O'Reilly founding sponsor for Open Research

Post date: Dec 2, 2012 5:49:40 AM

We would like to thank O'Reilly Media Inc. for becoming the first Founding Sponsor for our New Zealand and Australian Open Research event, Accelerating Discovery. From the beginning, O'Reilly's editors, authors, and developers have been active members of the technical communities whose work is chronicled in O'Reilly books and web sites. Over the years, O'Reilly has extended its support of those communities beyond their publishing program through activism and conferences.

O'Reilly joining us as a founding sponsor is a great next step together. A group of us interested in Open Research met at KiwiFoo in 2012, and held two sessions on Open Research. Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, attended the second of our Open Research sessions with much interest and encouragement. In part due to Tim's encouragement, we decided to organise a conference that introduces Open Research to the wider scientific community and that especially explores how openness fits with the New Zealand and Australian contexts.