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Wizards of OS 2
8/10/2001

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Wizards of OS 2
Open Cultures & Free Knowledge

International Conference at the
House of World Cultures Berlin
October 11 - 13, 2001

http://wizards-of-os.org/


Greetings, colleagues,

The Wizards of OS 2 conference is set to begin in a few days. With nearly a hundred
speakers, workshop directors and moderators from more than 15 countries, the program is
rich, dense and varied: a remarkably wide range of disciplines is to represented, from
philosophy to informatics, biotechnology to law, art, cultural studies, 
economics and politics.

Wizards of OS 2 is the logical step to take following the tremendous success of WOS 1 in
July 1999. For an increasingly knowledge-based society, free software is one of the most
astounding phenomena of our time. The programs aren't merely useful; they throw new light
on the history of the Internet and software, on "intellectual property," on the infrastructure of
knowledge and how it is passed on in education -- in short, on what we do 
with our collective knowledge and how we deal with each other. The success of free software 
raises hopes for the potential of collective intelligence networked via computers.

We'd like to invite you to take a look at the site <http://wizards-of-os.org/> and check out the
conference program: the panels lined up along two main tracks and the numerous workshops
and tutorials. Note, too, the extra program with its performances and lounges, offering
opportunities for more informal contacts.  And while you're there, please also take the 
opportunity to get accredited for the conference via the form on the site.

So, I hope not only to see many of you there but also that the Wizards of OS 
2 will turn out to be a successful event for everyone.

For WOS 2, with warm regards,

Thomas Thaler, WOS Press


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### CONTACT ###

Accreditation at: http://www.mikro.org/Events/OS/wos2/presseformular.html

If you would like more information, you'll most likely find it at the 
constantly updated site: http://wizards-of-os.org/

Please direct general questions to presse en wizards-of-os.org and topical 
questions to wos-crew en mikrolisten.de


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### WOS 2 IN BRIEF ###

Wizards of OS 2
Open Cultures & Free Knowledge

International Conference at the
House of World Cultures Berlin
October 11 - 13, 2001

http://wizards-of-os.org/

The three-day conference Wizards of OS 2 is broadly aimed at all those interested in digital
media culture and social knowledge. Nearly 100 speakers, workshop directors and moderators
from Germany and abroad are slated to attend as well as up to 1000 participants from such
varied backgrounds as informatics, biotechnology, law, art, cultural studies, economics and
politics.

The primary focus of WOS 2 is free software, as it was for WOS in 1999. Free computer
programs such as GNU/Linux and Apache have become vital factors in the software market.
WOS 2 takes this a step further by asking what impact the phenomenon will have on our
entire knowledge infrastructure.

Many of the topics that will arise during WOS 2 in formal talks, informal discussions,
tutorials and artistic presentations will most likely also be subjects of much broader
discussions in the coming years. "Free Software," "Free Content," "Public Knowledge,"
"Open Infrastructure" and "Intellectual Property" are the interrelated thematic fields of the
conference. The five terms also serve as starting points from which future questions will have
to be posed as our knowledge-based society progresses.

The goal of offering the speaker's podium to representatives from a wide variety of fields is to
reach out across disciplinary boundaries and open up discussions to a broader audience so that
complex questions and expert answers can be made more accessible. Hopefully, obscure
relationships will be revealed and new approaches to take together will be discovered.


### 3 of 23 Panels ###

Free software: Movement or business? What's the state of the free software movement now
that so many large companies and governments have adopted it and now that the Nasdaq has
tumbled? Representatives from various companies explain what to many remains a mystery:
How can you earn money with free software? What is the current relationship between the
community and commerce?

Open source education: Where else but in education would the free exchange of knowledge
be more appropriate? In the same way that programmers collectively write software, teachers
are increasingly creating open teaching materials together. At the same time, the textbook
industry is beginning to file suits. Will the general trend toward privatization benefit
publishers or will the nature of the of the net serve the innovative community?

Information diversity: Biological and medical research is rapidly progressing. Within the
framework of WOS 2, experts from a wide range of scientific disciplines and commercial
research will discuss the exchange and ownership of information under varying business and
scientific conditions. Is the human genome open source? The genome of an individual
person? Is the exchange of knowledge in the field of science compatible with commercial
interests?


### 5 of 100 Speakers ###

James Love is an economist and director of the Consumer Project on Technology in
Washington, DC, an important US non-governmental organization working on consumer
protection, the private sphere and other citizens' rights on the Internet.
Tim Hubbard is head of sequence analysis of the human genome at the Sanger Center in
Cambridge, UK.

Brigitte Zypries is State Secretary in Germany's Federal Interior Ministry and responsible for
federal eGovernment projects.

Fritz Teufel is a patent lawyer, physicist and Director of Patents and Copyright for IBM
Germany in Stuttgart.

Andy Müller-Maguhn is the spokesperson for the Chaos Computer Club in Berlin and a
member of the board of directors for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers.


Organized by

mikro e.V.
http://mikro.org/

The Federal Office for Political Education
http://www.bpb.de/

The Working Group on Informatics & Society at Humboldt University in Berlin
http://waste.informatik.hu-berlin.de/



In cooperation with

Chaos Computer Club Berlin (CCC), Debian Project, Institute for Legal Questions
Concerning Open Source Software (ifrOSS), Bootlab e.V., LinuxTag, Heinrich Böll
Foundation, Netzwerk Neue Medien, Berliner Unix User Group (BUUG), C-Base Berlin,
Transmediale Berlin, German Unix User Group (GUUG), V2_Lab Laboratory for the
Unstable Media Rotterdam, De Waag Society for Old and New Media Amsterdam, Haus der
Kulturen der Welt Berlin, Telepolis, Linux-Magazin, De:Bug, Mute, Lehmanns
Fachbuchhandlung, Zitty and others.

With friendly support from

Center for the Public Domain; Projekt Zukunft. Berlin in der Informatiosgesellschaft (Future
Project: Berlin in the Information Society), an initiative of the Berlin Economics Senate;
Sicherheit in der Informationsgesellschaft (Security in the Information Society), an initiative
of the Federal Ministry for Economics and Technology; MiND ISP, Berlin; Convergence
integrated media, Berlin; The British Council; Cluster Labs GmbH, Berlin; Internet
Spezialisten EG (i.G.); dpunkt Verlag and the Institute for Time-based Media of the Academy
of Arts in Berlin





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