[@OKau] OpenCon event for Australia

[Steven De Costa]

 I think the audience helps. By educating the emerging talent we get to
talk about how to do things :)

However we do need to keep talking about why. That never stops. It's like
talking about why a society values free speech. It is often challenged and
often debated no matter how obvious it is as a principle for democratic
societies.

On Tuesday, May 19, 2015, Noon Silk <noonslists at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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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>
> --
> Noon Silk, ن
>
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>
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*EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR*www.linkdigital.com.au
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