[okfn-discuss] OKCon 2008

Thu Nov 29 02:45:35 UTC 2007

Hi,

For the record, third iteration of draft announce for next OKCon is 
inline below.

I've worked in Rufus' comments, but not adjusted to account for recent 
discussions of panels (cf. my last post, and Saul's before that).

Regards,

Jonathan

Subject: OKCon 2008: London School of Economics, 15th March 2008

# OKCon 2008 - 'Open Knowledge: Applications, Tools and Services'
# where: London School of Economics
# when: 15th March 2008
# www: <http://www.okfn.org/okcon/>
# wiki: <http://www.okfn.org/wiki/okcon2008/>

We're pleased to announce that the second Open Knowledge conference 
(OKCon) will take place in March 2008, following on from the success of 
our inaugral conference last year. 'Open knowledge' is material that 
others are free to access, reuse or re-distribute and may include 
anything from sonnets to statistics, genes to geodata.

We've seen the growth of successful open knowledge projects - from peer 
reviewed journals to community edited encyclopaedias - but what impact 
can open licensing have in education, research and commerce? Does open 
licensing have benefits for researchers? Is sharing the key to scaling? 
What kinds of business models are available to open knowledge 
distributors? How is open knowledge applied in different institutional 
and professional contexts?

There now exists a vast amount of open content and data. What kinds of 
tools are avaiable to analyse and represent this wealth of material? How 
can we sort, search, store it to maximise its visibility and reusability?

In the past few years we've witnessed the rise of web-based services - 
from social networking sites to online spreadsheet packages. While we 
have definitions for open software and open knowledge, what is an open 
service? What kinds of new services can be built using open knowledge?

The second Open Knowledge conference will bring together individuals and 
groups from across the open knowledge spectrum for a day of seminars and 
workshops around the theme of 'Applications and Services'. Three main 
sessions will focus on 'Transport and Environment', 'Visualization and 
Analysis' and 'Education and Academia'.

We are currently welcoming submissions and suggestions. If you are 
interested in giving a paper, facilitating or otherwise helping out, 
please contact info [at] okfn [dot] org. Early registration is 
encouraged as space is limited!

Rufus Pollock wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Apologies for the delays in getting a second iteration of the OKCon 
>> 2008 draft announce out! I've included it inline below.
>
> No problem and thanks for doing it. This looks a massive improvement 
> and getting very close to something we can send (which we should do 
> asap ...) Comments below.
>
> [snip]
>
> ~rufus
>
>> Subject: OKCon 2008: London School of Economics, 15th March 2008
>>
>> # OKCon 2008 - 'Applications and Services'
>
> 'Open Knowledge: Applications, Tools and Services'
>
>> # London School of Economics
>
> where: ...
>
>> # 15th March 2008
>> # home: <http://www.okfn.org/okcon/>
>
> www: ...
>
> Do we need a register item right now? I think we can leave this and 
> put up registration system later (we have to work out whether we 
> charge and how much etc)
>
>> # wiki: <http://www.okfn.org/wiki/okcon2008/>
>
>
> Would have intro para on general background (o/w this all comes out of 
> leftfield). Here's a first stab -- I'm sure it can be improved:
>
> Following a successful inaugral event last year the Open Knowledge 
> Conference (OKCon) is back in March 2008 with more on the subject of 
> open data, open content and open information generally. 'Open' here 
> means material which you are free for others to use, reuse and 
> redistribute without restriction and knowledge is taken broadly to 
> include everything from sonnets to statistics, genes to geodata.
>
>> In the past few years we've witnessed the rise of web-based services 
>> - from social networking sites to online spreadsheet packages. While 
>> we have definitions for open software and open knowledge, what is an 
>> open service? What kinds of new services can be built using open 
>> knowledge?
>
> I think this para is great but should be move down so you start with 
> the next one.
>
>> We've seen the growth of successful open knowledge projects - from 
>> peer reviewed journals to community edited encyclopaedias - but what 
>> impact can open licensing have in education, research and commerce? 
>> Does open licensing have benefits for researchers? Is sharing the key 
>> to scaling? What kinds of business models are available to open 
>> knowledge distributors? How is open knowledge applied in different 
>> institutional and professional contexts?
>>
>> There now exists a vast amount of open content and data. What tools 
>> are avaiable to analyse and represent this wealth of material? How 
>> can we sort, search, store it to increase its availability and 
>> visibility?
>
> I'd put services item here.
>
>> The second Open Knowledge conference will bring together individuals 
>> and groups from across the open knowledge spectrum for a day of 
>> seminars and workshops around the theme of 'Applications and 
>> Services'. Three main sessions will focus on 'Transport and 
>> Environment', 'Visualization and Analysis' and 'Education'.
>
> I'd mod last one to Education and Academia so we have more flexibility.
>
>> We are currently welcoming submissions and suggestions. If you are 
>> interested in giving a paper, facilitating or otherwise helping out, 
>> please contact info [at] okfn [dot] org. Early registration is 
>> encouraged as space is limited!
>
> Great.