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Lift11: Michel Jaccard, Governances of multi-author and open source collaboration projects (best practices and legal tips)

Posted on 03.02.2011 by Stephanie Booth

Lift11 Workshop notes. I do my best but all this is filtered through my sometimes imperfect brain.

Practical and legal issues. First, defining the scope.

Common question faced in their practice: what do I do with my employees who are spending paid time on Facebook? Can I run commerce online?

What are we talking about? Open collaborative projects. Two types:

OSS (software)
R&D and knowledge-sharing projects (Wikipedia, standard-setting bodies, consortiums, WTO, etc)

We’re going to focus on Software projects.

Basic question: is there a necessity to think differently in the online world compared to the offline world? Most of the time, in regulation, it’s not needed. Most legal rules can be applied, with some subtleties.

What makes open collaborative projects different from more traditional creative work efforts? IP laws have been designed around the idea of a single creative mind (Shakespeare and Mozart), but today, most projects result from a collective effort. Mismatch.

Issues — practical and legal.

Practical: massive number of participants, continuous updates for long-term projects, hard to keep track of all contributors (case of company unable to contract with a US company because they’d outsourced part of their work to an ill-defined community and it had become impossible to get back to the various participants), lack of control in cross-border projects, funding/sale of project (who does it?), enforcement of rights.

Legal: international => different legal regimes, no unified set of rules applicable to the project, numerous legal fields (IP, contract, corporate)

Multi-author (=> joint work, article 6 Swiss Copyright Act or “joint works” pursuant to section 101 of the US Copyright Act) — does each author detail a copyright on the joint work? Which law is applicable? you can’t claim ownership of part of the work. Default system in copyright law is unanimous agreement of all co-authors for what you’re going to do with the work… tricky. (This means it’s a little dangerous to launch into a collaborative project without some kind of agreement.)

Private international law: which is applicable, which jurisdiction, special local protection rules, privacy issues?

Contract law: who is party, is there a contract law relationship? Who is accountable of what towards whom?

When it comes to businesses you can put pretty much what you want in an agreement, not so with individuals.

Is having a “lead person” sufficient an agreement to interface with other parties?

Not securing the IP aspects of a software project can negatively impact the valuation of the company. Have agreements in place before anybody starts writing a single line of code…

IFOSS Law Review — took them 2 months to figure out a name, and 3 months to get funded, and the editorial board is a bunch of experts on the topic — couldn’t open a bank account! They ended up being funded by the Mozilla Foundation.

Needs: centralization of rights on the project to overcome some legal issues, minimum quality standards, governance on the general project.

What can be done?

Do everything beforehand. Governance. Make an agreement, but do you have the authority to do so? Everything need not be negotiated — acceptable rules for contributors, can be 3-4 pages. Just to say that the rules governing the community will be those the community comes up with.

steph-note: sorry, going a bit fast and the topic is “out of my jurisdiction”, having trouble following

3 types of governance rules (access, …, …)

access (no legal access regime by default)
assign IP to the community (= sale) — vs. license, which is very difference

Under Swiss Law, ToS that are 34 pages long are not enforceable, even if you make people click “I read and agree”. Will not stand in court. It needs to be concise. Good faith: if I don’t understand, I am not bound. It’s up to the person making you agree to make sure you understand what you are agreeing with. Swiss market is a bit difficult for online purchasing — often the terms are just in German! steph-note: this sounds too good to be true, not 100% I understood this completely correctly

Important to set up governance that will allow an exit.

WIPO. Approved “Open collaboration projects and ip-based models” project in nov 2010. Will analyze and compile existing models of Open Collaboration projects.

In 90% of situations Creative Commons works, but what’s missing is something similar to CC but which includes governance.

Badmouthing (with authorization): Business Model Generation, co-created with 470 ppl, but copyright Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur, and designed by a third guy. Trick question: who owns the IP? On the online platform, it says copyright Alexander. Now that they’re starting to be famous with the book, they’re pretty suable. It’s a total mess in terms of ownership. Would be problematic for derivative works where you need consent of all authors. But actually they even made people pay to be co-creators, and told them they’d get credit and receive a free copy. Nothing however about IP…

Wikipedia: another nightmare. user-generated and user-controlled. 5 pillars, but any user can modify the policies. Foundation reserves certain legal rights. They realized that the consensus stuff didn’t work and had to put in place committees etc. — would have been less trouble if they’d put it in place at the very start. (steph-note: @anthere disagrees — might also be me not understanding well what was said, so take with a big grain of salt)

Other example: Mozilla project. Governed as a “meritocracy”. Policies. 3 aspects: definition of roles and responsibilities, transparency, reciprocity.

Workshop: how to make it work? (Anne Heleen Bijl)

Posted on 22.06.2010 by Stephanie Booth

Mes notes du workshop…

chacun apporte une métaphore qui symbolise ses désirs pour le futur — 2020 (il y a une /vraie/ baguette magique si jamais on coince) — faire des sketches, pubs etc. datés 2020 sur tout ce que notre entreprise aura accompli de merveilleux. Wishful thinking. Faire émerger tous les désirs cachés concernant la projet.
moment eurêka – vision – small steps – concrete realisation

Attention, is le coeur n’y est pas, il faut faire autre chose! Ne choisir que des activités qui nous enthousiasment.

PMI: si on a des doutes, faire un PMI! Tout le monde participe:

3 minutes pour les points positifs, les avantages
3 minutes pour les points négatifs, les désavantages
3 minutes pour les points intéressants sans jugement de valeur (“qu’est-ce qui peut être intéressant”)

Autre méthode: moines dominicains. Deux personnes. On donne à la première un objet (jetable). Tant qu’on tient l’objet on peut parler (max 1-2 minutes, sinon c’est trop long à résumer). Quand on a fini on fait un pas en avant et on jette l’objet. C’est à la deuxième personne de résumer ce qu’a dit la première, jusqu’à ce que la première soit d’accord avec le résumé. Puis la deuxième dit avec quoi elle est pas d’accord, et avec quoi elle est d’accord, puis elle donne son opinion, fait aussi un pas en avant, et jette l’objet à la première, qui fait son résumé, etc. (Il faut partir assez loin, on continue le processus jusqu’à ce qu’on soit trop près pour continuer.) Ça marche à deux mais c’est vrai que c’est mieux avec un médiateur. Possible aussi avec des groupes antagonistes, en politique par exemple.

Idée: aussi faire en sorte que les jeunes coachent les vieux. Célébrer les succès.

Nearlings and beyonders can also be celebrated. (“good” failures)

Faire des excursions pour aller voir comme ça se fait ailleurs.

Une stratégie sous forme de mind map coloré (art map) est bien plus lisible qu’un mémo gris de 200 pages.

Donc une étape c’est de faire un art map de son projet pour que tout le monde le comprenne bien. Aussi pour tâches d’une équipe.

5 langues d’appréciation.

Exercice: le mur. 4 volontaires forment le mur. Le but c’est de séparer le mur au milieu pour accéder à quelque chose qui est derrière. Le mur ne doit pas coopérer. Pas beaucoup de place, on va éviter les solutions “physiques”. Très important: s’approcher du mur. Le mur est très sensible aux fausses promesses. Ce qui aide: demander au mur de quoi il a besoin pour pouvoir traverser, ou bien créer un avantage mutuel derrière le mur.

Pensée latérale: changer l’angle sous lequel on approche un problème. 5 façons:

conversion: définir ce qu’on trouve normal et inverser (par exemple: on trouve normal que le chauffeur de taxi connaisse le chemin et pas le client, on renverse et les clients qui connaissent leur chemin forment les nouveaux chauffeurs).
exagération: “tout Genève doit venir!” Exagérer le problème.
wishful thinking: oser formuler ses désirs, complètement (baguette magique)
choisir un mot arbitraire pour se stimuler (comme bananaslug)
échapper à ce qu’on pense être normal, faire tomber l’idée dominante.

Les gens ne se sentent pas appréciés. Différentes langues (pas contente du gros bonus, aurait préféré un bouquet de fleurs). Il y a 5 langues différentes pour exprimer et recevoir la reconnaissance, et on a chacun notre langue favorite, une pour donner une pour recevoir. Si c’est dans une autre langue on ne le remarque même pas!

compliments (environ 20% des gens)
action pour l’autre
faire quelque chose ensemble, être là pour l’autre (majorité des gens)
contact physique (une personne sur 5)
cadeau matériel (pas de l’argent)

Pour l’histoire de la motivation et de l’argent, voir carotte et créativité ne font pas bon ménage.

Call For Screenshots: Facebook Privacy Settings

Posted on 02.01.2010 by Stephanie Booth

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Je donne un workshop sur les réglages de confidentialité de Facebook mercredi prochain. Comme Facebook a tout changé le mois dernier, je me permets de solliciter votre aide: j'aimerais recevoir des saisies d'écran de vos réglages (voir la liste de liens vers les pages directes qui m'intéressent dans l'article principal) pour les comparer et éventuellement avoir des exemples à montrer (après anonymisation bien entendu). Je cherche aussi de bons articles (en français et en anglais) expliquant et recommandant des réglages "sages", si vous en avez sous la main. Je suis aussi preneuse pour toute explication concernant votre "politique de confidentialité" pour vos réglages Facebook!

Merci mille fois d'avance à ceux qui prendront un moment pour me fournir du matériel. Vous pouvez utiliser les commentaires ou (c'est mieux pour les saisies d'écran) m'envoyer un mail à l'adresse mon prénom point mon nom (vous savez comment je m'appelle!) chez gmail.

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I’m giving a workshop on Wednesday to a group of teachers on Facebook privacy settings. Of course, Facebook changed their privacy settings in December, so I’m having to scramble to get up to speed before giving the workshop. This is why I’m asking for your help.

I was pointed to an article about the new settings, but I’m sure there are other good ones out there: 10 New Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know — please leave links to articles you found useful in the comments.

The main thing I’d like to as your help for is that I’d like a little collection of examples of privacy settings — mainly to help me understand what settings people are using, and possibly as examples to show at the workshop. I will anonymise any identifying information like e-mail addresses etc which might appear in the screenshots, no fear! Here are links to the various pages I’d love to receive screenshots of, if you have a few minutes to indulge me (e-mail firstname dot lastname at gmail — you know what my name is, don’t you?):

profile information privacy settings
“public profile preview” (“preview my profile” button top right on the profile/contact privacy settings page)
photo album privacy
contact information privacy settings (I’ll scrub out e-mail addresses if ever I do anything with your screenshot)
what your friends can share about you
search results privacy settings

Don’t feel like you have to send me screenshots of all of these if you think it’s a lot — anything more than nothing is great for me. If you want to explain why you use certain settings, I’d love to hear about it too (in the comments or by e-mail).

A huge thanks to those of you who’ll take a few minutes to provide me with material!

Prochain Website Pro Day: fixons la date!

Posted on 15.04.2009 by Stephanie Booth

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I've created a poll to help determine the next Website Pro Day -- a day where we meet up, and set aside time to work on our professional sites. Even if you're not in Lausanne, you can take part: work remotely or organise a local hub!

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Mise à jour: ce sera le 4 mai!

Après WPD1, WPD2, WPD3 — il est temps de penser à WPD4! Si vous êtes intéressés, vous avez votre mot à dire pour fixer la date…

WPD? Website Pro Day:

Si vous êtes un peu comme moi (consultant/indépendant dans le domaine du web) vous avez probablement quelque part un site professionnel qui erre, l’âme en peine, attendant depuis une année qu’on veuille bien s’occuper de lui. Eh oui, comme on dit, c’est les cordonniers les plus mal chaussés, et les professionnels de la communication web qui ont les sites-vitrine les moins à jour. Pas pour rien qu’on recommande le blog, c’est beaucoup plus facile à entretenir, comme format.

Donc, pour la quatrième fois, on va remettre ça: prendre une journée, la bloquer, lui mettre des pare-feu, et la consacrer à la remise en ordre de notre présence professionnelle en ligne. Pour les Lausannois, je vous invite à venir le faire à l’eclau!

Si la formule vous paraît convenir, prenez donc une minute pour noter dans ce doodle vos disponibilités. Je communiquerai prochainement la date retenue!

Nombre minimum de participants: 2

Lift09 Workshop: Where will you work tomorrow? (Pierre Belcari)

Posted on 26.02.2009 by Stephanie Booth

Workshop information. Watch the video.

Developing environments. Different solutions available at the moment in Europe. Evolution of the workplace.

Where do we come from?

Office: individual offices, cubicles, open spaces

Hoteling: book work spaces when you need them, inside the company.

Companies might try to encourage people to telecommute: save money on space, and improve work-life balance.

Evolution of technology has made evolution of the workspace possible.

Working from home? social interaction is lacking.

Coworking: Gathering of people working independantly but sharing values and costs. Synergy.

steph-note: I talked about eclau and Coworking Léman here.

Xavier: FRIUP incubator. Very different from a coworking space. Very startup-minded. Need to leave after one year. Have to present a project to a committee who will decide if they can benefit from the incubator.

Nicolas: on the road.

Workshop About Coworking at Lift09

Posted on 23.02.2009 by Stephanie Booth

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Je participe à un workshop sur le coworking à Lift, mercredi après-midi. Si vous avez prévu de venir à la conférence, rejoignez-nous-y. J'y parlerai de mon expérience avec l'eclau. Si vous avez des aventures style coworking à partager, contactez-nous pour en parler au workshop!

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The Lift conference is taking place in Geneva two days from now. Unlike last year, where in addition to live-blogging a whole lot of stuff I also held a workshop, an informal discussion, and gave an open stage speech (I was kicking off Going Solo), this year will be pretty low-key for me: just live-blogging and talking with interesting people.

If you’re not decided about coming yet, you might read what I wrote last year to encourage people to come to Lift08.

I’ll be actively participating in a workshop about coworking held by Pierre Belcari (I agreed to be co-host and talk about my experience setting up eclau here in Lausanne). It’ll take place in the afternoon.

Do join us if the topic interests you (“Where will you work tomorrow?”) and if you have coworking stories to share (or any alternate office arrangement stories) do get in touch with us so we can plan some space for you to tell your story.

Seminar on Social Media Adoption in the Enterprise

Posted on 24.06.2008 by Stephanie Booth

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Dernier jour pour s'inscrire au séminaire sur les stratégies d'adoption des nouveaux médias dans l'entreprise organisé par mon amie (et néanmoins experte de renommée internationale) Suw Charman-Anderson. C'est à Londres, ce vendredi.

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My friend Suw Charman-Anderson is organising a seminar this Friday in London on the adoption of social tools in the enterprise: Making Social Tools Ubiquitous. There are still some places left. The sign-up deadline is tomorrow — act fast.

You’ll find a description of this seminar below. This is a chance to learn about social tools in the enterprise directly from a world-class expert who has practical experience introducing social tools in various businesses. Want a peek? here are notes I took from her talk last year at the Future of Web Apps conference.

Overview You may have heard that social tools – such as wikis, blogs, social bookmarking and social networking – can help you improve business communications, increase collaboration and nurture innovation. And with open source tools, you can pilot projects easily and cheaply. But what do you do if people won’t use them? And how do you grow from a pilot to company-wide use?

Social media expert Suw Charman-Anderson will take a practical look at the adoption of social tools within your business. During the day you will create a scalable and practical social media adoption strategy and discuss your own specific issues with the group. By the end of the seminar you will have a clear set of next steps to take apply to your own collaborative tools project.

The setting Fruitful Seminars take place in an intimate setting, with no more than 9 people attending, so you to get the very most out of the day. The are held at the luxurious One Alfred Place, and include tea & coffee, and lunch from the restaurant.

Who should come?

CXO executives

managers

team leaders

decision makers

social media practitioners

social media vendors

Or anyone in situations similar to these:

You have already installed some social tools for internal communications and collaboration, but aren’t getting the take-up you had hoped for.

You have successfully completed a pilot and want to roll-out to the rest of the company.

You want to start using social tools and need a strategy for fostering adoption.

You sell social software or services and want to understand how your clients can foster adoption of your tool.

For more information, check out these recent posts Suw wrote:

The second Fruitful Seminar, held by Lloyd Davis, will take place on July 16th: Mastering Social Media.

Not for you? tell your friends about it. Not this time, but want to keep an eye on what Suw, Leisa and Lloyd are doing with Fruitful Seminars? sign up for their newsletter. Otherwise… time to sign up!

LIFT’08: David Brown Workshop — Teenagers and Generation Y

Posted on 12.06.2008 by Stephanie Booth

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Notes prises lors de LIFT'08. Workshop sous forme de table ronde avec 4 ados de 16-17 ans, étudiants à l'école internationale de Founex.

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I took these notes at LIFT’08 in February, and am only publishing them now, I’m afraid!

Workshop notes with real live teenagers! No guarantee as to how exact my notes are… etc.

Four teenagers from the International School of Founex

Trying to formalize things. A bunch of themes/apps to approach this session:

Social networks, IM, Music, Video/Films, E-mail, Blogs, Niche Web2.0, Location based, Connectivity (what hardware?), Phone SMS, Own tools, Wow and virtual worlds… Real world.

Friends/social circle, buying/e-commerce/for free, advertising/marketing/messages, geographical distance, homework, privacy security personal data, organising, fragmentation

Going round the room to see who is who and what their interest in teenagers and the net is.

steph-note: worried that the approach here might be a little too “adult-oriented”

Teens (seem like a highly educated, very literate bunch, critical; international school!):

Chloe: Facebook to communicate with teachers, a lot for school. Not a gamer, more of a social/pictures person. Maths homework via internet (Mathletics). 2h a night.

Luisa (?): 16 — Facebook to communicate with each other, organise meetings, not a gamer.

Elliot: not much of a computer-user, heavy mobile phone user (text/calling), would play games (was denied electronics until he was 12). Facebook: good way of archiving who your friends are and what they look like — good way to communicate by replying in your own time.

Liam: typical: video games, music (not a hardcore gamer though), Facebook to keep track of friends (social circle online and offline overlap). Wikipedia saves your life for homework.

Elliot: FB = great way of controlling the photos of you other people are posting on the internet.

Liam: used to use MySpace but now really identified with Emos… so.

Chloe: used to have a skyblog, had lots of french-speaking friends. In the international world, more Facebook. Was one of the first in her school to have FB, as one of her best friends moved to the US and they had it there.

ELuisa: FB really helps you keep up-to-date with people you’ve met over the summer. With e-mail, your friendship wears out.

Liam: regular e-mail is good for attachments.

Luisa: it’s weird to have your teacher as your friend. steph-note: they don’t want to know too much about their teachers lives

Chloe: concerned about providing stalker material (cleaned up and deleted many people she didn’t really know). Didn’t realise that everybody in the Switzerland network could see all her info — changed the setting, and is spreading the word around her, even to her teachers.

My parents use the internet to work/communicate (use FB e.g.) so quite open-minded. Used to ask for her e-mail password in case anything happened, but Chloe doesn’t really think it’s necessary.

Luisa: keeping up on FB gives you something to talk about when you go back — you’re up-to-date.

Never considered using Skyblog as public, and parents uncomfortable. FB: more control and privacy, feels comfortable with it.

Elliot: couple of friends of mine rejected from universities based on their FB page.

Chloe: Rumors?

Elliot: heard that some employers now demand access to your FB page (but could be untrue). FB information is rather light-hearted, likes and dislikes, etc — not really the business of the school or the employer.

My question:

how much of a threat do sexual predators online seem to you?
do you feel that holding back personal information keeps you safer?

Chloe: not that concerned (from what I understand), doesn’t think that holding back information keeps her safer — weirdos can get that info anyway. steph-note: good for her! Weird IM people: blocks them.

Luisa: less concerned than she feels she should.

Elliot: more concerned about internet fraud. (E-bay.)

Question: buying online?

Answer: not much (trust, likes going into shops and talking to people)

Chloe: doesn’t like the idea of paying by credit card.

Luisa: amazon++ that’s ok.

Q: concert tickets

Elliot: yeah, tickets often available only online — got semi-scammed once.

(The panel seems divided on online shopping.)

Luisa: convenience vs. safety (giving your credit card number)

Elliot: quite wary of using the credit cards he has, because he knows he’s being tracked quite closely.

Comment: the teenagers here have little “positive” experience of using their credit cards to counter-balance the media scare about issues like fraud or identity theft — which can explain their general wariness.

Chloe: her dad and her do grocery shopping online on LeShop.ch, and she’s comfortable with that. Useful.

Luisa, Liam: really weird to go shopping for clothes and food on the internet.

Elliot: gets information in the store and order it online.

Our panel doesn’t seem that familiar with the “go in town, take photos, post them on facebook, get feedback, buy online” method.

Luisa: more “funny” pictures from changing rooms, but wouldn’t really put them on FB.

girls: ask opinion about shopping for clothes to offline friends with them, but wouldn’t do it via the internet. So much more fun to do it offline. No fun to do it over the internet.

My question: plagiarism in homework

Answer: systems in place in school to detect it, don’t do it — know people who have gotten away with it, but this is more something the younger grades do. Doesn’t make much sense because you can’t fake oral presentations.

Elliot: wikipedia not regarded as a good source.

Liam: because anybody can write what they want on it.

Got to be careful with what you find in wikipedia. Experimented with putting BS into pages just to see they could.

Music creation and writing on the computer. Picture editing.

Consensus: online doesn’t beat the real world.

Luisa: a good photographer is not somebody who’s skilled in photoshop, it’s somebody who takes a good picture.

Some consensus here that digital art is “less” than using classical techniques. Don’t feel “creative” in front of a computer.

Comment: you guys actually look down to things that are easy. steph-note: spot on

steph-note: interesting how fascinated we adults are to have a chance to actually talk with teenagers!

steph-note: conversation is interesting but going off-topic as far as I’m concerned (about being critical in general, having role-models).

Elliot: technology makes it easier to be critical and determine if what is said in a lecture is a widespread view or not, etc.

Question: do you have any role-models? steph-note: imho badly phrased… need to be more concrete: who do you look upto? admire?

Discussion about music downloading. Awareness that they have the means to buy the music they like (wealthy enough).

Luisa: “the internet isn’t the only way of spreading…(the word?)”. Doing things for real (building a schoolroom in tanzania) has more impact on me than buying a cow through the internet.

Not much webcam use (just Chloe, friends in the states).

steph-note: sorry, tuning out — could have done with a break but didn’t push for it.

Discussion about creative commons and copyright. No perception that photographs you find in Google are not free of rights. Seems to be a lot of confusion about copyright regarding images/photographs. Contrast with discourse about music downloading.

Blogs: a fashion that has gone past. steph-note: confirms what I thought, and also why I’m not asked in for talks in schools as much as before. I think FB and social networking in general are “replacing” blogs for teenagers. In francophonia though, I guess FB hasn’t taken off, so it will still be Skyrock. But it’s called Skyrock now, and not Skyblog…

Less use of MSN, but Skype and Facebook.

Elliot: in the UK, Blackberry

This bunch are the student council, go on humanitarian trips, etc. Not the most tech-savvy necessarily, but talkative!

Gambling.

Data usage: this is Switzerland! Data is horrendously expensive, and it’s not in the culture to use it.

Thanks! See You at LIFT08 :-)

Posted on 31.01.2008 by Stephanie Booth

A heartfelt thanks to those of you who following blogged about Going Solo or voted for my Open Stage presentation. I’m actually going to be the first Open Stage talk, Thursday morning before the break. Exciting and scary!

My workshop also got enough registrations to be provided with a room, which is nice. I can still accommodate a few more people (up to 15 as far as I’m concerned, but I’m trying to make sure the room is big enough). I’d like to insist again on the fact that this is a workshop for people who are not yet blogging — you’ll find it frighteningly basic if you’re already a blogger. Also, you will have to bring your own laptop as we do not have a computer lab. So, if you’re coming to LIFT08, aren’t blogging yet, but would like to get going, sign up for the workshop.

I’ve been asked by a couple of people if they could come to the workshop although they don’t have a ticket for LIFT. That is unfortunately impossible, as the workshops are reserved to LIFT attendees (you should come to LIFT, it’s really worth it). (The Venture Night and Sustainable Development Sessions are open to non-LIFT public, however.) For those who might be interested, I’m planning to organize similar Get Started Blogging workshops in Lausanne (or elsewhere if there is enough interest). The first should take place on Feb. 26th (details to follow), in French. Again, if enough English-speakers are interested (say 6 people minimum) then I can also organize a workshop in English.

My discussion session on multilingualism online thankfully didn’t make the cut (remember I’ll also be live-blogging LIFT08!!), but I’ll set up an informal meeting for people who are interested in chatting about this.

See you at LIFT!

Very Last Moment to Propose a Contribution for LIFT’08

Posted on 20.01.2008 by Stephanie Booth

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C'est la dernière minute pour faire une proposition de workshop, discours, discussion, ou encore participation à la venture night de la conférence LIFT. (Utilisez les liens dans le corps de l'article.) Eh oui, c'est aujourd'hui le dernier jour!

Il est d'ores et déjà possible de s'inscrire aux workshops (j'y propose d'ailleurs une initiation aux blogs -- inscrivez-vous si vous ne bloguez pas encore, ou parlez-en à vos amis non-blogueurs). J'ai aussi proposé une présentation-éclair de 5 minutes au sujet de Going Solo (ça me rappelle qu'il faut que je blogue à ce sujet en français un peu plus en détail), et je pense animer une discussion autour de toutes ces questions linguistiques qui me préoccupent.

Quel programme!

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I almost missed the announcement. Submissions for workshops, open stage speeches, discussions or the venture night at the LIFT conference close today! (I don’t know exactly when, but remember that LIFT is European, so it might very well be end-of-day CET.)

If you click on the links above you can already see what has been proposed. I’ve proposed a workshop (Get Started With Blogging) — you can already sign up for workshops by visiting the page of the workshop you’re interested in and adding your name to the page — and an open stage speech in which I want to tell the story behind Going Solo (I also reproduced it on the Going Solo blog — have you subscribed to it yet?).

I’m going to send in a discussion proposal too (thought you could avoid me? tough!) — most certainly around all the language and multilingualism stuff that’s been going around in my head lately. I was hesitating with something about teenagers and the internet but as I see there is already a workshop on the topic (Teenagers/Generation Y and Technology), which I want to attend, I think it’s better to come up with a totally different topic.

Any thoughts?

Update, 1pm: sent in proposal for language discussion: All These Languages! Localization and Multilingualism Online — if you’re interested in being one of the “discussion starters”, get in touch (otherwise, please vote for my proposal!)

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