[alt-media-res] Fw: [transmission-discuss] Fw: [News] Open Knowledge 1.0: London, Saturday March 17th 2007

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London,Saturday March 17th 2007


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> From: "adnan hadzi" <a.hadzi at gold.ac.uk>
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> Subject: [News] Open Knowledge 1.0: London, Saturday March 17th 2007
>
>
> Open Knowledge 1.0, which takes place on Saturday March the 17th at
> Limehouse Town Hall in London, is now just over a week away. While there
> are still some places left we are nearing capacity so, if you would like
> to come, we advise you to register as soon as possible via:
>
>   http://www.okfn.org/okcon/register/
>
>
>                     Open Knowledge 1.0
>             Saturday 17th March 2007, 1100-1830
>                     Limehouse Town Hall
>                 http://www.okfn.org/okcon/
>           Organized by the Open Knowledge Foundation
>
>   * Programme: http://www.okfn.org/okcon/programme/
>   * Registration: http://www.okfn.org/okcon/register/
>   * Wiki: http://okfn.org/wiki/okcon/
>
> On the 17th March 2007 the first all-day Open Knowledge event is taking
> place in London. This event will bring together individuals and groups
> from across the open knowledge spectrum and includes panels on open
> media, open geodata and open scientific and civic information.
>
> The event is open to all but we encourage you to register because space
> is limited. A small entrance fee of £10 is planned to help pay for costs
> but concessions are available.
>
> ## Speakers
>
> ### Open Scientific and Civic Data
>
>   * Tim Hubbard, leader of the Human Genome Analysis Group at the Sanger
>     Institute
>   * Peter Murray-Rust, Professor in the Unilever Centre for Molecular
>     Science Informatics at Cambridge University
>   * John Sheridan, Head of e-Services at the Office of Public Sector
>     Information
>
> ### Geodata and Civic Information
>
>   * Ed Parsons, until recently CTO of the Ordnance Survey
>   * Steve Coast, founder of Open Street Map
>   * Charles Arthur, freeourdata.org.uk and Technology Editor of the
>     Guardian
>
> ### Open Media
>
>   * Paula Ledieu, formerly Director of the BBC's Creative Archive
>     project and now Managing Director and Director of Open Media for
>     Magic Lantern Productions
>   * Susana Noguero and Olivier Schulbaum of Platoniq
>   * Zoe Young of http://www.transmission.cc/
>
> ## Open Space
>
> Lightning talks and mini-presentations. See:
>
>   http://okfn.org/wiki/okcon/
>
> ## Theme: Atomisation and Commercial Opportunity
>
> Discussions of 'Open Knowledge' often end with licensing wars: legal
> arguments, technicalities, and ethics. While those debates rage on, Open
> Knowledge 1.0 will concentrate on two pragmatic and often-overlooked
> aspects of Open Knowledge: atomisation and commercial possibility.
>
> Atomisation on a large scale (such as in the Debian 'apt' packaging
> system) has allowed large software projects to employ an amazing degree
> of decentralised, collaborative and incremental development. But what
> other kinds of knowledge can be atomised? What are the opportunities and
> problems of this approach for forms of knowledge other than Software?
>
> Atomisation also holds a key to commercial opportunity: unrestricted
> access to an ever-changing, atomised landscape of knowledge creates
> commercial opportunities that are not available with proprietary
> approaches. What examples are there of commercial systems that function
> with Open Knowledge, and how can those systems be shared?
>
> Bringing together open threads from Science, Geodata, Civic Information
> and Media, Open Knowledge 1.0 is an opportunity for people and projects
> to meet, talk and plan things.
>
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