Skillshare, June 4–6, 2010 in Lüneburg
Skillshare is a pilot conference of participants from different projects who volunteer their time with to promote the free knowledge movement. We're meeting in Lüneburg from June 4 to 6 2010.
What's "free knowledge"? The concept of free knowledge (sometimes called "open content") focuses on textual, visual, and audio materials, and the right to use them, re-use them, or remix them freely, with minimal licensing restrictions, both for private or commercial purposes.
Our conference‘s name, "Skillshare," stands for serving the public good by sharing knowledge and competences. Participants with computer skills will pass their skills on to others in interdisciplinary projects. Skillshare aims to involve and integrate the entire range of projects promoted by the Wikimedia Foundation -- from Wikipedia, the well-known encyclopedia, to Wikisource, the free knowledge and open content platform of historical and documentary textual. We will, in addition, try to reach out to academic and professional projects and to wikis with a local focus. The program will offer both experienced Wikipedians and newcomers the chance to gain new insight into standard processes. We will be interested in exploring and improving the state of the art in generating and the working with open content.
Our workshops will target questions of quality assessment, the management, administration and the increase of free knowledge. The social and communicative skills of authors in open content projects will be part of our interest. We will offer space for concentrated cooperative work, and we will encourage participants to find new personal strategies in dealing with problems on the way. Experts from abroad will discuss tricky questions from copyright to privacy law. Our chief goal is to create a collaborative "breathing space" for exchange among our numerous and diverse participants.
Program
Program
The Skillshare conference is designed to enhance the exchange between Lüneburg, the city hosting the event, and web projects devoted to the free knowledge movement and institutions of the educational sector. The Lüneburg Project
The Lüneburg part of the project focuses on Lüneburge the Hanseatic city and host of our conference. In subprojects developing around the Skillshare concept, we want to create and improve Wikipedia articles dealing with Lüneburg. Work will go into Lüneburg-related texts and their illustrations. We are here cooperating with the city’s council, the churches, museums and archives under the patronage of mayor Mädge. The Education ProjectSeveral institutions of the educational sector have joined us with individual projects – among them: The Leuphana University of Lüneburg, whose president Prof. Dr. Sascha Spoun who will act as one the conference’s patrons. Lüneburg’s Wilhelm-Raabe-Schule will offer its media facilities for a media competence session directed at senior pupils. Ralph Caspers, anchorman of the tv-program "Wissen macht Ah!", has agreed to mentor this project. The free knowlegde projectWe plan to invite Edelgard Bulmahn (MdB) -- the former German minister of education who initiated the government’s Open Content group -- to enter the group official patrons. Participants who offer their free time in Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia, Wikisource, and Wikimedia Commons will widen their horizons in workshops and training Events* Photo Rally: Lüneburg in 500 pictures * City Tour * bots for beginners and experts * Create your Monobook * Tools, Tools, Tools * Conflict Management * Photo Editing * The Ethics of Articles on Living Persons * Writer’s Workshop * Wikisource * Digitization * Copyright * Encryption * Press relations – journalists using Wikipedia information * Checking dates: personal data, revising articles, the sighting of articles
Unsere FördererThere are no translations available. Partner und SponsorenWir bedanken uns bei allen Partnern und Sponsoren, die es mit Ihrem vielfältigen Engagement erst möglich machen, Skillshare in Lüneburg zu realisieren. |