[okfn-discuss] [Fwd: Re: first stab at okf 17th/18th March forum announce]

Wed Dec 13 13:57:17 UTC 2006

Forwarding Adnan's suggestions for the open media stream. And the wiki 
page (which anyone can edit) is:

   http://okfn.org/wiki/okcon/

Regards,

Rufus

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: first stab at okf 17th/18th March forum announce
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:05:44 +0000
From: adnan hadzi <a.hadzi at gold.ac.uk>
Reply-To: a.hadzi at gold.ac.uk
To: Saul Albert <saul at theps.net>
CC: Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>, jo walsh <jo at frot.org>
References: <20061210201828.GJ5599 at localdomain>

great! thanks a lot!

please do let me know which date we're talking about & also if we might
use the other day for the documentation workshop (flossmanuals.net /
wikibooks etc)? or if we should do it within opeh knowledge 1.0 on the
same day?

also, what is the link to the wiki?

brainstorm:

1. micro-comissioning (alternative distribution plattforms)
- talked shortly with tav last wk & was thinking of asking if we could
invite him here?
- iraq for sale / outfoxed (only video)
- docagora initiative

2. modulation (metadata)
- doma (only video conference if poss? as flight is too expensive from
switzerland) / james / adnan (database documentary)
- evt. also jaromil on video conference?
- jamie / zoe (meta data standarts follow up - what happend since
transmission)

3. FLOSS documentation (evt. separate see above)
- adam hyde flossmanuals.net
- mick fuzz clearerchannel
- adnan converge.org.uk

let me know when i should start contacting people - would need to have a
clear brief for the micro-comissioning & for the modulation (metadata)
streams (do we call them streams?), uh, i'm too old school...

talk soon,
adnan

Saul Albert wrote:
> Dear Jo, Rufus, Adnan,
>
> This is a draft announcement about the next Open Knowledge Forum we
> talked about last week. Sorry it's taken me so long to get this out, I'm
> afraid I've been a bit snowed under, as usual.
>
> I hope it's useful somehow. Please tear it to shreds!
>
> I didn't post it to the okf discuss list as I thought it was too raw,
> and I wanted you three - the only people I've talked to about it so far,
> to have a look first.
>
> In terms of format, I reckon we should go for two keynotes in each area
> one on Modularisation, one on Commercial opportunity, then do the rest
> with open space. I know that leaves little time for panels, but to be
> honest I agree with tav: panels are kind of stale.
>
> Maybe keynotes should be a bit longer - 1/2 an hour - really give
> people time to get into something and expand a whole territory, then as
> tav suggested, make sure we do a good pre-event and post-event roundup
> of information and concentrate on how to interlink and take forwards
> knowledge gained through various meetings, collaborations etc..
>
> One more thing - we are going for *one* day aren't we? So it's going to
> be *either* 17th *or* the 18th March? I can't remember what was said in
> irc. Rufus, do you have logs?
>
> Anyway...
>
>
> How's this:
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>  
>                         Open Knowledge 1.0
>                        17th/18th March 2007
>                         Limehouse Town Hall
>
>
> Discussions of 'Open Knowledge' often end with licensing wars: legal
> arguments, technicalities, and ethics. While those debates rage on, Open
> Knowledge 1.0. will concentrate on two pragmatic and often-overlooked
> aspects of Open Knowledge: modularisation and commercial opportunity.
>
> Packaging systems are one of the most inspiring things about using Free
> Software: the ability to install and upgrade constantly updated software
> 'packages', worked on incrementally by thousands of developers.
> Modularisation on a large scale (such as in the Debian 'apt' packaging
> system) allows coherent projects to employ an amazing degree of
> decentralised collaboration and distribution. But what other kinds of
> knowledge can be modularised?  What are the opportunities and problems
> of this approach to forms of knowledge other than Software?
>
> Modularisation also holds a key to commercial opportunity: unrestricted
> access to an ever-changing, modularised landscape of knowledge creates
> commercial opportunities that are not available with proprietary
> approaches. What examples are there of economic systems that function
> with Open Knowledge, and how can those systems be shared? When is
> cooperation with Open Knowledge more economically viable than closed
> competition?
>
> Bringing together Open threads from Science, Geodata, Civic Information
> and Media, Open Knowledge 1.0 is an opportunity for people and projects
> to meet, talk and build things. 
>
> Each thread will have two keynotes with the rest of the day divided
> between open space formats and workshop activities.
>
> If you have a presentation or a workshop you would like to give in the
> open space, or you would like to help organise Open Knowledge 1.0,
> please get in touch.  All relevant details are on the wiki:
> http://okfn.org..... 
>
> -----------------------------
>
> (I can't seem to edit the wiki, so  I can't add anything there. Help?)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Saul.
>
>   

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