Manchester: Oekonux Conference: Free Software and Beyond The World of Peer Production
Beginn: Fr 27. Mär 00:00:00 CET 2009Ende: So 29. Mär 23:59:59 CEST 2009
Ort: The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Kontakt: http://www.oekonux-conference.org/
Project Oekonux researches the economical, political and social forms of Free Software and similar forms of production we collectively call peer production. In Project Oekonux, different people with different reasons and different approaches get together to build something new. A lot of participants want to know, whether and if so, how, the peer production can serve as a basis for a new society.
For the 4th Oekonux Conference Project Oekonux cooperates with the P2P Foundation. The Foundation for Peer to Peer Alternatives researches, documents and promotes P2P practices in every domain of social life. It's a global cyber-collective and aims to be a knowledge and internetworking platform for open/free, participatory, and commons-oriented initiatives on a global scale.
During the past decade the phenomenon of Free Software has become successful and well-known. It is still amazing how in the realm of software the creativity of so many volunteers leads to products which are useful for the whole mankind. Ten years after Project Oekonux was founded the world has changed. As expected by us the principles of the development of Free Software are spreading out to other fields. Wikipedia and Open Access are two of the most interesting examples among many. It is time to look at peer production from a broader perspective.
Free Software and Beyond
The World of Peer Production
takes up this development and widens the perspective from Free Software to other fields of peer production. Project Oekonux and P2P Foundation are proud to welcome nearly 30 invited contributors which will share their experience, studies and insights with us on the following topics
- Peer production beyond Free Software
- Aspects of Free Software
- Peer production and social movements
- Theories on peer production
- Future of peer production
Please see the program page for detailed information and some more contributions.
After the inspiration of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Oekonux Conference we hope and expect that in an open atmosphere critical voices as much as the enthusiasm of the hackers of all kinds once more will merge into a creative process. We hope and expect, that again the wide range of presentations contributed by international participants from science and practice will lead to new insights and broader understanding for all. We hope and expect, that as before we will have a lot of fun :-) .
4th Oekonux Conference
March 27th-29th, 2009
University of Manchester
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