Category Archives: Community

Meeting: 2011-08-10

PRESENT RP JHS AGENDA Text Camp organisation Administration Debrief ACTIONS Ping mark re: openbibli lis; register Make clear that registration essential wiki and eventbrite empf free & sec Copy out of wiki Edit eventbrite to fri Research open guide Make sure new volunteers to LC Add counters / status bars on openlit / wiki Blogpost

Text Camp 2011

The Open Knowledge Foundation’s first ever Text Camp will be taking place this Saturday 13th August, thanks to JISC offering us the use of their meeting rooms in London. Details Where? Brettenham House, 9 Savoy Street, WC2E 7EG, London. – Meet outside ‘The Savoy Tup’ Pub, Savoy Street, at 10am to be guided to the

Meeting: 2011-08-04

PRESENT JHS RP AGENDA Text Camp Activities Speakers? Topics? Text Camp Attendance/admin JISC Promotional materials OKF presence ACTIONS Ask wifi – remote attendance irc channel, skype … Read up on XCamp activities Ping Ben O’Steen, Mark McGillivray (+ know anyone else?), UCL (esp. Bentham) Front page of wiki.openliterature.net – boxy setup as on http://wiki.okfn.org/ Editable

Open Literature Bulletin: 2011-07-29

News this week: TextCamp registration is going well. If you’re free on 13th August, why not come along? Please note that the venue is now TBC: http://textcamp2011.eventbrite.com Four new words this week for all: quail, magic, garter and elephant: http://openshakespeare.org/word New button on Open Literature and Open Shakespeare: 5 ways to help out in 5

Open Literature Bulletin: 2011-07-22

This bulletin was originally sent as an email to the members of the open-literature list. To join it, visit: lists.okfn.org A Special announcement OKF Text Camp – 13th August 2011, 10am-6pm, London Tickets (free) on:http://textcamp2011.eventbrite.com Details on: http://wiki.openliterature.net/Text_Camp_2011 Sundry news http://openliterature.net now carries minutes of meetings, and copies of these mails under http://openliterature.net/category/minutes http://wiki.openliterature.net now

Announcing…Text Camp 2011

The OKF’s first ever ‘Text Camp’ hopes to bring together many different people, all interested in the relationship between digital technologies and literature, with a strong focus on the creation of open knowledge. When? 13th August 2011, 10am – 6pm Where? To be Confirmed Website: http://wiki.openliterature.net/Text_Camp_2011 Register: http://textcamp2011.eventbrite.com During the day, we hope to create,

Meeting: 2011-07-18

PRESENT Rufus Pollock James Harriman-Smith AGENDA Establish long-term aims for Open Literature Establish short term actions LONG TERM Integration into schools Integration into universities Funding Spread internationally Improvements to annotator: profile page, facebook ACTIONS Events Write to annotator-dev re: treasure hunt Text Camp: write Iain, write Kat for use of room on Friday 12th /

Annotations Sprint III: Hamlet: Aftermath

See where this is going: a ground-breaking edition of Hamlet     Thursday 14th July saw our third annotation sprint, which pushed our annotation count up to 649 from 440. This means an average of over 200 comments per sprint, but, as previous sprints lasted for two days, this also suggests that this sprint had

Open Literature: 10th – 17th July

A quick summary of progress so far, followed by a short list of ways to get involved.   Annotation sprint on Open Shakespeare: now around 650 annotations on Hamlet – thanks to all who took part! Blog post coming soon. More new words: jump, kated, neapolitan, quondam (with urine forthcoming). New website layout FOR Open

“Time travels in diverse paces”: An Update on Open Shakespeare

May and a month that has only belatedly met the standard of what Shakespeare calls “hot Junes” have passed since last I wrote an update about Open Shakespeare. As ever, quite a bit has been done on the project, and there remains much more to do in the future. If one word could sum up