Laurent Gatto's transcript:
Laurent (@lgatt0) is a researcher at the University of Cambridge and an open advocate.
Open media means several things, and actually I'll draw from my experience as a researcher. For me open media relates both to the content and also the channel. I would like both to be free to access, re-mix, adapt, re-use to people that are interested in it and that access it, whether it's online or not.
There are two main types of issues: technology and communication. The issue with technology is Not really the technology that I have access to, but what technology I should use to make sure that people are interested in my content get access to it, from a technology point of view but also, as I said before, open and freely. The more difficult challenge, I think, is a matter of communication; how can I make sure that I get my message across in an understandable way, and my message remains short and to the point, so that it's understandable to a technical audience if it's a research paper, and that is equally, or even more so applicable to the public. How can I get message across? That's really difficult.
A quick reflection on OpenCon. It's my first time at OpenCon; I've been involved in satellite meetings that we organise in Cambridge. My feeling at this stage, and I'm sure I'll need more time to digest everything, but I was really impressed by breath and the scale of all these initiatives. And it's incredible, humbling and refreshing to see that there are many issues in the world related to open, and it puts my own efforts and my own requirements more into perspective. It's important to act locally, it's important to act globally, but it's also important to appreciate that there are many different types of issues that need to be tackles through more openness and maybe more careful, more reflection about openness around the world.