[@OKau] OpenCon event for Australia

Tue May 19 11:22:16 UTC 2015

Lol, I support disagreement being okay :)

I agree it would be more worthwhile if it were about *doing* open projects. I also agree that good sharing about doing includes sharing why. I'd prefer if it were all workshops, no talking heads without participation.

I don't know if I'll still be in Australia then but if so, I'd be keen to be involved.

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> However we do need to keep talking about why. That never stops.

I fundamentally disagree with you, but that's okay.

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On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 11:49 AM, Steven De Costa <steven.decosta at linkdigital.com.au<mailto:steven.decosta at linkdigital.com.au>> wrote:
 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<mailto: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.

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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!

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