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This week’s news from the open science world:

•  In Canada, a public discussion about open science has kicked off as part of Canada’s Action Plan on Open Government 2.0 Consultation. Canadians can leave their own comments to join the discussion.

• If you’re in Melbourne, Australia, and interested in finding out more about open science, you can join a free workshop on July 19.

• Those of you in Boston, MA, can also join a free event to find out more about open science: F1000Research‘s own Michael Markie and Varsha Khodiyar will be hosted by the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS), and the Office for Scholarly Communication (OSC) at Harvard University on July 16, to answer your questions about open science.
• A project on Experiment.com to sequence the genome of symbiotic organism Azolla has reached its crowdfunding goal. The researchers have written more about the project on the GigaScience blog, and the project has the Experiment open Access badge, which means the results will be open!

• Finally, at the recent ISSCR meeting, poster presenter Richard Pearse circumvented the conference’s “no photography” rule by explicitly encouraging others to photograph his work. A note on his poster said “Please photograph this poster. I did not travel 3,000 miles to keep its contents secret. Feeling rebellious? Tweet it!” Richard has now also submitted his poster to open poster repository F1000Posters.