Berlin Conf. On The Future Of The Digital Commons

Posted by timothy on Sunday June 6, 2004 @06:00PM from the wish-I-could-go dept.

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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For your convenience... by 3)+profit!!! · 2004-06-06 18:21 · Score: 5, Informative

A link to the english front page, since the submitter seems to not have realized that it was in german. ;)
Re:Err, ok. by Renegade+Lisp · 2004-06-06 19:36 · Score: 5, Informative
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.