<div dir="ltr">Hi Ina, all, <div><br></div><div>Slowly going through the list of discussion topics from last week - looks like you all had a great big meeting or something !</div><div><br></div><div>I just wanted to pick up on this topic of systems to support the organisation of events. Having the right tools to organise events is really important - it gives groups and institutes some credibility and permanence to their offline meetings. </div><div><br></div><div>There is nothing worse than being invited to a meeting that leaves no trace - with only a random PDF file circulated describing the agenda... this happens way too often and after the event, it's as if nothing happened at all. Where are the slides ? Where is the recording ? What was the date ? Where are the notes !? By organising "workshops" like this, one really just perpetuates an exclusionary practice and introduces a lot of bias into decision making and opinions, because only the people actually at the event can contribute or comment on it. </div><div><br></div><div>Ina mentioned the PKP open conference systems. I want to mention a similar tool which is useful for managing events and everything surrounding them - Indico. </div><div><a href="http://indico-software.org/">http://indico-software.org/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>This is used very widely, and is nicely integrable into most of the other components of a publishing platform. It provides a really good way to bridge the offline world into the online world. </div><div><br></div><div>In my opinion there is rarely a good reason not to limit event participation to few people who can make it to your event in person. Instead of ending up with the right people in the room, you end up with those who happened to make it... putting that meeting/workshop/conference/seminar/etc in a place online which follows good practice is a really good way to open up research practice and provide some permanence to our grey literature online. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks ! </div><div>Bruce</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 20 May 2017 at 10:21, Ina Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Ina@assaf.org.za" target="_blank">Ina@assaf.org.za</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="m_1892795483288655020WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Universities incl. libraries can play an important role in managing, hosting and publishing their own conferences, at the same time making sure all processes are tracked/audited, and all preserved for the future. This to prevent conferences to end up in the hands of predators and publishers with only commercial interests. Open source software such as <a href="https://pkp.sfu.ca/ocs/" target="_blank">Open Conference Systems</a> perfect for this purpose. See how it was implemented by Stellenbosch University (<a href="http://conferences.sun.ac.za/" target="_blank">SUNConferences</a>) and LIASA (<a href="http://www.liasa-new.org.za/conference/index.php/index/index/index/index" target="_blank">LIASA Events</a>). This almost the next logical choice if the university already publishes its own scholarly journals, and the workflow very similar. As with all open source software, the look and feel can be customized to look great. The functionalities offered by this kind of system of great value. This way all conferences by the university are centrally preserved and managed, and each can have an individual look and feel.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><img border="0" width="468" height="285" id="m_1892795483288655020Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image004.jpg@01D2D152.E24E2020"></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><h1 style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">Also see</span></i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"> <span style="color:#2a2a2a">Are Predatory Conferences the Dark Side of the Open Access Movement?<u></u><u></u></span></span></h1><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><a href="https://academic.oup.com/asj/article-abstract/37/6/734/2966192/Are-Predatory-Conferences-the-Dark-Side-of-the" target="_blank">https://academic.oup.com/asj/<wbr>article-abstract/37/6/734/<wbr>2966192/Are-Predatory-<wbr>Conferences-the-Dark-Side-of-<wbr>the</a> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Ina Smith</span></b><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Project 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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><span><font color="#888888"><table><tbody><tr><td>Dr. Bruce Becker, Coordinator, South African National Grid<br><a href="http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6607-7145" target="_blank">http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6607-7145</a><br><span><span><font color="#888888"><a href="http://www.africa-grid.org" target="_blank">http://www.africa-grid.org</a></font></span></span><br>Meraka Institute, CSIR Meiring Naude Road Pretoria 0001 South Africa <br><a value="+27128413746" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">+27 12 841 3746</a> (w) | <a value="+27128414829" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">+27 12 841-4829</a> (f) | <a value="+27849896169" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">+27 84 989 6169</a> (m) | <a value="+393926229279" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">+ 39 392 622 9279</a> <br>AIM/GTalk/Skype/MSN/Jabber : brucellino<br></td><td><br></td></tr></tbody></table></font></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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