On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Sören Auer<[email protected]> wrote: > Great Jonathan, that you trigger that now already. This time I will > definitely attend ;-)
Brilliant news! > Since we are still early, we could think about sending out a call for > papers/presentations. It doesn't have to be that strict as with purely > scientific conferences, but I think this would raise awareness of OKCon and > help getting more people on board. I think this is a great idea! > Such a call for papers could be for example grouped around the pillars > technology, society and culture. We could ask people to submit short papers > (e.g. up to 6 pages) or presentations (e.g. 10-15 slides) and use that as > input for creating a programme. The technology, society, culture divisions seem very natural! Suspect that 6 pages might be quite a lot for the informal spirit of OKCon - perhaps we could cap it at a page to force people to be concise? ;-) > Of course we could still leave space for spontaneous presentations and > talks. What do you think? If you like the idea I will be happy to help > drafting such a call. Yes, I definitely think you're right about getting a CFP out early! What do you think about themes? Or perhaps we could include a list of different things? -- Jonathan Gray Community Coordinator The Open Knowledge Foundation http://www.okfn.org _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
