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Isaac Wilder, on the the radical necessity of humanity's co-owning the physical layer.

More info via http:www.freenetworkmovement.org

Isaac Wilder writes:

As I see it, this is the only path to freedom.

 

To that end, I *have* a roadmap. It has five stages, and follows hot

on the tail of this preamble. I see this roadmap playing out…

Via…

Via Becky Lenz:

Global Congress on Public Interest Intellectual Property Law

SAVE THE DATE: August 25-27, 2011

American University Washington College of Law

4801 Massachusetts Ave, NW

Washington DC, 20016



Please mark your calendars and plan to participate in one of the most

important meetings on international intellectual property law of the year.



American University Washington College of Law (WCL) will host the first

annual…

Via Elf Pavlik:

I've stayed in Barcelona for some days now and I have just started calling

up people from various networks and projects to start meeting in picnic

like environment with Open Space like meeting. If any of people from this

list stay in Barcelona please feel heartfully invited to join in! more info

at:…

Via Jonny Gordon-Farleigh:

"I have just finished editing Stir - www.stirtoaction.wordpress.com - feel free to republish any of the articles on your site.  They are all under creative commons licenses.  Also please share with anyone who is involved or interested in community organising and political activism.



It features:

Can the Commons Move from the Margins to the Mainstream?…

Info via http://lapetition.be/en-ligne/petition-9491.html

PERSÉE IN DANGER, SIGN THE PETITION



PERSÉE – the leading program for digitizing and distributing french-speaking scientific content – is today threatened on account of a decision taken by the University of Lyon 2 - Lumière



Without prior consultation with Persée's staff, director and partners, the board of the Lyon 2 University has…

Via Sam Rose:

See http://rockethub.com/projects/1349-understanding-today-s-economic-transformation#

 …

Via Eli Farley:

 http://openfarmtech.org/wiki/OSE_custom_search_engine

It allows you to search the OSE wiki (http://openfarmtech.org/wiki/),…

Today, our rights and the overall quality of our life heavily depend on how software is used around us. Quite often, even people who already spend much time online don't realize all the ways in which computer influence their lives. With the Digital Citizens Basic online course I try to explain all this, in the simplest possible way.

This course is quite different from most courses with…

Via Andrew Paterson:

More info at http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/videovortex/vv-reader

Dear All,



the Institute of Network Cultures is pleased to announce the publication of Video Vortex Reader II: moving images beyond YouTube. The printed copies have arrived safe and sound at the INC headquarters as we wait excitedly to launch the book at the Video Vortex #6 conference on Saturday,…

Via Daniel at https://ripplexchange.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=826:

Ripple has grown over recent months, from an interesting concept with dormant projects into an actively developing ecosystem.



The Ripple Project (http://ripple-project.org/) aims to build a new form of money which derives from existing social relationships rather than from…

Via Joe Rinehart:

Dear Friends of the Eastern Conference for Workpace Democracy,

As you may know, the ECWD will be held July 8-10, 2011 on the campus of University of Maryland, Baltimore County.  We're in the process of recruiting presenters and proposals for panels, caucuses, or other sessions, and we'd love to hear from you!…

via Sam Rose:

http://bugs.joindiaspora.com/issues/311



Here's what I wrote:



"We're experimenting with "plugin" architecture ideas for diaspora.



We have a simple idea that is based off of the

http://flows.panarchy.com draft RFC



Our idea is to basically keep the "plugins" completely outside of the…

By Ezio…

The traditional left finds itself in a blind alley. It is quit incredible that just two years after the devastating financial crisis demonstrating the obvious bankruptcy of neoliberalism, the defenders of the “free” market and deregulation are already back in business. In the United States, the very same who caused the crisis and run to the state for their rescue, are now blaming the Democrats of causing huge deficits and demanding cuts in living standards of civil servants and the working…

The following was also endorsed by the P2P Foundation:

Original via http://fcforum.net/sustainable-models-for-creativity/declaration

Free/Libre Culture Forum Declaration

[For details, see the extended version]

We can no longer put off…