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3. Oekonux Conference -- Invitations

Maintainer: Stefan Merten, Version 1, 07.01.2004
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3. Who should be invited for a presentation?

(1) This part is one piece in OpenTheory [http://www.opentheory.org/oxkonferenz3-invite/text.phtml] where you can comment on.

3.1. Suggestions

(2) In the following list at the start of each suggestion the suggester is named in square brackets (if known and remembered). In general this should be the person who cares about building contact. If persons are mentioned below they have been sent the Call for Contribution unless noted otherwise. If there is - to my knowledge - some reaction from them already this is also noted.

(3) These did not work out in the past conferences:

(4) * [StefanMn] Gundolf Freyermuth (wants to come).

(5) * [StefanMn] The people from the school / education activities: PingoS (Heiko Degenhardt), FSuB (Karl Sarnow), OpenWebSchool (Hans-Peter Prenzel).

(6) * [StefanMn] Someone who can tell us something about fabbers and similar machines I would like to see on the conference very much. http://www.smalltimes.com/document_display.cfm?document_id=6413 might be an idea but I guess we could find someone from Europe.

(7) * [StefanMn] Pekka Himanen has been invited again

(8) Unfortunately the date does not fit :-( .

(9) * [FranzT] Rebeca and Mauricio Wild (alternative school and economic systems / Ecuador) showed very much interest in Oekonux last summer.

(10) I don't know whether they received a CfC.

(11) * [StefanMz] André Gorz because of his new book "L'Immatériel". Interview under http://www.woz.ch/wozhomepage/26j03/gorz26j03.html.

(12) StefanMz asked him but unfortunately he feels to be to old for traveling. May be someone from his environment could be asked instead?

(13) * [StefanMn] Christoph Beaupoil, who together with Graham gave a spontaneous session on the 2. conference about Free Hardware / Free Design should be asked explicitly.

(14) * [StefanMn] Perhaps Tom Schwaller who now works for IBM as Linux evangelist. Especially I would be interested in how IBM makes money on basis of Free Software.

(15) Has not been contacted yet.

(16) * [StefanMn] Christian Wagner from Buko Pharma wants to come for the topic pharmaceuticals / generica.

(17) * [StefanMn] Philippe Aigrain declared interest but could not come because of timing problems. He wrote Positive Intellectual Rights and Information Exchanges [http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/aigrain.pdf].

(18) Mail address did not work out.

(19) * [StefanMn] Since the 1. conference I wanted to have someone telling us about the theses of Lawrence Lessig - namely "Code is Law". The Berlin based people around Lutterbeck / Gehring are the first who come to mind.

(20) [StefanMn] An alternative or add-on could be Johann Bizer [http://www.jura.uni-frankfurt.de/bizer/] who I came to know on the e-democracy Workshop and who I liked.

(21) [Leopold] An interesting pool could be the Vienna based http://www.infolaw.at/.

(22) The following people gave a presentation at OpenCultures in Vienna:

(23) * [StefanMn] James Love http://opencultures.t0.or.at/oc/participants/love spoke about pharmaceuticals / generica among other things.

(24) * [StefanMn] Erik Möller http://opencultures.t0.or.at/oc/participants/moeller made a presentation about the topic "Why do Slashdot, Wikipedia and other big Free projects work? How does decision making work there?". Also is involved in the WOS conference.

(25) * [StefanMn] Shuddhabrata Sengupta http://opencultures.t0.or.at/oc/participants/sengupta was very interesting to me. He thought about the phenomenons of Free Software with structure and in depth.

(26) * [StefanMn] Peter Eckersley http://opencultures.t0.or.at/oc/participants/eckersley gave an interesting talk about alternative forms of remuneration. Unfortunately I did miss the end where he may have presented his own suggestions and thoughts.

(26.1) 08.01.2004, 18:35, Stefan Merten: Is interested. Comes from Australia.

(27) Here are the new ideas:

(28) * [Graham] Somebody of Hipatia. Probably Juan Carlos Gentile from Italy and if we have lots of money Diego Saravia from Argentina.

(29) * [StefanMn] Yochai Benkler's [http://www.benkler.org] Coase's Penguin, or, Linux and the Nature of the Firm [http://www.law.duke.edu/pd/papers/Coase's_Penguin.pdf] has been suggested to me two times during the last months. The conclusion I found very Oekonuxy indeed. We should invite him. He is professor in Yale [http://www.law.yale.edu/outside/html/faculty/yb32/profile.htm].

(30) May be he could be invited by the Department of Philosophy?

(31) AlanT has been asked to contact him or do something himself.

(32) * [StefanMn] Michael Frein (Evangelischer Entwicklungsdienst - EED) gave a presentation about seeds and "intellectual property" (I missed it).

(33) * [Chris] Raoul Victor, who wrote Free Software and Market Relations [http://www.oekonux.org/texts/marketrelations.html] could do an interesting session based on that or something else. The New Questions section [http://www.oekonux.org/texts/marketrelations.html#New%20Questions] at the end contains material for several sessions.

(34) I don't know whether he received the CfC explicitly.

(35) * [Chris] Alan Toner, who did a session with Jamie King at the 2. conference could do a session on copyright and/or 'Information freedom' or something interesting. He probably wrote this article on the WSIS: Dissembly Language: Unzipping the World Summit on the Information Society [http://slash.autonomedia.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/22/0123234]

(36) * [Chris] Ion Nec (ionnek at gmx dot net) might be interested in doing a session on "Free media production - How Indymedia works" or something like that. She had written UkNetworkSnapshot [http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/UkNetworkSnapshot] which is interesting because it shows how much like a Free Software project Indymedia is.

(37) I guess Chris contacted her already.

(38) She suggested that we do a joint session on how indymedia works and how it is like a Free Software project. This session could have a title "Indymedia ? the journal of the revolution?" or something like that...

(39) * [StefanMn] Eric von Hippel probably created http://opensource.mit.edu/ and also published some interesting papers.

(40) * [StefanMn] I'd love to have someone on the conference who can tell us about what the Debian constitution means in practice. How is it handled? Why do people align to it? What if they don't? A introduction to the constitution itself for sure would be helpful for such a talk. Martin "Joey" Schulze could be interested.

(41) * [StefanMn] I'm not sure whether this really fits but this may be because I'm quite ignorant of this area. However, there seems to be some movement around WLAN / WiFi / Open Access and so on. I have no idea who could be reasonably asked for a contribution.

(42) * [StefanMn] Sheen Levine which gave a talk at the 2. conference would like to participate in the 3. one, too. I found his talk very interesting so I'd advocate this.

(43) * [Helmuth] Matthias Greffrath has visions. FranzN cited him two times in Die Vision der globalen Dörfer [http://www.oekonux.de/texte/globdorf.html]

(44) I don't know whether he received the CfC.

(45) * [StefanMn] I made a contact to Thomas Atzert one of the translators of Empire. I think between Oekonux and Empire the full potential to learn from each other has not yet been tapped. He made a note of the date.

(46) * [StefanMz] It would be interesting to invite people criticizing "Integrierten Betriebswirtschaftlichen Systemen" (IBS) like SAP. For instance Sabine Pfeiffer [http://www.sabine-pfeiffer.de/] who published an interesting article [http://iug.uni-paderborn.de/fiff/themen/ig/arbeitswelt/Pfeiffer] in the FIFF magazine. In particular together with Free Hardware people this could get exciting. Sabine wants to come.

(47) * [StefanMn] Free Software in the so-called III. World would be an interesting topic. It could range from the governmental decisions for instance in South America to development cooperations like VUM (FranzN knows more).

(47.1) 07.01.2004, 22:23, Stefan Merten: May be we could even invite someone from one of the South American governments who advocate the use of Free Software so strongly. Any ideas for concrete persons / countries?

(48) I met Mothobi Mokheti at "We Seize!". He's involved in Khanya College [http://www.khanyacollege.org.za/]. Currently he is starting some activities to bring Free Software to social projects. This is pretty much what we are interested in. He took the CfC as a flyer.

(49) * [StefanMn] Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine do interesting things about copyright [http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/intellectual.htm] based on conventional economist theory. They could be an interesting invitation.

(50) * [StefanMn] I met Michael Zaiser at the "We Seize!" conference. He did studies on the theory of self-organized studies. Also - as far as I understood - he just created a scientific magazine from pre-print server articles. There are Free scientific articles [http://arXiv.org/find/cond-mat/1/ti:+network*/0/1/0/past/0/1] from the area Michael works in. Note, that he is a physicist. The physicits were among the first where the movement for Free Science grew. He thinks about a contribution and comes back to us.

(51) * [Chris] Wikipedia [http://www.wikipedia.org/] also has some process to handle problems. This could also be an interesting thing to look at at the conference in some OHA focus. There are several ways to contact the wikipedia; IRC [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IRC_channel] and lists [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mailing_lists] and the village pump [http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump] or even using the details on the contact us page [http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contact_us]. Jimmy Wales as the founder of Wikipedia would also be interesting.

(52) I don't know whether there is any contact already.

(53) * [Chris] Jamie King has written an article on Openness And Its Discontents [http://gig.openmute.org/modules/wakka/PacketGang] - this might be something that could form the basis of a session on openness? Also "working in public" could be a label for this.

(54) I don't know whether there is any contact already.

(55) * [Chris] The issue of "Women and the Free Software mode of production" came up at the WSIS discussions (and on the German list quite a number of times -- StefanMn). Why are there so few women doing free software development? Are there other projects on the net that use this mode of production that are dominated by women (I suspect that this is the case)? And if so what are they and what can be learnt from them? Maybe london.crafts [http://london-crafts.org/].

(56) * [StefnMn] Katja Mruck is involved in the FQS [http://www.qualitative-research.net/] project which is a Free scientific magazine.

(57) * More ideas? Add here.

3.2. Proposals received so far

(58) Proposals which have been made so far to projekt at oekonux.de should be listed here. The link in the archive should be included so we have a common reference to all proposals here. Also it would be good to include the location someone comes from because (unfortunately) this may be an important aspect in terms of money.

(59) * Sarawut Chutiwongpeti [http://www.oekonux.de/projekt/liste/archive/msg03152.html] proposed some art project.

(60) * Isabel Saij [http://www.oekonux.de/projekt/liste/archive/msg03153.html] (Cologne, Vienna) proposed a art project based on copyleft.

(61) * Jaromil [http://www.oekonux.de/projekt/liste/archive/msg03155.html] wants to talk about 4 years of developing Free Software in the domain of multimedia art. Also he could tell about links between Rasta culture and Free Software.

(62) * Edward Cherlin [http://www.oekonux.de/projekt/liste/archive/msg03196.html] (Cupertino / California / USA) describes himself as a Simputer Evangelist. He proposed a contribution about Simputers.

(63) * Markus Hauser [http://www.oekonux.de/projekt/liste/archive/msg03202.html] wants to present his Projekt glocondis. Parts of this project are based on patented software.

(64) * Patrice Riemens [http://www.oekonux.de/projekt/liste/archive/msg03204.html] offered to prepare a workshop or similar on the topic of the political economy of IP. We discussed [http://www.oekonux.org/list-en/archive/msg01172.html] a paper from him.

(65) * Further

(65.1) 08.01.2004, 18:13, Stefan Merten: J._Martin_Pedersen (England) from the Free_Software_Consortium offered contributions to three various topics: "Free Software movement and Indymedia: a tool for culture building"; the legal debate about Free Software; and academic curriculum development


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