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3. Oekonux-Konferenz

Maintainer: Stefan Merten, Version 3, 16.11.2003
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(1) This text [http://dritte.oekonux-konferenz.de/team/planung.html] is the basis for the discussion of the organization of the third conference we are planning by Projekt Oekonux [http://www.oekonux.de/].

(2) This text is most of all an OpenTheory [http://www.opentheory.org/] project, so recent contributions and current state [http://www.opentheory.org/oxkonferenz3/text.phtml] can be found there. Also contributions can be made at any time there. All contributions made are automatically relayed to projekt at oekonux.de [http://www.oekonux.de/projekt/liste/] where the conference is prepared.

(3) Besides these notices here there also is a bulletin [http://www.opentheory.org/ox2-merkblatt/text.phtml] from the 2. conference.

1. Basics

1.1. Content of the conference

1.1.1. Motto

(6) The motto of the conference is

(7) Reichtum durch Copyleft

(8) Kreativität im digitalen Zeitalter

(9) or .

(10) Wealth by copyleft

(11) Creativity in the digital age

(12) It would be nice if topics on the conference would match this motto.

1.1.2. Oekonux track

(13) Another proposal is to have a noticeable fraction of contributions form us, i.e. the people making up the Oekonux project, which tell about what we think on the Oekonux mailing lists. In the past Oekonux conferences this part was very little. This led to many rather basic questions about Oekonux theory in many presentations from those, who don't know Oekonux well yet.

(14) An interesting extension of such contributions contributions could be that they give an outline of what happened in the project until now. What has been discussed and where is the respective discussion today.

(15) For this we should reserve an extra day or an extra track. It might be a good idea to take the Thursday for that so people new to Oekonux have the introduction in the beginning. A worse alternative would be to reserve a normal track for such contributions.

(16) It would be nice if such a big introduction into Oekonux theory could be followed by an open end plenary session where the need for general discussions with each other could have a place.

1.1.3. Extending the focus

(17) Another proposal is to widen the focus of the conference to address people not interested in Free Software so much but want to get inspired (e.g. young Attacis).

(18) Perhaps the framework of content can be more shifted to information society for which Free Software is the most developed germ form today. For instance the question of "intellectual property" should play a role. For this it is convenient to include issues far from software (e.g. music, drugs / generica).

(19) We should take into account that the WOS conference [http://wizards-of-os.org/] three weeks later has a similar concept - though there are also differences.

1.2. International conference

(20) Once more the conference should be laid out as an international conference. This includes:

(21) * the invitation of international contributors,

(22) * announcement in English and distribution in international media,

(23) * translation of the most important parts of the conference web site,

(24) * (simultaneous) translation during the conference

(25) - People who want to translate during a presentation into English or German, could be made recognizable so people interested in this translation can sit close to this and listen.

(26) Though simple to have this sort of whispering translation is a bit disruptive for others.

(27) - On a job list for professional translators we asked whether someone would like to help being treated like speakers. Actually there were some three of four people who offered help. We have to clarify whether it is possible in technical terms because a real simultaneous translation setup needs some technical infrastructure (cabins for the translators, earphones for the listeners, etc.).

1.3. Responsible body and supporters

(28) The official organizer for the conference is the Projekt Oekonux e.V. [http://www.oekonux.de/projekt/verein/].

(29) The rooms will be supplied by the Department of Philosophy at Vienna University [http://homehobel.phl.univie.ac.at/] by courtesy of Herbert Hrachovec [http://hrachovec.philo.at/]. So these are also organizers.

(30) A possible supporter could be Public Voice Lab [http://www.pvl.at/].

(31) As a further (financial) supporter the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung [http://www.rosa-luxemburg-stiftung.de/]has been asked.

(32) At the Austrian attac summer academy there has been interest in the conference. May be some support could come from Attac Austria.

(33) In Vienna Franz Nahrada organized a group of people. They founded an own mailing list [http://philo.at/mailman/listinfo/oenux]. May be financial support also is organized by these Vienna based people.

(34) At the 2. conference we had a well working model where sponsors supported certain presentations. If they fit into the conference this could be repeated.

(35) Before and after the 2. conference some donations could be acquired. During the conference we asked the visitors for a donation instead of an admission fee.

2. About the organization

2.1. Basics

2.1.1. Timing and dates

(38) The conference will take place 2004-05-20 to 2004-05-23 (Thursday to Sunday).

(39) The presentations should be planned in a way so arrival and departure from/to Germany by train are feasible on Thursday or Sunday, respectively.

(40) The following time line is proposed:

(41) Time Activity State ...................... ....................... ...................... October First meeting in Vienna ok Raise financial issue ok Room issue resolved ok ToDo-Text V1.0 ok November ToDo-Text V2.0 ok (V3) Early December CfC beta ok (October) Late December CfC gets published ok (November) Online services get informed February Financial issue resolved Lists [rox] and [hox] October are re-founded Early March Deadline for abstracts Press campaign starts Middle April Conference schedule V1.0 online 20.-23. May ox3 is running

2.2. Types of presentations

(42) The possible types of presentations include:

(43) * Talks

(44) * Workshops

(45) * Spontaneous discussion rounds (aka BOF sessions)

(46) * Annual member meeting of the e.V.

(47) Further types of presentation are possible on request.

2.3. Infrastructure

2.3.1. Rooms

(49) The rooms will be supplied by the Department of Philosophy at Vienna University.

(50) Childcare and disabled access might have to be considered.

(51) The 1. conference was attended by 170 people, the 2. conference by 150. For the 2. conference more or less exactly came who had registered before.

(52) We need to consider whether we want to have three tracks again which basically will take place in three fixed rooms.

2.3.2. Social infrastructure

(53) * Get-together

(54) - A relaxed get-together with food, where people can talk, and later music would be the best. We need to care for catering.

(55) * Sleeping places for the speakers are needed

(56) * Mass accommodation for guests would be nice

2.3.3. Technical infrastructure

(57) * Audio recording of all presentations

(58) - One possibility is to record the presentations with a (fixed) laptop and an external microphone. Besides laptops and microphones the laptops need some spare disk space. Good microphones and/or good pre-amplifiers are needed.

(59) - Someone from Vienna (who?) offered an Internet live stream

(60) * Video recording if not too much effort

(61) * Internet connection

(62) * Surf stations

(63) * Beamer

2.3.4. Mailing lists

(64) * For the concrete arrangement of the presentations and for the organization there is a mailing list for all speakers ([rox] [http://www.oekonux-konferenz.de/team/referenten/])

(65) * For the concrete arrangement of the activities on site there is a mailing list for all helpers ([hox] [http://www.oekonux-konferenz.de/team/helfer/])

(66) * For the concrete arrangement in Vienna there is another mailing list [http://philo.at/mailman/listinfo/oenux].

2.3.5. Folder for visitors

(67) All visitors should get a up-to-date folder with at least this content:

(68) * The flyer

(69) * Request for a donation

(70) * A list of the local infrastructure outside the conference

(71) - Cigarettes

(72) - Restaurants

(73) - Recommended accommodation

(74) - A town map containing the conference location

(75) * The conference program

(76) - An up-to-date schedule

(77) - Abstracts of all presentations

(78) - Vitae of the speakers

(79) * Short self-description of the Oekonux project

(80) * Perhaps the Kladde

(81) * Map of the building / the rooms where presentations take place

(82) * Questionnaire for feedback

2.3.6. Support for the presentations

(83) The presentations need to be cared about. This includes:

(84) * Operating the audio recording

(85) * Support the speaker with presentation technique

(86) * If needed: Care for translation

(87) * Start the presentation including a sufficient introduction of the speaker

(88) * React to disturbances of all kind in a appropriate way

(89) * Check time limits, signal end

(90) * Check microphone direction during the discussion

(91) * Moderate the discussion if necessary

(92) * Special tasks if this is the last presentation in this room of this day

(93) Technical briefing for the people doing this job is absolutely necessary.

(94) People supporting a presentation should contact the respective speaker and ask how s/he wants to be introduced and other questions.

2.3.7. Remaining infrastructure

(95) * Oekonux texts on paper, in particular the Kladde for a quick introduction

(96) * A conference bureau

(97) - Supplied by the Department of Philosophy

(98) - May need additional people

(99) * Some international guests may need to be fetched from the air port.

2.4. Money

2.4.1. Expenditures

(101) * Travel expenses for contributors

(102) - Perhaps the current LastMinute offers of the German railway [http://www.bahn.de/pv/reisebuero/subhome/die_bahn_reisebuero.shtml] can be used to offer speakers two nights of accommodation in addition to the railway trip. Depending on the BahnCard available on the speaker side this can be a cheap way to acquire accommodation.

(103) - The offers of CityNightLine [http://www.citynightline.ch/] can help to save accommodation.

(104) * Further expenses

(105) * As in 2001 honorarium for contributors is not planned

(106) We should insist that only expenses agreed to before are reimbursed. In particular this applies to cases where contributors want the reimbursement of further persons.

2.4.2. Income

(107) * Money of the e.V.

(108) * Donations before and after the conference

(109) We asked for donations for the conference in 2001. This worked to some degree.

(110) * Donations from the visitors

(111) Last time we asked for 8EUR per person. Including tickets for food and beverages we received about 10EUR on average per person.

2.5. Announcement

2.5.1. Forms

(113) The announcement of the conference will be more or less exclusively by electronic media.

(114) A German web site [http://www.oekonux-konferenz.de/] is set up already. Also a English web site [http://www.oekonux-conference.org/].

(115) A template for a paper announcement (flyer, poster) can be made.

(116) We should consider asking Linux print media (e.g. Linux-Magazin) and/or for instance c't (what in Austria?) for a gratis advertisement.

2.5.2. Call for Contributions

(117) The Call for Contributions (no longer "Call for Papers") should be distributed at least to these addresses:

(118) * German speaking

(119) - the FIFF list

(120) - Contraste list

(121) Already received a first hint on ox3.

(122) - the Krisis newsletter (http://www.krisis.org)

(123) - Indymedia

(124) - debate at fitug.de

(125) - http://listserv.shuttle.de/mailman/listinfo/wissen2

(126) Already received a first hint on ox3.

(127) - FFII lists

(128) Already received a first hint on ox3.

(129) - Telepolis / Heise-Ticker

(130) - infoverteiler at nadir.org

(131) - Mail list of streifzuege.org in Vienna (Franz Schandl et al)

(132) - http://de.groups.yahoo.com/group/list48/

(133) Already received a first hint on ox3.

(134) - imd-l or imd-announce, respectively

(135) - further?

(136) * International

(137) - Nettime

(138) - OpenFlows

(139) - T.C. Greene of The Register

(140) - Indymedia

(141) - The people of Mama in Zagreb

(142) - Hipatia

(143) - http://www.politechbot.com/

(144) - further?

(145) * Structures of the Free Software scene

(146) - e.g. Linux-Community [http://www.linux-community.de/]

(147) * The people behind the Oekonux links [http://www.oekonux.de/projekt/links.html]

(148) * The persons we want to invite explicitly listed below

(149) * All speakers of the 1. and 2. conference

(150) * All registered visitors of the 2. conference

(151) Some addresses can be found in a version of this text for the 2. conference [http://www.opentheory.org/oxkonferenz2/v0002.phtml#83].

2.5.3. Invitation

(152) The invitation should be sent at least to the same as the Call for Contributions.

3. Who should be invited for a presentation?

(153) In the following list at the start of each suggestion the suggester is named in square brackets (if known and remembered). This might be the person who cares about building contact.

(154) Until now these ideas came up:

(155) * Some which did not work out last time:

(156) - [StefanMn] Gundolf Freyermuth (wants to come).

(157) - [StefanMn] The people from the school / education activities: PingoS, FSuB, OpenWebSchool.

(158) - [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.

(159) - [StefanMn] Pekka Himanen should be invited again.

(160) May be he can be invited by the Department of Philosophy?

(161) I sent him a mail already with the date.

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

(163) FranzT contacts them.

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

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

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

(167) - [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.

(168) - [StefanMn] "Ärzte ohne Grenzen" for the topic pharmaceuticals / generica have been asked last time but it did not work out.

(169) Meanwhile Christian Wagner from Buko Pharma wants to come.

(170) - [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].

(171) - [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.

(172) [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.

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

(174) * Some of the people which gave a presentation at OpenCultures in Vienna:

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

(176) - [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. Address is probably moeller at scireview dot de.

(177) - [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.

(178) - [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.

(179) * New ideas:

(180) - [Graham] Somebody of Hipatia, e.g. Vicente Ruiz.

(181) - [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].

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

(183) Someone with the initials "a.t." said: "I've worked with him on this research and if you wish I can speak to him about the Oekonux conference, however he is extremely busy"

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

(185) I contacted him and he made a note of the date.

(186) - [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.

(187) - [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]

(188) - [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.

(189) I guess Chris contacted her already.

(190) 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...

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

(192) - [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.

(193) - [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.

(194) - [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.

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

(196) - [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.

(197) He made a note of the date.

(198) - [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.

(199) - [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)

(200) - [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.

(201) * More ideas? Add here.