[Upd-discuss] First Monday Conference 10: "Openness: Code, science and content - Making collaborative creativity sustainable" 15-17 May 2006, The University of Illinois at Chicago

[Zapopan Martin Muela-Meza]

 Tue, 17 Jan 2006 20:12:54 -0600
From:	"Edward J. Valauskas" <ejv@UIC.EDU>  
Subject:	First Monday Conference
To:	FIRSTMONDAY@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU

First Monday Conference
FM10 Openness: Code, science and content
15-17 May 2006, at The University of Illinois at Chicago

Celebrate ten years of First Monday!

Register at http://numenor.lib.uic.edu/fmconference/

Send an abstract or paper to http://numenor.lib.uic.edu/fmconference/

Thanks to a grant from The Open Society Institute, as many as 20 
participants from developing countries may receive grants to attend 
the Conference. An application form can be found at 
http://firstmonday.org/fm10/FM10_OSI_fundreq.doc. Deadline 10 
February 2006.

The Conference is generously sponsored by The Open Society Institute, The
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The University of Illinois
at Chicago University Library and The Maastricht Economic Research
Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT), University of Maastricht.

About the Conference

Recent years have seen a strong interest among academics, policy 
makers, activists, business and other practitioners on open 
collaboration and access as a driver of creativity. In some areas, such as
free software / open source, sustainable business models have emerged that
are holding their own against more traditional, proprietary software
industries. In the sciences, the notions of open science and open data
demonstrate the strong tradition of openness in the academic community
that, despite its past successes, is increasingly under threat. And open
access journals and other open content provide inspiring examples of
collaborative creativity and participatory access, such as Wikipedia,
while still in search of models to ensure sustainability.

There are clear links between these areas of openness: open content often
looks explicitly towards open source software for business models, and
open science provides through its history a glimpse of the potential of
openness, how it can work, as well as a warning of the threats it may
face. Finally, open collaboration is closely linked to access to knowledge
issues, enabling active participation rather than passive consumption
especially in developing countries.

Despite these clear links, there has been surprisingly little 
thoughtful analysis of this convergence, or of the real value of the
common aspect of open collaboration. In particular, while open source
software - due to its strong impact on business and on bridging the
digital divide - has drawn much attention, it may provide false hopes for
the sustainability of openness in other areas of content that  need
careful examination. The conference -- FM10 Openness: Code, science and
content - Making collaborative creativity sustainable -- provides a
platform for such analysis and discussion, resulting in concrete proposals
for sustainable models for open collaboration in creative domains.

The Conference will draw on the experience of First Monday as the 
foremost online, peer-reviewed academic journal covering these issues
since May 1996. Not only has First Monday published numerous papers by
leading scholars on the topics of open collaboration, open access, and
open content in its various forms, it is itself an example of open
collaboration in practice: for a decade, the journal has been published on
a purely voluntary basis, with no subscription fees, advertising,
sponsorship or other revenues. The success of First 
Monday is demonstrated by thousands of readers around the world, 
downloading hundreds of thousands of papers each month.

For more details, contact Edward Valauskas, Chief Editor of First 
Monday at ejv@uic.edu. We look forward to seeing you in Chicago!


Zapopan Muela
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"Tiranos y autócratas han entendido siempre que el alfabetismo, 
el conocimiento, los libros y los periódicos son un peligro 
en potencia. Pueden inculcar ideas independientes e incluso
de rebeldía en las cabezas de sus súbditos.
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"Tyrants and autocrats have always understood that literacy, 
learning, books and newspapers are potentially dangerous. 
They can put independent and even rebelious ideas to the heads 
of their subjects."
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-- Sagan, Carl (1997). The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle
in the Dark : El mundo y sus demonios: La ciencia como una luz en la 
oscuridad. México: Planeta, p. 390; New York: Ballantine Books, p. 362.

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