October 2010 Blog Posts (16)

Via Lisinka.Ulatowska@gmail.com :

All of us share sources of wealth that are beyond market goods and monetary prices…

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Subject: [cc-affiliates] Call for Participation - Economies of the

Commons 2: Paying the costs of making things free - 12-13 November,

Amsterdam







Economies of the Commons 2 - Paying the costs of making things free



www.ecommons.eu

International conference, seminar and public evening programs



Conference dates: 12-13 November 2010. De Balie, Amsterdam

Pre-conference: November 11. Hilversum (on collaboration… Continue

More info via http://www.commonsstrategies.org



The Commons Strategy Group sees the commons as an emerging concept for advancing new models of governance and resource management in nature, culture, the economy and our local communities. The commons places stewardship, participation, sustainability, community and the freedom to create at the center of productive enterprise.





The Commons Strategy Group (CSG) is a partnership… Continue

Via Silke Helfrich:

International Commons Conference (ICC)

Constructing a Commons-Based Policy Platform…

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Via Silke Helfrich:





Please spread the following link and share it with whomever might be interested. THANK YOU SO MUCH!



http://www.boell.de/mediathek/mediathek-stream.html



For technical assistance please ask: Markus Reuter… Continue

Via Jai Sen, CACIM:





FREE ARTICLES downloadable in new Paper Symposium on ‘Autonomy and Activism’ published by Antipode, Geography’s radical journal.



FREE @ http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anti.2010.42.issue-4/issuetoc



Antipode, Geography's long standing radical journal of Geography, is pleased to announce a special symposium of papers called: 'Autonomy: The… Continue

The FCForum 2010





Citizens will continue to work on the task of conceiving a digital era

that is sustainable and benefits everybody. The oXcars will be followed

by the 3-day FCForum, the 2nd International Forum on Access to Culture

and Knowledge in the Digital Era, which is organised by EXGAE together

with the international FCForum platform, in collaboration with Arts

Santa Mònica.





The FCForum 2010 will assemble the main organisations… Continue

Yes, OXCARS (The biggest free/libre event ever) and International Forum on Access to Culture and Knowledge in the Digital Era – Organization and Action (FCForum) are back!



(Barcelona & online)



Oxcars: 28 October, 21ºº h – Sala Apolo, Nou de la Rambla, 113, Barcelona. Metro: Paral.lel

Fcforum: 28 -31 October, http://www.fcforum.net/10



Like every other year – and this one more than ever – EXGAE invites everybody to… Continue

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1. All human civilization had been…

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Over the past twenty years or so we have seen a rising tide of alternative copyright licences emerge — for software, music and most types of content. These include the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) licence, the General Public Licence (GPL), and the range of licences devised by Creative Commons (… Continue

As if report in front of the UN governing body might be done by a representative of a scientific NGO (International Academy of Information Technologies) at the UN Department of Public Information

Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen,…

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Via Evgeni Pandurski:



We are pleased to announce that the second public beta release of our

software for peer-to-peer barter exchange is now available. This beta

release is made available to allow a broad user base to test and

evaluate the novel approach to bartering that we propose. The source

code is available at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/cmb/



"Circular Multilateral… Continue

Via Chris Watkins, http://blogs.appropedia.org/2010/10/09/coalition-movement-camp-online-work-party-sunday-101010/





Only a few hours to go until the Coalition Movement Camp 10/10/10 Work Party - it runs 10 am to 10 pm EDT (that's current NY time), i.e. 2pm to 2am GMT. GMT sometimes gets called UTC now.



This is for all of us who want a new information-action… Continue

Via Neal Gorenflo:



Original announcement with links and full report in Scribd is at http://shareable.net/blog/is-social-media-catalyzing-new-sharing-economy





Report: http://latdsurvey.net/pdf/Sharing.pdf







The results of Latitude Research and Shareable Magazine's The New Sharing Economy study released today… Continue

As more and more of the world’s population has gained access to the Internet so a growing number of free and open movements have appeared — including the free and open source software movements, free culture,…

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This is your invitation to participate in the Common Course, Oct 17 - Nov 13.

Commons Action for the United Nations, Anthroposphere Institute, Global Commons Trust and ECO-Singapore would like to invite you to participate in this free, on-line Common Course, and ask for your help in outreach to others who may find this course transformative for their work as individuals, NGO's, government representatives or business leaders.

A commons approach provides…

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