[wsfii-discuss] programme shakedown - please proof and shout about omissions / problems

Wed Sep 14 09:04:45 UTC 2005

Saul Albert wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> the programme's going to be printed soon... so please have a look at it:
> http://www.okfn.org/wsfii/programme.html and help spot omissions!
> 
> I've just done some tidying and up-to-dating...
> 
> I noticed we don't have Armin Medosch signed up for anything - which is a
> crime! We must try to get him - maybe for the freenetworks panel. I think
> he's in town for the Open congress on the 7th and 8th Oct (I prodded them
> to make sure) but somehow it slipped through the clogged net of 'should
> invite to wsfiis' dah!

It would be good to have one more for freenetworks anyway (that first 
panel is a bit longer)

> I'll invite him now, but I'm aware that the programme is filling up.
> 
> this is - to my best knowledge, what we've got now..
> 
> I still haven't heard from Karel Kulhavy about open hardware and it's
> a bit late now... so we might be missing a person for open hardware. 

I also notice that Hiveminder has moved elsewhere since I last looked. 
Let us leave Karel but I have now confirmed Matthew Westcott on Opening 
up the IPod (http://ipodlinux.org/) and am awaiting a confirm from Derek 
Hales who will co-present with Tom Holley from the DRU.

> We're also waiting to hear from Otavio about possible contribution to the
> Free Culture Free Media panel..
> 
> apart from that it's looking pretty tight to me.

Yes I think we close at this point.

> so - let's look at this collectively one more time. are we happy with it?
> what typos and thinkos are my bloodshot eyes missing? 
> 
> oh, one more thing.
> 
> it was raised some time ago that we should have a wsfii roundup to close
> the summit and Arun kindly offered his services in this department. I
> think that would be a fine idea - especially if Arun is charged with
> collecting impressions, leads and clues from others during the weekend
> that he can broadcast along with his own impressions / directions at the
> end.
> 
> Arun? Are you still up for this? Everyone else? Is there a better way to
> close the summit?
> 
> oh boy, it's close now.
> 
> X
> 
> Saul.
> 