[wos] wos4 is happening, help wanted

[Matthias Spielkamp]

Dear all,

I'd like to see panels on

archives of public broadcasters: Is the BBC's Open Archive initiative a 
role model or a false label? How can other countries' public 
broadcasters be part of the picture?

Open Access in science publishing: What's happened since WOS3?

Digital Libraries: More access for the public, or just more money for 
search engines and rights holders? Google Book Search, Open Content 
Alliance, European Digital Library

Best,
Matthias

Volker Grassmuck wrote:
> Dear wos community,
> 
> it's high time to let you know what has been going on behind the 
> curtains. There is good news at last. We have found a venue. Now we 
> have to pick the best possible date, for which we want to ask your 
> help.  
> 
> Two weeks ago, our partner Volksbuehne had uninvited us. Stefanie 
> Carp, the new chief dramaturg (Engl.?), cancelled our partnership for 
> scheduling reasons. We then had to find a new venue for wos4, which 
> given that we're quite a bit into the year already wasn't easy. We 
> are therefore happy to announce that we have found just the right 
> place for wos4:  
> 
> Columbia Venues in Berlin Tempelhof, a former sports hall, now one of 
> the largest concert halls in Berlin, and a former movie theater 
> opened in 1951 by the US Air Force. 
> http://www.columbiaclub.de/
> http://www.columbiahalle.de/
> 
> The place is very flexible and friendly. I'm sure you'll like it as 
> much as we do. It is only a few minutes from a lively night-spot in 
> former West Berlin. And if you happen to be flying into Berlin's 
> inner-city airport Tempelhof, you'll just have to cross the street 
> and you're there. 
> 
> The following dates are available:
> 
> 7.-9. September
> 14.-16. September
> 
> We now have to check for events during that time that might interact 
> with wos negatively, e.g. competing for speakers and participants, or 
> positively, e.g. in temporal and geographic neigbourhood so that 
> people who, say, go to ars electronica in Linz (31.8. - 5.9.) might 
> go on to Berlin for wos4. Thematically close events are most 
> interesting, but also completely unrelated things like the football 
> world cup might affect wos.  
>  
> These are events we are seeing during that period.
> 
> 31.8. - 5.9.: ars electronica, Linz
> http://www.aec.at/en/festival2005
> 
> September 4 - 6, 2006: Future Matters: Futures Known, Created and 
> Minded, Cardiff University 
> http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/futures/conference/
> 
> 18.-21. September: O'Reilly's EuroOSCON in Brussels
> 
> Could you please check your schedules and let us know what you are 
> seeing so that we can identify the best wos date?
> 
> Finally, the most interesting question: what will the issues of wos4 
> be? Some topics have emerged already: licenses (GPL v3.0, CC), Brazil 
> the Open Source Nation, the Treaty on Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, 
> and netlabels are some of them. Soon we'll put a first sketch up for 
> discussion. Also, this time we really want to get a call for papers 
> out. 
> 
> Also here we would very much like to invite you to join us in 
> identifying crucial issues from free software, free content and free 
> infrastructure to be disussed at wos4. 
> 
> all the best
> Volker
>