org/

The deadline is still open (and the fees are low!), consider
submitting your work, it would be very nice to have some of you in
the conference!

2) We organized at my Univ. a workshop in "blended" mode, with no
registration fees, called ONTOSE:

http://www.cc.uah.es/msicilia/ws-onto/

It was a wonderful experience from my viewpoint. You can read a
report on the last SIGSEMIS bulletin:
http://www.sigsemis.org/newsletter/july2005/vol2_issue2.pdf


3) I started some kind of "open Ph.D." with some foreign students,
that is, they apply for the program at my Univ. and I give them the
possibility to do the seminars on-line. Then, the actual Ph.D. work
is conducted at a distance, with a co-supervisor in the other country
(from now, this is working between Greece and Spain). This is an
answer for people that are not interested in the programs offered at
their countries or regions and want to start a research collaboration
witouth the need to move for several years to other country.

Just some thoughs...

All the best,
Miguel-Angel



--- In open-research-society@yahoogroups.com, "K. Kotis" <kkot@a...>
wrote:
> Dear fellows,
>
> indeed, an alternative Journal would be the one that offers such
services
> that will certainly encourage new researchers to try out for their
skills
> for their first time! However, I believe that also experienced
researchers
> will be tempted to submit breakthrough ideas, ...ideas that
elsewhere (in
> traditional Journals and their reviewers) would have been almost
certainly
> rejected.
>
> In my opinion, the open research initiative should not only consider
> Journals as a medium of realizing this great idea. An alternative
medium
> could be an Open Conference, a conference for Open people with Open
ideas.
> In such a way, the open research society will have its own space
and time to
> exchange research and socialize in a completely different way than
the
> traditional conferences. Just imagine an annual international
conference
> (could be "virtual"?) where research papers will not be left out
because of
> the conference schedule (or limit of pages)!!!! Or even more
differently,
> think of a conference session where the "best rejected" papers will
have the
> chance to become accepted, not by a board of reviewers, but by the
highly
> qualified audience...!
>
> I hope these ideas to be further elaborated and become the new
roadmap of
> research for the common interest.
>
> Regards,
>
> Konstantinos
>
> _____