[P2P-F] Fwd: [fcf_discussion] OKCon 2011: Call for Participation

Thu Feb 10 17:38:08 CET 2011

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From: Daniel Dietrich <daniel.dietrich at okfn.org>
Date: Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:19 PM
Subject: [fcf_discussion] OKCon 2011: Call for Participation
To: FCForum <fcforum_discussion at list.fcforum.net>

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 okcon at okfn.org if you want to participate,
have any questions or suggestions.

Best regards
Daniel

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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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