Re: [DIYbio] Excellent article on Biology Hacklabs in The Scientist

On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 02:46:11PM -0500, Dakota Hamill wrote:
> Yeah I'd be more interested in hanging out with people and doing a
> hackathon or a show and tell of research or projects everyone was working
> on. I spend enough time on the computer, the notion of hours of video chat
> I don't find too appealing.

I find travelling expensive, disrupting and effectively a dead time.
If you have a few events/week, many of them global, and you have
no money it's the only thing. Streaming video plastered to
avatar faces and sharing same physical space with collaborative
document editing is pretty immersive.

In fact, we use OpenQwaq even for events in the same geographic
area. I'd rather not burn quality time on a 1-2 h on public transport.
There are not that many hours in a day.

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