[okfn-discuss] Ideas for OKCon 2010?

Wed Jul 8 13:43:22 UTC 2009

Dear Sören (and Luis),

This all sounds great! I think we definitely want to aim to organize
the event around 3-4 streams such as the Technology, Society and
Culture items as you mentioned.

I also think, even with a very open process, it would be good to have
a formal programme/organizing committee for OKCon this year to set
deadlines, handle the CFP etc. What do people think (and anyone want
to put themselves forward?).

Regards,

Rufus

2009/7/7 Sören Auer <auer at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>:
> Luis Villa wrote:
>> I'd suggest cap at 1,000 words, and put all the papers in a wiki
>> before the conference, with people allowed and encouraged to edit
>> them, and conference speakers encouraged to participate in the editing
>> process and respond to the edits/questions during their presentation.
>> (If particularly good editing processes happen, could convert it to a
>> panel and invite the editors!)
>
> Yes, I think such an open submission, reviewing process might be
> appropriate for OKCON ;-)
>
> I still think it would be important to have a deadline for submissions -
> else people tend to forget about it. We could call it maybe the
> "research track" of OKCON. We should also try to publish the submissions
> for archival purposes, e.g. at CEUR-WS.org.
>
> We can also ask for two kinds of submissions - papers (up to 6 pages)
> and abstracts (1-2 pages).
>
> Regarding topics the following came to my mind:
>
> Technology
> * Semantic Web and Linked Data technologies for representing and
> interlinking open knowledge
> * platforms, methods and tools for creating, sharing and curating open
> knowledge
> * light-weight, adaptive interaction models
>
> Society
> * Licensing of open-knowledge
> * Incentive and gratification models for open-knowledge contributors
> * Business models for open-knowledge
>
> Culture
> * Opening and making libraries, archives, museums more accessible
> ...
>
> Probably we should set up a page at the Wiki to continue drafting the
> call. Once ready we can send the call around to mailinglists of the
> respective communities.
>
> --Sören
>
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