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Just a quick note to say that I’ll be speaking on open data, law, and licensing at State of the Map on 12-13 July in Limerick, Ireland. State of the Map is the annual conference for Open Street Map.
Registration is now open.

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Open Access and Research Conference 2008
Stamford Plaza Hotel, Brisbane, Queensland 24-25 September 2008
Conference site: http://www.oar2008.qut.edu.au/
This conference will, among other things, cover open data, and looks really interesting. Please check it out…

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The inaugural meeting of the London area Open Knowledge London meetup will be on Wednesday, 30 April from 19:00 to 21:00 at the London Knowledge Lab on 23-29 Emerald Street, London, WC1N 3QS. The event will be informal — just a way for interested people to meet and discuss open knowledge issues.
Full details at the […]

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The Society for Computers and the Law (SCL) is having a conference on 1 May on information governance:
Information Governance Conference 2008
Information governance has rapidly become an integral part of organisational strategy in both the public and private sector. Organisations of all types and size are generating ever greater volumes of sensitive data and that […]

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I am back and plowing through email, and wanted to flag up some follow up OKCon details:
### Post-Event Information
We’re pleased to announce that audio, images and slides from OKCon 2008 are now available at the Post-Event Information page:
http://okfn.org/okcon/2008/after
If you’ve blogged the event or have pictures or the like, please let us know […]

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Just a quick note that the Copyright History conference and launch event of the new online resource will take place tomorrow at Stationers’ Hall. More events up on the site - copyrighthistory. I’ll be there tomorrow, but not Thursday — feel free to grab me for a chat if you are attending.

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Quick note — the COMMUNIA project is having an academic conference on the public domain from 30 June to 1 July in Belgium. The call for papers is up and proposals are due on 30 March.
Conference homepage: COMMUNIA conference on Public Domain in the Digital Age.
Call for papers.

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(Via Creative Commons » CC News.)
1st CC Korea International Conference: “‘Open Culture in CC’ is the theme of the first CC Korea International Conference, a day-long event to be held on Friday, March 14th at the National Museum of Korea (map).
The CC Korea team, lead by Chief Project Lead Jongsoo Yoon, have organized the conference […]

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I’ve been a little slow on posting this week, but I’ve been running around the Southeast of England on various work-related projects. I did however make it up to Oxford last night to see Rufus Pollock of the Open Knowledge Foundation give a keynote entitled “Open Knowledge and Componentization” at Oxford Geek Night 5. […]

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Free Knowledge, Free Technology: Education for a free information society SELF International Conference 2008
July 15-17, 2008 Barcelona, Spain
http://fkft.eu
This looks really interesting. I won’t post the whole conference description, but in relevant part:
The programme consists of an elegant mix between keynote speakers, panel discussions and parallel tracks on topics such as Social implications of Free Knowledge […]

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