Past, Present and Future of Open Science (Emergent session): Beyond the Meeting: Building a Permanent Space for Professional and Social Interaction Across the World #96
Description
Beyond the Meeting: Building a Permanent Space for Professional and Social Interaction Across the World
By Savannah Cookson, University of California, Berkeley
- Theme: Past, Present and Future of Open Science
- Format: Emergent session
Abstract
The Club Night on gather.town was a fantastic experience and facilitated a virtual experience that was uniquely organic. While the Club Night was a defined event, we can use this new experience to allow for a completely new type of interaction that is not constrained in space or time. Let's build a worldwide virtual lab space - a place anyone can be in anytime no matter where they are to hang out, work with others, and do literally anything we want it to. What would that look like? What features would be useful? What would get you to log on when you get to work and just have it running in the background in case a fellow lab member says hi or has a question for you? Let's discuss how we can build a space that not only fixes the virtual conference, but transcends it. Example space in the Useful Link to explore the gather.town platform and how we used it for Club Night.
Useful Links
https://gather.town/frTlLiUYG2B44pjz/mytestspaces
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