FYI
> > 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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > For Distribution Far and > Wide: > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > 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. > > > > --=_znOG32UeDx6uheQdJ3.r8hspCg65rV > Content-Type: application/pgp-signature > Content-Disposition: inline > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (MingW32) - GPGrelay v0.955 > Comment: GnuPT 2.5.2 > > iQEVAwUAQkGMfd3z6c5eZCFlAQEpWwgAg9+vzuXWShHqfkfsvSWpoWXZ44zuaAyq > Ps5x8xeumPGfVJUVHd4lOt7cMOE7O8Es8nJ0f379TGpBrzzg0PKqHfwKjRkv/fqn > cZDlYIoFve1VjE9qRZPlWabjBdJroNx3YqlNWBPzsZ+dsovbq2qrLz6ynO2K88Pd > N81Mm+mqtI1tYdBikAGKKVmxvvfzD7/qLSR/oD69g5qyC1ygeVnf3378hwfiafvM > zuXFjc1OAAGgfIZ6d51RZ9SjznLvXeaLgtkj4VEv9LbBej8oNGRH6UojQmRmnjwy > oof93a83UqjEcs0cCWxD4AYZx0IsJmkxQw/pbfppbP+TSog5i9WBlw== > =xJvi > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --=_znOG32UeDx6uheQdJ3.r8hspCg65rV-- > > > > --__--__-- > > _______________________________________________ > fsc04news mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://freifunk.net/mailman/listinfo/fsc04news > > > End of fsc04news Digest > -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
