OpenCon is a platform for the next generation to learn about Open Access, Open Education, and Open Data, develop critical skills, and catalyse action toward a more open system for sharing the world’s information -- from scholarly and scientific research, to educational materials, to digital research data.
Over the years, OpenCon has inspired a number of researchers, librarians, educators and members of civil society to advocate for a more open and transparent access to scientific information. It is an event where individuals involved in projects advancing the state of open science meet to discuss best practice and share experience with others.
We believe that Switzerland would greatly benefit from a similar forum in the country, and therefore we plan to organise a OpenCon satellite event in Bern. We aim to bring open science practictioners together with individuals advocating for openness in other contexts. We believe such a forum will catalyse a conversation around open- topics at the national level and give the opportunity for active open- advocates to meet and connect, within Switzerland and with the international community.
OpenCon satellite events benefit from the support of SPARC and R2RC, two coalitions organising the annual OpenCon. Since 2014, over 4'000 people have attended over 70 satellite events in 32 countries. Instructions on how to host OpenCon satellites are available on the OpenCon website.
OpenCon is mainly targeted at the next-generation of open science advocates. They can be early career researchers - from doctoral students to young PIs - actively promoting openness in their research field, librarians promoting openness in their institutions, publishers who have a strong open access vision, policy advisors and administrators involved in setting the open science or open government agendas, and advocates for open culture from the civil society.
Deadline: Friday 31 Aug. 2018, 12pm CET.
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Conference: September 21
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Unconference: September 22
SNSF, Wildhainweg 21, 3001 Bern
Trains:
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Lausanne-Bern: 07:20-08:26
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Zurich-Bern: 07:32-08:28
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Basel-Bern: 07:28-08:24
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Neuchâtel-Bern: 07:59-08:47
The lingua franca will be English, though participants are welcome to speak their own language.
OpenCon Code of Conduct is available here.
Anna Severin, Joao Martins and Luc Henry.
Adapted for the OpenCon Swiss Satellite from the github.com/gdg-x/zeppelin template. (An earlier version of the website forked t413/SinglePaged.)
Background pictures from unplash.com. In no particular order:
- Line of bicycles parks on a stone road in a historic city
- Close-up of the dial of an old voltmeter
- A crowd of people cheering at an evening concert
- Audience in cinema
- Swiss train
- Coffees of all colors
- People walking on a schedule
- Meeting discussion
Checkout full documentation.
- Design and web development: Oleh Zasadnyy
- Idea: Vitaliy Zasadnyy
- Adaptation: Joao Martins
Maintainers: @tasomaniac and @ozasadnyy.
Project is published under the MIT license. Feel free to clone and modify repo as you want, but don't forget to add reference to authors :)