On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Luis Villa <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 3:48 PM, phoebe ayers <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Luis Villa <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 12:43 PM, phoebe ayers <[email protected]> >>> 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... -Kat -- Your donations keep Wikipedia free: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate Web: http://www.mindspillage.org Email: [email protected], [email protected] (G)AIM, Freenode, gchat, identi.ca, twitter, various social sites: mindspillage _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-SF mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf
