[FM Discuss] BookCampParis3

[Janet Swisher]

Anybody planning to go to this? Or been to a previous one?

http://barcamp.org/BookCampParis3

Google Translation:

BookCamp Paris, 3rd Edition

When? When?
Saturday, September 25, 2010 - 13h - 20h

Where? Where?
La Cantine, 151 rue Montmartre, 12 passage des Panoramas, 75002 Paris,
Metro Grand Boulevard ( map ).

A Bookcamp for what? What this Bookcamp is about

The idea of this day is to offer half-day experiments and thoughts
about the book and the digital. A series of workshops "hands on" to
better share the impact of digital innovation on the book chain. An
opportunity to meet and exchange between librarians, booksellers,
publishers, writers, critics and readers with the slogan, "all
participants".

Daily Schedule

13h: Home

13:30 Presentation

14h-15h: 4-5 workshops

16h-17h: 4-5 workshops

18h-19h: 4-5 workshops

19h-20h: pot.

We can accommodate from 12 to 15 workshops in the day three successive
series of one hour. For each series, we have:

- 3 workshops can accommodate 15-25 people

- And 1-2 other smaller (5-10 people).

The BookCamp is looking for sponsors to provide a pot, T-shirts or
other gifts to participants who volunteer their time to come and share
their knowledge and skills.

Workshops

12-15 available workshops, one-hour: if you have a presentation idea,
feel free to make suggestions. The idea of the workshops is that they
are a forum for sharing, meeting between stakeholders by a single
thematic they cross their approaches, their problems, their
differences. Feel free to propose more than reason ...

Workshop Proposals

Workshop 1: Reader or tablet - Which tool to read digital?
Subject: A workshop focusing on the opinions of users with a
comparison between the different reading solutions.

Workshop 2: Digital Comics
Subject: The arrival of the iPad tablet and multimedia can finally
read a comic book in digital and mobility so comfortable. However,
should you stick to a simple board like paper? Where are the
experiences of interactive comics? Is there a market for digital
comics in France? etc..

Workshop 3: The future trends of digital playback
Topic: Playing social-sharing feature, the digital book open, etc..

Workshop 4: The library at the Internet
Topic: booksellers share their internet experience. What is the role
and place of the library at the age of the Internet? \

Workshop 5: Facilitator Book
Subject: What, for a professional book that mediation around the book
online? For a bookseller, a librarian, an editor: how to talk the book
online? What is being done to promote it? What is missing it? What is
needed?

Workshop 6: Editing participatory
Topic: When readers become editors. Exploration of digital publishing
platforms: how text-is it validated?
How the author and the reader / editor do they live the adventure of
publishing participatory?

Workshop 7: Distribution Mobile OPDS protocol
Subject: Overview of concepts, technology and ecosystem OPDS (
http://opds-spec.org/about/ ).

Workshop 8: Why and how to properly hack ebook
Topic: Why and how to properly hack ebook, workshop introduction to
scan, OCR and correction in macro in Word and Open Office, create your
own catalog OPDS to broadcast your releases. Conference on the
deplorable state of the legal tender in France (non-existent, DRM
bridling users, more expensive than the paper book, file of poor
quality (without couv, tables containing errors or defective).

Workshop 9: Encyclopedias participatory and participants
Topic: Why create an encyclopedia participatory after Wikipedia? How
to involve researchers? Internet? How to put the site on a world
stage? Should we translate the interventions published in other
languages? How? Manage copyright images are copyrighted, published,
copyrighted texts, manuscripts and correspondence. How?

Workshop 10: The author at the time of the digital evolution of
writing and new relationships with readers
Subject:   Can we talk about digital writing? The constraints of the
media they are an obstacle to the creation or an opportunity? Web 2.0
can create links between the author and his readership? Text and
hypertext ... how the author perceives it to enrich his writings?

Workshop 11: and what food is served?
Subject: What text solicited us stories, portfolios, poetry, works on
expansion and revision, how ergonomics of the digital object (& reflow
pages, typo, hypertext and metadata), compared to the blog of the
author and his role relationship and roles publisher / distributor,
playing online subscription feuilletoir, how it is done and there is
what to invent?

Workshop 12: Plate (s)-forms, what exactly does it?
Topic: Flat (s) forms are here! They are poised to leverage to lots of
different levels. Platforms for content distribution, publishing
platforms, platforms, distribution, retail, collaboration between
publishers. What are the platform (s)-forms? How fit together?