From wouter at freeknowledge.eu Mon Apr 28 08:43:04 2008 From: wouter at freeknowledge.eu (Wouter Tebbens) Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:43:04 +0200 Subject: [OER Grapevine] Deadlines coming up: Early Bird registration for FKFT Conference: 30 April Message-ID: <4815F088.4050508@freeknowledge.eu> Dear all, as you might know, with the SELF project and Free Knowledge Institute we are organising the Free Knowledge, Free Technology (FKFT) conference. As it is very much in line of the area of work of this community, I hope you don't miss it! I look forward to see you in Barcelona and participate with the many teams and projects in interesting discussions and form new collaborations! See below for more details. -- best, Wouter Tebbens -- Be SELFish, Share Your Knowledge - http://SELFproject.eu -------------- http://FreeKnowledge.eu - FKI - Tel: +31.20.8910.319 ====================================================================== Some DEADLINES COMING UP: until 30 April: early bird registration: register with discount at http://fkft.eu/register until 30 April: submit your paper or proposal to participate: http://fkft.eu/CFP SELF Consortium and Free Knowledge Institute have the pleasure to announce an international event of three exciting days of interaction and discussions on one of the most important topics nowadays - education and learning in freedom, in the paradigm of the information technologies. Richard M. Stallman (GNU Project and Free Software Foundation), Karel De Vriendt (EC/IDABC), Carlos Castro (Extremadura Government), Steven Downes (National Research Council Canada) and many more well known speakers will form the elegant mix between keynote speakers, panel discussions and parallel tracks. Participants choose between several parallel discussions, divided in streams on: 1.Free Knowledge and Free Technologies in society - legal issues of Free Knowledge; who creates Free Knowledge; quality assessment in collaborative authoring systems; the economy and social implications of Free Knowledge and Free Technologies 2.Free Knowledge and Free Technologies in public bodies, co-organised with CENATIC - case studies and success stories; development of Free Software within public bodies; interoperability; licensing and legal issues. 3.Educating in Freedom, including a workshop of the FLOSSCom Project - technological aspects of e-learning; the SELF Platform; training Free Technologies advocates; showcase of free educational materials; the future of education. As part of the Conference, we are inviting you to witness the award ceremony of the "Free Knowledge, Free Technology" Open Documentary Contest. With the objective of promoting Free Software and the sharing of free knowledge, the FKFT 2008 Conference will bring together hundreds of people from different continents including government representatives, school and university teachers, IT companies, publishers, and NGO's. By gathering together people from all these groups, we aim to stimulate both present and future collaboration between diverse disciplines, sectors and countries, through the medium of free software programs and the sharing of successful experiences related to free software and free technologies. Registration is now open. The deadline for early bird registration has been extended to April 30, 2008. The FKFT 2008 organisers highly recommend to make reservations for hotels and flights as early as possible as July is high-season in Barcelona. Register now at http://fkft.eu/register! The Free Knowledge Institute and the SELF Consortium (Internet Society Netherlands, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Free Software Foundation Europe, Gothenburg University, Internet Society Bulgaria, Fundaci??n Via Libre and Tata Institute for Fundamental Research) will collaborate to organise the content of the conference and to build strong relationships between attendees. The conference partners recognise the vital importance of the collaborative creation and sharing of free educational and training materials on Free Software and Open Standards. Our conference host is the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. The SELF Platform, a collaborative authoring tool inspired by Wikipedia, will play an important role in achieving this goal. SELF is an international project, initially supported by the European Commission, which has developed a platform to encourage the creative cooperation and the sharing of educational materials, paying special attention to Free Software and Open Standards. The SELF Platform is open to the contributions of all those who like to bring their knowledge to it, and share this knowledge without restrictions. Free Software, as opposed to proprietary software, can be copied, studied, modified and redistributed without restrictions. Moreover, Open Standards, and the capacity they offer for exchanging knowledge and sharing information, have become essential because they allow business and administration processes to function in a more flexible, transparent and cost-efficient way. The expansion of Free Software has brought together a continually growing community of developers. General Co-Chairs: David Megias (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) Wouter Tebbens (Free Knowledge Institute) Program Co-Chairs: David Jacovkis (Free Knowledge Institute, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) Dragoslava Pefeva (Internet Society Bulgaria) Conference information and registration: http://fkft.eu Contact: David Megias (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) dmegias[at]uoc.edu Tel: (+34) 933 263 735 Fax: (+34) 933 568 822 Wouter Tebbens (Free Knowledge Institute) wouter[at]freeknowledge.eu Tel: (+31) 20 8910 319 Fax: (+31) 877 844 107 Registration is now open. The deadline for early bird registration has been extended to April 30, 2008. The FKFT 2008 organisers highly recommend that you make reservations for hotels and flights as early as possible as July is high-season in Barcelona. Register now at http://fkft.eu/register! 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