[Talk-de] You and your projects at OKCon
Dear all, As you will be aware OKCon 2011 is approaching fast: June, 30th July, 1st We are delighted to announce the release of the OKCon 2011 programme: http://okcon.org/2011/programme We are also thrilled about the fantastic line up of speakers: http://okcon.org/2011/speakers OKCon will be buzzing with open knowledge and open data enthusiasts and is an excellent opportunity to meet people and do thins! It's also a great place to distribute promotional items to get people involved in your projects. If you have banners, flyers, posters or stickers to promote a projects we will gladly help to find space to display them at the venue. If anyone would like to post items to Germany ahead of the conference, please send them to the OKF Germany office and we will make sure they get to the conference venue for you. OKF Deutschland, Prenzlauer Allee 217, 10405 Berlin, Germany To make sure members of the community, working groups and community ambassadors don't miss out, we have created the special *discount code*: OKBERLIN for a €5 discount on your ticket. Simply enter the code when registering at http://okcon2011.eventbrite.com/ We look forward to meeting you at our wonderful venue, Kalkscheune: http://www.kalkscheune.de/en All the best Daniel -- Daniel Dietrich The Open Knowledge Foundation Promoting Open Knowledge in a Digital Age www.okfn.org - www.opendefinition.org Mail: daniel.dietr...@okfn.org Mobil: +49 171 780 870 3 Twitter: @ddie ___ Talk-de mailing list Talk-de@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-de
[Talk-de] OKCon 2011: preliminary programme + list of speakers
Dear all, I am happy to announce the preliminary Programme of the Open Knowledge Conference - OKCon 2011 http://okcon.org/2011/programme It already includes a great variety of interesting talks and sessions. Final version will be published around June, 1st. I am delighted to share with you a sneak preview list of speakers already confirmed their coming. http://okcon.org/2011/speakers You are invited to also join the pro-OKCon workshops and a screen scraping day - kind of hackathon, see more: http://okcon.org/blog All in all we are exited and looking forward to a great Conference with all of you! Please note: There are only 15 days left to get your early bird ticket. http://okcon2011.eventbrite.com/ All the best Daniel PS: sorry for cross-posting -- Daniel Dietrich The Open Knowledge Foundation Promoting Open Knowledge in a Digital Age www.okfn.org - www.opendefinition.org Mail: daniel.dietr...@okfn.org Mobil: +49 171 780 870 3 Twitter: @ddie ___ Talk-de mailing list Talk-de@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-de
[Talk-de] OKCon 2011 Submission deadline extended
Dear all, As you might know, we're busily preparing the schedule for this year's OKCon, which is going to be in Berlin on the 30th June and 1st July. We have had quite some people asking to extend the deadline for submission. So here is your chance: Submissions will be open until Mai, 9th at midnight. http://okcon.org/2011/submit/ If you have something interesting but *really* can't make it to this deadline please contact us at ok...@okfn.org - we might make an exception. If you haven't already seen it you can check out the Call for Participation http://okcon.org/2011/cfp/ I'm also writing to say that we'd really like you (yes: you!) to come! Registration is open at: http://okcon2011.eventbrite.com/ All the best, Daniel Following is a sneak preview of Speakers and Programme (please note this is not jet all confirmed). Andreas Blumauer (Semantic Web Company) Andreas Meiszner (United Nations University) Chris Bizer (Free University Berlin) Chris Taggart (Openly Local) David Bollier (On the Commons) Georgia Angelaki (Europeana) Glyn Moody (Technology Writer) James Boyle (Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke Law School) Jaron Rowan (FCForum) Jordan Hacher (Open Data Commons) Michel Bauwens (P2P Foundation) Michelle Thorne (Creative Commons) Nigel Shadbolt (Professor of Artificial Intelligence) Nina Paley (Artist Filmmaker) Pippa Buchanan (School of Webcraft with Mozilla and P2PU) Richard Stallman (Free Software Foundation) Rufus Pollock (Open Knowledge Foundation) Till Kreuzer (iRights) Tom Lee (Sunlight Foundation) Wouter Tebbens (Free Knowledge Institute) Also the draft programme is starting to get shape and will be published very soon. -- Daniel Dietrich The Open Knowledge Foundation Promoting Open Knowledge in a Digital Age www.okfn.org - www.opendefinition.org Mail: daniel.dietr...@okfn.org Mobil: +49 171 780 870 3 Skype: ddie22 Twitter: @ddie ___ Talk-de mailing list Talk-de@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-de
[Talk-de] OKCon 2011: Call for Participation
Dear all, the following is a Call for Participation for the Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) 2011. • where: Kalkscheune Berlin, Germany • when: 30th June 1st July, 2011 • call for participation: http://okcon.org/2011/cfp/ • submission: please see submission details below • registration: http://okcon2011.eventbrite.com/ • hashtag: #okcon2011 We are looking fwd for your participation! Would be great to meet you at OKCon 2011 in Berlin. Please get in touch with us at ok...@okfn.org if you want to participate, have any questions or suggestions. Best regards Daniel (PS: Sorry for cross-posting) -- Daniel Dietrich The Open Knowledge Foundation Promoting Open Knowledge in a Digital Age www.okfn.org - www.opendefinition.org Announcement The 6th Annual Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) will take place on 30th June – 1st July 2011 in Berlin. OKCon is a wide-ranging conference that brings together individuals and organizations from across the open knowledge spectrum for two days of presentations, workshops and exchange of ideas. Open knowledge promises significant social and economic benefits in a wide range of areas from governance to science, culture to technology. Opening up access to content and data can radically increase access and reuse, bridge gaps, improve transparency and thus foster innovation and increase societal welfare. In Berlin, we will be surrounded by a variety of interesting communities. These include open access and open bibliography communities to the OpenStreetMap, hacker and artist groups to the various free culture and commons research communities. We look forward to jointly discussing with all of them the latest developments and aspects of open knowledge in their work. This is a time of great change. In addition to high profile initiatives such as Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap and the Human Genome Project, there is enormous growth among open knowledge projects and communities at all levels and in many countries. Moreover, in the last year, many governments across the world have begun opening up their data. And it doesn’t stop there. In academia, open access to both publications and data has been gathering momentum, and similar calls to open up learning materials have been heard in education. Furthermore this gathering flood of open data plus content is the creator and driver of massive technological change. How can we make this data available, how can we connect it together, how can we use it to collaborate and share our work? We will explore these issues, and more, at OKCon 2011 in Berlin. Topic areas We welcome proposals on any aspect of creating, publishing or reusing content or data that is open in accordance with http://opendefinition.org. Topics include but are not limited to: Open Science and Open Data in Academic Research • Open license models for scientific data, adaption of licenses for special domain requirements • Supporting scientific workflows with open knowledge models • Open models for scientific innovation, for funding and for publication (‘open-access’) • Tools for analysing and visualizing open data Open Law, Society and Democracy • Open licensing, legal tools and the Public Domain • Open government data and content (public sector information) • Open knowledge and international development • Opening up access to the law and lawmaking processes Open Technologies • Semantic Web and Linked Data in relation to open knowledge • Infrastructure, platforms, methods and tools for creating, sharing and curating open knowledge • Light-weight, adaptive interaction models • Open, decentralized social network applications • Open geospatial data Open Culture, Education and Commons Research • Open educational tools and resources, open textbooks • Public Domain digitisation initiatives • Incentives and rewards for open-knowledge contributors • P2P production and sustainability models for open content • Governance of the knowledge commons Important Dates • Submission deadline: Mai 1st, 2011 • Notification of acceptance: June 1st, 2011 • OKCon: 30th June 1st July, 2011 How To Participate OKCon 2011 will have several formats and ways in which you can participate: • presentation sessions • lightning talks • hands on workshops • open space • exhibition spaces • open design and fablab • hackspace We are especially interested, if you want to organize a an event in one of the above formats and topic areas. You are also more than welcome to propose additional formats and topics. If you would like to organise, participate or have a proposal of another format please submit your ideas and proposals here: http://okcon.org/2011/submit/ OKCon Formats Submission Details
