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.com> wrote:

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 the classroom
* 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