From Open Buttons to OpenCon - Building a student community | PLOS OpensPLOS Opens

"Seven months ago, after little sleep I boarded a plane to Berlin to attend a conference and launch a project I’d been working tirelessly on for five months. That project was the Open Access Button, a browser plug-in which visualises when paywalls stop people reading research. Since the launch, which was covered in the Guardian, Scientific American and got the attention of EU science ministers the project has continued to progress. As the co-founder normally I’d now go on to talk all about it.  Today is different though, I’m going to briefly tell the story of the conferences which launched, grew and gave birth to the Button and why we, as a community should support a new one, OpenCon 2014, which will do the same for many other ideas ..."