Dear Sören (and Luis), This all sounds great! I think we definitely want to aim to organize the event around 3-4 streams such as the Technology, Society and Culture items as you mentioned.
I also think, even with a very open process, it would be good to have a formal programme/organizing committee for OKCon this year to set deadlines, handle the CFP etc. What do people think (and anyone want to put themselves forward?). Regards, Rufus 2009/7/7 Sören Auer <[email protected]>: > Luis Villa wrote: >> I'd suggest cap at 1,000 words, and put all the papers in a wiki >> before the conference, with people allowed and encouraged to edit >> them, and conference speakers encouraged to participate in the editing >> process and respond to the edits/questions during their presentation. >> (If particularly good editing processes happen, could convert it to a >> panel and invite the editors!) > > Yes, I think such an open submission, reviewing process might be > appropriate for OKCON ;-) > > I still think it would be important to have a deadline for submissions - > else people tend to forget about it. We could call it maybe the > "research track" of OKCON. We should also try to publish the submissions > for archival purposes, e.g. at CEUR-WS.org. > > We can also ask for two kinds of submissions - papers (up to 6 pages) > and abstracts (1-2 pages). > > Regarding topics the following came to my mind: > > Technology > * Semantic Web and Linked Data technologies for representing and > interlinking open knowledge > * platforms, methods and tools for creating, sharing and curating open > knowledge > * light-weight, adaptive interaction models > > Society > * Licensing of open-knowledge > * Incentive and gratification models for open-knowledge contributors > * Business models for open-knowledge > > Culture > * Opening and making libraries, archives, museums more accessible > ... > > Probably we should set up a page at the Wiki to continue drafting the > call. Once ready we can send the call around to mailinglists of the > respective communities. > > --Sören > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > -- Join our "100 supporters pledge": http://www.pledgebank.com/support-okfn Promoting Open Knowledge in a Digital Age - http://www.okfn.org/ _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
