One of my favorite OEWeek events is the “We Like Sharing” open photo competition organized by TUDelft, because I like photography and I also like the open sharing of them.
We Like Sharing is a photo bank of openly-licensed images created by staff, students and alumni of TU Delft, and curated at the Extension School for Continuing Education. Every year since 2021, we look forward to Open Education Week and join in the celebrations with a photo competition. Everyone at the university is invited to submit their photos to be shared publicly in the photo bank: authors are attributed as copyright holders, and asked to choose what permissions they would like to give others to reuse their images.
The aims of this on-going adventure, in a nutshell:
- to help people see by themselves that sharing is good,
- to raise awareness of open licenses,
- to teach people how to attribute properly,
- to remind them that all visuals should always have an ALT description.
The competition closed at the end of OEWeek and @bdelosarcos reported a record 95 photos submitted for this year, where appropriately the theme was ‘What does OPEN mean to you?’
I am fortunate to again be on the judging panel, but this year, so can you! They have added a People’s Choice Award based on public voting. You can enjoy all of the submitted photos from the 2023 Competition gallery in flickr where each photo includes a link to the voting form where you can nominate your three favorite ones.
And because all of the photos in the entire We Like Sharing collection are openly licensed, there are available for you to reuse.
We Like Sharing as beautiful as a flower in a crack
‘Flower in a crack’ by L. Connolly is released under CC BY
If you like sharing, visit We Like Sharing’s 2023 photos and share it widely.
