Open Source, Open Science - Summerschool

Science, Education and the Open Revolution! Summer school, Grimstad , Norway, September 28-30.

A three-day event on combining the trends of Open Publication, Open Curricula, Open Source, Open Hardware and Creative Commons, from the perspective of educators, scientists and engineers.

Program

Keynote: The Open Revolution

Openness has long been fundamental to science, but was often anathema to industry. Both science and business have seen the benefit of a new openness revolution. But how does it work economically, and why has it been sustainable? What's going open next?

IPR 101: An introduction to copyright, patents, and trademarks.

Technology, literature, and media are immersed in copyright, patents, and trademarks despite the fact that the people who produce and work with that property aren't well-acquainted with the concepts and law behind it. Before you can open your work, you need to understand who owns it, what can be owned, and how it is presently protected.

An introduction to Open Publication

Open journals like PLOS provide a medium for scientific publications that anyone can read, even smaller institutions that can't afford the high-priced scientific journals. But if it's so easy, what have we been paying for all of this time? And do some funding organizations require it while some governments have proposed to ban it? Learn how open publication works economically and technically, and how you fit in.

An introduction to Open Source.

In ten years, Open Source software has grown from a curiousity to a cornerstone of the IT industry, especially the internet. What's it doing now? Where's it going? Who is making it, and why? What would it have cost otherwise?

Open Source Software Resources for Research and Education.

Open Source, Open Hardware, and Open Curricula provide many resources for researchers and educators. Here's a tour of some of them.

Open Source Outside of Software.

Open Source has expanded to many fields outside of hardware. Wikipedia is an obvious and very successful example, but there are others: have you heard of OpenCores? Open Hardware? Open Sewing Patterns? How does Creative Commons differ from Open Source?

Sea Perch: An OpenSource Submarine Exploration Robot.

An Open Hardware remote underwater vehicle that middle-school students can build for less than $100/kit. See http://seaperch.mit.edu/index.php . Learn how to build the Sea Perch and how to conduct underwater exploration with your students. (1 hour introductory class, $100/student materials cost and two 2-hour construction sessions if we want to have the students build their own).

Openness Policy for Educational Institutions.

As openness becomes more important, educational institutions need new policies for open publication, open source software (both incoming and outgoing), and patenting of inventions. We go over the issues and some proposed policies.

An Openness Policy applied in European research projects.

The policy for collaboration in research projects will strongly influence how people collaborate in the project and with researchers outside of the project. The practical experience from different policies in different European projects are discussed. Tools and methods to sustain an open and learning collaboration culture are discussed.

Agenda for Summer School

Speakers

Bruce Perens

Bruce Perens

The keynote speaker, co-organizer of the conference, and instructor for many of the classes is %b Bruce Perens. Perens is one of the founders of the Open Source movement in software. a developer of Open Source software since 1987, he was HP's first senior global strategist for Linux and Open Source, and was series editor for a series of 24 books published under an Open Publication license with Prentice Hall. He previously worked at Pixar, and is credited on the films "Toy Story II" and "A Bug's Life".

Biography / Resume

Interviews with Bruce Perens

Mikael Snaprud

Mikael Snaprud

Mikael H. Snaprud, Dr. Techn. is Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Agder in Norway, and CEO of Tingtun AS. He initiated and co-ordinated the EU-funded EIAO project (www.eiao.net), and has participated in several further EC projects. He is currently the co-ordinator of the eGovMon project, targeting eGovernment quality measurements, and the European Network on eGovernment measurement methodologies, eGovMoNet.

PhD students credits

PhD students who wish to get the full credits from the event will need to prepare a brief presentation on a readings list and after the workshop submit a paper including an analysis of the additional outcomes from the meeting discussions on their presented topic. More details available upon request.