On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Kat Walsh <kat(a)mindspillage.org> wrote:
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Luis Villa
<lvilla(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 3:48 PM, phoebe ayers
<phoebe.ayers(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Luis Villa <lvilla(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 12:43 PM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.ayers(a)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...
The more I think about it, the more the unconference track seems
appropriate for this. They seem to have already opened up unconference
submissions through the registration process - I'm submitting a proposal
that way and will suggest CC might participate; anyone else we should
invite to our party? :)
Luis
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