Via Jay Cousins:

Makerplatz is a hub of Making, Doing and Action. It is a place where you can come and learn how to make things, events, a good stuff happen. Where ideas, knowledge, skills in form of workshops, discussions and performances around making, crafting, gardening, street art, sewing, hacking are shared. You can participate in the activities of others, or create your own.…

New Collection

Collaboration and Freedom – The World of Free and Open Source Art

A collection of artworks, texts and resources about freedom and openness in the arts, in the age of the Internet. Freedom to collaborate – to use, modify and redistribute ideas, artworks, experiences, media and tools. Openness to the ideas and contributions of others, and new ways of organising and making decisions together.



Curated by Furtherfield: Ruth Catlow and Marc Garrett with…

More info at http://michelbauwens.eventbrite.com/

Institute for the Future (IFTF) and Shareable Magazine invite you to join us for a evening of discussion with Michel Bauwens,…

Via Smári McCarthy :

From: The Constitutional Society a href="mailto:stjornarskrarfelagid@gmail.com">stjornarskrarfelagid@gmail.com>

Due to great  interest from various organisations and individuals

abroad, The Constitutional Society in Iceland has obtained and published

an independent English translation of  The Constitutional Bill delivered

by The Constitutional Council 29 July 2011.



Please see the English translation of…

Via Simona Levi:

27 to 29 of October 2011 - Barcelona

Oxcars and FreeCultureForum 2011

Networks for a R-evolution

More info at http://2011.fcforum.net…

Via Ulrike Reinhard:

Thrive is the magazine of the Global Economic Symposium (GES), which will take place early October in Kiel, Germany. THRIVE is part of the GES efforts to link its own mainly scientific community with a broader and wider audience on the Internet. In various articles and topics we linked the scientific experts of the GES community with online visionaires.

More…

Via Marc Garrett, Furtherfield.org

See the new collection, The World of Free and Open Source Art' on the P2P foundation's Wiki.



at:  http://p2pfoundation.net/World_of_Free_and_Open_Source_Art







Collaboration and Freedom – The World of Free and Open Source Art.



A collection of artworks, texts and resources about freedom and openness

in the…

Via Felix Stalder:

More info via http://www.i-r-i-e.net/inhalt/015/015_full.pdf

"The current issue of the International Review of Information Ethics on the

ethics of sharing, guest-edited by myself and Wolfgang Sützl, is available

online now.



With contributions by Clemens Apprich, Michel Bauwens, Vito Campanelli,

Alessandro Delfanti, Marie-Luisa Frick/Andreas…

Via Dmytri Kleiner:

Debtors' of The World Unite! The Initiative to form an International Debtors' Party.

Congratulations to the Pirate Party having won an astounding 8.9% in the Berlin elections.



As I wrote two weeks ago, this is their moment of relevance, the emergence of Information politics as a mainstream political topic. Having 15 Piratenpartei representatives in the local government will certainly be of direct material benefit to activists fighting…

Via:

 …

OPEN GOVERNMENT DATA CAMP 2011 ===============================

Info via http://blog.okfn.org/2011/09/02/call-for-participation-open-government-data-camp-2011/

Open Government Data Camp is the world’s biggest open data event. It brings together civil servants, developers, NGOs and others for two

days of talks, workshops and project sprints.

The camp has…

Future Learning Spaces, the 7th annual Designs on E-learning 2011 conference, will be held at Aalto University in Helsinki. Finland in September 2011.

More at http://www.designsonelearning2011.com/

We will be exploring future learning spaces, from four different perspectives, each led by an expert innovator.

Michel…

Pixelache workshop: How to co-design an Open Design community (Helsinki, Finland) - updated

Massimo Menichinelli has been invited by Pixelache to host a workshop about how to…

Via Jose Murilo:

CulturaDigital.Br - International Festival - December 2-4th - Rio de Janeiro

 

Open Call

More than an event for the exhibition of ideas and projects, the CulturaDigital.Br Festival is a space for encounters between agents of digital culture from Brazil and all over the world — producers and activists who operate in the intersection between culture, politics, technology.



From December 2-4th, MAM-Rio and Cine…

Via Jay Cousins:

A brilliant opportunity for the Maker community has arisen in Berlin, we have 4 spaces in one weekend, we aim to bring together representatives from different groups in Berlin to share their skills and knowledge and to co create a festival with the public. If you'd like to get involved or know anyone who would, please feel free to contact me.

Info via…

Via Istvan Rado:

There will be a conference on sufficiency economy to be held on 18-19 October in Bangkok -

Website www.sufficiency-conference.org