[Air-L] 4th Oekonux Conference

[Mathieu O'Neil]

Free Software and Beyond: The World of Peer Production
4th Oekonux Conference
in cooperation with P2P Foundation

March 27th-29th, 2009
University of Manchester

For full text of invitation please see: 
http://www.oekonux-conference.org/invitation/invitation.html

Invitation

Project Oekonux researches the economical, political and social forms 
of Free Software and similar forms of production we collectively call 
peer production. In Project Oekonux, different people with different 
reasons and different approaches get together to build something new. A 
lot of participants want to know, whether and if so, how, peer 
production can serve as a basis for a new society.

For the 4th Oekonux Conference Project Oekonux cooperates with the P2P 
Foundation. The Foundation for Peer to Peer Alternatives researches, 
documents and promotes P2P practices in every domain of social life. 
It's a global cyber-collective and aims to be a knowledge and 
internetworking platform for open/free, participatory, and 
commons-oriented initiatives on a global scale.

During the past decade the phenomenon of Free Software has become 
successful and well-known. It is still amazing how in the realm of 
software the creativity of so many volunteers leads to products which 
are useful for the whole of mankind. Ten years after Project Oekonux 
was founded the world has changed. As expected by us the principles of 
the development of Free Software are spreading to other fields. 
Wikipedia and Open Access are two of the most interesting examples 
among many. It is time to look at peer production from a broader 
perspective.

Please register for free: 
http://www.oekonux-conference.org/registration.html