The other event of the day yesterday was University of Toronto's Research in Action show. This is a booth-based presentation of various research, whether formal or informal, being done at the University. My interest is primarily in figuring out how to:

• Use Open Source to make it easier for researchers to make their work relevant
• Create a path to let research results flow into Open Source (effectively, addressing code quality issues, community mismatch and the like)
• Find a way to have development projects feed (research) needs into the research community "We need something that can do this novel thing"

Going to be putting together thoughts on this to discuss with members of the University community over the next few days.