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EUROPEAN EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMME ON FREE SOFTWARE

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

learning… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on February 19, 2009 at 9:00 — No Comments

The tragedy of the commons

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… Continue

Added by Marco Fioretti on February 19, 2009 at 5:21 — No Comments

Fourth Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon), 28th March 2009, 1030-1830

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… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on February 19, 2009 at 2:04 — No Comments

New report on public media 2.0, chockful of great examples

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… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on February 18, 2009 at 10:00 — No Comments

4th Oekonux conference on “The World of Peer Production” - Please join us in Manchester on March 27, 2009

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… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on February 18, 2009 at 2:25 — 1 Comment

Who wants Net Discrimination in Europe? Net Neutrality in immediate danger

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… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on February 17, 2009 at 2:08 — No Comments

We Magazine is out: on open design and manufacturing.

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 ....… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on February 14, 2009 at 8:13 — No Comments

Thinking about copyright infringment and criminal law.

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 — 1 Comment

Apologies for the sex spam, we're working on removing it

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 — 2 Comments

Economics of Abundance essay

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 — No Comments

European net neutrality still in danger

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… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on February 1, 2009 at 13:18 — No Comments

Hacking Heaven is Out

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… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on February 1, 2009 at 12:39 — No Comments

Libre Software Meeting (7th to the 11th July 2009 in Nantes (France))

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… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on January 28, 2009 at 13:12 — No Comments

Seminar: technology and the alterglobalization movement

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… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on January 28, 2009 at 10:30 — No Comments

To download Viral Spiral

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 — 1 Comment

New Commons video

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… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on January 22, 2009 at 11:55 — No Comments

Recent Changes Camp in Portland, Feb 20-22

"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… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on January 20, 2009 at 12:35 — No Comments

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 …

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… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on January 19, 2009 at 13:45 — No Comments

Scholarships for complementary currency designers

(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… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on January 17, 2009 at 4:11 — No Comments

The economy of Open Source - when self-identification is not efficient.

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… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on January 17, 2009 at 0:00 — No Comments