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.)

Luis

 

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