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Carla Schroer
Open Archaeology: Fundamentals of Intellectual Property and Open Source

This proposed two hour workshop covers a range of topics in IP and open source.

Topics:
- What is Intellectual Property?
- Ownership and licenses
- Open standards, open source, and open development
- Main types of open source licenses (how they work together and don't work together)
- Licensing factors to consider when choosing technology
- Content and media (images, documents, video, etc)
- how do these differ from software?
- things to consider when choosing a license for your content
- Open discussion and Q&A

Carla Schroer has worked in the software industry in Silicon Valley California for 19+ years. She has been involved in engineering and licensing issues for Java technology at Sun Microsystems since 1995. Her most recent project was the "open sourcing" of the Java Standard Edition code base, a project with 6.5 million lines of code developed over 12 years and containing code from multiple sources under multiple licenses. Her experience as the engineering liaison to the legal team for this project made her aware of many issues of interest when making technology decisions. She is also a co-founder of Cultural Heritage Imaging, and has worked for the last 5 years in the areas of imaging and cultural heritage.

The target audience for this workshop is anyone interested in knowing the basics of open source and related licensing and software development issues. There is no limit to the number of participants.

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