Invitation


Free Software and Beyond

The World of Peer Production

4th Oekonux Conference

in cooperation with

P2P Foundation

http://www.oekonux-conference.org/Remote link

Invitation

Project OekonuxRemote link researches the economical, political and social forms of Free Software and similar forms of production we collectively call peer production. In Project OekonuxRemote link, different people with different reasons and different approaches get together to build something new. A lot of participants want to know, whether and if so, how, the peer production can serve as a basis for a new society.

For the 4th Oekonux Conference Project OekonuxRemote link cooperates with the P2P FoundationRemote link. The Foundation for Peer to Peer Alternatives researches, documents and promotes P2P practices in every domain of social life. It's a global cyber-collective and aims to be a knowledge and internetworking platform for open/free, participatory, and commons-oriented initiatives on a global scale.

During the past decade the phenomenon of Free Software has become successful and well-known. It is still amazing how in the realm of software the creativity of so many volunteers leads to products which are useful for the whole mankind. Ten years after Project OekonuxRemote link was founded the world has changed. As expected by us the principles of the development of Free Software are spreading out to other fields. Wikipedia and Open Access are two of the most interesting examples among many. It is time to look at peer production from a broader perspective.

The 4th Oekonux conferenceRemote link

Free Software and Beyond

The World of Peer Production

takes up this development and widens the perspective from Free Software to other fields of peer production. Project OekonuxRemote link and P2P FoundationRemote link are proud to welcome nearly 30 invited contributors which will share their experience, studies and insights with us on the following topics

Please see the program pageRemote link for detailed information and some more contributions.

After the inspiration of the 1stRemote link, 2ndRemote link and 3rdRemote link Oekonux Conference we hope and expect that in an open atmosphere critical voices as much as the enthusiasm of the hackers of all kinds once more will merge into a creative process. We hope and expect, that again the wide range of presentations contributed by international participants from science and practice will lead to new insights and broader understanding for all. We hope and expect, that as before we will have a lot of fun :-) .

4th Oekonux Conference

March 27th-29th, 2009

University of Manchester

Please register for free

http://www.oekonux-conference.org/registration.htmlRemote link