Difference between revisions of "Open 2009 notes"

Revision as of 11:35, 6 November 2009

General

• Open 2009 website
• about 100 participants
• everything working nicely
• great audio/video -systems, multiple cameras
• online broadcast
• too long day program (9:00 to 18:30)
• note to self! Check out PollDadd extension for Mediawiki and http://www.polldaddy.com
• Qaiku -channel for (informal) comments etc. during the presentations is quite interesting idea

5th of November

Keynote: Yrjö Engeström - The educational value of learning by cheating

• Tries to explain why cheating is good
• Studying stuff that will be on tests, not the whole content
• learning vs. grades
• not very useful to memorize lots of irrelevant stuff
• Italy has a culture of cheating in final exams
• It takes months to prepare a good cheating ware (belts etc.)
• Gathering data from multiple sources to create a synthesis of knowledge
• Preparation involves parents, grandparents and friends
• Bad cheating is to use a ready made cheating slips
• Good cheating is to create your own slips
• Several students did not need to use cheating slips -> preparing them was enough
• Cheating involves bad questions (fixed answers) and bad teaching
• In a test with good questions (no fixed answer) cheating is not that useful -> you can't find correct answers anywhere

Keynote: Jiri Räsänen - eCars Now!

• Open design EV
• eCars now! community, mostly finnish people participating
• Open source, documentation and CAD models
• Community has a wide range of backgrounds
• Electric cars have a history beginning from early 1900's
• Conversion takes only one weekend
• Compromises needs to be made because of fund limits related to material world
• Note to self: check out google sketch

Microdemocracy

• NOTE tool (database for ideas)
• works as a organizational memory
• different channels for posting notes
• somehow linked

Somus

Wikiplanning

• Public participation in planning (city planning)
• No actual electric tool yet...

Openness, inclusion and participation in museums

• Open = inclusion + participation

Open-ended engagement

• OpenKiasma...

Killer fashion revolution

• Wikisite

Living laboratories as human centric innovation centers

•  ?

Collaborative board game design

• http://www.lautapeliopas.fi/uutiset/siirtolapuutarhapelit-megapolis-2024/
• variations on the idea of Carcassone

6th of November

Keynote: Massimo Menichinelli - openp2pdesign

• Strategic design project that offers Open P2P design projects
• Designing things openly, software etc. not limited to immaterial stuff
• OpenMoko (Open mobile phone) http://www.openmoko.org
• Open source projects are complex
• Open P2P design is open tools + open process

Keynote: Saara Taalas - Notes on fan organisation

• http://www.dabbawalla.com
• Fandom: organisation of production and consumption

World wide views on global warming information videos

• because climate change affects everyone, everyone should have a vote?
• http://www.wwviews.org

Ubiquitous open participation platform - yet another push for deliberative democracy

CANVA(S)s