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Featured Blog Posts – May 2010 Archive (5)

Free Culture between Commons and Markets: Approaching the Hybrid Economy?

Online CFP: http://wikis.fu-berlin.de/display/fcrc/Home

Program Committee: http://wikis.fu-berlin.de/display/fcrc/Academic+Program+Committee

Please find also the CFP below:

Deadline for extended abstracts: June 7, 2010

The 3rd Free Culture Research Conference

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Added by Michel Bauwens on May 28, 2010 at 2:54 — No Comments

Finding 1000 True Fans for the Open Source Ecology project

Please support this very important project.

Via http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=458:

"We are presently accelerating the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) development –

to an ambitious goal of completing the entire set within two

years. The clock is ticking – and we… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on May 24, 2010 at 15:29 — No Comments

Call for cooperation with Aquila99: 1st wikiTV Festival G99 proposals for a sustainable World, L'Aquila, 8 - 10 July 2010

Via "Giuseppe Silvi" <giuseppesilvi@yahoo.it>,

More details at http://www.laquila99.tv/wiki/index.php?title=1st_wikiTV_Festival_G99_proposals_for_a_sustainable_World

1st wikiTV Festival G99 proposals for a sustainable World, L'Aquila, 8 - 10 July 2010

draft updated on Monday, 24 / 05 /…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on May 24, 2010 at 10:23 — No Comments

Creation of the Open Source Hardware and Design Alliance

OHANDA is an initiative to foster sustainable sharing of open hardware

and design. It was first drafted at the GOSH!-Grounding Open Source

Hardware summit at the Banff Centre in July 2009.

One of the first goals of the project is to build a service for

sharing open hardware designs which includes a certification model and

a registration. Recently we are working on getting an OpenHardware[TM]

off the ground.

OHANDA is work in process. The process is open… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on May 23, 2010 at 11:46 — No Comments

CopySouth Research Group conference in Rio, June 2010

15 May 2010

The CopySouth Research Group (CSRG) invites you to attend and join in the debates at its international conference on copyright to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil at the end of June.

The issues to be discussed include: 1) file sharing, copyright ‘piracy’ and the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA); 2) musicians and the copyright system; 3) cultural diversity and North-South knowledge flows; 4) Electronic books, Google books, and Sciello books; 5) access to… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on May 16, 2010 at 9:46 — 1 Comment