Berlin Conf. On The Future Of The Digital Commons

vgrass writes "More than 100 speakers from all over the globe will come together in Berlin next week to discuss free software, free content and free infrastructures at the Wizards of OS 3. The Future of the Digital Commons (10-13 June). Speakers include Ross Anderson, Larry Lessig, Michael Tiemann, Jimbo Wales, William Fisher, Charlotte Hess, Rishab Ghosh, Christoph Hellwig, Eben Moglen, Jah Shaka, Ethan Zuckerman, Doug Cutting, Ralph Giles & Wendy Seltzer. Specials will include the Launch of Creative Commons Germany and a joint statement to the European Commission urging them to implement a music flatrate."

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List of names missing book publishers:Baen/Flint?

[dvk]

Looking through the names in the article, none jumped out at me as book publishers advocating free-er distribution of books. Looks lke Jim Baen (http://www.baen.com/library/defaultTitles.htm) and/or Eric Flint (http://www.baen.com/library/palaver_index.htm) would be someone fitting pretty well in that event.

-DVK

FYI: Wizards of OS Wiki

[stonebeat.org]

http://wiki.wizards-of-os.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl

For your convenience...

[3) profit!!!]

A link to the english front page, since the submitter seems to not have realized that it was in german. ;)

Re:Umm... question?

[merphant]

FYI, here is the list of speakers, with a short description of each person.

Re:Umm... question?

[Goonie]

• Jimbo Wales is the hugely benevolent dictator of Wikipedia.
• Lawrence Lessig is a law professor at Stanford and the main guy behind the Creative Commons.
• Eben Moglan is another law professor and the FSF's legal guy.
• Christoph Hellwig is a major Linux kernel guy.

There's plenty of people on the list who I've got no idea about, but I get the impression that part of the idea behind this conference is getting coders, lawyers, creative arty types, and others together so they each get an idea of what the others are doing.

Re:Err, ok.

[Renegade Lisp]

I've been to many conferences in my career, and two things have been true about all of them:

• they were beneficial to my work and my general education in a way that is hardly matched by anything else, e.g. a book or information from the web
• they were usually not worth it for the actual program, the talks, etc. It was all about meeting the right people. The talks sometimes only seem to function as an alibi for that.

I don't think the Wizards of OS will be any different, and yes, I think I'll be going there.

Re:patent your mouth

[4im]

I agree, it would be a good thing for them to speak out against swpat.

In related news, this Heise article (german) says that Janelly Fourtou, who was in charge of reviewing that IP directive, is under investigation for being biased on this question, as she directly profits by strong IP laws.

I sure hope that heads will roll, and that things will be rectified - after all, the democratically elected european parliament went clearly against software patents.

Jah Shaka

[rasjani]

Now there's a name that i wouldnt have ever imagine to appear on the pages of Slashdot.

And for those who dont know this man, he is one of the Pioneers of the UK Reggae soundsystems and producers and still has alot to offer to the reggae fanatics worldwide!

http://www.jahshakasoundsystem.com/

Give Raspect to His Majesty!

Re:Why are they talking about music?

[Anonymous Coward]

They should be talking about software patents

They are. The program is largely concerned with patent and copyright issues (as well as good ol' Free Software) and makes absolutely no mention of the music industry.

Program:
http://wizards-of-os.org/index.php?id=835&L=3

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