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January 2010 Blog Posts (16)

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

Volunteers Needed To Help Map the Distributed Manufacturing Ecosystem

An appeal by Suresh Fernando, that is worthy of our support,

contact him via suresh@radical-inclusion.com

In case you are not aware, OpenKollab, the Forward Foundation and the P2P Foundation are collaborating on mapping out the Distributed Manufacturing space in some detail.

The benefit to you is that you will:

* Learn about the Distributed Manufacturing space

* Learn about P2P networks

* Learn about the OpenKollab Ecosystem Pooled… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on January 6, 2010 at 5:02 — 3 Comments

Restoring animals as peers through totemic kinship: The Quest For A New Kinship With Nature by James William Gibson

Book: A Reenchanted World: The Quest For A New Kinship With Nature by James William Gibson.

Introduction

James William Gibson:

"1, The culture of enchantment creates symbolic, totemic kinship ties with wild animals. It does not erases human-animal differences, but clearly links them in human-animal kinship ties.

2. Consecrating land--restoring enchantment or sacredness to lands and waters--is a collective act. Consecration changes the… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on January 6, 2010 at 2:36 — 1 Comment

Transition - The Movie

Via John Thackara:

"One way is achieve effective eco-communication is to be James Cameron and spend

$300 million making Avatar. Another way is to be the Transition movement in

which hundreds of communities around the world are both stars in, and users of,

their own film. 'In Transition' is the first detailed film about the movement

filmed by those who are making it happen on the ground - communities around the

world responding to peak oil and climate change… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on January 5, 2010 at 15:06 — No Comments

Introducing OpenKollab

Via Suresh Fernando:

Openkollab is an open collaboration environment, the primary vision of which is to develop infrastructure and processes to connect socially beneficial projects that have aligned missions. In support of this larger vision, we have three primary goals.

1. Create a community of practice around issues relating to open collaboration and the development of social ventures

2. Identify and develop innovative tools, processes and infrastructure to… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on January 5, 2010 at 9:58 — No Comments

Planetary Forum = a project for a global forum where everyone has the right to speak and vote on all the subjects that one feels related to

Proposed by elf Pavlik at Rise Up Labs:

"Please feel officially invited to join the "Planetary Forum" which I like to compare to the mythical concept of 'the round table' just thanks to our current technology with a 'seat' for every single human being interested in participation. Please also feel free and even encouraged to invite all the people you know for participation and creating it.

I have just started putting some information at:… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on January 4, 2010 at 15:00 — No Comments

P2P Etiquette

I am hopefully not breaking P2P etiquette here, but my Kickstarter project funding seems to be stalled.

If I am to make further progress this year, I need to make this work.

So, I am requesting that you consider 5 or 10 dollars for the project, its is less about the amount, than about attracting a show of interest and support. This is a reasonably small sum, and you'll all have access to the full plans when they are published in march 2010. Equally important is for interested… Continue

Added by James Jones on January 3, 2010 at 2:00 — 1 Comment