[okfn-labs] Commons Technology Summit - Draft ideas

Wed Aug 14 08:09:42 UTC 2013

Hi all,

some of you are receiving this similar message twice -- apologies. But I
just wanted to highlight that work is continuing on the previously
discussed Commons Technology Summit (now dubbed the Infrastructure 4 Open
mini-summit). You can see the current planning and contribute to it on
http://okfnpad.org/ctechsummit

Important changes:
 - The location has been set to London, with an offer to use the Google
offices at 1-13 St Giles High St (pending final confirmation once a date is
set). A date is not set, and if you have a continued interest, I would
invite you to indicate your preference on the following Doodle poll:
http://doodle.com/i3q6h6chbgcsb452
 - We've narrowed down the scope of the summit to "discuss the
infrastructures needed to enable massive re-use of open works with a focus
on what needs to be done to automate and simplify the processes of re-use."

We currently have four proposed sessions that fit within this scope:

- Open standards for open data
- Metadata and content registries (broadly, incl CKAN, etc)
- Attribution and license metadata
- Automated tools to facilitate the reuse of openly licensed materials

Each of the four sessions have a proposed host, three of which have
provisionally confirmed. The style is likely to be design challenges: the
host of each session present the current thinking within an area and leads
the participants in collectively finding the answers to some of the
problems faced, sometimes to the point of designing user interfaces and
architectures. It will be highly interactive.

Sincerely,
Jonas

On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Jonas Öberg <
jonas at shuttleworthfoundation.org> wrote:

> Thanks Rufus!
>
> Laura - do you have time for a quick Skype call next week?
>
> I'm very happy with all comments and thoughts so far - including the 14
> people who have expressed an interest! Will try to regurgitate this soonest
> and bring to a form where we can circulate this further, as per Rufus and
> Michael's suggestion.
>
> Sincerely,
> Jonas
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>wrote:
>
>>
>> On 12 July 2013 14:42, Jonas Öberg <jonas at shuttleworthfoundation.org>wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> I'm new to this list and for those of you who don't know me, I'm a
>>> Fellow of the Shuttleworth Foundation working on technologies and metadata
>>> for attribution and licensing information of digital works. I previously
>>> worked for Creative Commons and the Free Software Foundation Europe.
>>>
>>> As you may know, Creative Commons has in the past organised a series of
>>> technology summits but the last one was too many years ago and so myself
>>> and a few others have started drafting some plans for a more general
>>> Commons Technology Summit[*].
>>>
>>
>> Big +1 here and we'd be up for helping to organize!
>>
>> I also know that there were discussions from last OKFestival / OKCon
>> about organizing a dedicated data wranglers event tentatively named
>> "DataConf" at the time  (perhaps Small Data Conf given our inclinations!).
>> Ideas was of an informal, community organized data conference for data
>> wranglers. Perhaps start a separate thread but there seem definite
>> complementarities with this.
>>
>>
>>> I'm including a list of the currently proposed topics for such a summit
>>> (the tentative date of which is sometime towards the end of the year,
>>> somewhere in Europe). You're all most welcome to contribute to the thinking
>>> and express your interest in participating:
>>>
>>>    http://okfnpad.org/ctechsummit
>>>
>>
>> I've added myself - I could suggest some more data-oriented topic areas
>> but I plan to hold off for the time being :-)
>>
>> To follow up Michael's suggestion may be worth a post on this that we can
>> then circulate to gauge interest! (Instructions for adding blog posts here:
>> http://okfnlabs.org/blog/add/ ...)
>>
>> Rufus
>> *
>>
>> *
>>
>
>
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