Via Wouter Tebbens:
PRESS RELEASE:
EC SUPPORTS EUROPEAN EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMME ON FREE SOFTWARE
Free Technology Academy set up as distance learning campus
A Consortium formed by three universities and led by the Free Knowledge
Institute (FKI) has received the support from the EC's Lifelong Learning
Programme to offer an international educational programme on Free
Software.
Following the Open Educational Resources movement, all
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Added by Michel Bauwens on February 19, 2009 at 9:00 —
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The Creative Commons is full of potential for artists everywhere – so why is most of it untapped?
an article I wrote on this topic, and on how CC and similar "Free-as-in-Freedom-Knowledge" initiatives are lived outside the western countries, is now fully readable online. Please visit the related
LXF forum thread to download the full text and add your…
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Added by Marco Fioretti on February 19, 2009 at 5:21 —
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via Jonathan Gray:
~~ Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) 2009 ~~
* where: Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, UCL, London, UK
* when: 28th March 2009, 1030-1830
* home:
* programme:
* register:
* call for proposals:
* last year:
The Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) is back for its fourth installment
bringing together individuals and groups from across the open knowledge
spectrum for a day of talks, discussions and…
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Added by Michel Bauwens on February 19, 2009 at 2:04 —
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I strongly recommend you take a look at the report mentioned here:
http://www.futureofpublicmedia.net
It's full of wonderful examples of participatory news production by public broadcasters and public advocacy organisations.
Via the Center for Social Media:
Tomorrow's Public Media Will Be Bigger, Better, And Different From Public Broadcasting
AU's Center for Social Media Releases New Report on "Public Media…
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Added by Michel Bauwens on February 18, 2009 at 10:00 —
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Please do join us at this most important gathering in Manchester on March 27 to 29th.
Below is the text of the official invitation.
Free Software and Beyond. The World of Peer Production. 4th Oekonux Conference
URL = http://www.oekonux-conference.org/
(organized by Oekonux in cooperation with the P2P Foundation - The 4th Oekonux Conference will be held on March 27th-29th, 2009 at Manchester University…
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Added by Michel Bauwens on February 18, 2009 at 2:25 —
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La Quadrature du Net - For immediate release
Permanent link:
http://www.laquadrature.net/en/who-wants-net-discrimination-in-europe
Who wants Net Discrimination in Europe?
** Paris, Feb.16th. Amendments in the European Parliament to the
"Telecoms Package"[1] may allow operators to take control of their
customer's usage of the Net. According to amendments pushed by AT&T,
"network management practices" could be used to…
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Added by Michel Bauwens on February 17, 2009 at 2:08 —
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Message from Ulrike Reinhard
Please note the overview article: http://www.we-magazine.net/we-volume-02/the-emergence-of-open-design-and-open-manufacturing/
hi all,
here we go - we-magazine vol. 02 is launched!!
http://www.we-magazine.net/
http://www.we-magazine.net/we-volume-02/
you can download the PDF file here, a printed version will
be send to you next week via lulu.com.
for this we would need your adresses ....…
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Added by Michel Bauwens on February 14, 2009 at 8:13 —
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Let me debut here at P2P Foundation with an issue that has kept my thoughts during the last few days, please forgive my grammar, I promise I can write in spanish much, much better!, just hope you can follow the idea.
Few years ago
I wrote my first… Continue
Added by carobotero on February 12, 2009 at 11:26 —
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I've asked Joseph to remove this ASAP as it has obviously no place in our forum,
Michel
Added by Michel Bauwens on February 10, 2009 at 4:40 —
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May I point out one of my essays here"
http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?main=/articles/art0671.html
It's entitled "The (Needed) New Economics of Abundance"
Added by Steve Burgess on February 3, 2009 at 20:59 —
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An appeal from Swedish parliamentary candidate Erik Josefsson
if you are European and are concerned with network neutrality, please consider co-signing http://www.co-ment.net/text/711/
Erik writes:
Hello!
The "telecoms package" is a bundle of directives that regulates the
Internet and the Telecoms market in Europe. I think the original purpose
of the project was good, but it has been highjacked by special interests
who are very…
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Added by Michel Bauwens on February 1, 2009 at 13:18 —
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Hacking the Way to Heaven, by Julian Fox is now available for purchase through Lulu.
see http://www.lulu.com/content/5912363
with my blurb:
"The Catholic Church is sometimes called the oldest hierarchical organisation in continuous existence, but it always also been the mother of many participatory social movements, reflecting the liberatory and emancipatory potential of the Christian message. What is interesting is how the Church and the egalitarian…
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Added by Michel Bauwens on February 1, 2009 at 12:39 —
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Via Valérie Dagrain:
The Libre Software Meeting, Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre is an
event of the Free Software Community in France. It happens since year
2000. Website: http://2009.rmll.info
This year, the tenth meeting is organised from the 7th to the 11th July
2009 in Nantes (France). Localisation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nantes
Call For Presentation - Community Theme
- The Community Theme proposes to explore how…
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Added by Michel Bauwens on January 28, 2009 at 13:12 —
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Via Mayo Fuster Morell,
Subject: [Network] WSF - Belem //
SOCIAL FORUMS 2.0?: TOWARDS NETWORKED POLITICS: TECHNOLOGY AND KNOWLEDGE
- Please help to spread the word. Thank you -
Seminar during the World Social Forum 2009 - Belem (Brazil)
SOCIAL FORUMS 2.0?: TOWARDS NETWORKED POLITICS: TECHNOLOGY AND KNOWLDEGE
Friday 30th January 2009 - Second Slot (12hpm-15hpm)
* Seminar description: The techno-tools provided by the Social Forums…
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Added by Michel Bauwens on January 28, 2009 at 10:30 —
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You can download David Bollier´s Viral Spiral
from here
It´s a good book from page 146 (pdf) onwords.
Enjoy it
Added by Carlos Boyle on January 25, 2009 at 14:08 —
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Via Caitlin Graf, The New Press
The New Press and OnTheCommons.org are pleased to announce a new collaborative video project which addresses the commons—the theory that, according to Peter Linebaugh, “vests all property in the community and organizes labor for the common benefit of all.” The Commons video is being featured on The Nation's website at: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090126/commons_video?rel=hp_mediaband
Animated with whimsy and style by artists Molly…
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Added by Michel Bauwens on January 22, 2009 at 11:55 —
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"Jack Herrick" :
Here is an invitation to the Recent Changes Camp Conference, being held in
Portland, Oregon on Feb 20-22 that might interest some folks here:
Wiki, open technology, free culture and collaboration enthusiasts from
around the world are all invited to this year's
RecentChangesCamp,
taking place Feb 20-22 in Portland, Oregon, USA. Full invitation at:
http://2009rcc.org/wagn/invitation
Held every year since 2006 (and twice in…
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Added by Michel Bauwens on January 20, 2009 at 12:35 —
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Via David Bollier:
Dear Friends of the Commons,
I am pleased to report that my new book, Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own, has been published by New Press. For more info -- and downloads of a Creative Commons-licensed version -- you may go to www.viralspiral.cc. Printed copies are available for purchase from the usual stores and online retailers.
Best,
David
Begin…
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Added by Michel Bauwens on January 19, 2009 at 13:45 —
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(via Helen Titchen Beeth)
From: Kathleen Battke
Date: Fri 16 Jan 2009 19:49:05 GMT+01:00
Dear friends,
The economic self-destruction process we are experiencing now, this crisis is definitely too valuable a chance for us to waste – and many of us do their best to ease the pain of transformation in and around us.
Gaia U wants to support visionaries of more efficient and healthy moneys to realize their complementary currencies projects in an…
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Added by Michel Bauwens on January 17, 2009 at 4:11 —
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Via Zbigniew Lukasiak: The economy of Open Source - when self-identification is not efficient.
According to "The Wealth of Networks" Open Source as an example of
Peer Production is governed by an economy of self-identification
significantly different from the traditional money market economy with
it's own quirks and inefficiencies:
"the self-identification that is central to the relative information
efficiency of peer production is not always…
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Added by Michel Bauwens on January 17, 2009 at 0:00 —
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