Saul Albert wrote: > On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 06:45:35PM -0800, Jonathan Gray wrote: >> For the record, third iteration of draft announce for next OKCon is >> inline below. > > Hey, Jonathan - that's brilliant. Informative, attractive, concise. Well > done! > > I reckon that's ready to go. > > Cheers, and thanks for all your work on this!
Ditto here. I've just got a couple of fixes. Rather than going on another comment + new version loop i've just made the changes direct and put the new version below. I hope this should be pretty much final. I've also updated the wiki page substantially so its clear how people submit proposals and volunteer to help out. That leaves one final question: how do we handle registrations? Last year we used our bespoke MoinMoin pluguin that just saved names + emails to a text file. While this works ok it does make it hard to manage stuff as you go along. Couple of possible options: 1. Use something like EventBrite (its free plus one can do charging through it -- though this isn't of much relevance we charge on the door) 2. Use mailman -- this might seem weird but basically signing up to a mailing list is pretty much the same as signing up to the event. Mailman has reasonable for facilities for subscribing and unsubscribing plus it makes it very easy to send emails to the registrants. What do people think? We need to sort this out sharpish as it needs to be in place before we do the mail out (unless we don't mind putting up a notice saying register later -- but that's not so great as we lose all the immediate effects). Regards, Rufus OKCon Announce and CFP (v1.0b2) ====================== Subject: OKCon 2008: LSE, London, 15th March 2008 * OKCon 2008 - 'Open Knowledge: Applications, Tools and Services' * where: London School of Economics, London UK * when: 15th March 2008 * www: <http://www.okfn.org/okcon/> * wiki: <http://www.okfn.org/wiki/okcon2008/> * register: <http://www.okfn.org/okcon/register/> Following on from the success of our inaugral conference last year, we're pleased to announce that the second Open Knowledge conference (OKCon) will take place in March 2008. '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. The 2008 event will again deal with the full range of 'Open Knowledge' issues but will focus specifically on Applications, Tools and Services. In recent years 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? Is sharing the key to scaling? What kinds of business models are available to open knowledge distributors and how is open knowledge applied in different institutional and professional contexts? There now exists a vast amount of open content and data. But 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, Tools and Services'. Three main sessions will focus on 'Transport and Environment', 'Visualization and Analysis' and 'Education and Academia'. In addition there will be several 'open space' sessions for the presentation of general open knowledge related work. We are currently welcoming submissions and suggestions and registrations. If you are interested in giving a presentation, facilitating or otherwise helping out, please either contact info [at] okfn [dot] org or vist the wiki page (see link above). Registration should be done via the registration page (see above). Early registration is encouraged as space is limited! _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
