[CWN-Summit] Free Networks Event in London in October 2005 / India
in October 2006
Laura Forlano
laura at nycwireless.net
Thu Mar 24 08:53:04 CST 2005
FYI - This is a continuation of the Freifunk
Convention event organized by the German community
wireless group in Denmark last September. They are
planning a two-day event in London in October 2005 and
then another event in India in 2006. In terms of
joining in a worldwide social movement on this issue,
this is the place to do it! It would be great if we
could get representation from as many US and
international community wireless groups and from other
media and technology groups as possible!!!
> Hi all,
>
> I am happy to be able to present to you the
> invitation (thanks to Saul!) to this
> year's free networks event. This is the (european)
> prepcon to the WORLD SUMMIT
> ON FREE INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE in INDIA 2006 ...
> yeah! :)
>
> To those of you who had joined the Djursland event:
> we had tryed to make the
> 2005's event happen in eastern europe, but
> unfortunately we didn't manage. As
> time went by we descided to get back to our first
> plan to all meet in London
> this year but at the same time try to make something
> bigger happen: a World
> Summit on Free Information Infrastructure (WSFII) in
> India 2006.
>
> So the Idea is now, that there shall be prepcons all
> over the world. This year's
> freifunk.net summer convention will be dedicated to
> the european prepcon in
> London. To us (freifunk.net) this also means to
> return the baton to those who in
> the first role initialized the German movement all
> arround freifunk.net and to
> say thank you very much for this inspireing meeting
> you people from consume.net
> and bootlab had organized with the BerLon event in
> October 2002.
>
> The meeting in India will be launched arround
> October 2006 - possibly in Goa. We
> are wanting to make it happen and hope that you can
> redistribute the idea and
> try to organize prepcons in your part of the world.
> We will also need a lot of
> money to get people to India and to make the event
> happen there. So please those
> of you connected to foundations or with other good
> ideas on this: please help!
>
> It will also be a good idea to visit each others
> precons as far as possible. To
> those of you willing to come to London from outside
> europe, please let us know.
> But please understand that until now we have no
> budgets for flying people over
> and it might get impossible to organize this in the
> short amount of time. Also
> we want to concentrate on asking for money to get
> people to India next year.
> Saul has registered the domain http://wsfii.org.
> This could become the place for
> international exchange and the preparation.
>
> The topics arround Free Information Infrastructure
> include much more than Wi-Fi
> of course. We think we should widen the views and
> get in touch with other people
> dealing with other aspects of FII. The London
> meeting will be an attmept to make
> this happen in Europe this year. So please spread
> the word and let's meet in
> London and outside Europe please also start with
> local meetings. And let's all
> meet (again) in India 2006!
>
> tbc ...
>
> JuergeN
>
>
>
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> WSFII PREPCON '05
> ~
> ~ World Summit on Free Information
> Infrastructures ~
>
> Every year for the last four years, Free Networkers
> from around the world have
> organised summits, the last one being the
> Freifunk.net Summer Convention 2004 in
> Djursland, Denmark where Free Networkers, free
> infrastructure pragmatists and
> community network builders from 32 countries got
> together, shared ideas, made
> plans and forged alliances.
>
> This year, we are widening the scope through an
> association with the Open
> Knowledge Foundation (okfn.org) - we want to invite
> people from all areas of
> free infrastructure development to participate in a
> world summit, trying to
> cross the streams Free Hardware, Free Software, Open
> Geodata, LETS trading
> systems, Open Licensing, Community TV/Radio, Public
> Knowledge Infrastructures,
> and other areas of research and activity that we
> haven't thought of yet.
>
> ~ why ~
>
> Because Free Infrastructure developers don't really
> have to ask this question.
> We have this in common - that FIIs come from
> pragmatic application and problem
> solving rather than being led by policy or law. By
> meeting and joining forces,
> we can do what we do more effectively.
>
>
> ~ structure ~
>
> The structure is a 2 day public conference in a
> central London location during
> which the various FII groups can present their
> activities and the specifics of
> their FII domain to other groups and the public.
> Prior to that weekend event
> (1st/2nd October for the London WSFII) there will be
> a week during which a venue
> will be available to groups if they wish to hold
> preparatory meetings,
> workshops, talks and social gatherings.
>
> ~ prepcon ~
>
> This might not be a 'world' summit with as many
> international delegations as we
> had in Denmark last year. Instead, this is a call to
> FII groups to organise
> summits on their continents around the same time, to
> feed into a more ambitious
> WSFII scheduled for summer 2006 in India.
>
>
> ~ How to get involved ~
>
> If you are involved in research and activity in one
> of the knowledge domains
> we've already listed as FIIs, or you work on one
> we've missed out, please get in
> touch and help by proposing someone, or some group
> to come and represent that
> FII.
>
> The first confirmed WSFII venue is London - which
> will be the Western European
> hub for this year's WSFII prepcon If you would like
> to set up a WSFII prepcon in
> your locality, please get in touch via the mailing
> list:
> http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/wsfii-discuss
> and we can set you up a
> subdomain.
>
> We are developing a programme on our wiki and taking
> registrations for
> participation in the london WSFII on the website:
> http://wsfii.org, so we look
> forward to hearing from you and your FII group
> there.
>
>
> Registration:
> http://okfn.org/wsfii/wiki/WsfiiRegistration
> Discussion / Announcement List:
> http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/wsfii-discuss
>
> All power to Free Infrastructures!
>
> the WSFII provisional organisers.
>
>
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