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 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.
>
>
> 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...