Is there any chance to be together of RG mate members?
Think RG is providing a platform for half-duplex communication. Perhaps RG can enhance its platform to provide the following:
Virtual Confcall for different RG Special Interest Groups (SIG) - so that interested RG members can get together virtually or online to exchange ideas / discuss certain topics of interest periodically.
Virtual Conference - so that interested RG members can join virtual research conferences as audience and presenters can present virtually at real time or as a video recorded presentation.
Virtual Colloquiums - for researchers / PhD students want to present / test their research ideas / proposals & solicit feedback from other researchers / scholars.
Virtual Research Clinic - for researchers / PhD students who are stuck in their research & required some counseling from Subject Matter Experts. This session can be conducted 1-to-1 between the researcher / PhD student & the SME.
Think above can further improve RG as an interactive research platform. RG also can credit certain RG points for any RG member that had contributed on the above events.
Is there any chance to be together of RG mate members?
Think RG is providing a platform for half-duplex communication. Perhaps RG can enhance its platform to provide the following:
Virtual Confcall for different RG Special Interest Groups (SIG) - so that interested RG members can get together virtually or online to exchange ideas / discuss certain topics of interest periodically.
Virtual Conference - so that interested RG members can join virtual research conferences as audience and presenters can present virtually at real time or as a video recorded presentation.
Virtual Colloquiums - for researchers / PhD students want to present / test their research ideas / proposals & solicit feedback from other researchers / scholars.
Virtual Research Clinic - for researchers / PhD students who are stuck in their research & required some counseling from Subject Matter Experts. This session can be conducted 1-to-1 between the researcher / PhD student & the SME.
Think above can further improve RG as an interactive research platform. RG also can credit certain RG points for any RG member that had contributed on the above events.
in my opinion, today's format Research Gate is the best form of "to be together of RG members" and so far I do not see other more effective ways of communication between researchers. Why? Today's Virtual Confcall and Virtual Conference presuppose very good knowledge of live English to participate in conferences, and also that very good technical support on the Internet for Online conferences. But overwhelming majority members of Research Gate (I'm sure of it) do not have such capabilities. Today's format of discussions meets all the requirements of RG members as much as possible. For example, if a researcher does not know English (or another language), he can always understand the text using Google Translator in his native language. Further, sometimes there is a problem to understand the meaning of the text and only then to respond after a while, that is, not immediately. Sometimes you also need to look for some information on the Internet, then to present it in your answer after a while and so on. Further, Online conferences do not have good quality and reliability of conducting on the Internet. Virtual Research Clinic can also be no less efficiently implemented in today's RG discussion format and so far I do not see any great advantages. Between researchers in RG there is an opportunity for feedback both in the public format and in the personal format. However, I would very much like RG to have the opportunity to freely host the sites of RG members on its resource. That is, hosting of sites (for example in ASP.NET, C #, Windows) would be carried out free of charge from the resources of RG, so that users could solve their problems with the help of Software Tools of other members of RG. Unfortunately, there is no such possibility now.
It will be a great idea to see the respected RG colleagues face to face. On the other hand, we are indirectly together communicating through the platform.