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Jonathan Gray | 29 Nov 03:45

Re: OKCon 2008

Hi,

For the record, third iteration of draft announce for next OKCon is 
inline below.

I've worked in Rufus' comments, but not adjusted to account for recent 
discussions of panels (cf. my last post, and Saul's before that).

Regards,

Jonathan

Subject: OKCon 2008: London School of Economics, 15th March 2008

# OKCon 2008 - 'Open Knowledge: Applications, Tools and Services'
# where: London School of Economics
# when: 15th March 2008
# www: <http://www.okfn.org/okcon/>
# wiki: <http://www.okfn.org/wiki/okcon2008/>

We're pleased to announce that the second Open Knowledge conference 
(OKCon) will take place in March 2008, following on from the success of 
our inaugral conference last year. 'Open knowledge' is material that 
others are free to access, reuse or re-distribute and may include 
anything from sonnets to statistics, genes to geodata.

We've seen the growth of successful open knowledge projects - from peer 
reviewed journals to community edited encyclopaedias - but what impact 
can open licensing have in education, research and commerce? Does open 
licensing have benefits for researchers? Is sharing the key to scaling?

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Saul Albert | 29 Nov 09:25

Re: OKCon 2008

On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 06:45:35PM -0800, Jonathan Gray wrote:
> For the record, third iteration of draft announce for next OKCon is 
> inline below.

Hey, Jonathan - that's brilliant. Informative, attractive, concise. Well
done!

I reckon that's ready to go.

Cheers, and thanks for all your work on this!

Best,

Saul.

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Rufus Pollock | 29 Nov 13:37

Re: OKCon 2008

Saul Albert wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 06:45:35PM -0800, Jonathan Gray wrote:
>> For the record, third iteration of draft announce for next OKCon is 
>> inline below.
> 
> Hey, Jonathan - that's brilliant. Informative, attractive, concise. Well
> done!
> 
> I reckon that's ready to go.
> 
> Cheers, and thanks for all your work on this!

Ditto here. I've just got a couple of fixes. Rather than going on 
another comment + new version loop i've just made the changes direct and 
put the new version below. I hope this should be pretty much final.

I've also updated the wiki page substantially so its clear how people 
submit proposals and volunteer to help out.

That leaves one final question: how do we handle registrations? Last 
year we used our bespoke MoinMoin pluguin that just saved names + emails 
to a text file. While this works ok it does make it hard to manage stuff 
as you go along. Couple of possible options:

1. Use something like EventBrite (its free plus one can do charging 
through it -- though this isn't of much relevance we charge on the door)

2. Use mailman -- this might seem weird but basically signing up to a 
mailing list is pretty much the same as signing up to the event. Mailman 
has reasonable for facilities for subscribing and unsubscribing plus it

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