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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: Re: [Commons-research] CFP for Free Culture 2009 is out!
  • Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:16:31 -0400

Thanks Gavin, we have thought about producing some kind of research- informed policy document/guidelines and although I have no idea yet what form this may take, support for OA to research would definitely be a good fit for that imo.

On Jul 12, 2009, at 2:13 AM, Gavin Baker wrote:

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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