[okfn-discuss] re: first draft invitation to Open Knowledge 1.0

Thu Dec 14 11:11:16 UTC 2006

Biscuits (and Tea) wrote:
> Might want to change that to Saturday 17th March 2007, otherwise fab.

Good point Dot. I've just posted an announce on http://blog.okfn.org/ 
with a slightly modified 'blurb' as a result of discussions on #okfn 
yesterday. Below is an updated text version of the announce which 
incorporates those changes. What do people think, does it need any 
further changes?

~rufus

Short blurb
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On Saturday the 17th March 2007 the first all-day Open Knowledge event 
is taking place at Limehouse Town Hall in London. Bringing together 
individuals and groups from across the open knowledge spectrum it will 
include sessions on open media, free of copyright mapping, civic 
information and open scientific data.

Full announce
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                         Open Knowledge 1.0
                      Saturday 17th March 2007
                         Limehouse Town Hall
                 http://www.okfn.org/okforums/okcon/

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: atomisation and commercial possibility.

Atomisation on a large scale (such as in the Debian 'apt' packaging 
system) has allowed large software projects to employ an amazing degree 
of decentralised, collaborative and incremental development. But what 
other kinds of knowledge can be atomised? What are the opportunities and 
problems of this approach for forms of knowledge other than Software?

Atomisation also holds a key to commercial opportunity: unrestricted 
access to an ever-changing, atomised landscape of knowledge creates 
commercial opportunities that are not available with proprietary
approaches. What examples are there of commercial systems that function 
with Open Knowledge, and how can those systems be shared?

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 speakers to set the scene, with the rest of theday 
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.