Breeding for resilience: a strategy for organic and low-input farming systems? — a conference organized by EUCARPIA that we mentioned a while back — kicks off next week, and the programme looks pretty interesting. I don’t see any obvious ways in which the organizers plan to share the contents more widely, at least until the obligatory proceedings are published, and I hear that there’s no space left.
I wonder what it would cost to hire a couple of top-notch bloggers to cover conferences like these. ((Actually, I don’t wonder, I know, but that’s another story.))
EUCARPIA has very little web presence. It is a real pity that such an impressive record and all that tremendous effort by so many is only available in an extremely restricted form through google books, while the stroke of a pen could open it up for all to peruse.
I second Jeremy and Dirk! How much more useful would not all the work made for the EUCARPIA conferences be if it was open access – and more accessible online. And there is one more issue: would it not be much more accessible if there was one single web site, stable between years? Now it seems that each EUCARPIA conference get a new web site (or more), which may or may not have a stable URLs to abstracts.