Dear RG colleagues,
I just like to suggest an annual meeting for all RG colleagues for exchanging live knowledge and considered as social activity, and by voting we will choose time and place (country or university) for meeting to take place, and under great supervision of RG society.
Regards, Emad
Dear Emad,
This vision is motivating and inspiring!
It must be phantastic to sit opposit all these dear RG friends writing so often to them!
Yes, an anual meeting would be great. Having all these different experts in one room discussing well prepared single items.
But our world is a realistic one: Will we spend our time? Depends on success probability: Will be the profit of ourselves be garanteed? For me it is obvoius, but how other members will think?
What will be the success promising themes?
Who pays for the travel costs?
Only a few thoughts.
Peter
Dear Khan,
Thank you so much for your kind words, I am ready to be coordinator for this proposed meeting of course under RG umbrella.
Regards, Emad
Dear Emad,
This vision is motivating and inspiring!
It must be phantastic to sit opposit all these dear RG friends writing so often to them!
Yes, an anual meeting would be great. Having all these different experts in one room discussing well prepared single items.
But our world is a realistic one: Will we spend our time? Depends on success probability: Will be the profit of ourselves be garanteed? For me it is obvoius, but how other members will think?
What will be the success promising themes?
Who pays for the travel costs?
Only a few thoughts.
Peter
Dear Emad.
Great idea. It somehow must have crossed our thoughts, at least once, because it does feel a bit strange to nourrish feelings and ties of friendship for people we have never met in person. And most of us belong to the real world.
I share Peter's doubts, and I have one more:
Which place will you choose for that meeting? Is there a place in the World to be considered "central", equidistant from any RG member ? (should wee consider meeting in the Center of the World, even if this means never meeting again?)
Dear Lucero, Dear Bonzanini,
I can not express my feeling toward your great agreements, So many thanks, I hope to establish a special RG committee for preparing for meeting after enough time.
Regards, Emad
Dear Emad.
after so many positive reactions would it be possible for you to suggest a first very rough draft and make proposals for the above mentioned questions? Or am I too fast???
Best
Peter
What are your opinion to create annual meeting for RG members?
It is a good idea. Think face to face meetup can enforce the virtual / online socialization & collaboration among RG members. Following items might need to be considered:
It is really a nice idea, however, there should be some scientific discussions about pre-defined topic.
Dear Prof. Fung, Dear Esraa Ali, Dear RG colleagues,
Thank you so much for all your valued answers, I'd like to suggest the following points (proposed plans) for our meeting:
1- I upvoting the clever idea of Esrra, by choosing multiple placed in different countries, and let each member to choose the nearest place.
2- We have to nominate a common subjects to discuss in the live meeting, for example, how to publish paper in a reputable indexed journals, Plagiarism, definition of publishing parameters such as Impact Factor IF and h-index, this is just example, in addition the meeting time duration is not more 3 days maximum.
3- Sometime, we as a researchers attend an international conference which is cost approximately 2000$, so we can pay the cost, or by coordinating this issue with our universities, we may get some funds.
4- Let us consider this live meeting as an OFF days to spend nice time with our colleagues, and the most important point is considering that academic activity OPTIONAL.
Regards, Emad
Thank you dear Lucero and Sabah for you kind impressive replies.
Emad
exemplary idea.....it will be amazing and the best thing to talk to the meticulous persons who share their valuable thoughts here....and yes it can be possible...for scientists everything is possible, it's just that we again have to think a bit more and we will come out with a productive idea.....I will be honored to be a part this meeting with high intellectual people.
Kindly make it happen.....
Yes, this is a good idea. The meeting may be arranged in terms of some conference / workshop.
Dear Emad Kamil Hussein,
Thank you for sharing your question. Definitely it is a great idea. But I think it is very difficult because of the desperation of RG members around the world.
Regards,
Mehdi
Dear Emad:
It's a good idea. Most of RG members welcomed it. But to your surprise, I'd like to say that the uniqueness of this forum is that the members are scattered across the world and this status is the charming part of the issue. OK, like other annual conferences and meeting, once a year the members get the chance to meet each other, but now virtually we have the chance, even a few minutes, to connect with the members and get to know whereabouts of other members without any formalities. Any gathering like the conference has got its own problems, such as expenditure, etc, as Peter mentioned above, and where to hold the meeting is another prime issue. There are other issues rendering some members (maybe most of the members) not be able to join the annual meet.
Lastly, do the way that pleases anyway!
Good idea! But it is not possible as it is a big platform of members.
It could be if the RG arranged a multidisciplinary conference.. I will be the first to attend it.
dear Subhash, dear all,
yes it is a large number of possible members. But only a few of them will come I suppose. We need a process over time. Beginning with some participants and having a long breath. After 5 years it will become an installation if, yes if, we did it successfully.
Best
Peter
It is an excellent idea where a large number of scholars and researchers can meet and exchange their ideas.
Interesting but it would not be easy to participate in it. This foro is a good resource without travelling.
The advantages of RG are lost at an annual meeting. The power of RG is that you meet people whom you share interests with, as opposed to physical meetings, when you really end up with people whose interests strike you as dull, irrelevant or Aspergerish.
Dear Ronan,
that´s up to you and up to every individual himself.
But you gain the chance to deepen relationships. It´s not a must.
Best Peter
excellent idea but RG members are around the globe, its difficult to assemble all in one place. but we can come together in online and have a open discussion on specialization and subject wise.
thanks
phani
Hmmm, a nice idea. That means the venue for meeting will be in rotation; from one country to the other. This might be expensive though....
Good idea, but it needs a financial back-up like a COST action/network focused on narrowed topics for informational exchange.
Research Gate is the gateway of knowledge as it should not be make the platform of laboratory as it covers up wide range of knowledgeable member covering different faculty & different test for the studies & also for the achievement.
Research Gate is not a business platform which may generated planning & finance for the program for the members . In this line annual general meeting is not conventional & not possible .
However i appreciate the suggestion & valued question that periodical at least twice in year Research Gate to come out for general evaluation for their planned activities for the member on which all the member are becoming participating in the research Gate program. It is desirable that such evaluation for their various program for which members are participating & also the member view & exchange their opinion which may help the research Gate to make the necessary change if it is necessary for the purpose of evaluation .
This is my personal opinion .
I think it unrealistic: we (even those able and willing to participate) are much too many...
I would like to see how many people would want to come.
Then I would want to find a way to raise money for the meeting so that all that want to come can. This may be something the Templeton and or Noble foundations may want to help host. There are also places like the Gates Family foundation that may be interested in helping if nothing else they may help with the fund raising side.
The next thing to do is to put into place the main areas of study and have some of the most interesting groups or people give presentations on the issues of the most interest to all. This could be done with something like a survey monkey type of platform. Each and every year that it happens there could be different groups or sub groups that present. Many different kinds of meeting opportunities could be given and groups or individuals could set up ahead of time areas to meet and with many others. It could be vary dynamic.
The place would change every time that the meetings took place and all the expenses would be taken care of. No meeting set until the cost of all is covered.
Almost one hundred years ago a similar meeting was taking place in the world with the Solvay Conferences which still take place today but only in Chemistry and Physics. I think that the problem with the limit to a conference like that is that the people in the specific fields get blinded to the other areas that are having problems and there are only so many that are invited so you get a bias.
This would be a world of science meeting in all fields to discuss issues and problems and also to show how interconnected each of the fields are in reality. The field of Evolutionary Biology has profound implications for Quantum Mechanics as the study is on the atomic and subatomic levels. Then the community of scientists should publish papers with areas that need to be taken down different paths and areas that need focus. This would then set up those paths to be worked on over the coming years.
The inability to cross the lines drawn by the areas or narrow areas of study profoundly limit science.
It will take a lot of work but I will help as much as possible.
Count me in.
I think it is a good idea, maybe few different meetings for diverse branches of science. I would be happy to come for such a meeting of RG ecologists.
Dear all,
I understand ResearchGate should maintain it's uniqueness as it is. Otherwise, I wonder it will convert to a replica of routine conferences and gatherings that are being held here and there sometimes in the form of commercial platforms.
Regards,
Faramarz
I agree with Dr. Faramarz Seraji. I find that, day by day, RG is proving a very effective medium of interaction and idea-sharing among the scientists/researchers across the globe. It is becoming increasingly popular among the researchers.
I believe that this is a great idea. Now we need to think how this idea can be realized in practice.
Good idea, as long as the meeting is traveling.
For example, a year in England, one in Italy, another in the USA and so on.
Moreover, it would be good to clarify the issue costs (travel and accommodation)especially for someone who does not belong to Universities or Research centers .
Also, having a subject on debate, for the meeting, would help some to get financing for the trip...
I wouldn't want to loose the oportunity to meet those great RG followers that are short of money...
dear Colleagues,
all the answers are important and not one should miss. But gradually we should step forward (I pointed it out on the first page) and beginn with a rough concept. Emad you mentioned that you will be willing to coordinate.
Financing ist one of the most important step. So we should write down where we have chances to acquire money. We have to look if thre are offered programms for our ideas and get into contact with the instituations. Much work, but without this invest we will add another 50 answers, valuable no doubt, but only Little Progress in Facts.
Excuse me I do not want to be rude.
Best Peter
Why not celebrate RG day or week by organizing special e-events rather then a physical annual meet.
You could do regional meetings every year and build up to a world wide one every few years. They could all be linked via video conference and interactive events. This would be much less expensive and be able to do vary quick. Just sponsoring events does not get the people all in the same place at the same time. The goal would be to meet and understand the people in person.
It is good idea to meet physically and interact, can think of RG international symposium, research colloquium etc .,
Already excellent interaction and sharing of knowledge is going in virtually.
This is a very good idea! But its implementation will face a lot of challenges (RG members are spread all over the world; we are too busy and are short of time; how to cover costs, etc.). But even the longest way has its first step... And if we have lemons we can prepare lemonade. We could organize e-events; prepare joint projects (in order to cover travel costs, conferences); invite RG friends to scientific forums organized by our institutions/groups; during big international conferences we can organize special meetings for RG members... Many scientists are also RG members. In reality we meet each other during different scientific events and we must make better use of these opportunities - may be we can put RG logo on our posters and/or presentations just to show that we are ready for RG discussions with other RG enthusiasts…
I think it is necessary to prepare a latest Directory of RG members and make the e-Directory available to all. From that we'll be able to understand the geographical distribution, subject/discipline distribution, and affiliations of the members. And such information is vital for planning organization of any events/meetins successfully.
Hi Emad,
First of all you should determine what is the glue that binds these people together. I don't believe their researches is bringing them together.
One way would be to compare questions which gets the most answers with those which either ignored or get a few answers only, sometimes totally irrelevant.
Great idea for academic scholars globally to gather and exchange ideas. Someone should advocate this idea. However, logistics and cost will be the greatest challenge.
Regards
It's a good idea. We need a academy for RG loyal and active members. Acadamy will make decision on annula meeting or other issues. Think about it!
Such an actual, progressive, and extraordinary idea! It may be a multidisciplinary conference, for ex. "Planetary solidarity (RG community) in the context of world humanization"...
Ya a meeting should be kept for all members of RG gate for clarifying there doubts in there respective areas. A team of active members should be chosen in particular areas so that they can clear the doubts of the researchers. If required they can quote an example which will be easy for the researchers to clarify there doubts.
Dear Nittala Sai Krishna Teja,
Thank you so much in advance.
Regards, Emad
Hello,
greetings to all the initiative to expand the activities of the RG members. The first step is already being given!
A good idea but you need to prepare as a meeting place, time and others
The idea was put forward to public opinion more than a year ago in RG community, and after this great success and consensus, why did not develop into reality. Is not it supposed to discuss someone as a counterpart to ideas to become aplicable.
I consider it as something positive. But it needs to be defined well in advance, after all, people from all over the world will have an interest in participating!
I think this forum is already an important meeting point; anything more than this will sneak us back into walled gardens.
Thanks RG colleagues for sharing your points of view.
Regards, Emad
Thank you so much dear respected RG colleagues for your kind comments, I hope to establish this meeting very soon, but .....
Regards, Emad
I am not against the idea although it would have to be refined. Yes it would be nice to meet the people we here on RG only interact in writing. Although this is the real reason for such meeting, we should pretend that the official reason is the presentation of a paper and so I proposed that a traditional conference be organized where RG member only can submit papers.
But RG is and will remain mainly a online way to meet: a research social network. But it should expand its current platform in order to replace the traditional physical scientific conferences by online scientific conference. The traditional presentation should be done online with video conferencing.
This is vastly cheaper way to proceed. RG should also be a scientific magazine platform replacing the traditional paper expensive platforms. Either should replace all forms of scientific events, conference, magazine publishing by online one, zero ecological footprint, open to all whaterver their wallet. RG should even enter the University teaching field and replace physical universities with an online one. It should also include scientific reading clubs and a lot of other thing that are much more easier to do online that to do by actually bringing our bodies together. Since it would be online, all data collected from this activities can be mined and natural community of Mind can be automatically created.
There is a lot more to imagine. Unfortunatly RG seems to be dominated by software developers with no imagination beyound tweaking the current interface.
Outstanding comment dear Dr. Louis Brassard , thank you so much for sharing your kind point of view, really I agree with you. I just want to overcome the traditional (E-way) of communications with all other respected RG colleagues and to refresh or academic activities via face to face interaction(s) of course under great umbrella of the RG platform.
Regards, Emad
RG authorities can arrange this types of meeting or conference. Although it's difficult but think I is possible. Just think it positively. Again thanks sir
regards
Nekmahmud
You are welcome dear Dr. Md. Nekmahmud Argon , thank you so much for your kind comment.
Emad
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