It is now Friday morning and the last full day of the Drumbeat Festival and I thought I’d jot down some general impressions so far. It is certainly unlike any event I have ever been to before; part unconference, part hack day, some elements that feel like a proto-music festival or rave with just a … Continue reading »
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Building an International School of Copyright and Creative Commons with P2PU
At the moment there is a P2PU course called Copyright for Educators running in the US, South Africa and Oz and this session was about identifying ways of taking that course to the wider community considering all the differences from one jurisdiction to another. Currently the course is based around 3 case studies taken over … Continue reading »
Open Discovery at the Open Content Studio [#drumbeat]
After the inspiring opening keynotes and a bit of shuffling around and organizing of rooms I found myself in the Open Content studio hidden away around the back of MACBA. The advertised Open Textbook hacking didn’t really materialise – instead there was a conversation about OER/OCW findability with representatives of Creative Commons, OCWC, Connexions and … Continue reading »
[ORGCon] James Boyle: The Incredible Shrinking Public Domain
I have raved on about this talk a couple of times already on this blog – it is a full hour but more than worth taking the time. Have re-watched it I stand by my opinion that it is the best plenary talk I have attended.
A ‘Data Driven’ Bathcamp
So I have volunteered (read been roped in by Mike) to curate the upcoming Bathcamp evening. For reasons I am not quite sure about given my own leanings away from the topic I decided to try and put on an evening based around the idea of a ‘Web of Data’. Thankfully my Twitter stream has … Continue reading »
