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  • From: Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock AT okfn.org>
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  • Subject: [Cc-uk] Open Knowledge 1.0: London, Saturday 17th March 2007
  • Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 11:14:53 +0000

Hi All,

I wanted to just let everyone know about a one-day Open Knowledge event being organized for Saturday the 17th March at Limehouse Town Hall (full announce below). One of our particular aims is to keep space (physical and temporal) at the event for 'extra', and perhaps unplanned, presentations, demos and workshops. So if you are working on something related to open knowledge that you'd like to tell people about please let us know and come along.

Regards,

Rufus Pollock


Open Knowledge 1.0
Saturday 17th March 2007, 1100-1830
Limehouse Town Hall
http://www.okfn.org/okforums/okcon/


* When: Saturday 17th March 2007, 11am until 6:30pm (Doors open: 1030)
* Where: Limehouse Town Hall, 646 Commercial Road, London, E14 7HA.
* Programme: http://www.okfn.org/okforums/okfcon/programme/
* Registration: http://www.okfn.org/okforums/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.

## 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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