[wsfii-discuss] [Fwd: [wos-partner] wos4 is happening, location found]

Wed Mar 1 15:19:28 UTC 2006

dear friends
the wos4 will happend in september06 in berlin!
topics:
free software, free content and free infrastructure

here is the first announcement, right now , we try to find out which 
date is the best for the wos4.

cheers
	cven

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [wos-partner] wos4 is happening, location found
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 15:47:27 +0100
From: Volker Grassmuck <vgrass at rz.hu-berlin.de>
Reply-To: vgrass at rz.hu-berlin.de
Organization: HU & WOS
To: wos-partner at post.openoffice.de

Dear partners of the Wizards of OS 4,

thank you for your support of wos4. Apologies for not hearing from us
in so long. There is good news at last. We have found a venue. Now we
have to pick the best possible date, for which we want to ask your
help.

After Volksbuehne, the original venue, cancelled our partnership
because they decided to do another theater production during the
weekend in September planned for wos, we were looking for
alternatives. Which given that we're quite a bit into the year
already wasn't easy. We are therefore happy to announce that we have
found just the right place for wos4:

Columbia Venues in Berlin Tempelhof, a former sports hall, now one of
the largest concert halls in Berlin, and a former movie theater
opened in 1951 by the US Air Force.
http://www.columbiaclub.de/
http://www.columbiahalle.de/

The place is very flexible and friendly. I'm sure you'll like it as
much as we do. It is only a few minutes from a lively night-spot in
former West Berlin. And if you happen to be flying into Berlin's
inner-city airport Tempelhof, you'll just have to cross the street
and you're there.

The following dates are available:

7.-9. September
14.-16. September
(28.-30. September)
19.-21. October

We now have to check for events during that time that might interact
with wos negatively, e.g. competing for speakers and participants, or
positively, e.g. in temporal and geographic neigbourhood so that
people who, say, go to ars electronica in Linz (31.8. - 5.9.) might
go on to Berlin for wos4. Thematically close events are most
interesting, but also completely unrelated things like the football
world cup might affect wos.

These are events we are seeing during that period.

31.8. - 5.9.: ars electronica, Linz
http://www.aec.at/en/festival2005

September 4 - 6, 2006: Future Matters: Futures Known, Created and
Minded, Cardiff University
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/futures/conference/

18.-21. September: O'Reilly's EuroOSCON in Brussels

September 21-23, 2006. Social Informatics: An Information Society for
All? Nova Gorica (Slovenia), Gorizia (Italy). International
Federation for Information Processing, IFIP-TC9 "Relationship Between
Computers and Society", Seventh International Conference "Human
Choice and Computers" (HCC7)
http://www.HCC7.org

probably 9.-13. October: ApacheCon US

12.–13. October 2006: Governing the Knowledge Society, University of
Hamburg
http://www.cgg.uni-hamburg.de/konferenzen/knowledgesociety.html

Please check your schedules and let us know what you are seeing so we
can identify the best wos date.

And while I'm at it, we are also looking for additional funding. Any
advice on this is welcome.

Finally, the most interesting question: what will the issues of wos4
be? Organisational things like funding and venue took up more of our
time than we would have liked. But some topics have emerged already:
licenses (GPL v3.0, CC), Brazil the Open Source Nation, the Treaty on
Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, netlabels are some of them. Now that
we are pretty sure that there will be a wos this year we are jump-
starting preparations, call for papers etc.

Also here we would very much like to invite you to join us in
identifying crucial issues from free software, free content and free
infrastructure to be disussed at wos4. A good place for this
discussion is the open list wos at post.openoffice.de. Soon there will
be a wiki as well.

all the best
Volker

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