Wizards of OS 3. The Future of the Digital Commons (June, Berlin) (fwd)

From: Frederick Noronha (FN) (fred_at_bytesforall.org)
Date: 05/15/04

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       Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 23:58:21 +0530 (IST)
       From: Atul Chitnis <achitnis@exocore.com>
    Subject: Wizards of OS 3. The Future of the Digital Commons > 10-12 June

    Wizards of OS 3
    The Future of the Digital Commons
    June 10 - 12, 2004
    Berlin Congress Center
    http://wizards-of-os.org/

    In four weeks, the international conference Wizards of OS 3 will be
    held in the Berliner Congress Center. For three days, 80 specialists
    from 23 countries will be considering and exchanging views on the
    future of our digital commons. Programmers, artists, scientists and
    activists will present their projects, conduct workshops and discuss
    with participants ways in which free software, free content, free
    networks and open archives can be productively applied towards a new
    order of knowledge.
     
    WOS 3 will present examples of successful projects which share this
    aim, examples that may inspire emulation and further development,
    such as Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, and the Simputer,
    with its free hardware design. Just as our natural environment
    survives only due to the efforts of a now powerful movement, our
    digital environment needs similar protection from privatization.
    Addressing the global challenge of a united movement for the freedom
    of knowledge will be, among others, Lawrence Lessig, founder of the
    Creative Commons initiative, Charlotte Hess, commons researcher, and
    Eben Moglen, professor of law and author of the GPL.
     
    Program: http://www.wizards-of-os.org/index.php?id=835&L=3
    Registration: http://www.wizards-of-os.org/index.php?id=91&L=3

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