[rohrpost] [Fwd: [wos] WOS4 will rock]

Fre Jul 21 16:38:34 CEST 2006

Not even 60 days to go before the Wizards of OS 4. This time it will
take place in Columbia Hall [1], one of Berlin?s greatest Rock 'n'
Roll venues, so WOS4 is bound to rock. In fact, netlabels [2] and how
they manage to make a buck with free bits is going to be one of
WOS4's featured topics. Some of the most knowledgeable people in the
field including book authors Janko Roettgers and Mo Sauer, and
Magnatune's John Buckman will be discussing this fascinating new
phenomenon. It will give us ample opportunity to rock your minds and
bodies, not the least at the free music netlabel parties.

That's free as in speech, not as in beer. But even that old wisdom
has become more complex since you will be able to *buy* free beer [3]
as well. Now don't get me wrong, WOS is not turning into a beer
conference, even though beer-to-beer networking will be as important
as ever. WOS will stay firmly rooted in the universe of bits where
Information Freedom Rules. But which freedom, and which rules?
Freedom is essential. Money matters. It brings forth laws and
licenses, social and cultural networks implemented in technology and
in business models. On the opening key-note panel of WOS4, Cooking
Pot Markets (Rishab Ghosh) will meet the Network Economy (Hal Varian)
and the Wealth of Networks (Yochai Benkler). With all those rules
framing freedom there will also be no shortage of unruly behaviour,
more of which in the next announcement.

WOS4 will be three days packed with panels, workshops and parties [4]
- -- five days, in fact, if you include the workshops at Tesla, c-base,
New Thinking and Humboldt University before and after the conference
proper [5]. And there will be even more specials and projects like
Wikipedia, Freifunk and Debian presenting themselves throughout the
conference.

A novelty at WOS4 is the "Show des Freien Wissens" [6]. The German-
language programme is directed at a mostly young audience of those
curious about where all this free culture is coming from and what
they can do for you. So if your kid brother, your neighbour or your
mother keeps bugging you about these things, send them here. TV
anchor Helge Haas will lead them through an entertaining and
enlightening afternoon, addressing what they always wanted to know
about free knowledge but never dared to ask.

Finally we are happy to announce that the video and audio
documentation of WOS3 is now completely online [7]. You can revisit
the 2004 highlights like the launch of the German Creative Commons
licenses or the deep geek debate on the Unix paradigm and beyond.
Maybe you want to download them to your mobile player for easy
listening on the beach. In any case it's a nice opportunity to get in
the mood for WOS4.

Don?t miss it. Register now [8].

for the WOS team
yours Volker Grassmuck

[1] http://www.columbiahalle.de/
[2] http://wizards-of-os.org/index.php?id=2314
[3] http://www.freebeer.org/
[4] http://wizards-of-os.org/index.php?id=2159
[5] http://wizards-of-os.org/index.php?id=2800
[6] http://wizards-of-os.org/show
[7] http://wizards-of-os.org/index.php?id=551&L=3
[8] http://wizards-of-os.org/index.php?id=2170&L=3

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