[wsfii-discuss] worries and list membership

Tue Mar 22 00:21:24 UTC 2005

Sorry I haven't gotten back. Taking a few days of to do some DIY work in
the apartment.

I thin the invite is great, your assumption that we probably won't get
same kind of international participation for a w4d track is probably
pretty accurate as well.

And I actually think calling it a prepcon is interesting, and probably
worthwhile. It shows our continuous commitment to bringing the
discussion to the world outside Western Europe and the US, and it also
commits us to that plan of action. Of course I'm coloured by the fact
that that is what I consider our most important role at the moment...

Also, like Rufus, I wouldn't worry too much about the size of this list
at the moment. Perhaps that's more of a reflection of the time people
have to contribute right now, and not of peoples willingness to
participate in general. 

It would be nice, if we could get one or two of the Djursland gang to
get involved, as they seem to be the missing link in terms of the last 4
years event hosts.

enough from me, I think we should get some dates out as soon as
possible. 

Sebastian and I will mostly focus on a related documentation project,
i.e. arranging for the group writing of a book, and some online
materials, as well as perhaps trying to organise some software projects
to write some of the code that seems to be missing for some of these
technologies to take of in a rural developing world environment.
Hopefully our contribution to the conference will be to present some of
this documentation work.

cheers

/tomas

On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 11:35 +0000, Saul Albert wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> I'm afraid I'm a bit worried about sending out the invite - because I've only
> got feedback from Jeurgen here. What do others on this list think? There are
> only a few of us on this list:
> 
>     * arunlists at gmail.com
>     * consumercitizen at informal.org.uk
>     * j.neumann at xorxe.net
>     * jo at frot.org
>     * rufus.pollock at okfn.org
>     * saul at twenteenthcentury.com
>     * sebastian at less.dk
>     * shekhar at crit.org.in
>     * t at wire.less.dk 
> 
> Perhaps it would be good to review the members of this list (only 6 or so of us
> joined) and see if others can be pulled into discussions before sending it out
> - or perhaps we should just start sending this out personally... If it looks ok
> to you all..
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Saul.
> -----
> 
>             -------------------------------------------------------
>                        For Distribution Far and Wide:
>             -------------------------------------------------------
> 
>                             WSFII PREPCON '05
>                                     ~
>           ~ 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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