[wos] wos4 is happening, help wanted

[Juergen Neumann]

Hi Volker,

Saul wrote:

> Hi Volker, congrats, all on getting wos 4 hosted! :)

Same from me. I can only repeat Sauls words here and would like to
please you to add your words to the WSFII Calendar/Wiki and announce
WOS4 there, as it is an international event with a lot of overlapping
participants.
So at least for planning you should add the date and some words ;-).

Thx and congratulations again!

JuergeN 
 
> 14-16th Sept seems good to me. Refugees from AE can find succour and
gear
> up for a geek out at eurooscon.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> When Cven from the c-base posted the good news about WOS happening to
the
> WSFII.org discuss list, I suggested that it might be a really good
> opportunity to bring back together some of the people and discussions
> that you joined there as part of the 'infrastructure' component
already
> mentioned.
> 
> These sub-categories from WSFII were, as ever, unable to describe the
> diversity and complexity of what people were actually doing.
> 
> - Open Geodata
> - Free Networks
> - Open Money
> - Open Civic Information
> - Open Hardware
> - Free/Open Culture
> 
> But they did synthesise in lots of interesting ways - and could do
again,
> perhaps remixed or glommed together in new ways.
> 
> Having talked to some of the c-basers people who are currently in
London,
> and seeing the freifunk people continue to do amazing things setting
up
> free mesh networking infrastructures, the question I'm dying to see
> asked, and answered in Berlin (which seems to be the European Capital
of
> Free Infrastructures :) is 'Now we have a Free Infrastructure, what
are
> we going to do with it?'
> 
> I'm not sure that's a 'crucial issue' - more of a question that could
be
> answered in lots of ways - practical and discursive... or both. If I
was
> looking for 'hot topics', I'd say 'hybrid economic models' and
'geodata'.
> 
> There seems to be a general shift towards deployment of hybrid
economic
> models that are becoming commercially successful (at least gaining VC
> capital)
> 
> 'fon' (en.fon.com) - in the field of free networks has pilotted a
hybrid
> economic model, using free software, hardware, rhetoric, and ideas
from
> the Free Networks community. They got 18 million $ from skype and
google.
> Some aspects of what they're doing kind of make sense, but what kind
of
> model is this?
> 
> del.icio.us and flickr, (recently prominent) and countless other foaf
> mapping and collaboration experiments coming from the free/social
> software scene bought off and consolidated as prototypes for 'web
2.0'.
> 
> Where 2.0: O'Reilly's other big conference this year announces: "The
> thrust of the program for the 2006 conference will answer the question
> "where's the value"? They'll be looking at the latest Where 2.0
> technology, businesses, and content with an emphasis on these
questions:
> How can developers make money at this? What applications have legs?
How
> can enterprises make money using this?"
> 
> The best reaction I saw to the O'Reilly announcement, on the #geo chan
on
> irc.oftc.net was:
> 
> 20:55 <@zool> that's a good question
> 20:55 <@zool> WHERE IS MY VALUE
> 20:55 <@zool> i seem to have misplaced it
> 
> 'Where's the value' *is* a good question, especially when trying to
> ascertain whether these hybrid models are any different from the usual
> ram-raid on our subculture.
> 
> Since the European Parliament adopted the 'Inspire' directive giving
the
> green light to continued and consolidated corporate monopoly on
> state-collected geodata (due to pass into law in July 2006, unless
people
> rally around http://publicgeodata.org successfully) - this is
definitely
> a key 'issue' that could be addressed - and might be answered best by
> asking 'if we had it, what would we do with it?'.
> 
> So - a bunch of questions.
> 
> Anyway, back to dates:
> 
> The WSFII calendar looks like this:
> 
> - 24-27. March 2006         :   CommunityWeekend, Berlin
> - March 31.-April 2. 2006   :   2nd National Community wifi Summit,
USA
> - end April - start May 2006:   WSFII Dharamsala, India
> - 1-2. Nov. 2006            :   WSFII Goa, India
> - mid-end Nov. 2006         :   WSFII 2006 Bangalore, India
> - 15-16. Dec. 2006          :   WSFII Kerala, India
> 
> There's a nice, WOS shaped gap in there - it would be really great to
add
> it to the calendar as a place that WSFII people and discussions could
> reconvene in Berlin (European Capital of Free Infrastructures 2006) to
> discuss winter meetings in India and contribute to infrastructures
> debates at wos...
> 
> Hope I can make it, and that this braindump is in some way useful.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Saul.
> 
> --
> -- http://chinabone.lth.bclub.org.uk/~saul/
> --
> Wos mailing list
> Wos at post.openoffice.de
> http://212.42.230.8/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wos