Topics for workshops and talks that I'm happy to lead/co-lead/facilitate:
Knowledge management
- Open licensing:
- 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.
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.