[open-science] Fwd: [sparc open data] Webcast Invitation: Demystifying Hackathons with Brian Glanz Aug. 6

Fri Jul 26 08:53:47 UTC 2013

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From: Andrea Higginbotham <andrea at arl.org>
Date: Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 12:36 AM
Subject: [sparc open data] Webcast Invitation: Demystifying Hackathons with
Brian Glanz Aug. 6
To: sparc-opendata at arl.org

*Tools for Open Access Advocacy: Demystifying Hackathons*

Another free SPARC online event
Tuesday, August 6th, 2013
12:00 - 1:00PM EDT (use helpful time converter: http://bit.ly/1bSErJ6)
Registration is free, but required. Please *RSVP* by August 1st at:
http://sparc2.arl.org/civicrm/event/register?reset=1&id=120

This webcast requires both a phone dial-in and an Internet connection.

Does the very word “Hackathon” have you crawling to the nearest corner,
with visions of computer code dancing in your head? Have you ever wondered
what exactly they are, and why you should care? Hackathons can be a great
tool, bringing together groups of people to complete a set goal using the
combination of their skills – computer-based and otherwise. They
are not just for the technologists – your individual expertise can be a
vital part of a “hack.” Open Access Week is now just around the corner
(October 21-27) and a Hackathon is a great way to stir interest,
involvement, and possibly create finished projects using Open Access
content.

Our guest speaker, Brian Glanz, is the founder of the Open Science
Federation and co-founder of the American chapter of the Open
Knowledge Foundation. With both organizations, Brian has lots of experience
participating in and deploying Hackathons where Open Access content played
a critical part. For two recent examples, he points to the over 100 events
associated with http://hackforchange.org in June, and July’s
http://hack4ac.com in the scholarly publishing community.

Brian will fully explain what Hackathons are, how you deploy them, and why
we in the library community should be participating in and utilizing them.

To accommodate interest in every time zone, this 1-hour event will be
recorded and available on our website shortly afterwards.

Please join us for a lively and interactive discussion. SPARC’s Executive
Director, Heather Joseph, will be moderating questions during the webcast.
Feel free to post preliminary comments and questions for Brian on the OA
Week Website (
http://www.openaccessweek.org/profiles/blogs/hackwebcastquestions).

For additional information, contact SPARC’s Communication’s Manager,
Andrea Higginbotham at andrea [at] arl [dot] org.

And make sure to join Open Access Week Events at www.openaccessweek.org.

Best,

Andrea

Andrea Brusca Higginbotham
Communications Manager, SPARC
21 Dupont Circle, Suite 800
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 296-2296 ext 121
andrea at arl.org
www.arl.org/sparc

Open Access Week 2013
October 21-27
http://www.openaccessweek.org/

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