[FM Discuss] free culture forum

Wed Nov 11 07:18:57 PST 2009

hi FM list,

just few short notes about Free Culture Forum

http://fcforum.net/

which was held in Barcelona from 30. oct till 1. nov.

(for all of you who are interested in that just announced 'the futures of 
free culture' sprint and

all of you interested in free culture movement)

as some of you know, 60 -70 participants from all over the world gathered 
there

to participate in FCForum, but more than participate they were very 
determined to

make something; to produce something meaningful which

will have some impact on authorities and society.

(http://giss.tv/dmmdb/fcforum, here you can see most of the happenings 
recorded and generally to feel that 'we will change the world, although it 
will be hard battle' ambient)

so after 3 days of presentations (first day), 4 different workshops (legal 
group, education group, hackers, p2p,  - second day), and discussions and 
conclusions (third day), they came up with this

'Barcelona Culture Forum  - Charter for Innovation, Creativity and Access to 
Knowledge'

http://wiki.fcforum.net/index.php?title=Final_Document/Summary

http://wiki.fcforum.net/index.php?title=Final_Document/Charter_%28Long_version%29

by exgae (organizers of forum) own words: 'the short version has to convince 
unprepared politicians and also citizens, parents of students, artists, 
newspapers or so. it doesn't to have to be generic as many other 
declarations. the long version has to be very specialized and useful for 
politicians and groups already open to listen to us - persons that don't 
have to be convinced but have to have tools to work practically with, such 
as activists or the European Community Commission of culture and the one for 
consumer that already participate to the debate in barcelona and are open to 
collaborate; or such as the WIPO that know the problematic and have to be 
convinced with solid arguments.'

the charter is licensed as CC-BY-SA+GFDL, that means after the release,
anyone can take this and improve on this document.

people practically agreed on most issues, although as it is understandable, 
coming from different backgrounds, some of them said that they can't defend 
it 'line-by-line'.

it will be soon released on co-ment.net, so everyone will be able to comment 
on the 1st version.

as one of the guy from hackers group said: this is only the beginning of the 
document, but we must give birth to it, so it can reach adulthood. if we try 
to reach perfection we will miss our chance, because it'll never be perfect.

so, do read the chapter and contribute!

maja kalogera

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hey

would you mind saying something about the fcforum on the fm list?

I think there would be many people interested...

adam

On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 09:33 +0100, csdva at wowm.org wrote:
> hi adam,
> is it ok to forward this to fcforum list?
> http://wiki.fcforum.net
> they (we) just made Charter which as i see it
> could/should has some ties with that sprint
>
> and it was nice to see there jennifer from FM
>
> regards
>
> maja kalogera
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "adam hyde" <adam at flossmanuals.net>
> To: <discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 11:19 PM
> Subject: [FM Discuss] infinity and beyond
>
>
> > hi,
> >
> > So...I am off for a weeks holiday from tomorrow and I wanted to post
> > here some news on a few things... First, there is a sprint coming up
> > that is quite interesting. Transmediale (tranmediale.de) has invited FM
> > to do a Book Sprint for their festival in Berlin. Transmediale is a
> > digital culture festival that happens every year in Berlin, it is one of
> > the biggest of its kind in the world I believe. The invite was quite
> > open, and so I suggested, since the theme for the festival is 'futurity'
> > to do a sprint on 'the futures of free culture'. A suitable topic for a
> > sprint i think...
> >
> > Anyways, the date has yet to be set, but we are looking at the last
> > weeks in January. So far the invitation list has been sent out to a
> > small group of participants. We have a yes (pending dates) from :
> > Marta Pierano - writer and copyfighter from spain
> > Alan Toner - Steal this Film
> > Bob Stein - Founder, Future of the Book
> > Mike Linksvayer - Director, Creative Commons
> > Mark Surman - Director, Mozilla Foundation
> >
> > with a 'maybe' from Erik Moeller, the Deputy Director of Wikimedia
> > Foundation. I have also invited Brewster Kahle (founder of Archive.org)
> > but no response yet.
> >
> > Its all very tentative but exciting :) This will be an interesting
> > one!..I hope they can all come, but if not we can make up a good crew
> > with others :)
> >
> > Since we have had a very interesting conversation on models for
> > contributing, I was wondering if we could generate some ideas on how
> > such a sprint could be conducted...its quite a new case for a sprint, so
> > it might take some pondering...
> >
> > Second, Booki is coming along very well...we will have a preview
> > available soon. At this point we will also open the doors for testing
> > and bringing more developers in...
> >
> > lastly, i was wondering how we might conduct an informal review of what
> > we all think of fm and how we are going. Since its our 1000th
> > birthday ;) i thought it might be an appropriate moment to consider what
> > is working and what isnt. I am not exactly sure how to go about
> > this...any ideas?...
> >
> >
> >
> > adam
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -- 
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