PKP 2017 Closing Remarks
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He was one of the earliest in terms of conceiving of this movement in the internet and one of the first to draw the historical analogy with Oldenburg in the first journal. And I certainly agree with Alec on the notion that we need a sense not only of our own community gathered in this room, but a sense of a larger world that is moving
00:21
towards cooperatives and that is thinking about alternative forms of economy. The whole notion that another world is possible should be thought of as something that it's already here and it's already now and it's represented here. So I want to thank everyone for that. But I really think we need to acknowledge the two sitting here in the corner, Kevin
00:42
Strannock and Brian Owen. I want them to stand up so everybody sees that these two people have made... This is the fifth time they have organized one of these events and the third time they've
01:03
organized it remotely, but no one could ever say they remotely organized it because it was very direct and immediate in terms of this experience. I do have a count and it was in a day and a half, 34 presentations.
01:26
If you check your gauge, you will see your brain is full and that you can take the rest of the weekend off because your commitment and just the whole scope, I want to point out to you the scope and the range, the global dimension that's been represented
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over the last day and a half, the range of ideas and points of entry. When we opened, excuse me, Frédéric made this plea, this exhortation as he called it, and somehow the University of Montréal has an exhortative nature to it that we consider
02:06
the students, that we take into account the students, and in all the time we have presented in these conferences or held these conferences, we've never had as much student representation, undergraduate, graduate, and high school level. And this idea that we're building a community beyond the traditional academic bounds, so
02:24
opening with the notion of students, closing with Mickey is a very encouraging aspect. And actually let's go back to the sprint, so let's make it from Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. We have had our hands on, we have gotten dirt under our fur coat, under our fingernails,
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we have built things in this period, and we have talked about large principles and important ideas, and all of that needs to be acknowledged. But the other side of Brian and Kevin is Tanya and Erudit. That as Dominique also mentioned this morning, that our partnership, which 10 years ago
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you couldn't imagine happening, Dominique? Always in the corner of my eye was this dream that the two founding peoples, always omitting unfortunately the First Nations, but that there would be a kind of uniting. And this aspect, let me ask Tanya to stand up so you see Erudit. And Gavin, are you, yes, all of the Erudit, perhaps I don't even know, yes, yes.
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So this is a, thank you very much, you are our hosts, that we are at University
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of Montreal because of this kind of partnership and this kind of association. And this idea that we are working together is a very, very important one. So today ends this conference, but many of us who have only met online will go back to that online existence.
04:01
Many of us who started projects and ideas here will continue and follow up on those ideas. And some of us will forget that we met and we'll reintroduce ourselves, as I'm very good at doing, two years or three years at the next event. So please allow for that, okay?
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So let me just close by saying I want to thank everyone, not just the organizers, but all of you who have participated. We had over 60 at the Sprint, which is the largest ever for us. I think it should be clear to you that we are an open project in many, many regards and we are open. In fact, one speech, one of the lightning talks had some criticisms about the aesthetics
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of OJS she wasn't able to present. We are open at all points to emails, to contributions to the forum, to any kind of ideas about how we can do more to make the available knowledge, or so, excuse me, to make the knowledge that we know, what we know about the world available to everyone.
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Thank you very much. The conference is over.
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