[wos] reminder & ideas for tonight

[Volker Grassmuck]

heute, Montag, 18.7. um 18 Uhr
c-base, Rungestr. 20, Berlin
wenn's Wetter so bleibt, dann hinterm Haus am Strand.

and here as promised some notes on the 


Profile of WOS 4

Keywords

wizards, operating systems, digital revolution, freedom in the 
knowledge order of digital media, open access to knowledge and 
technology, showcasing freedom that works ...


Framework

free software
free knowledge
free infrastructure


Issues

Call for papers and invited talks on issues followed through from 
wos3: 
- (archives (BBC)
- Creative Commons (adoption, community building)
- Alternative Compensation (dead?)
- free software in the public sector (LiMux)
- globalization (WIPO Devlopment Agend, WSIS one year later)
- open spectrum
- free science
- free seeds

... and on new ones:
- theater (in coop with Volksbuehne)
- microdiversity of life (theme of Rio Carnival 2006)
- identity commons
- free maps / geodata
- open source drugs
- DV Camcorder Revolution
- open hardware
- barrier free cyberspace
- free metadata (CDDB, EMDB)


Communities

wikipedia, free wireless networks, Creative Commons, copyfighters, 
Debian, WSIS ...


Specials

* Brazil -- Open Source Nation
- Gilberto Gil
- Sergio Amadeu
- Claudio Prado
- Ronaldo Lemos
- Alexandre Freire
- Fernanda G. Weiden
- Graciela Baroni Selaimen
- Anja Pratschke


* Manifestos
A working group studies existing manifestos, develops hypthesis why 
they are so popular right now, identifies elements missing from 
existing manifestos, possibly drafting another or a meta-manifesto to 
be finalized and launched at wos4.



bis nachher
Volker


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