[OKCon-Programme] Speakers List

Mon Mar 28 20:44:05 BST 2011

I saw Blakley in the Free Culture Forum in Barcelona last year. She has very interesting insights and is a good speaker with visual props. Her line on trademarks vs copyright is also very relevant for debates on open hardware.

On 28 Mar 2011, at 16:01, Wouter Tebbens wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> I was just thinking about some more keynote candidates. What do you think of the following persons?
> 
> *Johanna Blakley*, how the fashion industry thrives based on imitation and Free Culture
> http://johannablakley.wordpress.com/
> http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/johanna_blakley_lessons_from_fashion_s_free_culture.html
> 
> *Juliet Schor* economist researcher; her latest book "Plenitude" argues for a transition towards an ecological ecosystem that builds upon DIY / self-provision and communities.
> http://www.julietschor.org/
> 
> *Gabrielle Coleman* free software hacker, anthropologist, researcher at NYU
> http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/mcc/faculty_bios/view/Gabriella_Coleman
> http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/09/the-anthropology-of-hackers/63308/
> 
> best,
> 
> Wouter
> 
> On 03/25/2011 12:25 PM, Daniel Dietrich wrote:
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> Thanks for your comments. I have pulled your suggestions about speakers whom to invite into the
>> 
>> 	http://okcon.okfnpad.org/2011-programme
>> 
>> 
>> Section: # "Brainstorm about Speakers, Themes and Ideas for each topic area", currently lists:
>> 
>> Open Data Technology
>> 	•
>> 	•
>> 
>> Open Science and Open Data in Academic Research
>> 	• Adrian Pohl (HBZ)
>> 	• Robert Darnton (Harvard University librarian
>> 	• Brewster Kahle (Internet Archive)
>> 
>> Open Law, Society and Democracy
>> 	• Lawrence Liang (Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore, India)
>> 	• Ronaldo Lemos da Silva (Center fore Technology and Society at Fundacao Getulio Vargas, a Rio de Janeiro university Brazil)
>> 	• Jose Murillo, (Minister of culture for digital affairs in Brazil)
>> 
>> Open Culture, Education and Commons Research
>> 	• Silke Helfrich (Commons)
>> 	• Pipa Buchanan (P2P Univerrsity / School of Webcraft)
>> 	• Andreas Meiszner (?)
>> 	• Shaina Anand (http://pad.ma project India)
>> 	• Subbiah Arunchalam (scholarly and public openness India)
>> 
>> 
>> In addition: Someone from Google:
>> 
>> 	• Alan Davidson (Director of Public Policy, Google)
>> 	• Daniel Clancy (Google Books)
>> 	• Brian Fitzpatrick (Google Data Liberation Front)
>> 
>> 
>> I am not sure if I put them to the right topic area, please feel free to change. Also: Please feel free to suggest additional people. Please also think about what topic areas are already covered and what areas are left blank.
>> 
>> Please note: This is the list of potential speakers, not keynote speakers, but of corse this is just proposals and we might change this on an individual basis.
>> 
>> We will try to consolidate this list by monday and send invites to these people.
>> 
>> Best Regards
>> Daniel
>> 
>> 
>> On 25.03.2011, at 09:37, Peter Murray-Rust wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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
>>> 
>>> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
>>> 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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