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LA CONSTITUCIÓN DE LO COMÚN

Conferencia Inaugural del II Seminario Internacional Capitalismo Cognitivo – Economía del Conocimiento y Constitución de lo Común. 24 y 25 de octubre de 2005, Río de Janeiro. Organizado por la Red Universidad Nómade y por la Red de Informaciones para el tercer Sector (RITS).

Original en portugués via…

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Added by Carlos Boyle on March 26, 2009 at 4:21 — 2 Comments

Barcelona, March 31: Liberté, égalité, P2P: Shared Culture and peer innovation from below

Liberté, égalité, P2P: Shared Culture and peer innovation from below

Tuesday, March 31, 2009 at 7:00pm, CCCB. BARCELONA

The Peer-to-Peer - P2P file-sharing networks go beyond the use that is generally made of the new technologies, which is to say exchanges of music and films. It is essentially based on shared power and widely distributed access to resources in a participative design of social processes in which nobody is excluded. Everything seems to suggest… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on March 24, 2009 at 11:53 — 2 Comments

Meet “TRAFICANTES DE SUEÑOS” a spanish speaking copyleft publishing house and much more

If you are in the vicinity of Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá tomorrow 25th do not hesitate and pop in!!, if you are not around use the online connection (1 and 2) and you can still join us!!

Traficantes de sueños (Dream Traffickers) has been an emblematic project for years, it has grown up not only as an… Continue

Added by carobotero on March 24, 2009 at 10:30 — No Comments

Micronomics seminar in Brussels on MayDay

More info via Jim Segers at

Micronomics, which studies alternative economic forms, particularly suited for 'minipreneurs', is at

http://micronomics.citymined.org/spip.php?rubrique3

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As part of the MICRONOMICS, City Mine(d) together with other micro-initiatives, researchers and policy makers organise the MICRONOMICS action-research.

The aim is to:

-define micro-initiatives,

-identify their contribution to urban and economic… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on March 18, 2009 at 10:50 — No Comments

Interview with Derrick de Kerckhove

Derrick de Kerckhove, Director of the McLuhan Program of Culture and Technology in the University of Toronto was recently interviewd at Citilab- Cornellà - watch the interview here, read the transcript: English,… Continue

Added by Chris Pinchen on March 17, 2009 at 10:08 — 1 Comment

Cause against Argentinian professor for uploading texts by Derrida

Last week I reproduced in my blog a post by argentinian blogger Patricio Lorente who was telling of another “piracy” related criminal suit. The special situation in this case is that the criminal offender is a professor at an Argentinian university that has been doing what many professors… Continue

Added by carobotero on March 13, 2009 at 23:00 — 1 Comment

The Art + Politics of P2P in Bristol on March 24

The Art + Politics of P2P

24 March, 19.00

Arnolfini, Bristol, UK

FREE

Michel Bauwens

Respondents: Matthew Fuller and Olga Goriunova

The presentation introduces the work of the Foundation for Peer-to-Peer Alternatives - a clearing house for open/free, participatory/p2p and commons-oriented initiatives. The interest is in how P2P networks challenge hierarchical server-client relations and provide an alternative organisational principle for understanding… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on March 12, 2009 at 1:44 — No Comments

Engage Media is hiring

Via and@engagemedia.org

Do you want to work with EngageMedia?

We currently have two positions available:

1. Coordinating Editor

This role will focus on managing content on the EngageMedia.org website, increasing the effectiveness of the site as a tool to affect social and environmental change and increasing the usefulness of the site to its users by communicating their needs to the technical team.

2. Indonesian Training and… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on March 11, 2009 at 8:47 — No Comments

Grave threats to internet freedoms concocted by European parliament

Dear European friends,

Monica Horten warns us that we should be very concerned!!

From http://www.iptegrity.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=270&Itemid=9 :

Poisoned fish in the Trautmann report

Written by Monica Horten

Mar 05, 2009 at 11:58 PM

Interconnection of ‘restricted' networks. ‘Fair and reasonable access' proposed as substitute for end-to-end connectivity. Users rights to be limited by 'traffic management… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on March 6, 2009 at 12:06 — No Comments

Alternative Economy Cultures: workshops in Helsinki April 3 to 5

Via Andrew Paterson:

The ‘Alternative Economy Cultures’ (alt.econ.cult) programme explores relationships between networked cultural praxis and economics.

Alternative economic systems to the free-market capitalist one have been employed and practiced on various scales, offering applications and solutions to raising and distributing financial capital locally and trans-nationally. On the other hand, network culture and research by activists, in particular, has contributed… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on March 6, 2009 at 11:00 — No Comments

The Fourth International Workshop on Dependable and Sustainable Peer-to-Peer Systems (DAS-P2P 2009)

Not clear when the date is, you may want to ask Kenji Saito

In conjunction with the 6th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC 2009)

Past Workshops

* DAS-P2P 2008

* DAS-P2P 2007

* DAS-P2P 2006

Objectives

The Fourth International Workshop on Dependable and Sustainable Peer-to-Peer Systems (DAS-P2P 2009) is a workshop that focuses on dependability and sustainability of peer-to-peer (P2P) systems,… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on March 5, 2009 at 10:49 — 1 Comment

P2P Lecture: Milan, March 19, 2009

Seminari sull'Economia Creativa

Facoltà di Scienze e Politiche

Time: 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Location: Aula 24, Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, via Conservatorio 7

Milano, Italy

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Quale futuro per le industrie creative milanesi?

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In Italia, come nel resto dell’Europa si parla ormai di “industrie creative” e di “lavoro creativo” come fonte importante di… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on March 5, 2009 at 8:30 — No Comments

the documentary about the biggest event of free Culture ever, The oXcars, The Movie.

EXGAE

http://exgae.net

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Hi everybody,

we release the documentary about the biggest event of free Culture ever, The oXcars, The Movie.

Here the resume (clic on subtitles) and the full lenght (70 minutes):

http://exgae.net/exgae-multiply-and-share-forth/theoxcars

On the same page of the oXcars (http://exgae.net/exgae-multiply-and-share-forth/theoxcars) you are going to be able to found its best version (we still need few… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on March 3, 2009 at 10:21 — No Comments

Females in Open Source

A friend suggest I should look at this web page where a student is doing a study on women in the Open Source movement. She is runing a survey and posting results, is there a women here willing to take the survey? I find interesting to take a look at a strongly male endevour as this one seen through the eyes of women and I wonder how do these women find their role in this… Continue

Added by carobotero on February 25, 2009 at 22:37 — 1 Comment

Concern about EU Commission usage of proprietary document formats: open letter

Via Wouter Tebbens:

Dear all,

as some of you know we are very much concerned about the European Commission using and requiring the use of proprietary document formats within their projects.

Many EU Member States have in recent years adopted government policies to require Open Standard file formats, such as the Open Document Format (ODF), PDF, etc. And in fact, the EC agency for interoperability and eGovernment, IDABC, does strongly recommend the use of ODF and… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on February 24, 2009 at 13:37 — No Comments

UK Conference: Is Black and Red Dead?

Via Alex Prichard:

Full conference details: http://www.anarchist-studies-network.org.uk/IsBlackAndRedDead

/*Is Black and Red Dead?*/

7th - 8th September, 2009

An academic conference organized and supported by the PSA Anarchist Studies Network, the PSA Marxism Specialist Group, /Anarchist Studies/, /Capital & Class/, /Critique-Journal of Socialist Theory/, /Historical Materialism/ and /Studies in Marxism/.

Hosted By: The Centre for the… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on February 24, 2009 at 11:57 — No Comments

INTERNET in the CARPATHIANS.

I am wondering how powerful Internet you, people, have that is enough for working in P2P system? We've got dial-up in the Ukrainian mountains. And it's disgusting for more active projects, you know.
Actually no idea how to improve our ECOMIND shelter situation, in Ukrainian conditions.

Added by Natasha on February 23, 2009 at 15:41 — 3 Comments

P2P Foundation receives Millenia Award

Via John La Grou and http://www.millenniamediagroup.com/foundation/ppm.php :

Dear friends,

They seem to be very low key about it, but in any case, I'm happy to receive it and since this is in many ways a collective endeavour, it's an award for all of us, the many contributors who have 'peer produced' through contributions and dialogue, the material at the P2P Foundation and its attempt to foster a new phase in human civilisation, based on open and free, participatory, and… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on February 21, 2009 at 3:11 — 1 Comment

Supernova 2009 Theme: Change Networks

Via Kevin Werbach:

Change is in the air. The past year demonstrated the promise and the peril of our densely connected world. Old policies and practices break down when individuals self-organize into movements, data flows openly across boundaries, consumers become creators, and shocks cascade through the system. In business as in politics, new strategies are essential.

Come to Supernova 2009, December 1-3 in San Francisco, CA, to become an agent of change, rather than a… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on February 20, 2009 at 3:23 — No Comments

Open Video Conference: call for proposals

Via Jessica Coates, Creative Commons Clinic

email: j2.coates@qut.edu.au

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Please circulate this notice far and wide.

*Open Video Conference: call for proposals*

*** Submission deadline: March 19 ***

We are now accepting proposals for panels, workshop sessions, demo sessions,

and other programming for the inaugural Open Video Conference in New York.

Join us and over 400… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on February 20, 2009 at 2:55 — No Comments