Hi Joel and others,
The first real challenge is, how to get biodiversity informatics experts to participate on this e-biosphere Online Conference. My guess is that first you need to spread the word and then invite people personally to participate. We used in 2006 some kind of invited digital keynote presentations,
http://www.edinburgh.ceh.ac.uk/biota/Ar ... _final.pdf<http://www.edinburgh.ceh.ac.uk/biota/Archive_2010target/Long%20report_final.pdf>
It brought different audiences in.It seems to me that many people are not yet enough familiar with these kinds of digital Online Conferences. Some people just look, and go away. The level of discussion is perhaps not right for them.
I have in my mind a REAL challenge for this e-conference, but before presenting it, I would like to have some kind of positive response that you are really interested in perhaps first uncomfortable truths and solutions.
Cheers
Mauri
