[Sorvi-admin] Open Science sessions

[Leo Lahti]

Hi Laura - what would you think of the following email advertisement? I
also attached some close colleagues for feedback.

Leo


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Join the Academic Track at Open Knowledge Festival!

The world’s first Open Knowledge Festival will gather together a week of
participatory sessions, keynote lectures, workshops, hackathons and
satellite events in Helsinki 17-22.9.2012. With a bold and experimental
programme, organised through collaborations amongst over 100 guest planners
from around the globe leading 13 key Topic Streams covering 170 sessions
from Government Transparency to Open Hardware, the event highlights the
true diversity of today’s open knowledge and data initiatives, and the
impacts of transparency in our societies.

The Open Research and Education
stream<http://okfestival.org/open-research-and-education/>will offer
presentations, panel discussions, workshops and hackathons
geared particularly towards the academic community. Some of the  highlights
include:

* Open Source Drug Discovery – a keynote address by Mat Todd from the
University of Sydney

* Open Science at the European Commission – an interactive discussion about
the European Commission’s new open access policy, led by Carl-Christian Buhr

* Open Access in Practice – How? – featuring representatives from the
Sanger Institute, the World Bank, the Open Access Index and Open Access
India.

* Communicating Science Openly – a panel discussion with representatives
from Wikimedia, academia and beyond.

* Immediate Access to Raw Data from Experiments – with Mark Hahnel
(Figshare), Mark Wainwright (CKAN) and Joss Winn (Orbital project,
University of Lincoln)

* The free Science and Culture
Hackday<http://okfestival.org/open-culture-and-science-hackday/>to
work together on projects, technologies and tools around open science.

In addition, the stream will feature book sprints, peer review sessions, a
social and much more! See the
program<http://okfestival.org/open-research-and-education/>for
details. Buy your ticket now to join hundreds of change-makers and
experts from private, public and community sectors and help build an
international open knowledge ecosystem with us in Helsinki.


On behalf of the Open Science and Education team,
Leo Lahti and Laura Newman


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On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Laura Newman <laura.newman at okfn.org>wrote:

> Hi Leo,
>
> How are you doing?
>
> With three weeks to go, I was just wondering whether you would be willing
> to do an open science / research OKFest push around Finnish academic
> institutions? The key things to plug would be
>
> 1) The main science events planned in the Open Research and Education
> stream (http://okfestival.org/open-research-and-education/) particularly
> the keynote from Mat Todd, the talk by Carl-Christian Buhr and the various
> panels featuring Wikimedia / the World Bank / Figshare etc.
>
> 2) The joint Science and Culture Hackday:
> http://okfestival.org/open-culture-and-science-hackday/ (Free to attend)
>
> That would be really great!
>
> Thanks ever so much,
> Laura
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Laura Newman
> Community Coordinator
> Open Knowledge Foundation
> http://okfn.org/
> Skype: lauranewmanonskype
> Twitter: @Newmanlk
>
>
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