== Text == http://www.guckes.net/digitization/blog.txt (cc) cc-by Sven Guckes digitization@guckes.net Latest change: Tue Oct 08 16:42:23 CEST 2013 == Event == International summer school "Digitization and its Impact on Society" Technische Universitaet Dresden Sun September 29, 2013 - Fri October 5, 2013 == Summary == i am writing up a summary of this event. here are the topics: misc: accomodation, travel, weather. languages: EN, de locations: buildings+rooms, extras: tour at museum, tour of the town. blogger meetup. media: blog, chat, email, facebook, homepage, pads, pics, twitter, wiki. orga: catering+lunch. finance. schedule. people: economists, lawyers, linguists, media + nerd. events: keynotes, presentations, talks, workshops. digitization - a prediction of the future creative commons license in a few words the next digitization summer school in 2014: why participate? what to expect? ideas: maybe add some pics and links. == Misc == accomodation, travel, weather. weather: this is a summer school - so it is still summer in germany, right? well.. WRONG! the temperatures range between 13C/55F and 0C/32F at night. eek! so dont forget to bring a sweater and a coat and extra underpants and a scarf and gloves. alright.. prepare for WINTER! accomodation: accomodation for me was both in a hotel and at friends' places. visiting friends is almost always a part of my travels to events. that's always great. staying with them also gives the possibility for some "nerding" at the computers on the net. always great fun.. and usually ends with a lack of sleep.. the hotel is very near the main station, so it is easy to reach. just a walk away. the room had a double bed (space! :-) with super-white sheets and a nice view onto the main station's roof. there were four sockets labeled with "DSL" (hey!), ISDN (wot?), and Modem (wtf??). as it turns out, they're all dead. there supposedly is wifi - for 5euros per *half* hour. thanks - but, no, thanks. most hostels will give you wifi for free. no wonder they have no money to buy a real hotel, right? and the bottle of water cost 4,50euros. o_O maybe i should have crossed over the 30m to the McD and bought myself a happy meal. ;) others were staying at the guest house... how was that? == Languages == EN, de the main language is definitely English. however, as it takes part in Germany, there are many german words involved. but i also heard Italian, Spanish, and Hebrew - and Saxonian. ;-) okay.. the real language is *pidgin* english. expect everyone to apply the intonation and pronunciation from his/her mother tongue as well adding some made-up grammar and spelling, too. then again, this is no course on english. and everyone is fine to forgive the mistakes of others. so dont worry if your english is not perfect. join the school, anyway! :) == Locations == buildings+rooms the site of the event is a part of the technical university of dresden, in the south of the main station, within the part of Räcknitz, more specifically in Nöthnitzer strasse. on the first day we met at the military history museum which is definitely special in itself. we got a fast tour of the museum. i didnt know i'd be interested that much, but i found it really interesting after all. for all the other days there has been three main buildings we changed between: the computer science department and the Max Plank institute (MPI) in Nöthnitzer strasse - (about 300m away from each other), and the refectory at mommsenstrasse (two blocks away from the CS department). rooms: the entry hall at the CS department contains some art in the form of green slinky blobs. i'd call them "spaghetti", but, hey.. at least there's something to talk about once you enter this rather technical building. wifi: at the CS department we obtained access to the wifi with a user+pass - distict from each other. at the MPI there was exactly *one* user+pass for all participants. == Extras == tour at museum, tour of the town. blogger meetup. tour at museum: wow - this museum is interesting after all! and i thought it would all be icky stuff. the tour we got was quick (an hour) - and good. i was drawn into the exhibition after it.. i almost immediately lost my command of time. Joachim had to drag me out of it towards the talks - otherwise i'd missed them. i'm not into military stuff at all, but i've taken note of this museum and will likely visit it again. tour of the town: two hours in the chill - and informative all the way. the guide woman was born in Dresden and obviously is fond of this town. bloggers meetup: Katrin Etzrodt, Lisa Merten.. it's hard to get anything started. a lot of opinions were given, and both Katrin and Lisa took them all in, sorted them, put them into clear objective. but now all the bloggers must give their data to make it happen. we'll see where this goes. hopefully, this blog will still be active for the next summer school. it could really helpful to the follwing participants. == Media == blog, chat, email, facebook, homepage, pads, pics, twitter, wiki. blog: good idea to have a blog accompany an event. just like every other medium. ;-) thinking about it now, maybe we should have asked all participants to write an entry *before* the event: "please introduce yourself. what is it you are doing? have you been here before? why do you participate at all? what do you expect of the event? do you have any open questions?" chat: the events i normally attend usually have a mailing list and some chat (mostly IRC and jabber) in the background. however, this kind of synchronous medium is usually missing with events on media. weird. or has this been replaced by twitter now? am i getting old? email: email has been around since the 1970s. but it's mostly a 1-to-N communication. a maillist usually would allow N-to-N communication. then again, noone seems to have learnt anything about this at school. at it fails at so many levels. while i have been using this for 25 years now, i find that most people cannot make effective us of it. like other media, i'm sure. facebook: "are you on facebook?" "'course i am!" funny enough, people who are not on facebook seem to be weirdos who do not even own an ID or do not exist at all. "can you even trust these people?" at some conferences it seems that way. then again, on some other conferences you get an response like "fuckbook? hand over all of my data directly to the NSA? are you kidding?" think about it, media people. homepage: a homepage definitely has become a business card. got your own domain for it, too? sure. firstname@lastname.{com,name,org}? yep. connects you too all other stuff like blog, social media, and the like? check. pads: we used textpads for some talks (see list). the goal was to list a summary of the talk, list all questions, and some comments and links. as a textpad also allows chatting to each other, participants had some fun around it. pics: some people have taken pics. while they appear on instagram and twitter, why - isnt anyone using flickr any more? by the way, you can find my pics on dropbox+flayvr: http://tinyurl.com/2013-digitization-pics-guckes http://www.flayvr.com/flayvr?token=6913011b4883398b twitter: it's a must. don't you get it? how else can you communicate to others while you are sitting in a boring talk? whaddaya mean, email,facebook,chat? wiki: dead. killed by pads. == Orga == catering+lunch. finance. schedule. schedule: there had been several updates on the schedule. was good to see a preview. thanks for that! catering: we always had beverages like water, juices (apple+orange), and (at MPI) also some coffee. that was great! thanks, orga people! finance: the orga folks also took care about the financial stuff, like hotel reservations, reimbursments, vouchers for lunch. as far as i can tell, all this went very smoothly. well done! :) lunch: at lunchtime we went to the refectory for food. it's just a 5min walk to an adjacent block. they offer three main dishes, various salads, and desserts (eg cake, pudding). (not sure about the offers for vegetarians and vegans. can somebody comment on that?) we even received some vouchers for a main dish, a beverage, and a dessert. yay :) there is also a cafeteria within the building which offer beverages, cake, and some snacks. sitting outside in the sun was oh-kay.. but in the shadow it certainly was chilly. in the end we sat inside within the cafeteria for some coffe and club-mate (you don't know this? check it out!) the only thing we didnt really do is to communicate where we would sit to eat. so we kinda broke up in little groups. but maybe this is how it must be. groups over six people usually breaks up in smaller communication groups, anyway. did you know that for every group of six people there are three who know each other or do NOT know each other? why? well.. ask wikipedia! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsey's_theorem#Example:_R.283.2C3.29_.3D_6 == People == although the event was organized by the linguist department, the participants were economists, lawyers, linguists, and media people. and this one bloke with math+CS (nerd). people came from quite some countries: Germany (obviously), Austria (not so obvious), Switzerland (disguising, too), but also from Egypt, Italy, Israel, and India. (more?) == Events == keynotes, presentations, talks, workshops. there were events like talks and workshops, as well as presentations of PhD projects. some breaks in between; lunch in the afternoon (12:30-14:00). the presentations contained three projects each, lasting 15min, and up to 10min more for Q&A. the talk+workshops took place at the CS department, the keynotes at the MPI. critique: when you present your Ph.D. thesis, please, please, puh-leeze - do not make it look like your first talk since high school. things to avoid: * do not start reading off a paper. * do not read the complete overview. * do not look at and read off the slides. * do not use fillers like "and my claim is".. * do not give the audience the feeling someone told you to do this because you should. * you are on stage. perform! do not be boring. instead: * speak freely. speak slowly. speak UP! * who are you? what is your background? * what exactly will you be looking at? * why is this subject important to *you*? * why should *we* care about the results? get us interested, so we will think: i gotta follow this and see how work on this progresses. i must follow this person on all social and non-social media, so i will know about these results before i die! == Digitization == what has been dreamed of since the 18th century - it is here now: the world of zeros and ones. finally, we can do so many things with data. but before it is data, the things we deal with must be digitized. so more problems - so little time. Digitization comprises a lot of fields, and will be here to stay as many professions. it will create a log of jobs and blah blah blah.. when will pupils at school learn about all this? this affects a lot of people.. and not only when they do a PhD at university, accessing books at the library. the access to data online will be as common as reading books has been all the time. access and bandwidth will facilitate this. let's make it as open as possible to everyone! all things non-ditized will require digitization so we can distribute the info and make them accessible to everyone out there. understand digitization to aid others. digitization has naturally become a key role in finding solutions to our world problems. so.. digitize! == (CC) == here's a summary of my talk/workshop on creative commons license in a few words: the "creative commons" license tries to fill the gap between "all rights reserved" (copyright) and "it's all free" (eg copyleft and free software). creators would like to share their works as "data" as freely as possible - however, they would like to impose some demands on these things: eg attribution of creator, commercial application, and restriction to license of derivative works. (in short: creator, money, derivative works) so these are the possible choices for this license: cc-by = Attribution (Commercial) cc-by-nd = Attribution (Commercial) No Derivatives cc-by-sa = Attribution (Commercial) Share Alike cc-by-nc = Attribution Non-Commercial cc-by-nc-nd = Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives cc-by-nc-sa = Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike choose wisely - but do make a chocie before publishing! == Links == here are the links we used during this conference: * homepage: http://linguistik.zih.tu-dresden.de/digitization/ * blog: http://linguistik.zih.tu-dresden.de/digitization/ (page_id=15 ?) * contact: http://linguistik.zih.tu-dresden.de/digitization/?page_id=224 * twitter tag: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23digitize13&src=hash * blog plan: http://tinyurl.com/2013-digitization-blog-plan * facebook: "this post is password protected" o_O * pads: http://piratenpad.de/p/bloggers http://piratenpad.de/p/shah http://piratenpad.de/p/hagen https://piratenpad.de/p/tochtermann * maillist: coming up! * skype: maybe couldnt find the link to the blog again. looks like it has merged into the homepage. i am not sure whether a mailing list will have the necessary impact it should have. and skype.. has so many backdoors that i could never get used to it. but i think the pads might catch on. we'll see about that. == Thoughts == [evening events] how and where to meet up in the evening? an offer for that (eg cafe) is appreciated. [slides] where will the slides be published? on the blog? or is there a link to a folder on dropbox? [travel] we all should have bought a week ticket to cover all travels during the summer school. this definitely is a recommendation to all! EOF