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Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software Symposium

Via Ralph Morelli:

We invite you to attend the 2nd annual HFOSS Symposium (HFOSS 2010… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on February 17, 2010 at 7:37 — No Comments

Open Access Publishing Bogeymen

In their efforts to derail the onward march of Open Access (OA) opponents have conjured up a number of bogeymen about Open Access publishing. First, they maintain, asking authors to pay to publish could turn scholarly publishing into a vanity press.Second, they say, OA publishing will in any case inevitably lead to lax or… Continue

Added by Richard Poynder on February 14, 2010 at 3:25 — No Comments

Germany plans enquiry into the digital society

On 14th January the Christian Democratic Union and its Union partner in the German government the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CDU/CSU) proposed setting up an Enquete Commission to examine the implications of the Internet on society. Amongst other things, the Commission will be asked to look at initiatives for providing free access to publicly-funded research. Could this announcement be connected with the e-petition in support of Open Access (OA) launched in Germany last November? Does it… Continue

Added by Richard Poynder on February 7, 2010 at 20:22 — 3 Comments

Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Barcelona from 26-29 of March 2010

Via Enric Senabre Hidalgo :

Dear friends,

We would like to request for your participation in the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity,…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on February 6, 2010 at 15:52 — No Comments

Ponoko announcement: World’s easiest making system now available in the EU

Derek Elley of Ponoko send us the following announcement and adds why it is important:

- US creators (like ESTY and Adobe users) can ship their products to EU customers at 85% less cost, and with less environmental impact.

- Shipping costs between the US and EU are reduced from $60 to $9 for for smaller goods.

- A new global distribution network for goods is increasingly taking shape - you now ship designs for local production.

Our online… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on February 5, 2010 at 10:30 — No Comments

Critical Point of View: Second international conference of the CPOV Wikipedia Research Initiative

Via Johanna Niesyto, http://www.protest-cultures.uni-siegen.de:

Critical Point of View: Second international conference of the CPOV Wikipedia Research Initiative

Date: 26-27 March 2010

Location: OBA (Public Library Amsterdam, next to… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on February 5, 2010 at 10:04 — No Comments

Sourceforge site testing volunteers

Sourceforge are seeking volunteers to help perform site testing from around the

globe. At present, we need testers in Asia (East and Southeast), Africa,

South America, Australia, and Antarctica (seriously).

You can learn about the Beacon tool we use at

https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/wiki/beacon.

If you can help us out, we'll give you $10 via PayPal monthly for up to six… Continue

Added by Kevin Chilton on February 4, 2010 at 13:09 — No Comments

Indigenous people of Bolivia obtain land titles through ICT empowerment

Via the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, 7 January 2010

The issue of land ownership in Bolivia is a long-standing source of

conflict and division. Over the past few years however, the situation

has been changing for the better largely because of the determination of

the indigenous peoples themselves who have enlisted the latest

technology to help them overcome the bureaucratic obstacles that have

prevented land transfers from taking… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on February 2, 2010 at 6:46 — No Comments

Please support the CubeSpawn fundraising project!

Hi, This is James Jones,

I am currently developing an Open Source hardware project, called "CubeSpawn" to build small, light duty manufacturing equipment to help individuals make things locally. To get the project funded I have applied to a Pepsi sponsored Grant program.

All you need to do to support the idea, is vote for it to get it into the top ten listings To vote, go here:… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on February 2, 2010 at 4:59 — No Comments

Participatory spirituality breakout in Japan

Transformative Inquiry: An Integral Approach: Ritsumekian University publishes anthology on Jorge Ferrer’s integral pedagogy.

EWP chair Jorge Ferrer’s participatory integral pedagogy is the focus of Transformative Inquiry: An Integral Approach (Kyoto, Japan: Institute of Human Sciences, 2010), an anthology of writings coedited by Prof. Yoshiharu Nakagawa and Yoshiko Matsuda based on Ferrer’s recent visit to Ritsumekian University, Kyoto. The anthology includes the Japanese… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on February 1, 2010 at 2:50 — No Comments

Special issue on renewable and distributed energy infrastructures

From: Rasa Smite

we have extended deadline for ENERGY publication - now it is March 31, 2010,

CALL FOR PAPERS:

ENERGY. Scientific and artistic, utopian and critical visions of future terrestrial energy.

Acoustic Space (Issue nr. 8)

"Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it can only be transformed."

(The law of conservation of energy)

RIXC Centre for New Media Culture is seeking manuscripts for the upcoming Acoustic… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on January 29, 2010 at 9:23 — No Comments

Fourth International Conference on Online Deliberation

Fourth International Conference on Online Deliberation (OD2010)

More info at http://www.od2010.dico.unimi.it/

30 June 2 July, 2010

Leeds, UK

Sponsored by: The University of Leeds, the Dipartimento di Informatica e

Comunicazione Universit degli Studi di Milano, and the Public Sphere Project.

discuss specific advances in online deliberation from a number of different

disciplinary… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on January 28, 2010 at 3:35 — No Comments

Virtual Communication, Collaboration and Conflict Research Group, conference in Hull

More info at http://virt3c.wordpress.com/about/

The Virtual Communication, Collaboration and Conflict Research Group (VIRT3C) is about passionate collaborative production and exploring the strengths and weakness of peer technology and open projects. VIRT3C will bring leading cybertheorists, internet, peer production and social networking experts together for knowledge-sharing, and collaboration in interdisciplinary academic… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on January 27, 2010 at 7:00 — No Comments

First International Conference on Accessible Digital Manufacturing Technology and Design" to be held in Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Via http://fabbaloo.com/blog/2010/1/18/nextfab-conference-brewing.html

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We received a message from folks organizing a new conference

tentatively titled the "First International Conference on Accessible

Digital Manufacturing Technology and Design" to be held in Campinas,

Sao Paulo, Brazil in 2010. While the conference's title is not yet

written in stone, their objectives… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on January 26, 2010 at 7:02 — No Comments

Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) 2010: Call for Proposals

~~ Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) 2010: Call for Proposals ~~

* where: London, UK

* when: Saturday 24th April, 2010

* www: http://www.okfn.org/okcon/

* last year: http://www.okfn.org/okcon/2009/

* cfp: http://www.okfn.org/okcon/cfp/ (deadline: Jan 31st 2010)

* hashtag: #okcon2010

## Introduction

OKCon,… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on January 26, 2010 at 6:59 — No Comments

CFP: ‘PAYING ATTENTION: DIGITAL MEDIA CULTURES AND GENERATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY’

VIA Patrick Crogan :

"CALL FOR PAPERS

‘PAYING ATTENTION: DIGITAL MEDIA CULTURES AND GENERATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY’

A European Science Foundation Research Conference, Linkoping, Sweden 7 – 10th Sept 2010

Organised by the Digital Cultures Research Centre at the University of the West of England.

Chairs:

1. Professor Jonathan Dovey, Director, Digital Cultures Research Centre, University of the West of England

2.… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on January 25, 2010 at 9:43 — No Comments

Call for Papers on The Ethics of Sharing

Via Felix Stalder, http://felix.openflows.com

Call for Papers, Deadline extented

International Review of Information Ethics

http://www.i-r-i-e.net/

The Ethics of Sharing

Call for Papers for Vol. 15 - July 2011

• Deadline for extended abstracts: January 31, 2011

• Notification of acceptance to authors:…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on January 22, 2010 at 1:00 — No Comments

M•CAM Releases World Health Global Innovation Commons and Social Networking Platform

Via Dr. David E. Martin:

Text: Charlottesville, VA; Washington D.C.; Rabaul, Papua New Guinea.

M•CAM is pleased to announce the publication of the fourth and final title in the Global Innovation Commons – World Health. This title now completes the four-part commitment to the world in making available the most comprehensive compilation innovation sorted by its utility for open source and generic deployment. In its World Health publication, M•CAM has… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on January 19, 2010 at 3:41 — No Comments

Student codes 'google for torrents'

A student recently decided to create an algorithm like Google's to index web pages. After some iterations and months of hard work the code did not seem to work as well as Google's, so he decided to use the fruits of his labor in a more restricted field - he limited his crawler to find bit-torrent files. He then proceeded to check those torrents to eliminate the deadwood and the fakes and to put up the ones that had sufficient information on a server. Here is his description of what he did and… Continue

Added by Sepp Hasslberger on January 12, 2010 at 12:00 — 3 Comments

Enclosing an open documentary on free culture?

With a few others, I participated in a series of interviews at the Free Culture Forum in Barcelona, which we were told would be part of a 'open' documentary.

According to one of the co-interviewers at the time, this material is in danger of being enclosed.

Here's the explanation by Pierre Marcel Racine

Contact him via isaac@isaacbcn.com

"Since we made that interview though, our project has taken a funny turn. At the end of November the producer… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on January 6, 2010 at 16:00 — 3 Comments