[OKCon-Programme] Speaker from Google?

[Peter Murray-Rust]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 7:37 AM, Sebastian Hellmann <
hellmann at informatik.uni-leipzig.de> wrote:

> Hello all,
> based on this discussion, I would say that inviting someone from Google
> will be interesting, but difficult to handle. The questions after keynote
> might be very critical, so the keynote speaker has to be prepared for that.
> Instead of a keynote, we could also have a podium discussion. The topic
> would be suitable and definitely not be lame. Google contributes something
> to all this and we might be able to clarify what's what in such discussion.
> Sebastian


I have been to (?most) of the OKCons in London and part of the motivation
isto pick up ideas about openness and to get my sociopolitical energy
refreshed. If I see people doing inspirational things I try to emulate what
they are doing - last year I wrote about climate code and Open Street Map
http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2010/04/26/okcon-2010-thoughts/ . We should
remember also that as this is in a new location there are likely to be many
people for whom it is the first contact with the OKF. So my inclination
would be for people who help to build the vision.

If we can get him I'd suggest Subbiah Arunchalam from India who has been
working for scholarly and public openness for decades.

P.


>
> On 24.03.2011 22:51, Silke Helfrich wrote:
>
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> as far as we are clear about the fact that google has nothing to do with
>> commons, and contextualize the invitation diplomatically, why not invite
>> them?
>> Google is simply business which provides open access (and therefore does
>> better than others do), but it is a monopoly at the same time and there is
>> no such thing as a monopoly-commons.
>>
>> Nevertheless, it may be an interesting bridge builder towards the world we
>> are struggling for, because once there is open access (a basic feature of
>> the knowledge commons) you can hardly step backward. And that is an
>> interesting point to discuss as many others.
>>
>> Very best
>> Silke
>>
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>>> Datum: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:18:38 +0000
>>> Von: Chris Taggart<countculture at gmail.com>
>>> An: OKCon Programme Committee List<okcon-programme at lists.okfn.org>
>>> Betreff: Re: [OKCon-Programme] Speaker from Google?
>>> I have a bit of a prob with some of Google's stuff and its position on
>>> open
>>> data generally (i don't think it cares about it except insofar it helps
>>> its
>>> business goals/model.
>>>
>>> That said I think Google Refine is excellent and being a tool rather than
>>> a
>>> data store doesn't have the problems mentioned above.
>>>
>>> Just my 2c worth.
>>>
>>> Chris
>>> ------
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>>> On 24 Mar 2011 17:42, "Daniel Dietrich"<daniel.dietrich at okfn.org>
>>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear all
>>>>
>>>> we are looking into the possibility to invite some one from Google to
>>>>
>>> OKCon
>>>
>>>> Out of my head there are several Google Projects with relevance to OKCon
>>>>
>>> 2011 topics, such as:
>>>
>>>> - Google Books http://books.google.com/
>>>> - Google UNESCO World Heritage
>>>>
>>> http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/unesco/
>>>
>>>> - Google Art http://www.googleartproject.com/
>>>> - Google data liberation front http://www.dataliberation.org/
>>>>
>>>> - Google public data explorer http://www.google.com/publicdata/home
>>>> - Google open data toolkit http://code.google.com/p/opendatakit/
>>>> - Google refine http://code.google.com/p/google-refine/
>>>>
>>>> But this is of corse very vague.
>>>>
>>>> If you have suggestions or could even point me to people involved in
>>>>
>>> these
>>> projects this would be incredibly useful! Thanks
>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> Daniel
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
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