[wsfii-discuss] own wiki for wsfii

Thu Mar 17 13:15:46 UTC 2005

Hi Juergen,

Ok, how about a first cut of an invite (see below). I'm still unclear about
this W bit of WSFII. We're probably not going to be flying people over from 32
countries are we (Thomas? Sebastian?) so it might be better to encourage people
to do their own WSFII on local levels.

I've tried to tie that into the draft invite below, and I think we should send
out a more structured invite once we've got a programme developed - this is an
initial semi internal call for participation from FII groups.

Have a read and respond asap - then we can bash this out and start peddling...

X

S.

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                       For Distribution Far and Wide:
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                            WSFII PREPCON '05
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          ~ World Summit on Free Information Infrastructures ~

Every year for the last four years, Free Networkers from around the world have
organised summits, the last one being the Freifunk.net Summer Convention 2004
in Djursland, Denmark where Free Networkers, free infrastructure pragmatists
and community network builders from 32 countries got together, shared ideas,
made plans and forged alliances. 

This year, we are widening the scope through an association with the Open
Knowledge Foundation (okfn.net) - we want to invite people from all areas of
free infrastructure development to participate in a world summit, trying to
cross the streams Free Hardware, Free Software, Open Geodata, LETS trading
systems, Open Licensing, Community TV/Radio, Public Knowledge Infrastructures,
and other areas of research and activity that we haven't thought of yet.

                                ~ why ~ 

Because Free Infrastructure developers don't really have to ask this question.
We have this in common - that FIIs come from pragmatic application and problem
solving rather than being led by policy or law. By meeting and joining forces,
we can do what we do more effectively.

                             ~ structure ~

The structure is a 2 day public conference in a central accessible location
during which the various FII groups can present their activities and the
specifics of their FII domain to other groups and the public. Prior to that
weekend event (1st/2nd October for the London WSFII) there will be a week
during which a venue will be available to groups if they wish to hold
preparatory meetings, workshops, talks and social gatherings.

                              ~ prepcon ~ 

This might not be a 'world' summit with as many international delegations as we
had in Denmark last year. Instead, this is a call to FII groups to organise
summits on their continents around the same time, to feed into a more ambitious
WSFII scheduled for summer 2006 in India. 

                        ~ How to get involved ~

If you are involved in research and activity in one of the knowledge domains
we've already listed as FIIs, or you work on one we've missed out, please get
in touch and help by proposing someone, or some group to come and represent
that FII. 

The first confirmed WSFII venue is London - which will be a Western European
hub for this year's WSFII prepcon If you would like to set up a WSFII prepcon
in your locality, please get in touch via the mailing list:
http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/wsfii-discuss and we can set you up a
subdomain.

We are developing a programme on our wiki and taking registrations for
participation in the london WSFII on the website: http://wsfii.org, so we look
forward to hearing from you and your FII group there.

All power to Free Infrastructures!

the WSFII provisional organisers.
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I think we should copyedit this (everyone!?) and get on the case as soon as
possible.

There's a copy on the wiki:
http://okfn.org/wiki/WsfiiProvisionalInvite

pelase respond.. and most important - fill in some of the gaps in the proposed
streams page: http://okfn.org/wiki/WsfiiProposedStreams

This needs to be kind of ready to go by the time we send out the invite, as
do the base-level preparations for venues etc..

Thomas, Sebastian, are you still planning on organising some workshops in
london? It would be great if you were able to mobilise this doc-writing session
you were talking about - and Jeurgen, perhaps some more practical workshops
(mesh-related?) would be good coming from Berlin.

I guess there's two hats to wear here - WSFII organising and Free Network
summitising.

WSFII is actually really easy. We end up with about 10 speakers - we have to do
a bit of work to select them, and build interest etc, but that should be fairly
easy and fun.

The not so easy bit is planning WSFII 2006 - and getting the free networks
pre-pre-con meetings and workshops arranged, although this should really be
joyous too :)

Let's aim to get this out by the weekend..

All the best,

Saul.

On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 05:02:23PM +0100, Juergen Neumann wrote:
> 
> Dear Saul,
> 
> it will need someone for a <GO> on the announcement.
> 
> Could YOU please be so kind to - at a certain point may be within this week? -
> tell me that we are ready to "rock"?
> 
> I would then make announcements on all German spreking lists and on the
> freifunk.net homepage.
> 
> Thx
> 
> JuergeN
> 

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