How best to engage and enable small/mid-size pharma to use open source tools

[kasyousefi]

Proposal

A pressing topic I think we should discuss is how best to engage and enable small/mid-sized pharma to use open source Ecosystems.

It can be sometimes overwhelming and would be helpful to have an idea where to start to join the open source journey and utilize the resources and approaches already available.

Some questions:

1. How to go about setting up an open source Environment? What are the hurdles? How can the crowd-sourced groups help?
2. Could small pharma use R for IB/DSUR? Does this need to be in a validated environment?
3. How do other small pharma companies uses open-source environments? and what would be areas for collaboration?

Expected impact

I believe this topic would be a benefit because small pharma often needs to be innovative, but due to resource limits may rely on traditional approaches and heavily rely on CROs. Having stronger small pharma presence could help in new resources and approaches for open-sourced solutions

Prior discussions/work

Some prior work includes......
BBSW Panel Discussion for Open Source Tools in Small/mid sized pharma (moderated by Ning)

Would you be willing to potentially facilitate this discussion?

Yes definately!