<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">Dear all,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">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. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">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.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><a href="http://okcon.org/2011/submit/">http://okcon.org/2011/submit/</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><br></span><div style="font-family: Arial; ">If you have something interesting but *really* can't make it to this deadline please contact us at <a href="mailto:okcon@okfn.org">okcon@okfn.org</a> - we might make an exception.</div><div style="font-family: Arial; "><br>If you haven't already seen it you can check out the Call for Participation<br><br> <a href="http://okcon.org/2011/cfp/">http://okcon.org/2011/cfp/</a><br><br>I'm also writing to say that we'd really like you (yes: you!) to come! Registration is open at: <br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><a href="http://okcon2011.eventbrite.com/">http://okcon2011.eventbrite.com/</a><br><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial; "><br>All the best,<br>Daniel<br><br><br><br><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Following is a sneak preview of Speakers and Programme (please note this is not jet all confirmed).</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; "><ul style="border-collapse: collapse; "><li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Andreas Blumauer (</font><a href="http://www.semantic-web.at/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 68, 187); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Semantic Web Company</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">)</font></li><li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Andreas Meiszner (</font><a href="http://unu.edu/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 68, 187); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">United Nations University</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">)</font></li><li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Chris Bizer (</font><a href="http://www.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/en/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 68, 187); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Free University Berlin</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">)</font></li><li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Chris Taggart (</font><a href="http://openlylocal.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 68, 187); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Openly Local</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">)</font></li><li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">David Bollier (</font><a href="http://onthecommons.org/users/david-bollier"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">On the Commons</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">)</font></li><li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Georgia Angelaki (<a href="http://www.europeana.eu/portal/">Europeana</a>)</font></li><li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Glyn Moody (</font><a href="http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 68, 187); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Technology Writer</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">)</font></li><li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">James Boyle (</font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; "><a href="http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; list-style-type: none; color: rgb(0, 49, 166); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Center for the Study of the Public Domain</font></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> at </font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; "><a href="http://www.law.duke.edu/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; list-style-type: none; color: rgb(0, 49, 166); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Duke Law School</font></a></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">)</font></li><li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Jaron Rowan (</font><a href="http://fcforum.net/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 68, 187); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">FCForum</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">)</font></li><li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Jordan Hacher (</font><a href="http://www.opendatacommons.org/about/"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Open Data Commons</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">) </font></li><li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Michel Bauwens (</font><a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 68, 187); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">P2P Foundation</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">)</font></li><li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Michelle Thorne (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons</a>)</font></li><li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Nigel Shadbolt (</font><a href="http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/nrs/"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Professor of Artificial Intelligence</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">)</font></li><li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Nina Paley (</font><a href="http://blog.ninapaley.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 68, 187); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Artist & Filmmaker</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">)</font></li><li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Pippa Buchanan (<a href="https://drumbeat.org/en-US/projects/school-of-webcraft/description/">School of Webcraft with Mozilla </a>and <a href="http://P2PU.org/">P2PU</a>)</font></li><li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Richard Stallman (</font><a href="http://www.fsf.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 68, 187); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Free Software Foundation</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">)</font></li><li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Rufus Pollock (</font><a href="http://okfn.org/"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Open Knowledge Foundation</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">)</font></li><li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Till Kreuzer (</font><a href="http://www.irights.info/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 68, 187); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">iRights</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">)</font></li><li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Tom Lee (</font><a href="http://sunlightfoundation.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 68, 187); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Sunlight Foundation</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">)</font></li><li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Wouter Tebbens (</font><a href="http://freeknowledge.eu/"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Free Knowledge Institute</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">)</font></li></ul><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">Also the draft programme is starting to get shape and will be published very soon. </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><div style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div></span></font></div></div></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">--<br>Daniel Dietrich<br><br>The Open Knowledge Foundation<br>Promoting Open Knowledge in a Digital Age<br><a href="http://www.okfn.org">www.okfn.org</a> - <a href="http://www.opendefinition.org">www.opendefinition.org</a><br><br>Mail: <a href="mailto:daniel.dietrich@okfn.org">daniel.dietrich@okfn.org</a><br>Mobil: +49 171 780 870 3<br>Skype: ddie22<br>Twitter: @ddie</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div></font></div></div></body></html>