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<nettime-ann> [ann] FM10 CfP: Code, science and content - Making collaborative creativity sustainable |
Call for Papers: deadline 6 February 2006 FM10 Openness: Code, science and content Making collaborative creativity sustainable May 2006 Recent years have seen a strong interest among academics, policy makers, activists, business and other practitioners on open collaboration and access as a driver of creativity. In some areas, such as free software / open source, sustainable business models have emerged that are holding their own against more traditional, proprietary software industries. In the sciences, the notions of open science and open data demonstrate the strong tradition of openness in the academic community that, despite its past successes, is increasingly under threat. And open access journals and other open content provide inspiring examples of collaborative creativity and participatory access, such as Wikipedia, while still in search of models to ensure sustainability. There are clear links between these areas of openness: open content often looks explicitly towards open source software for business models, and open science provides through its history a glimpse of the potential of openness, how it can work, as well as a warning of the threats it may face. Finally, open collaboration is closely linked to access to knowledge issues, enabling active participation rather than passive consumption especially in developing countries. Despite these clear links, there has been surprisingly little thoughtful analysis of this convergence, or of the real value of the common aspect of open collaboration. In particular, while open source software ? due to its strong impact on business and on bridging the digital divide ? has drawn much attention, it may provide false hopes for the sustainability of openness in other areas of content that need careful examination. The conference FM10 Openness: Code, science and content ? Making collaborative creativity sustainable provides a platform for such analysis and discussion, resulting in concrete proposals for sustainable models for open collaboration in creative domains. The conference will draw on the experience of First Monday as the foremost online, peer?reviewed academic journal covering these issues since May 1996. Not only has First Monday published numerous papers by leading scholars on the topics of open collaboration, open access, and open content in its various forms, it is itself an example of open collaboration in practice: for nearly a decade, the journal has been published on a purely voluntary basis, with no subscription fees, advertising, sponsorship or other revenues. The success of First Monday is demonstrated by thousands of readers around the world, downloading hundreds of thousands of papers each month. This conference celebrates First Monday?s tenth anniversary. We invite papers for the conference and for a very special issue of First Monday. These papers will be reviewed by a special conference editorial committee. Authors of selected papers will be invited to the conference, scheduled to take place in Chicago in May 2006. Other selected papers will be published in a special issue of First Monday, to appear in June 2006. Papers should address the issues involved in building sustainable models for openness in science, software and content. They can examine technical, sociological, economic/business and legal issues, and can be conceptual or practical in nature. Case studies by practitioners are welcome. Submitting papers Proposals for papers for the conference and the special issue can be sent to First Monday?s Chief Editor, Edward Valauskas by e?mail (ejv [at] uic [dot] edu) no later than the first Monday of December 2005 (5 December 2005). You are advised, but not required, to send a paper proposal before sending your full paper. Proposals will be reviewed and contributors will be notified in December of the special editorial committee?s decision. Completed papers must be received by the first Monday in February 2006 (6 February 2006). This includes papers for which no proposal was submitted in advance. By the first Monday of March 2006 (6 March 2006 _______________________________________________ nettime-ann mailing list nettime-ann@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ann