chemweb UK or Global?

[Mark Winter]

>I contacted Steve Bachrach in the States. He thought there was no other
>existing forum related to chemistry web matters, and that chemweb might
>usefully extend its scope.
>
>He also raised the possibility of organising an international conference
>as the next step from the UK webmasters meeting. This would of course
>cost people to attend.  Personally, I doubt if many people would be
>able to raise the funding to attend such a meeting, although the time
>may come quite soon when such a meeting would be viable. Any thoughts?

How about an on-line meeting in the first instance? The ACS poster session
was useful. Perhaps an on-line meeting, with "posters" and "talks"
(including real audio) would be a good way to get started and to extend the
ACS poster concept. It would also help to cement standards for the chemical
community world-wide.

Ultimately, though, a real face-to-face conference would be needed.
Everyone knows that the real business at a conference is done in the bar
and a virtual bar does not quite have the same appeal as an unvirtual one!

Dr Mark J Winter (Deputy Head of Department, Director of Studies)
Department of Chemistry, The University, Sheffield S3 7HF, England
tel: +44 (0)114 282 4498
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e-m: M.Winter at Sheffield.ac.uk
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