Befinner mig på högintressanta Wizards of OS 4, den digitalvisionära konferensen i Berlin. OS står för Open Source - i bred bemärkelse. Temat för året är "Information Freedom Rules". det hela är mycket Berlinskt. En mix av cutting edge academia, kultur, aktivism, alternativ livsstil, politik etc. Jag kommer inte att maniskt blogga om allt som händer eftersom jag har ett par större uppdrag också och kommer att rapportera på andra sätt från konferensen. Dessutom suger Wi-Fi-nätverket ... Inledningstalet sker om 10 minuter. Rasmus Fleischer från Piratbyrån sitter sedan i en panel. Lawrence Lessig, Hal Varian, Yochai Benkler och andra amerikanska topprofessorer är här också.
Här kommer ett utdrag ur konferensens egen pressrelease:
Information freedom rules
The year is 2006. 15 years after the launch of the GNU General Public Licence, ten years after
John Perry Barlow declared the independence of cyberspace, and five years after Wikipedia was
founded. Time for stock taking. Free protocols enable the Internet. Free software rules on the
servers. The freedom movement in the sciences advances in big steps. The free cooperative
online encyclopedia Wikipedia is well-established as a reference. And every day more people are
freely creating and sharing cultural expressions of all kinds. But what is the freedom that we
mean? Is freedom ruling or a niche? What rules has freedom brought forth, which does it
require in order to become sustainable? Is there an essence of freedom or is it gradual,
composed of options as Creative Commons suggests? Is „freedom from“ more important or
„freedom to“? Do only those have freedom who can afford it or those that have nothing left to
lose? Can you make a living with free information? Can you sell free beer? WOS4 charts this
open territory while it unfolds in front of us.
The Wizards of OS with three conferences and several workshops has firmly established itself as
a place where the foundations of cultural creativity in the digital age are being debated
internationally, interdisciplinarily and at high level. The fourth Wizards of OS under the title
„Information Freedom Rules" again wants to infect its participants with the radical spirit of
freedom and creativity, in talks, discussions and workshops present the most impressive
developments of the last two years and entice its participants to collaborative explorations of the
possible.
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