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The association has Skillshare e.V. of 4 to 6 June 2010, the Open Space Conference 2010 in Lüneburg Skillshare performed. The conference brought together approximately 200 authors and photographers of different projects around the free part of knowledge (eg Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap) and citizens of Lüneburg. The participants and lecturers at the conference came in addition to all parts of Germany from the Netherlands, Great Britain, Switzerland and Austria. In 36 workshops and a variety of supporting events, such as photo rally through the Hanseatic city of Lüneburg, a photo special on the Lüneburg region and a high-profile panel discussion was made at the conference a space for sharing, learning and sharing skills, in the context of work in connection with collecting, preparing and distributing free knowledge are necessary. Free Knowledge (English open content) includes text, photos and other media, which are placed under a so-called free license that allows free re-use this content in other contexts by copyright. This will contribute to broadening the educational opportunities of the population. The full project report (with photos) is available as a pdf file. |
Program partners University of LüneburgUnder the auspices of University President Sascha Spoun Skillshare led by a number of projects in cooperation with the University of Lüneburg. Including a pilot project began on methodological aspects of scientific management of web-based open knowledge, a teaching practice to perspectives in the study of complementary and an event in the university library to open content and open access. project - "Scientific management of Free Knowledge seminar within the perspective of practice in complementary studies In cooperation with Skillshare eV was funded by the Leuphana University, a seminar within the Lüneburg complementary studies, an interdisciplinary curriculum requirement in the spirit of a studium generale offered. Prof. Dr. Falko Willms leads students in an organizational theories and brought them on the basis of the modular part of the events Skillshare Conference bases near the review of project organizations. free content to the library Partner Program Chamber of Brunswick-Lüneburg-StadeSkillshare was under the patronage of President and Chief Executive Norbert Rolf Schneider Bünten. A further topic was the handicraft partners chamber Brunswick-Lüneburg-Stade, each of which invited tenders a photo and a writing competition. On the part of the Chamber of Udo Käthner was Project in close cooperation in the preparations for the cooperation partner and provided assistance within the organization. The Chamber of Trade has also been made to a key project partner, as part of the cooperation between the Conference of Skilled Crafts and mer in the Technology Centre of the Chamber of accommodation possibilities in their own house. was from conference participants on 3 and 4 June volunteers chambers provide training for employees were various trades carried out across Germany. The chambers of Skilled Crafts employees in the use of wiki software have been trained and in relation to the technical and content possible preconditions for the creation of content with respect to trade in Wikipedia. The participants are as important multipliers technical skills in both the internal HandwerksWiki and in working to pass Article in Wikipedia. The projects around the Free Knowledge in different areas differs. In the area of topics related to the craft should be interested in this way professionally competent writers to work on outdoor knowledge and gain experience in the technical use of the Wikiplattform. The Chamber of commended prizes of 1.000, - EUR for a total of three categories. The winner is the article "Women in Trade" (category 1) and "Erasmus for young entrepreneurs (Category 2). Participating texts clustered round various areas in the craft and are all under a free license. From the field of participants of the photo competition was from the perspective of the jury submitted a photo, legislation to implement the optimal conditions. Judges of the competition the Chamber of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Stade were Martin Jahn, deputy chief editor of economic newspaper North German craftsmanship, Hans-Herbert Jenckel, Executive Re-chief of the national newspaper for the Lüneburg Heath and Frank Ahlborn, bar abbey, Development Manager Economic Policy, Chamber of Brunswick-Lüneburg- Stade.
Open Space ConferenceThe three-day conference was mainly based on the concept of Open Space. Workshops and lectures with external participation, both by lecturers, the other by the participants, took exception at fixed points in time. A total of 42 events at the conference were offered. Our venue was the Wilhelm-Raabe-Schule, one of many traditional high schools Lüneburg. Parallel to the Articles of the conference venue grew up in Wikipedia to considerable size and quality.
Day One - Friday 4 June 2010The opening day included 12 events. The open space conference began after checking in of participants on Friday afternoon with a joint opening ceremony. The project director Nadine Stark opened the conference, the patron was Lord Mayor Maedge by the cultural office Juergen Landmann represented by the name of the conference participants from the Hanseatic city of Lüneburg welcome. Norbert Bünten - Chief Executive of the Chamber of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Stade - awarded in accordance with that opening ceremony, attended by the principal of the Wilhelm-Raabe-Schule, Mrs. Hartmann and the deputy head teacher Mrs. Reichert and the press, the prices under Initiated by the Chamber of writing and photo competition. After a brief introduction of the previously announced workshops and lectures by the professors, began the first open-space events. Up to 6 classrooms of the venue were used in parallel. In a "Nachnutzerworkshop" the foundations of a license GNU reuse the content of Wikipedia and its sister projects have been taught this in advance, the event, a flyer prepared and distributed in our host city and during the event (flyer at: skillshare.eu to download).. questions and criticism of the user interface were presented by means of the research project of the University of Osnabrück GoodGaze as part of a usability workshop "by Fabian Stelzer. Another workshop told of the voluntary support and was a guest workshop of Wikimedia Germany - made Society for the Advancement of Free Knowledge eV. In the workshop "Virtual Teams" reported Henry Johns, Institute for Interdisciplinary Work at the University of Hanover, of the research on the work in virtual teams. A first workshop of the voluntary project OpenStreetMap dealt with an introduction to the work on the creation of maps that are similar the texts in the Commons under a free license created by volunteer project staff. In a joint event, the participants were from Jürgen grandson, Managing Director of the Economic Development Lüneburg for city and county GmbH welcomed. The jury members Christof Steiner, editor of the national newspaper for the Luneburg Heath, sponsor of Skillshare and Thomas Piehl, Director of Sparkasse Lüneburg attended the event. Thomas Piehl, presented the prize to the winner of the competition "Made in Lüneburg" in the context of this event. The Economic Development Lüneburg for city and county, invited the conference participants, following a dinner. The theme of 'Photography for Wikipedia "was the subject of the workshop a number of times with the internal wikipedia award" Excellent Picture "rated long-time photographer. Also was attended by all administrators first place since its inception in the German collection of quotations "Wikiquote" a project meeting. Were all administrators of this project present at Skillshare and this offer could therefore use. On Friday evening with a workshop on "Copyright" a first "blockbuster "instead of the conference. lawyer Arne Trautmann and two long-standing experienced in copyright volunteers Wikipedia and its sister projects together an event held on issues of copyright and addressed in including the creation of the amount of contributions and other major copyright issues in the . daily involvement in projects around the open knowledge of importance was the Friday evening in a flexible schedule used for spontaneous meetings to already deepening issues raised and to develop new programs. Note: For program schedule, please see the full schedule annexed to this report .
Partner Program Lüneburg Marketing GmbHthe supporting program for the conference and providing for citizens in the Lüneburg images documenting the Commons supported 15 urban leaders of the Lüneburg Marketing GmbH volunteer a photo rally on historically and culturally relevant routes through the city. The approximately 35 participants were divided into five groups led by the city and made intensively with the historical background. As part of Skillshare so WikimediaCommons photos for 1400, a sister project of Wikipedia to the international use of the photos were taken in all language versions. In order to plan enough time for the subject in view of the photographers participating in five different areas Tour 1 from the star Hof, St. John's, presented Council water mill, water tower and Pape road; Tour 2 took the town hall from the outside, on the coin, street pharmacy, Pharmacy Council, Customs Street, bell tower, by Tour 3 began at the Heinrich Heine House and passed through Council library, preacher's widow houses, horse-servant-end road to the city walls; Tour 4 had the theme of the subsidence area, St. Michael's, closed roads in the Techt, limestone and the salt from the outside; Tour 5 went through the water district, St. Nicolai, street tree, by Werder and Red Rooster. Each subsequent users is due to the so-called free license, under which the images were put online in WikiCommons, shall, without additional license fee to use the photos for free. The only condition is the attribution of the author and the names of the license. In a subsequent user-Workshop "Say the name and license" for the press representatives, and representatives of the Government Download the flyer: www.skillshare.eu / download Partner program Economic Development LüneburgThe economic development for the city and county of Lüneburg GmbH with its managing director Jürgen Enkelmann supported the conference sustainable. competitive addition to a writing and photo under the title "Made in Lüneburg" advised the Economic Development Lueneburg GmbH at the conference an evening event with meals for conference participants. Manufactured in Lüneburg using the latest laser technology for the occasion, a glass sculpture was presented. . tabled articles dealt with a broad topic, which of Lüneburg entrepreneurs like Bobby de Key water (Former goalkeeper of Belgium), on the ship lift in Scharnebeck to internationally operating companies such as the WERUM handed AG Im writing competition of the Economic Development won the text - " Best of Lüneburg "in the refrigerated section - and the Lüneburg brand Lünebest" the 2,000, - EUR. prize The winner John H. Plamondon was on the evening of the conference Skillshare in the auditorium Wilhelm-Raabe-Schule with the participation of the jury members Christof Steiner, editor of the national newspaper for the Lüneburg Heath and Thomas Piehl, Director of Sparkasse Lüneburg award. The other jury members were: Prof. Dr. Sabine Remdisch, University Leuphana, Juergen Landmann, cultural affairs of the Hanseatic city of Lüneburg and Manfred countryman, district administrator of Lüneburg. For photo competition organized by the Economic Development Lüneburg GmbH a photo tour from the ship lift Scharnebeck, the airport fengelände and the port of Lüneburg The best photo was a prize money of 500, -.. awarded EUR The jury chose a picture from the river harbor.
Second Day - Saturday, 5 June 2010On the second day of the conference held a total of 25 events. particularly among photographers took the photo rally on strong interest. This was prepared in cooperation with the city of Lüneburg Marketing GmbH by 15 professional tour guide. Given the excellent weather could photo 1400 photographs of Luneburg attractions for the free knowledge can be made. In the afternoon, organized by the Economic Development for City and County of Lüneburg GmbH a tour of important monuments and industry. Sites With regard to particular Wikipedia beginners from Lueneburg, a workshop on getting started in the online encyclopedia was offered. On a completely different audience, the workshops focused on advanced programming of bots and quality management, the program content rounded off on Saturday. With Wikiversity, a learning and teaching portal and Open StreetMap, a project for free road maps and, in the afternoon featured two major projects of the free knowledge away from the encyclopedia, demonstrating the breadth of the movement. Saturday was also the sign of the "engine room" of online projects. Various workshops were held in the afternoon to assistive technology. In a seminar on monobook skin, a popular user on Wikipedia, it was explained how efficiently this can personalize. vastness of, the tool server, the hardware to program database queries presented in Wikipedia. A first spontaneous Workshop was formed out of the use and definition of primary and secondary literature. The real work with sources and evidence, particularly in the Commons was discussed in a workshop. Finally, the support team of Wikipedia in the background-working committee to answer e-mails to the Wikipedia has been presented. In particular, the evenings and breaks of the conference have been used for more spontaneous meetings in ever new composition. on Saturday were two instead of on average attended events: a seminar on conflict management, and a sociological lecture on the functioning of Wikipedia. Seminars on conflict management, due to the limited communication options in online communication, it is in online projects for free content often lead to conflicts, which in some cases may even continue for years. Complicate the situation in this online encyclopedia by the sheer diversity of topics and viewpoints. So it was hardly surprising that the seminar was overcrowded by a professional mediator, conflict mediation body bridge, despite doubling with 25 participants and in addition to professional support and lively participation of the conference participants enjoyed. This was the basis of concrete examples from Wikipedia, the communication levels of the hierarchical model of conflict based on Friedrich Glasl explained and applied. With reference to inter alia Friedemann Schulz von Thun's model of communication channels for constructive processing of conflicts were identified. At the same time but also stressed that conflict, the higher levels of escalation in the conflict model Glaslschen have achieved only by professional, external mediation can be settled. Some of the participants continued to spread this knowledge in the following time in Wikipedia. In addition, half of the face-to-face contact between the longtime adversaries, who had previously agreed online only to reduce prejudices and to avoid conflicts beyond the factual level. Third Day - Sunday 6 June 2010The last day of the conference included eight events. Skillshare patron and chief editor of ARD-aktuell Dr. Kai Gniffke brought together with a Wikipedia by Erin a media skills training for students and teachers Lüneburg. This event is www.skillshare.eu as video on our site. Once again, technology issues were on the agenda of Wikipedia: Bots and the already mentioned Toolserver stood by the respective second time in the center. A social bridge within the Wikipedia community came to a meeting between the mentor program, an institution for integrating new who joined Wikipedia authors, the so-called Recentchangeslinked learning, a group of active Wikipedians who are fighting the inclusion of obvious false information and advertising in the Wikipedia handles. A second ad hoc seminar was dedicated to another Wikipedia-institution, the so-called arbitration. A group of ten Wikipedians who care for particularly tricky problem cases and conflicts in Wikipedia. The Skill Share program was concluded by a lecture on ethics in dealing with biographies of living persons. Next to it, the project Wikisource, which devotes itself to the digitizing of public domain texts. Highlight of the day, however, was the panel discussion on the policy of free knowledge. Panel discussion FinancingThe financing of the project Skillshare 2010 in Lüneburg was mainly based on extensive local support from program partners and sponsors. Furthermore, the support of the project brought by our patrons and sponsors significant discounts, which enabled the project to perform significantly below the planned financing needs. Of the voluntary organizations Wikimedia Germany, Austria and Wikimedia CH Wikimedia project the cash donations and / or travel grants for participants were provided. Our venue - the Wilhelm-Raabe-Schule Lüneburg - was to us to support the conference based on the free support from our patrons, Mayor Maedge provided by the city of Lüneburg available.
ThanksgivingMy heartfelt thanks go to in the name of the project planning team and the club Skillshare Association all friends, patrons and supporters say the conference Skillshare 2010th This conference was possible only because of their active help, support, its Council and its critical and motivational suggestions. The major project risks of a project of this size with an open financing costs could ultimately be handled successfully only through them. The conference has been planned completely on a volunteer basis and carried out. Many thanks to the many volunteers, often long term or even at the last minute put a helping hand available. Thank you for the courage and fun to get involved in this pilot project.
Nadine Stark Project Management Skill Share 2010 Board Skillshare Association Partner Program Archive LüneburgOn the part of the Hanseatic city of Lüneburg became Mayor Ulrich Maedge sponsor the event Skillshare. On 4 June 2010 opened the city archives Lüneburg, led by Dr. Thomas Lux - Head of the City Archives and the Council Library - with the support of the cultural office of the Hanseatic city of Lüneburg, Mr Juergen Landmann - as topics partner of Skillshare its doors . An international team of volunteer staff of Wikipedia and its sister project Wikimedia Commons digitized over 300 maps, city views and sketches, to be provided to the general public under a free license to re-use available. The team of volunteers worked through digital photography, this was chosen by the chief archivist of a few exhibits of his extensive collection. As well as city views of the Principality of Lüneburg Lüneburg maps were digitized floor plans of older buildings Lüneburg and technical drawings. Maps from other cities and countries such as Breslau in Silesia and France as well as Florida and Louisiana, plans of the rivers Elbe and Ilmenau, and various old manuscripts were included in the inventory of Wikimedia Commons. It took the photographer to work to share their skills and experience. conversation were critical of the weaknesses of Wikipedia and its sister projects constructively with good reason. In the sciences usual, the names of authors in the text or image here has been elected to the Wikipedia and its sister projects, the way of the so-called version history, with images only allows the "click" on image to insight into the authorship to take. Some items in Wikipedia already of a scale that of an encyclopedic article hardly the question. Skillshare was at this point to a platform for exchange of skills and experience that the involvement of external program partners the necessary and critical view of the proverbial nose granted. AssociationFree Knowledge (English open content) includes text, photos and other media, which are placed under a so-called free license which allows free re-use of these contents copyright in a different context. Due to the free use and reuse of knowledge will open access to education to benefit all people equally. Authors and photographers of Wikipedia and its sister projects had to organize in 2009 the project idea of a conference of the volunteers of the projects around the open knowledge. On the planned conference should pass from the ranks of the so-called Wikipedians and other projects from various work areas of online projects their skills and knowledge to other volunteers and deepen so that existing knowledge within the projects, collect and carry on. Furthermore, there should be a personal and professional exchanges already in a specific field of active volunteers to the current technical issues, challenges and areas of interest to work together in online projects. to finance the planned size of such an event and the claim that participation in the conference for the honorary authors and photographers of the online projects without conference fees as donations, soon made the boundaries volunteer project management and private liability for such events per year. the club Skillshare Association (English parts of skills) was therefore in August 2009 in preparation for the planned pilot conference founded an association that provides the volunteers of the various projects around the free knowledge as a platform for exchange and sharing of skills. About organizing committees participation in skill-share approach, using the club infrastructure and the experience is possible for anyone who wants to promote by means of an event idea the collection, compilation and dissemination of free knowledge. goal of the non-profit association to promote education recognized Skillshare Association is to promote education by supporting the creation, collection and dissemination of so-called free knowledge, particularly through the planning and implementation of training and further education. After a successful pilot conference Skillshare 2010, additional projects are in planning. For details on the club, his manager and the club events, goals and tasks they find www.skillshare.eu on our website. PatronsThe project Skillshare was supported from all parts of society by patrons.
Edelgard Bulmahn, Federal Education Minister, Member of Parliament (SPD) Ralf Casper, TV host of "drive it!", Writer Ulrich Maedge, Mayor City of Lüneburg Dr. Kai Gniffke, Senior Editor ARD-aktuell Prof. Dr. Sascha Spoun President, the University of Lüneburg Rolf Schneider, President and Chief Executive Norbert Bünten, Chamber Brunswick-Lüneburg-Stade Open Space - The ConceptBasis of the conference was the so-called community building (dt identity of the community) to free from the many volunteers of the projects the knowledge. This was in addition to the Wikipedia (free encyclopedia), the most popular project with the aim of the collection and compilation of Free Knowledge, on projects like OpenStreetMap (free maps), Wikimedia Commons (Free media data collection for audio, video and image files) or Wikiquote (Free Quote collection worked). The concept of open space that will be developed with the only during the event by the participants of the exact schedule, proved to be particularly successful. The participants were a variety of spaces in parallel provided, in which before and during the event from the list of participating teachers found to their skills and experience from many years of volunteer work in the projects around the open knowledge with the other Participants to share. The wealth of the workshops offered showed incorporate a comprehensive picture of the volunteer work on the programming of so-called bots (algorithms that automatically make small routine changes to projects, and so support the human helper efficient), photo workshops, copyright rights training to more than conflict resolution in online projects through to sociological criticism Wikimodell enough.
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