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  • From: Giorgos Cheliotis <gcheliotis.lists AT gmail.com>
  • To: commons-research AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Cc: Amar Ashar <ashar AT cyber.law.harvard.edu>
  • Subject: [Commons-research] CFP for Free Culture 2009 is out!
  • Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:56:04 -0400

Dear list,

after much deliberation and delays, we have finally managed to put out a CFP for the Free Culture 2009 research workshop which will build on the one at Sapporo last year. This year the event will be at Harvard, with the support of the Berkman center and additional support from the NEXA center and iCommons.

Please find below the link to the CFP: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/5486

The process so far this year has been very different and I think those of use who were involved in organizing this have learned a few things along the way. It is the first time we will be doing this as a stand- alone event and there were more stakeholders involved. It then took more effort than last year, hence the relative silence over the past few months.

Note that this year the organizing committee has decided to go for a mixed model of Invitations+CFP, which means that some people will be invited to the event by the host institution (with no review), whereas everyone else will be able to submit a short essay through the CFP and thus earn their invitation, so to say (with peer review).

In fact, everyone will be asked to submit such an essay and these essays will form the backbone for the discussions to take place during and after the event; the difference is that some people we are inviting anyway. The decision to send out invitations in that manner was made in order to make it easy for the organizers to convene a small and focused group which will include some senior academics who will help us build a perspective on the top priorities in free culture research. This workshop will be more about what we should be researching and how, rather than showcasing what each one of us has done in their research. Because, however, we wanted to avoid making the group of attendees too closed and uniform, we added the CFP so as to invite the broader community to send their ideas regarding key priorities in this area.

I hope this is clear enough and let me also note that another expressed goal of this event is to plan again for a larger and more inclusive event next year. So, you can also see it as a stepping stone towards the goal of a full-fledged free culture research conference (whatever form this may take).


Best,
Giorgos
(on behalf of the organizing committee)





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