A few weeks ago, Piotr Migdal made me aware of the Offtopicarium (he is among the organizers), which is a mixture of scientific conference, workshop, and geek gathering ;-). Its purpose is to discuss topics and ideas, which are usually off-topic to "regular" events and meetings, but nevertheless interesting and exciting. The Offtopicarium welcomes (rather geeky ;-) ...) people, who have a good idea and are passionate about it, such as scientists, entrepreneurs, people involved in startups, NGOs, and such.
So, after nice discussions and kind encouragement by Piotr Migdal, I finally submitted an abstract. It got just accepted, such that we will have a (20 min + 20 min discussion) talk about PhysicsOverflow at the
(Click the title for more information!)
Of course, I will shamelessly use this opportunity to introduce and advertise PhysicsOverflow:
The Q&A part as a revival of Theoretical Physics SE and a physics analogue of MathOverflow, whereas the Reviews section should take the role of an overdue competitor of the (outdated and flawed in many ways) journal peer-reviewing process.
And who knows, maybe we will also find a second system developer there, to help and unburden Polarkernel ...?
Anyway, summer holidays are mostly over (at least in Germany ...) and members of PhysicsOverflow are heartily encouraged to make PhysicsOverflow look as awesome as possible by nice contributions ;-) !
Even though I already have some ideas of course ;-), I would be happy to consider suggestions concerning the talk, they can be mentioned for example in the comments here.
Cheers !
(This is a repost from our blog)