[pdb-discuss] Open Knowledge 1.0: London, Saturday March 17th 2007

Thu Mar 8 11:13:03 UTC 2007

Hey Rufus,

I can help out if you like, assuming that you want a non-technical view of
the project.. perhaps alongside someone else who can discuss the tech.
implementation details?

cheers!

Tim

On 3/8/07, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
>
> For those on the list who don't already know about it I just wanted to
> let everyone know about Open Knowledge 1.0 which is taking place
> Saturday week. Full announce follows below.
>
> I have also proposed a 'Public Domain Works Database' session for the
> open space (see http://okfn.org/wiki/okcon/) at this event. This would
> just be a quick 5 - 10 minute lightning talk presenting what we are up
> to and what we plan to do.
>
> Who would be up for doing this presentation? I'm always willing but it
> would be nice if someone else wanted to talk about the project  --
> particularly as I'm one of the conference organizers so may be quite busy
> ;)
>
> ~rufus
>
>                      Open Knowledge 1.0
>              Saturday 17th March 2007, 1100-1830
>                      Limehouse Town Hall
>                  http://www.okfn.org/okcon/
>            Organized by the Open Knowledge Foundation
>
>    * Programme: http://www.okfn.org/okcon/programme/
>    * Registration: http://www.okfn.org/okcon/register/
>    * Wiki: http://okfn.org/wiki/okcon/
>
> On the 17th March 2007 the first all-day Open Knowledge event is taking
> place in London. This event will bring together individuals and groups
> from across the open knowledge spectrum and includes panels on open
> media, open geodata and open scientific and civic information.
>
> The event is open to all but we encourage you to register because space
> is limited. A small entrance fee of ¬£10 is planned to help pay for costs
> but concessions are available.
>
> ## Speakers
>
> ### Open Scientific and Civic Data
>
>    * Tim Hubbard, leader of the Human Genome Analysis Group at the Sanger
>      Institute
>    * Peter Murray-Rust, Professor in the Unilever Centre for Molecular
>      Science Informatics at Cambridge University
>    * John Sheridan, Head of e-Services at the Office of Public Sector
>      Information
>
> ### Geodata and Civic Information
>
>    * Ed Parsons, until recently CTO of the Ordnance Survey
>    * Steve Coast, founder of Open Street Map
>    * Charles Arthur, freeourdata.org.uk and Technology Editor of the
>      Guardian
>
> ### Open Media
>
>    * Paula Ledieu, formerly Director of the BBC's Creative Archive
>      project and now Managing Director and Director of Open Media for
>      Magic Lantern Productions
>    * Susana Noguero and Olivier Schulbaum of Platoniq
>    * Zoe Young of http://www.transmission.cc/
>
> ## Open Space
>
> Lightning talks and mini-presentations. See:
>
>    http://okfn.org/wiki/okcon/
>
> ## Theme: Atomisation and Commercial Opportunity
>
> 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 plan things.
>
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