On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Luis Villa lvilla@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 3:48 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.ayers@gmail.com wrote:
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 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.
The problem with that sort of thing is that the basic survey is often boring
- like you say, many people will be familiar with it. Specific questions are
interesting, but it is hard for me to know what exactly will be of interest beforehand. That's part of why I suggest a panel- I'd be happy to field questions, and those could be quite interesting, but don't have a good/interesting/informative spiel that would stand on its own.
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.
For mandates, particularly around OER, someone from CC or PLOS is likely to be more useful than I am- it just isn't (yet :) my area of specialty. (Which is the other reason I'm a little reluctant to jump in directly.)
I note that I would be really surprised if people from CC aren't planning to participate, but this is the first I've seen of the conference so far--I should coordinate with people to figure out who is going. (Tim, are you on this list?) But it might be fun to do a legal session with a bunch of lawyers in different aspects of the field (OK, my idea of "fun" may be broken).
FWIW, there is a "copyright help" expo booth at ALA every year--if you recall Lucy's psychiatric help booth from the Peanuts comics, meant to be rather like that--where people come up throughout with their questions, staffed by the more copyright-knowledgeable members. It's not, strictly speaking, *popular*, but probably useful. I could see a session on copyright, OER, and institutional repositories--perhaps one where people submit questions beforehand, giving presenters time to 1) select the most popular and 2) prepare...
-Kat