We have received a few questions regarding the publication of the conference archive and some asking for details on a possible future publication. Here is a short post hopefully shedding some light on these issues.

Work on the conference archive is proceeding and we’re planning on publishing the presentations in the coming weeks. Due to limits in uploading to Vimeo, we are publishing content in two batches, first the keynotes and after this papers and videos. As mentioned earlier, along with the recording we will publish the papers, presenter videos and the conference backchannel log. So stay tuned by following this blog or our Twitter feed.

We are also looking into the possibilities of publishing the papers as conference proceedings. We are still mapping publishers and channels for this so the possible publication will in any case extent to the next year. We will let you know about developments as soon as they happen.

In the meantime, have a nice holiday and a great New Year!

Thanks for all the participants of OPEN 2009 from the Media Lab organizing crew. It is safe to say that the event was a success. Here’s some data about OPEN2009 gathered from various sources:
- 4 keynotes and 16 papers and videos presented
- 1200 hits from 32 countries during the two days of the event
- peaks of 40 simultanious stream viewers (Thu only)
- 94 pages of discussion at Qaiku’s #OPEN2009 channel
- plenty of international interest using Twitter’s #OPEN2009 hashtag

We’re starting work on the conference archive and will publish it as soon as possible. However, with plenty of other work piled up because of the symposium arrangements it might take some weeks to get it finished. Please follow this blog or our Twitter account for further updates.

PS. There’s a small collection of blog entries on OPEN2009 at Qaiku here. Please contribute if you find any of your own.

We’re having a small get-together at the restaurant Juttutupa from 18.30 onwards. You can take the tram nr. 6 there from the university. Here is a link to the map.

An important part of OPEN 2009 is the social media dimension of the event.

Video – All sessions will be streamed live on this website making remote participation possible. Edited clips from the sessions will be uploaded to Vimeo after the event.

Backchannel – Every presentation will have its own discussion thread on the #OPEN2009 channel in Qaiku.com microblogging service. We prefer to host the discussion at Qaiku due to the lack of character limits for comments. Qaiku also supports discussion threads with permanent urls, which can be used to archive the discussions for later view. However, if your prefer Twitter we are also using the #OPEN2009 hash tag for discussions.

Social media host - @juhana2 will be reporting from the event to Twitter and Qaiku. He will also collect questions from remote participants to the panel discussions at the end of every session.

Sketch about a session summary on this website after the event.

Session archive – Every presentation and discussion will have its own discussion thread in Qaiku. After the conference videos, academic papers and Qaiku threads will be linked together on this website as illustrated in the picture above.

Help in documenting – We encourage conference participants to create Qaiku-accounts as it will be used as the primary backchannel of the event. Contributing to the discussion threads is also a way for everyone to help us in documenting and enriching the event.

We’ve secured two more keynote speakers for the symposium.

Professor Saara Taalas is the Chair of Media Business and Director of the Media Futures Network at Turku School of Economics. She has been studying emerging ways of organising within the new media landscape and is currently, among other research, interested in the phenomena of fandom and fan-generated content. To my experience, professor Taalas is also a great presenter and never fails to make her point known in a seriously entertaining way. We are really lucky to have her on board.

Jiri Räsänen brings us the latest from the Electric Cars – Now! movement. These guys and girls have taken on the challenge of creating affordable electric cars. The catch is that new cars are built by replacing the engines of old cars and by doing this using open source as the main form of operation. In July they published their first concept car – the eCorolla. Check it out on this video.