On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Luis Villa lvilla@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 12:43 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.ayers@gmail.comwrote:
For the formal conference sessions , we are interested in any and all topics related to:
* Open access publishing and institutional repositories * Sustainability, scalability, and assessment of open access * Open educational resources and open access applications in theclassroom * Massive open online courses (MOOCs) - copyright issues, assessment, challenges * Outreach, promotion, and overcoming resistance to open initiatives
We will consider proposals for individual presentations and panels organized around a theme.
This sounds interesting - thanks for raising it, Phoebe.
My normal material - open licensing - seems like it would be a bit offtopic, so I won't submit something by myself. But if anyone is considering a panel where an open licensing perspective would be useful as part of a broader/more interesting theme, please contact me - I'd be happy to help out.
Luis
I don't think it's off-topic at all, considering that all of this openness
has to be built on open licensing :) But, I think the audience will likely be familiar with but not hugely knowledgeable about open licenses & issues, so a survey or similar would probably be good. I know from the university perspective lots of faculty (and librarians) have a lot of questions about what open license mandates from the government or in university repositories mean about the rights to their work, concerns about commercial use, etc.
-- phoebe