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Topics for workshops and talks that I'm happy to lead/co-lead/facilitate:
Moved to http://chriswatkins.wik.is/Workshops
 
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== Knowledge management ==
 
* Open licensing:
:* [[Free content presentation|Free your content]] - why open licenses matter. [[Information silos]] and leaving room for creative adaptations.
:* Creative Commons and more.
:* Choosing the right license: Noncommercial, no derivatives and share alike clauses, and what they mean for compatibility, collaboration, "good exploitation" and "bad exploitation."
* Web-based platforms for knowledge management
* Website design and the needs of the user: bandwidth, architecture and ease of sharing. (A mainly non-technical look at the issues.)
 
Knowledge management is also a theme of all the topics below.
 
== Business ==
* Commercial enterprises and non-profits - options and practice in collaboration
* Openness and business. Profitability and license options for authors and commercial enterprises.
 
== Sustainability and international development ==
 
* Open development:
:* knowledge silos, NGOs and other development organizations
:* knowledge sharing and effectiveness in international development.
:* collaborations
:* the role of knowledge management, esp a wiki and open licenses, in disaster management and preparedness
* Open sustainability:
:* green commerce - copyright still the status quo
:* state of play in the open green movement - [[Open Sustainability Network]], WiserEarth, open sources of information.
:* knowledge sharing and effectiveness in sustainability, green design and behavioral change
 
== Food production ==
 
* Victory gardens, lazy gardens & resilience.
* Soil as capital in a resilient economy.
* Food security and resilience in a changing climate
:* changing knowledge and technology needs as climate changes, especially in the developing world
 
== Education ==
 
* Service learning as an educational method:
:* motivation - no longer just a drill
:* impact - changing the world as a side-benefit
:* the nature of learning - value of learning through participatory, real world action.
* Open education - a changing mindset.
:* major successes in sharing,
:* major hurdles in creating collaboration.
:* technological and social solutions
 
== Information technology ==
 
* Open source computing for non-geeks
* Knowledge sharing in open source software - fragmentation, the relationship between documentation and usability, and other challenges. forums, open licenses, bug reporting, community involvement, the problem of geek-speak and and support.
* ICT4D - Information and communication technology for development - successes, areas of need, ways forward.
 
== Physical products and "open" ==
* Open design and open hardware - the challenges of "open" in the design of physical things.
* Open manufacturing:
:* high tech and "low tech" in the future of distributed manufacturing.
:* the different roles of distributed manufacture and centralized mass production.
* "Open source appropriate technology" - open design for a sustainable and equitable future
:* collaboration in the OSAT space - what exists, and what is working.

Latest revision as of 15:22, 6 August 2012

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