[wos] WOS 3: Panel Overview

Mon Apr 12 02:07:36 CEST 2004

Dear all,

I have the funny feeling it‘s only the spammers and me out on the net 
right now. Mail and mailinglists are so quiet I can hear the Easter 
bells ringing. Kinda lonely. Anyway, when you‘re done having fun you 
might want to take a look at where the wos3 stands -- and possibly 
have some more fun ,-)

Two months away from the conference, I‘d say we‘re looking pretty 
good. No reason for complacency, though. A last round of efforts is 
needed to finalize the program. For this we need your help in setting 
priorities.

The following panels are in the categories all clear / nearly done / 
working / in critical condition. 

Out of the last category, the following are on edge (for more detail 
below):

- Free (Chip) Hardware
- Open Archives: Emulators -- Andreas, how are you doing?
- Education
- Economy of Free Software -- depends on Rishab picking it up

Actually it would be good to cancel one or two panels. It would give 
us space for another keynote that we‘ve been discussing: Daniel Cohen-
Bendit. wos3 will be during the final phase of EU elections, so he 
might be grateful for the audience, he has been picking up free 
software, copyright, and cyberrights issues lately, has a competent 
staff to work with, would help fill the house. 

What do you think of the Cohen-Bendit idea? Which of the panels would 
you kill?

Any additions and comments on the panels below are very welcome.

best
Volker Grassmuck

For easy clickability (you might want to have these open, while you 
go through the panels):
http://wizards-of-os.org/index.php?id=60&L=3
http://wiki.wizards-of-os.org/

ALL CLEAR AND LOOKING BEAUTIFUL

* Opening Keynote: Eben Moglen
* Wikipedia and Friends
* Open Archives: Games
* Free Networks
* Globalization I. Free Software in India, China, Latin America & 
Africa
(missing panel abstract)

NEARLY DONE 
(missing one speaker, moderator, and (all of them) panel abstract)

* Free Privacy Enhancing Technologies
missing a moderator: Sarah Spiekermann, HU, is requested

* Creative Commons: Launch of the German Licenses
nearly done

* Free Science I.: Publishing
* Free Science II.: Funding and Activism
Stefan Gradmann is now maintainer and moderator for both
FS I. has an unanswered request for 
- NN, PLoS Biology

* Globalization II. Bridging the Digital Divide
is lacking a moderator, and has an unanswered request for 
- Ethan Zuckerman, Geek Corps

* WOS goes East I. Free Software
* WOS goes East II. IPRs
is now maintained and moderated by Vera Franz
needs 2-3 more speakers
will evolve together with Ian Brown who‘s organizing the EUCD-
workshop on Sunday with focus E/SE Europe

* WSIS: Globalization of Civil Society
Markus is waiting for one person from Italy. Correct, Markus?

* Alternative Compensation Systems
waiting for final ok from Terry Fisher
- Martin Kretschmer (nearly set)
- Option: Wendy Seltzer, EFF
- Option: another discussion contrib by Larry Lessig

* The Future of the Digital Commons	
waiting for final ok from:
- Istvan Rev, Central European University Budapest
- David Bollier
still looking for non-US, non-male speaker on Commons

WORKING

* Free Search Engines?
abandoned by Patrick for lack of time, taken up by Jeanette Hofmann 
as maintainer and moderator.
- will invite Monika Henzinger, École Polytechnique Fédérale de 
Lausanne, was Research Director of Google Inc., specialist in 
algorithms, and chosen as the most competent woman on the web in 2001
- for other options see Wiki-page

* "Intellectual Property" / Copyrights
Maintainer: vgrass
- Lawrence Liang, Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore: is trying to fit 
wos3 into his schedule.

will request
- NN, Piracy
- Séverine Dusollier, Head of Department of Intellectual Property 
Rights Centre, Namur

possible invitees:
- Richard Owens; WIPO
- Robin Gross, has volunteered a talk on the WIPO Broadcast Treaty
- Reto Hilty, Director MPI Munich
- Barbara Simons, President of the ACM (1998 - 2000)
- Jessica Litman,

* Free Software in Public Administration
- waiting for response from Sérgio Amadeu, head of Brazil's National 
Information Technology Institute
- then will approach Martin Schallbruch, IT Director & in charge of 
free SW in German federal government

- Veni Markovski and/or Federico Heinz could double-up

- S.Ramakrishnan, now chief of CDAC, but also of the Indian Ministry 
of Communication and of Information technology (MCIT), and the guy 
behind the Indian government open source effort
- Egon Troles, Ex-KBST, now sys-admin for German Federal Privacy 
Officer in charge of a difficult migration, but also still 
reprsenting Germany at EU on free software.
- Mark Bressers, ICTU Open Source eGovernment Center, NL, 
http://www.ictu.nl/
- NN, IBM (-> Tom Schwaller) on migrating Munich
- Peter Strickx, Director of the ICT department of the federal 
government of Belgium, was at Sun for 10 years, drives the free SW 
stategy, http://www.belgium.be
- Robert Krimmer, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, oder Univ.-Prof. Dr. 
Roland Traunmüller, Universität Linz: Forum E-Government der 
Österreichischen Computergesellschaft (OCG) (http://www.ocg.at/egov)

Possibly a combination where two (tech-literate) politicians present 
their top-down concepts, confronting them with two bottom-up 
perspectives from people doing the actual implementation in pub 
administration:
- Sérgio Amadeu, head of Brazil's National Information Technology 
Institute
- Martin Schallbruch, IT-Direktor im Bundesministerium des Innern
- Atul Chitnis on open source initiatives in the Indian government 
including stuff he personally drives
- Sebastian Hetze / Aleks Stielau / Frank Ronneburg, Linux 
Information Systems AG on migrating various German public offices

* Free Software & Quality Management
Detlef Borchers is maintainer & moderator. He‘s looking into various 
candidates, incl. Nick Shelness former head of QM Lotus, then IBM, 
and  Drahtmüller, SuSE. Detlef, any news on that panel?

* Free Standards
- Stefan Taxhet has in priciple agreed that he „or a competent 
colleague from Sun or the OpenOffice.org project" will tell us 
something on the Open Office XML format.
- Annette Mühlberg, ver.di,  has long agreed, but hasn‘t announced 
what she will be speaking about. Annette?
- Tim Berners-Lee and Bruce Perens have been requested but haven‘t 
responded. 
- Christel alerted me to the fact that „interoperability" is a top-
priority for the current Irish and the following EU Council 
presidency. Starting point is someone at the Interchange of Data 
between Administration (IDA) Programm
http://europa.eu.int/ISPO/ida/

Other options:
- Peter Berz, author of 08/15, Fink Verlag, 2002
- Klaus Birkenbihl, manager of the W3C German Office
- Alfred Christmann, former head of the German Federal Statistics 
Office
- Carl Cargill, historian, Director Corporate Standardization, Sun 
Microsystems
- Tim O‘Reilly, The Architecture of Participation
- Tineke Egyedi, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft 
University (Beyond Consortia, Beyond Standardisation?, Final Report 
for the European Commission, 2001)
- NN, Kooperationsausschusses Automatische Datenverarbeitung Bund, 
Länder, Kommunaler Bereich (KoopA ADV), http://www.koopa.de/
- NN, SAGA (Standards und Architekturen für eGovernment-Anwendungen), 
KBSt
- NN, Linux Standards Base
- NN, Free Standards Group
- NN, unicode.org
- NN, OASIS
- NN, MPI für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
- NN, DIN e.V., on standards setting & § 5 UrhG

* Free Video Software
Idea: free editing video editing and streaming SW & HDD recorders -- 
tech and consumer appeal. (Free Bitflows is doing audio). Options 
(none approached):
- Mplayer: NN, Budapest
- Ogg Theora: Monty? [von Sebastian]
- Cinelerra, Heroine Virtual Ltd.: wer?
- Blender: Ton Roosendaal
- Kino: Arne Schirmacher
- Jahshaka: ??
- Freevo / MythTV, NN

* Art
intended to link to the exhibition at wos3. Inke Arns and Florian 
Cramer are organizing both. Confirmed speaker so far:
- Lloyd Dunn, Founder, the Tape-beatles & Photostatic Magazine (1983-
1998), Prague
Inke, Florian, what‘s happening?

IN CRITICAL CONDITION
(no one approached yet or first confirm pending):

* Beyond the Unix Paradigm?
suggested by Florian Cramer with abouts the following invitees in 
mind:

- NN, Uni Dresden / Jochen Liedtke at GMD and IBM Watson Research 
Center, on the L4  micro-kernel that has been chosen over Mach in the 
GNU Hurd project
- Rio Reiser FS  .)
- Tom Schwaller, Mono
- NN, Perl6/Parrot 
- Felix von Leitner 
- Daniel Bernstein
- NN, Plan9 (is there an active community?)
- Andreas Bogk, on his Symbolics LISP machine

We could also give the panel a more sensational touch:
Free Software Stars from Germany:
- Klaus Knopper, _the_ distro from Germany known the world over
- NN, Uni Dresden / Jochen Liedtke at GMD and IBM Watson Research 
Center, on the L4  
- Hans Reiser

Possibly with yet another title the panel might include:
- Andreas von Bechtolsheim, now back at Sun
- Bernhard Reiter, FFII, FSF Europe, Intevation
- Stefano Malfulli, FSF Italien
- Prof. Masayuki Ida, active in free sw for a long time, University 
of Tokyo

* Economy of Free Software
I‘ve asked Rishab Ghosh to maintain this panel, no response, yet
An option would be to include (not yet approached):
- Michal Tiemann, Red Hat, formerly Cygnus

* Open Archives: Emulators
this is an add-on to Andreas Lange‘s games archiving panel. Latest I 
know, he was looking into
- a MAME developer in Italy
- a game developer, archivarian and Amiga emulator developer, Hungary
Andreas, how‘s it going?

* Education
originally started from MIT OpenCourseWare, who have not been 
approached. Should not mix school and university education.
confirmed:
- Kurt Gramlich, Skolelinux

possible invitees (there‘s some more interesting projects on the wiki-
page, eg. Opencursus.be):
- Bettina Berendt, HU
- Till Kreutzer, on legal aspects of E-Learning, § 52a UrhG
- Thomas Krüger, BpB als Success Story
- Hans-Josef Heck, FSuB e.V., hjh at fsub.schule.de
- NN, MIT OpenCourseWare
- Chris Kelty, Connexions Project, Rice University
- E-Chalk, FU (Problem: Lizenz?)
- Edu-Plon, Pleger (sp?), TU
- „Model" (sp?), Lernmanagement-Tool, Griseleit, HU

* Free Hardware
Idea: free collaborative Design of chips. Success-story: 
microcore.org (Forth 
chip)
potential invitees:
- Klaus Schleisiek, http://www.microcore.org/
- Andreas Bogk, could say something on why we need free chips

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