From: Andrea Higginbotham <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 10:57:50 -0400

Tools for Open Access Advocacy: Demystifying Hackathons

Another free SPARC online event
Tuesday, August 6th, 2013
12:00 - 1:00PM EDT (use helpful time converter: http://bit.ly/1bSErJ6)
Registration is free, but required.

Please RSVP by August 1st at:
http://sparc2.arl.org/civicrm/event/register?reset=1&id=120

This webcast requires both a phone dial-in and an Internet connection.

Does the very word “Hackathon” have you crawling to the nearest
corner, with visions of computer code dancing in your head? Have you
ever wondered what exactly they are, and why you should care?
Hackathons can be a great tool, bringing together groups of people to
complete a set goal using the combination of their skills –
computer-based and otherwise. They are not just for the technologists
– your individual expertise can be a vital part of a “hack.” Open
Access Week is now just around the corner (October 21-27) and a
Hackathon is a great way to stir interest, involvement, and possibly
create finished projects using Open Access content.

Our guest speaker, Brian Glanz, is the founder of the Open Science
Federation and co-founder of the American chapter of the Open
Knowledge Foundation. With both organizations, Brian has lots of
experience participating in and deploying Hackathons where Open Access
content played a critical part. For two recent examples, he points to
the over 100 events associated with http://hackforchange.org in June,
and July’s http://hack4ac.com in the scholarly publishing community.

Brian will fully explain what Hackathons are, how you deploy them, and
why we in the library community should be participating in and
utilizing them.

To accommodate interest in every time zone, this 1-hour event will be
recorded and available on our website shortly afterwards.

Please join us for a lively and interactive discussion. SPARC’s
Executive Director, Heather Joseph, will be moderating questions
during the webcast. Feel free to post preliminary comments and
questions for Brian on the OA Week Website
(http://www.openaccessweek.org/profiles/blogs/hackwebcastquestions).

For additional information, contact SPARC’s Communication’s Manager,
Andrea Higginbotham at andrea [at] arl [dot] org.

And make sure to join Open Access Week Events at www.openaccessweek.org.

Best,

Andrea

Andrea Brusca Higginbotham
Communications Manager, SPARC
21 Dupont Circle, Suite 800
Washington, DC 20036
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www.arl.org/sparc

Open Access Week 2013
October 21-27
http://www.openaccessweek.org/