OKCon 2008: The Open Space

Contents

  1. OKCon 2008: The Open Space
    1. Provisional 'Schedule'
      1. 1540-1640 Room 1: Open Media (moderator Maria X)
      2. 1540-1640 Room 2: Remixing, Peer Production and Open Knowledge
      3. 1645-1745 Room 1: Law, Licensing and Policy (moderator: Jordan Hatcher)
      4. 1645-1745 Room 2: Versioning, Packaging, and Structuring Open Material
      5. 1745-1815: Room 1 and Room 2
    2. Call for Presentation/Workshop Proposals
    3. Processed Proposals
      1. Details Open Media Economics Panel (15:45-16:45)
      2. Law and licensing panel

Provisional 'Schedule'

Note this schedule is final and there may be some changes to timings and slots (though these should be fairly minor).

1540-1640 Room 1: Open Media (moderator Maria X)

Who

What

Jamie King

DISPS. Falling broadly under the rubric of Alternative Compensation Systems, DISPS spans four key research areas: Peer to Peer (P2P) distribution, digital fingerprinting, metadata and digital payment mechanisms. However, the project is neither another P2P distribution system, nor another proposed payment system: rather it seeks to build a pathway through which creators of content distributed over P2P networks can receive remuneration for their works.

Joerg Baach

Introducing Open Coin. The opencoin project is about creating tokens that allow anonymous transfers. Using opencoin organisations can run a voucher system, start an alternative currency or could roll out an online payment system. It implements the 'digicash' idea as free and opensource software. Opencoin is a system without accounts, so transactions between users cannot be tracked. The software will run on normal computers, webservers and mobile phones. http://opencoin.org

Simon Worthington

More is More. Dev site http://moreismore.net. Dev and support site http://3d.openmute.org. The More is More Network is a web based system for distributing independent media for sale at local outlets and events. Members can also input contact information about their local area; book shops, meetings, gatherings and share this with everybody to help build the distribution network further.

Holmes Wilson

Miro: the free, open source internet tv and video player.

1540-1640 Room 2: Remixing, Peer Production and Open Knowledge

Ben Spigel (Ohio State University)

What early Linux newsgroups can teach us about Open Knowledge

Hamish Campbell

http://VisionOnTV.net project: outreach progressive IPTV.

Scott Wilson FeedForward Project

Tools for collecting, mixing and republishing open content. A demonstration of an application for working with diverse types of open content, both from the web and academic sources. I'll demonstrate how academic sources such as repositories can be worked on using the same open remix process as Web 2.0 technologies.

Gilson Schwartz

The creation and history of the City of Knowledge project at the University of São Paulo.

1645-1745 Room 1: Law, Licensing and Policy (moderator: Jordan Hatcher)

Paul Miller and Jordan Hatcher

Introducing Open Data Commons: Launch of Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL). We will introduce and describe the new Open Data Commons set of legal tools for data. For more, see http://opendatacommons.org. We will announce that the PDDL will be ready for public consumption starting that day.

Prodromos Tsiavos

CC-UK: Where is at and where is it going? This will be a discussion on the level of interest in a CC-UK. The current UK based licences are not up-to-date with the unported licences. Is there any interest in trying to create a sustainable CC-UK?

Juan Carlos De Martin

COMMUNIA - The European Thematic Network on the Digital Public Domain

Rufus Pollock

The Open Service Definition: What it is and why we need it (provisional)

1645-1745 Room 2: Versioning, Packaging, and Structuring Open Material

Georgi Kobilarov

DBpedia and the Linking Open Data project. Extracting and linking open data on the web to build the semantic web.

Dave Puplett/Jenny Brace (LSE)

Version Identification of Open Access Research in Digital Repositories. There is a growing problem of work being made available via open access, but in different and ambiguous versions. The project is developing a framework of solutions for content creators and authors, software developers and repository managers to implement to ease this problem and make open access research material easier to identify.

Rufus Pollock (OKFN)

CKAN + datapkg = apt-get for open knowledge. Automating the process of getting and installing open knowledge materials.

Mark Birbeck

RDFa: What It Is and What It's For.

1745-1815: Room 1 and Room 2

Left Open for Spontaneous Demos and Presentations.

Call for Presentation/Workshop Proposals

If you'd like to give a presentation or workshop at OKCon 2008 please add the details below. Alternatively you can email us direct via info [at] okfn [dot] org.

Presentation slots will usually be around 10 minutes (maximum 15) and A/V equipment should be available (so if you want to you can show slides etc). If you require longer than this please say (and say why).

You'll be contacted in late January/early February about whether you've been selected to give a presentation (in general we hope that everyone who wants to present will be able to do so but obviously this cannot be guaranteed given the time constraints).

Example:

  • Who (including email in suitably obfuscated form). Title: XXX. Additional information (This can be as short as a sentence of two or as long as a full abstract)

Processed Proposals

  1. Rufus Pollock (OKFN). Title: CKAN + datapkg = apt-get for open knowledge. Automating the process of getting and installing open knowledge materials.
  2. Paul Miller (Talis - paul [dot] miller [at] talis [dot] com). Title: The new Open Data License

  3. Jordan Hatcher (opencontentlawyer webcontact ]at[ opencontentlawyer [dot] com). The new Open Data licence with Paul. Agreed in monthly meet up to do a law and licensing panel. http://okfn.org/wiki/meetings/2008-01

  4. Georgi Kobilarov (gkob at gmx dot de). Title: DBpedia and the Linking Open Data project. Extracting and linking open data on the web to build the semantic web.
  5. Ben Spigel (The Ohio State University - spigel [dot] 1 [at] osu [dot] edu). Title: What early Linux newsgroups can teach us about Open Knowledge.
  6. Dave Puplett/Jenny Brace (d.puplett[]lse.ac.uk) Version Identification Framework (VIF) project: www.lse.ac.uk/library/vif. Title: Version Identification of Open Access Research in Digital Repositories. Abstract: There is a growing problem of work being made available via open access, but in different and ambiguous versions. The project is developing a framework of solutions for content creators and authors, software developers and repository managers to implement to ease this problem and make open access research material easier to identify.

  7. Christian Siefkes (christian at siefkes dot net). Title: Expanding Peer Production Beyond Software and Knowledge. Abstract: Peer production is a new mode of production that has emerged in the areas of software and content production during the last decades. I'll discuss whether and how peer production can be extended into the realm of physical production and whether a society is possible in which peer production is the primary mode of production. I'll sketch the main problems that need to be solved for the generalization of peer production and discuss how they can be addressed. My findings indicate that there is no inherent reason for peer production to remain limited to the sphere of information. Background information: www.peerconomy.org.

  8. Scott Wilson (scott.bradley.wilson@gmail.com) FeedForward Project. Title: Tools for collecting, mixing and republishing open content. Abstract: A demonstration of an application for working with diverse types of open content, both from the web and academic sources. I'll demonstrate how academic sources such as repositories can be worked on using the same open remix process as Web 2.0 technologies.

  9. Adnan Hadzi (Goldmsiths College, a.hadzi (at) gold.ac.uk) "Open Media Economics" - presenting three speakers (case studies) on 1. voluntary payment systems, 2. alternative distribution models & 3. alternative currency (with one moderator, 3 x 15min. + 15 min Q&A)

Details Open Media Economics Panel (15:45-16:45)

Jamie King presenting DISPS (10 min.)

about DISPS Falling broadly under the rubric of Alternative Compensation Systems (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_Compensation_Systems), DISPS spans four key research areas: Peer to Peer (P2P) distribution, digital fingerprinting, metadata and digital payment mechanisms. However, the project is neither another P2P distribution system, nor another proposed payment system: rather it seeks to build a pathway through which creators of content distributed over P2P networks can receive remuneration for their works. P2P networks are thus the background to the DISPS project, which uses fingerprinting, and a database / API infrastructure to connect would-be donors to creators in order to make donations through existing payment mechanisms.

about Jamie King

Jamie King is an enthusiastic activist, filmmaker, writer and practical theorist in the area of new media, post-IP culture and social organisation. He is a former editor of Mute Magazine (www.metamute.org) and travels the world explaining how network technologies indicate new approaches to sharing, exchange and co-operation. He continues to be involved in highlighting the importance of information politics in the social movements and was organiser of the 2003 WSIS? We Seize! counter-UN summit ( http://www.geneva03.org/).

For day jobs, Jamie has been a lobbyist at the UN (WIPO), journalist for ITN, taught theory to Masters students, and consulted for a variety of clients from Channel 4 to the Royal Society of Arts on IT & IP issues. Since summer 2006, Jamie has been working with the shadowy League Of Noble Peers to produce STEAL THIS FILM I and II, pro-filesharing documentaries that have been downloaded millions of times via BitTorrent . He is currently working on a cinema distribution of STEAL THIS FILM and the alternative compensation system, DISPS.

Joerg Baach presenting Open Coin (10 min.)

about Open Coin

The opencoin project is about creating tokens that allow anonymous transfers. Using opencoin organisations can run a voucher system, start an alternative currency or could roll out an online payment system. It implements the 'digicash' idea as free and opensource software. Opencoin is a system without accounts, so transactions between users cannot be tracked. The software will run on normal computers, webservers and mobile phones. http://opencoin.org

about Joerg Baach

Joerg Baach, has been working as a freelance web developer for 11 years. In the last years his focus has been on open source projects, focusing on on the architectural design and implementation of social software. Current projects can be found on http://baach.de/projects

Simon Worthington presenting More is More (10 min.)

*More is More*

Dev site http://moreismore.net Dev and support site http://3d.openmute.org

*Description* The More is More Network is a web based system for distributing independent media for sale at local outlets and events. Members can also input contact information about their local area; book shops, meetings, gatherings and share this with everybody to help build the distribution network further.

*Our dream* The network has been born out of Mute's long standing experiences of distributing a magazine internationally and seeing conventional channels just not working. The More is More Network provides a way for people with local knowledge to be rewarded for getting media to audiences and for supporting independent media producers by contributing to a sustainable economy.

about Simon Worthington

Co-founder and co-director of Mute. Mute publishes Mute magazine - culture and politics after the Net. Mute also runs a sister project OpenMute a Web technology development and web services organisation, supporting independent cultural production. See http://metamute.org and http://openmute.org

Holmes Wilson presenting Miro, (10 min.)

about Miro

Miro is a free, open-source, cross platform desktop app that subscribes to RSS feeds, downloads videos (bittorrent is built in) and plays practically every video format out there. It's made by a mission-based nonprofit. Video makers, meanwhile, are using Miro as a distribution platform that makes it easy to do everything the open way. And now publishers can get a version of Miro specially branded for their site, which gives them a straightforward business model for open video.

about Holmes Wilson

Holmes Wilson was drawn into the free culture movement through Downhill Battle, a music activism project aimed at removing the major record labels from the music business. Holmes and others at Downhill Battle realized that online video would be the next big moment of internet-initiated cultural change, and started Participatory Culture Foundation (PCF) in 2005 to make online video as open and culturally transforming as possible. PCF makes Miro, which hit 1.0 last fall and was downloaded 2 million times last year: http://getmiro.com/

Law and licensing panel

Organiser - Jordan Hatcher http://www.opencontentlawyer.com/contact/ 3-4 speakers, 45-min to 1 hour 10 minutes each, 5-10 for discussion

Introducing Open Data Commons: Launch of Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL)

Speakers: Paul Miller, Jordan Hatcher We will introduce and describe the new Open Data Commons set of legal tools for data. For more, see http://opendatacommons.org. We will announce that the PDDL will be ready for public consumption starting that day.

CC-UK: Where is at and where is it going? (PROPOSED)

This will be a discussion on the level of interest in a CC-UK. The current UK based licences are not up-to-date with the unported licences. Is there any interest in trying to create a sustainable CC-UK?

Open meetup event thingy (PROPOSED)

J Gray suggested a regular meetup of those working on open issues. Meetup could be monthly, quarterly, or otherwise, London and beyond. The goal is to get everyone from different organisations working on related issues talking about what they are doing.