Internal:Organisation/Program

Seeded with old content from Berlin discussions

Tracks

Simultaneous tracks? How many?

Encyclopedia track

The history of; research into related reference works
history of large-scale reference work collaboration.

encyclopedias, dictionaries, wikipedia, ...
Encyclopedia deathmatch : Britannica, Brockhaus, Wikipedia?
'Building reference works' : EB/Brockhaus/Encarta speakers

Brockhaus 'seem interested', maybe 2. an old person to talk about the past [] and a young one to talk about the present.
Tim Bray could get a britannica contact

cf. Jimbo's Britannica biz cards.

Library, museum, archive track

Collaboration track

Collab deathmatch: Gelernter, Tim Berners-Lee, Linus Torvalds?
IBM/First Monday - Andrea Siphillaley, Martin Lawthenberg / Fernanda
Vala (thesis)
German academic papers; two came to the ccc-booth.
social problems, get someone from usenet or? to speak. kurt wanted to get someone for 21c3 but had no time. conflict resolution. usenet (de diff from en), ODP, livejournal/blogger.

Legal & political/government track

many german lawyers. Lessig, FSF
Wikipedians: Michael Snow, et al.
govmt interaction, funding, advising
Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung - center for govt edu.

publishing information on politics for free...

Multilingual communication track

sessions on translation and international networking
presentation by Esperantists
small languages session(s) - getting them online, discussion about their communities [and where they flourish]
discussion of other big multilingual events/orgs

Research track

academics. nobel prize winners. libraries. proper endorsements.
set up endorsements system; partnership system for donors?

German Library Assoc. [cf patrick]

Trolling on librarian lists... ALA et al.

Jimbo can contact britannica co-speaker at june ALA conference.
writers about academia. vala notes/thesis.
IBM history flow; Martin W.
some economist about stats they're gathering (Laibson)
[jay rosen] : breakdown of trasditional academia; "modern armchair researcher"
physicists? (t'Hooft, et al)
arXiv.org

Journalism, news track

news, give people more credit. distinguishing b/t original author and other?
get bloggers...
- Paula from the BBC
- people from radio show with ang... bob mcgascwin???

Business track

Technical track

Developing world track

3rd-world initiatives. OSI, Germans, etc
People from every project... every language.
Moeller, Ray Sant, GerardM, tomos/villy, isam, ...
find scholarships for travel from africa, central asia, s.am.
visa information: get formal invitations for middle east.

this issue will be handled on the EU level; not just political.

mainly anti-illegal immigration.
censorship panel (wp in china; also the taiwan/china issues, turkey, Saudi)
Wizzy.za, others brining computer to africa
education in less-dev countries. india... computer-shipping groups.
the c-shipping groups say 'sure, just send us CDs...'

General overview track

main first session, morning 1
how the servers, community, remote use, reuse work

dealing with spam, user conflicts, new projects.

Other? tracks

Suggested Speakers (ask soon): Ward Cunningham, Stallman, Lessig, Moglen, Volker Grassmuck, Andrew Lih, Yochai Benkler (New York University), Tim Berners-Lee (Semantic Web), Ismail Serageldin (Library of Alexandria, Ito), Brewster Kahle (Internet Archive, Ito), Derrick de Kerkhove (Library of Congress, Ito), David Weinberger (Blogger, Ito), Karl La-Grange (W3C, Ito)
Joi's contacts: Ward Cunningham (easy), Stallman (hard), Lessig (easy), Moglen (no contact), Volker Grassmuck (not much contact), Andrew Lih (nope), Yochai Benkler (New York University) (so-so contact), Tim Berners-Lee (Semantic Web) (no contact)

Why we need to bother Joi for Andrew?? He listed himself on meta!

Education panel : teachers; see old ml-posters from zh, en, hawaii. translators, marcom (jimbo's old school), Dieter Koehler.
- Reuben Puentadura - Arg education / online references
translation/language panel:
- Ono Susumu - Tamil-Japanese
- Ethiopic - getting the language online; photographing docs.
troll panel?
a session about troll problems; with active dissidents (ru, pl, es breakaways; "well-meaning" trolls)

Panel "Encyclopedia death match": invite brockhaus, britannica, encarta
Workshop on legal issues (Till Jaeger (german), Villy (french), Michael Snow (US))
Digital Divide/Development politics: (Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, Ethan Zuckermann, Danny)
Politics (open content & copyright legislation): (Joerg Tauss)
Education: (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung - contact Tim/Volker)
Technical: big picture for a general audience (how is the server farm organized, future directions of mediawiki development)
Status of the projects (short presentations)

Poster session: cf. Wizards of OS?
Main lobby area? or packed into a breakout room...

Breakout rooms - for small events, even non-public? events
- Need a way to let people schedule their own events online

Museum trip -- photography project
ask permissions from Frankfurt museums until one says 'yes!'
Wikimedia commons / editing area
Editing Frankfurt -- Local tours (by the local helpers)
improve the frankfurt articles in the different wikipedias
Library of Congress: everyone can bring his books, reserve one room (Terassensaal) as working library
ask the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung for books

Photo/Audio/Video competitions (30 prizes) -- cf. sj, sannse