Creating the Commons
The future of freedom: free
software, free media and the freedom to self-organise
Saturday 16th and
17th October: LSE Clement House, Aldwych, nearest
tube Holborn.
Rooms D402 & D502 - 9.30pm-5.30pm
and the Hong Kong theatre (Sunday 12.30-5.30pm)
- a live audience
debate -
Richard Stallman embedded freedom in software,
and in so doing started a revolution in how
we work and organise. Larry Lessig and Creative
Commons is applying these same freedoms to content
- making free media possible. What is the future
of this process? What happens, when we were
take these tools and techniques and apply them
to how we organise, vote, decide and work together?
Panel includes
Mikael Nordfors, Simon Tzu, David Bovill, and
Chris Cooke - with speakers representing the
workshops on the previous day, and surprise
international quests.
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Provisional outline for the
event on Saturday 16th & 17th October at
LSE Clement House
Framework: There will be two strands.
First "Tools for change" - a series
of software projects both proprietary and open
source, which have direct relevance to the second
thread - "Creating the Commons". The
two will be related as far as possible in that
discussion in the Creating the Commons thread
will be pointed towards the "Tools for
change" workshops where they can explore
options for tools that can be used here-and-now
for building content that is "free"
to distribute, share and remix - Creative Commons
/ FOSS style. There will be a particular focus
on community decision making tools, legal aspects,
project management tools, and alternative compensation
systems. We expect a lively debate, including
the issues, benefits and difficulties that groups
face in using open versus closed source solutions
in their everyday work, and the problems that
developers have in providing such solutions.
These discussions and workshops will culminate
in a "Question Time" like event, entitled
"Closing the Circle", which will distill
the discussions and questions gathered through
the workshops, presenting them to the panel
members. We are hoping to have some exciting
panel members for this event which will take
place on Sunday the 17th at lunch time (time
tbc). Richard Stallman has indicated his willingness
to take part and answer questions from Australia
and we have asked Larry Lessig whether he is
able to do the same (awaiting a response). The
discussion will focus on the "third wave"
of the legal and technical revolution that started
with "free software" movement, followed
more recently by the application by the Creative
Commons of these principles to our rights to
use, distribute and remix content. This "third
wave" of tools and legal initiatives explores
problems associated with compensating artists
for their creative work, and how decisions are
made regarding the direction, future and management
of these commons.
The event will be documented by a group of documentary
makers from Goldsmiths College London, edited
on the day and released under the new UK version
of the Creative Commons licence. The film makers
will be paid in "pixls" a secure and
legally binding currency designed, owned, and
managed by film makers, film schools and viewers
of Creative Commons content.
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Saturday
16th October: LSE Clement House Room D402 - "Tools
for Change"
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9:30-11:30 am: Audiovisual Workshop
Tools for documentary makers.
Streaming, scheduling, editing, archives. Demonstration
of open source video editing solutions. Community
based streaming servers and scheduling tools,
and tools for organising and distributing video
and audio content in archives. Documentary makers
setting up and organising filming. Audio and video
streaming set up for Sunday's "Question Time"
event.
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11:30-12:30:
Decision Making Workshop
Tools for groups making decisions
on projects. TikiWiki. Project Cycle Management
software from Local Livelihoods for bottom up participatory
planning of projects. PCM workshop on "Tools
for Global Democracy". Plus a variety of new
tools for secure P2P voting by communities, and
rich decision making supported by a variety of media
channels (evolving). |
12.30-2pm
LUNCH
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2:00-4:30
Alternative Compensation Systems - the tools.
Tools that you can use here and
now for creating currencies that groups can use
to manage projects. Including Time Banks, LETS,
and a new currency for Film and documentary makers
- Pixls. There will also be a technical presentation
and call to create a generic open source platform
which can robustly and freely support the creation
of all such systems, from community groups to highly
valued commonly held assets. |
4:45-6:00:
Presenting your network!
Consolidating the day.
Gathering material from the workshops
to be presented at Question time the next day. Wiki
Circles - small groups taking it in turns to use
a laptop to edit the wiki. Tools for visualising
the network and finding the resources you need.
Meganexus presentation from UCL, Open source Graphl
and wiki_Storm visualization tools. |
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Saturday
17th October: LSE Clement House Room D502 - "Creating
the Commons"
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9:30-11:30: Decision Making Tools
that scale from local to global
Guests: Mikael Nordfors - founder
of Vivarto and the Nornia Project.
Guests from the "Coalition for Global Democracy
and the World parliament".
A wide ranging discussion with an emphasis on developing
software solutions that work. |
11:30-12:30: Content Creation -
the low down
Guests: Simon Tzu (Shooting People),
David Bovill (The Film School), and Daniel Harris
(Kendra) with assorted film makers.
It will be a "street corner" event - splitting
into small groups to discuss individual initiatives,
and framing questions for the panel. |
12.30-2pm
LUNCH
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2:00-4:30: A Partnership Model
for Content Distribution
Guests: Creative Commons UK (tbc),
BBC Creative Archive (tbc). Gavin Starks (Dgen and
Exequo), Chris Cooke (Open Capital) |
4:45-6:00: Remix Culture
Film screenings of Creative Commons
content. Live remixing from source. Open debate.
Live input from NetzNetz conference in Vienna and
remote participation of guest speakers (evolving).
Screening of the "Art of Flirting" - the
first LLP financed film. |
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Sunday 17th
October 2004: Hong Kong Theatre
12.30pm-5.30pm: Question Time
with invited guests and screening of
"Creating the Commons" - documentary
and rough cut.
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| Contact: David Bovill:
<david@openpartnership.net> |
