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  • From: "Gavin Baker" <gavin AT gavinbaker.com>
  • To: commons-research AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Cc: Amar Ashar <ashar AT cyber.law.harvard.edu>
  • Subject: Re: [Commons-research] CFP for Free Culture 2009 is out!
  • Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:13:35 -0400 (EDT)

Note that the event falls during Open Access Week:
http://www.openaccessweek.org/

I hope the workshop will participate in Open Access Week by publicly
supporting open access to research!

On Sat, July 11, 2009 5:56 pm, Giorgos Cheliotis wrote:
> 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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