Wizards of OS 3

Wizards of OS 3
The Future of the Digital Commons
June 10 - 12, 2004
Berlin Congress Center
http://wizards-of-os.org/

In two weeks, the international conference Wizards of OS 3 will be
held in the Berlin Congress Center. For three days, 80 specialists
from 23 countries will be considering and exchanging views on the
future of our digital commons. Programmers, artists, scientists and
activists will present their projects, conduct workshops and discuss
with participants ways in which free software, free content, free
networks and open archives can be productively applied towards a new
order of knowledge.

WOS 3 will present examples of successful projects which share this
aim, examples that may inspire emulation and further development, such
as Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, and the Simputer, with its
free hardware design. Just as our natural environment survives only
due to the efforts of a now powerful movement, our digital environment
needs similar protection from privatization. Addressing the global
challenge to a united movement for the freedom of knowledge will be,
among others, Lawrence Lessig, founder of the Creative Commons
initiative, Charlotte Hess, commons researcher, and Eben Moglen,
professor of law and author of the GPL.

Program: http://www.wizards-of-os.org/index.php?id=835&L=3
Registration: http://www.wizards-of-os.org/index.php?id=91&L=3