Open Publishing Fest - May 18-29 2020
Shrinivasan T
Coko Foundation, USA is organizing a global wide event to promote “Open Publishing”.
This is an online event.
Anyone can propose, conduct event on their own language, their desired online platform.
From the website,
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Open Publishing Fest celebrates communities developing open creative,
scholarly, technological, and civic publishing projects. Together, we
find new ground to share our ideas.
This is at once a collaborative and distributed event. Sessions are hosted by individuals and organizations around the world as panel discussions, fireside chats, demonstrations, and performances. We connect those points to bring them in conversation with one another and map out what’s next.
We seek to build networks of resilience and care for people working on new ways to develop and share knowledge.
Join us by proposing a session. Proposals will be considered on a rolling basis up to and throughout the fest.
</quote>
Propose an event here – https://openpublishingfest.org/form.html
You can propose any number of events.
Last date to propose is May 29 2020. Yes. Till the last date, you can propose and conduct events.
Already 70+ events are proposed. Check them all here – https://openpublishingfest.org/calendar.html
The events can be anything. Below are few ideas I can share
1. Demo on any free/open source software related to publishing. There are plenty.
- Calibre
- Pressbooks.com
- LibreOffice
- Scribus
- Editoria
- PubSweet
- WikiSource.org
- wordpress blog
and more
2. Hackathons to explore and contribute to these software.
3. Panel discussions on these publishing tools
4. Book reviews/discussion on open licensed books
5. Silent reading events. Mark a specific date/time and friends. Read few open licensed books. Thats all.
6. Proofread the books in wikisource.org in your language
7. If you can write, write a book or few chapters for your next open licensed book
8. Pratham Books is running https://storyweaver.org.in/ where you can create story books for kids. You can draw images and upload there. Translate existing stories to your language. All the books there in Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license.
9. Check the Open Publishing Fest Event calendar here – https://openpublishingfest.org/calendar.html Promote the all the events you can at the social mediums you are.
You can bring more ideas and share here.
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T.Shrinivasan
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