[OpenTox Association] OpenTox Association, purpose and benefits
Barry Hardy barry.hardy at douglasconnect.comFri Mar 6 07:30:40 CET 2015
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In our recent OpenTox meeting discussions we agreed it would be helpful to start to describe the benefits of the OpenTox Association. With input from David Gallagher and Sunil Chawla we have prepared some draft text below as a starting point. Your feedback welcome! best regards Barry OpenTox Association Background OpenTox has been a successful effort thus far in its technical and scientific dimensions A lot of excellent work was accomplished during the OpenTox project, from which a community has developed around the ideas and concepts. Further work is required on OpenTox development and sustainability involving a longer term roadmap to maximize impact and exploitation. To help promote its further evolution in a market ecosystem of users, developers, partners and other key influencers of the toxicology community, a non-profit association will provide a common forum for focused initiatives to provide dissemination support in the market ecosystem. Benefits will accrue to the entire OpenTox community of stakeholders including users, key influencers and developers who will have a well-defined place to reach out for fully responsive interactions and support. Purpose The purpose of the OpenTox Association is to create a highly-visible (non-profit) focal point or nexus for everything related to OpenTox. Membership will be open to anyone with an interest in promoting or using the work of OpenTox. The association will provide several benefits: 1. The association will publish and promote (via website, scientific meetings, etc.) the accomplishments of the OpenTox project for the benefit of institutions, companies and individuals with an interest in toxicology who may be able to build on the work of OpenTox. 2. The association will provide guidance and assistance to institutions, companies and individuals with an interest in using or building on the work of OpenTox. 3. The association will publish and promote the expertise of the partners involved in the OpenTox project, potentially opening up new opportunities for the partners, individually and jointly. 4. The association will provide an authoritative forum to discuss and resolve issues (technical and legal) relating to current and future work (academic and commercial) based on OpenTox. 5. The existence of an OpenTox association will lend more credibility and backing to partners pursuing future opportunities in the field of toxicology. 6. The association meetings will provide a forum for the partners to keep up-to-date and to explore new opportunities as they arise.
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