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)
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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
Presentation Sessions
To reserve a slot in one of the presentation sessions you can apply in the
following manner: You can submit an extended abstract of 2-4 pages describing
the topic of your presentation. OKCon also has an academic stream and will
publish proceedings. If you additionally want your submission to be included in
the conference proceedings please prepare an extended 5-10 page paper
submission and format it according to the LNCS Style
Please Note: Proceedings of OKCon will be published at http://ceur-ws.org.
To make a submission for the presentation session and proceedings please
visit:https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=okcon2011
Lightning Talks
Lightning talks are short presentations, which last 2-3 minutes with 2-3
slides. Submission of lightning talks can be done directly at the conference up
to 5 minutes before the Lightning talk session starts. Make sure you get your
message through and please: don’t be boring ;)
Hands-on Workshops
The hands on workshops is the format where you can intensively work with a
relatively small group of people on your presented topic or project. This is
not for lectures but for hands-on collaboration, exchange and skill sharing. If
you are interested to run a workshop on OKCon 2011 please submit your proposal
here: http://okcon.org/2011/submit/
Open Space
The open space offers a place for all kind of spontaneous interventions,
meetings and the like following the concept of the open space technology. The
open space area will be close to the exhibition space area and is open for you
all the time. The open space can be used all times by anybody without
submission. However, if you would like top run an event at the open space you
might submit your idea here: http://okcon.org/2011/submit/ to help us planning.
Exhibition Space
The exhibition space is an open area where people, projects and organisations
can present their ideas and projects to the public. Projects can have a
permanent desc for a point of reference of their project. If you want to be
present in the exhibition space at OKCon 2011 please submit your proposal here:
http://okcon.org/2011/submit/
Open Design and FabLab work area
The open design and Fab Lab (fabrication laboratory) is an area dedicated to
open processes in creating, sharing, reusing and producing of all kind of art,
designs and other products. If you are interested in contributing to the open
design and fablab work area at OKCon 2011 please submit your proposal here:
http://okcon.org/2011/submit/
Hackspace / Hackathon
The hackspace is a dedicated space for you hackers. This is the right place to
get your hand dirty and organise your hackathon. A hackathon is a collaborative
decentraliced event of short timespan like one or two days with the aim to
having a lot of fun with code & data. If you are interested to run a hackathon
at OKCon 2011 please submit your proposal here:http://okcon.org/2011/submit/
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