[@OKau] OpenCon event for Australia

[Noon Silk]

I'd love to see people stop talking about open-ness and why it's good and
just start doing it more; it's so straightfowardly absurd that people use
closed journals, etc, etc.

So I'd be interested in being involved in this as long at it is *not*
people talking about why open data is good, open education is good, and
instead showcases ways to do these things, and has workshops aimed at
helping people do these things.

--
Noon

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Steven De Costa <
steven.decosta at linkdigital.com.au> wrote:

> Hiya Folks,
>
> I'm keen to find out if people would be interested in helping to
> coordinate an OpenCon Satellite event in Australia in November - actually
> between 14 Nov and 31 Dec if the window.
>
> Details on logistics are here:
> http://opencon2015.org/satellite/logistics
>
> At this stage we'd just need to put forward a plan via this form:
> http://opencon2015.org/Satellite/Plan
>
> What is it? The main event is described below:
>
> *OpenCon 2015 is the student and early career academic professional
> conference on Open Access, Open Education, and Open Data and will be held
> on November 14-16, 2015 in Brussels, Belgium. It is organized by the Right
> to Research Coalition, SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic
> Resources Coalition), and an Organizing Committee of students and early
> career researchers from around the world.*
>
> *The meeting will convene students and early career academic professionals
> from around the world and serve as a powerful catalyst for projects led by
> the next generation to advance OpenCon's three focus areas—Open Access,
> Open Education, and Open Data. Participants for the conference will be
> selected through an application process which will open on June. Full and
> partial travel scholarships will be available to cover the cost of
> attendance for qualified participants.*
>
> What would it be in Australia?
>
> I think this would be a good opportunity to bring together GLAM and
> academic institutions, along with the usual Govt open data platform folks.
> I think we could put together a solid one day agenda of speakers and
> workshops and aim to attract to target audience of students and early
> career academic professionals with content tailored for them.
>
> I think we'd want to have two or three physical venues linked via video
> conference for the speaking sessions. We'd then run similar workshops in
> each venue for the non speaking parts...
>
> *Are we interested?*
>
> Feel free to email me direct (steven.decosta at linkdigital.com.au) if you
> think you might be interested in helping out but aren't sure. Otherwise,
> feel free to add to this thread and let everyone know what you think - yes
> or no?
>
> Hoots!
>
> *STEVEN DE COSTA *|
> *EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR*www.linkdigital.com.au
>
>
>
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