If you have never been to a bar camp or other un-conference, you should expect the following format. Before the conference, we will have a number of confirmed speakers with reserved space. However, the vast majority of presentations and talks that will occur will not be pre planned. There will be a large white board showing the available time slots and if you want to give a talk, just write it's title in one of the time slots and interested people will show up.
Information for Presenters
As you consider presentation topics, remember that OSNCamp (aka OSNCon) is aimed at making progress, identifying key initiatives and challenges, and building new relationships to continue fostering positive change in support of Open Sustainability. For more details, check out our page with information for presenters
Confirmed Presentations
- Open Sustainability Network - what, who, why.
- Nuclear Issues and the Environment - how it all comes back to sustainability. Presented by Janine Carmona from Tri-Valley CAREs in Livermore.
- Library Building in Nicaragua - A presentation by BRIDGE Nicaragua on plans to build a library in Morrito_Nicaragua
- Free content and saving the world - a presentation by Chriswaterguy
Ideas for presentations
Central topic areas. (This doesn't mean this is given a priority or can't be changed, or even that they're more important than others, just that they are are central to Open Sustainability.)
- Open Sustainability Network/Governance Mission/Vision? Officers? Commitments? Structure? Plans for next time? CurtB or panel.
- Operating MediaWiki - Lonny?
- Openness and Ownership - Building a Collaborative Community. Panel discussion with one or two people from Appropedia, maybe wikiHow... plus another NGO (like AIDG) with a strong volunteer base.
- Why sustainability matters for reducing poverty. Why reducing poverty matters for sustainability. - Joshua? Lonny? Joint presentation? (I'd be up for a joint presentation or panel - Chriswaterguy 02:13, 4 August 2008 (PDT))
- Open Access - why it matters, how it differs from free content. - IJSLE people? (note Workshop #3: Online Publications)
- OLPC content jam - work on developing content bundles (and we can talk about activity bundles - separate workshop if there's a critical mass of people.) Appropedia's OLPC bundle is one example, and that's one place for developing appropriate content intended for the OLPC.
- Intellectual property and openness - profit and sharing knowledge. - Joel?
- Open hardware - Mel? Panel/joint presentation with Joel? And/or video presentation from Vinay?
- Open Sustainability Network/Constituencies Who are the players in OSN, and how do their views differ? CurtB
William George Paul, Publisher / Owner: PlanetShifter.com and the companion eMagazine: GreenCatcherUnion.com. We want creative green people from across the planet to share their work, offer critique and form new bonds and enterprises from the four disciplines: musicians, artists, writers and inventors.
- To William: are you proposing to attend and present on this topic? If not, then this information should be on a different page. You could create an article about your Organization(s), and tag as such.
Note: it would be good to talk about degrees of openness - from closed, through open access to free content. But we don't want to have too many talks on related areas, so it should perhaps be integrated somehow, or made into part 2 of a talk.
Other talks:
- Card sorting workshop - getting people from the target audience to arrange a set of cards (yes, the physical objects) with topics etc, how they think the material fits together logically. See
Appropedia:Information architecture #Other ideas. (I'm happy to help run this --Chriswaterguy 02:13, 4 August 2008 (PDT))
- Bottom of the Pyramid - Ryan?
- Public Domain Search --Chriswaterguy 02:13, 4 August 2008 (PDT)
- ICT4D - presenter: Mel?
- Appropriate technology - what makes it "appropriate"? - Lonny?
Length of presentations
At BarCampSydney2008, it was felt that the scheme of 20 min per talk on Saturday, and 30 min per talk on Sunday, worked well.
Double blocks are possible, but these should be used sparingly. If it's possible to do it in a shorter slot that's better, and a breakout can follow if people want to continue. (Or schedule it before lunch or dinner).
William George Paul, Publisher / Owner: PlanetShifter.com and the companion eMagazine: GreenCatcherUnion.com. We want creative green people from across the planet to share their work, offer critique and form new bonds and enterprises from the four disciplines or (member groups).