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This page is about possible speakers for the 4th Oekonux Conference. It lists people we are considering to invite directly to the conference (as opposed to those who may apply because of the CfC) This page has two purposes:

1. Records possible candidates

2. Rate these candidates

Please note: As has been decided we are going to invite at most half of the contributors individually. The rest should be a result of the Call for Contribution. So please check with [pox] before inviting someone officially.

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General Considerations about Peer Production

Theoretical approaches

• Yochaï Benkler

  Author of http://www.benkler.org/CoasesPenguin.html. -- StefanMerten 2005-12-02 07:30:36

  Gave an very interesting talk on WOS4. -- StefanMerten 2006-09-14 19:47:58

  Certainly one of the scientific celebrities of these topics. -- StefanMerten 2008-03-22 21:25:15

  (total: 3.67)

• Eric v. Hippel

  Does a lot of research on user-driven innovation. -- StefanMerten 2006-09-16 16:54:40

  Certainly one of the scientific celebrities of these topics. -- StefanMerten 2008-03-22 21:25:15

  (total: 4)

• Rhishab Ayer Ghosh

  Updates on his work on the concept of Cooking pot markets. -- StefanMerten 2006-09-14 18:23:46

  (total: 2)

• Steven Weber

  Wrote "The Success of Open Source" (2004, Cambridge, MA, Harvard UP, ISBN: 0-674-01292-5). There were a comment on this book which gave the impression of a very bright and knowledgable analysis of the phenomenon of Free Software. -- StefanMerten 2006-03-28 17:04:03

  (total: 4)

• David Berry

  Author of Libremanifesto (plain text). Couple of papers on http://opensource.mit.edu/. Took part in a congress on public goods. -- StefanMerten 2005-12-29 20:10:23

  (total: 3.33)

History of Peer Production

• Gundolf Freyermuth

  Didn't make it to the 3rd conference but definitely should be tried again. -- StefanMerten 2005-12-02 07:30:36

  (total: 2.2)

• Richard Stallman

  http://www.stallman.org/ -- Yuwei Lin

  (total: 2.75)

• Christian Einfeldt

  Gave an interesting talk on OOoCon 2004. Made the film The Digital Tipping Point. -- StefanMerten 2005-12-02 07:30:36

  (total: 2.8)

Peer Production in Capitalism

Practice

• Michel Bauwens: what do we know so far about open business models -- MichelBauwens

  Michel is an Oekonux contributor and as such will automatically be invited if he applies. Thus no rating necessary here. -- StefanMerten 2008-03-22 21:25:15

• Sam Rose

  Gave a talk on the P2P workshop concerning bringing the principles of Free Software production to companies. -- StefanMerten 2007-11-19 10:31:15

  (total: 2.6)

• Mako Hill

  Debian developer. Member of FSF. For instance for talking about paying Free Software projects -- StefanMerten 2006-09-14 19:47:58

  Mako is an Oekonux contributor and as such will automatically be invited if he applies. Thus no rating necessary here. -- StefanMerten 2008-03-22 21:25:15

• Tere Vadén

  Gave a talk on the P2P workshop considering the influence of commercial interests on Free Software projects. Does empiric studies. -- StefanMerten 2007-11-19 10:31:15

  Tere is an Oekonux contributor and as such will automatically be invited if he applies. Thus no rating necessary here. -- StefanMerten 2008-03-22 21:25:15

• Someone from a hardware company doing business with Free Software (e.g. IBM, Intel, HP)

  On the question how is IBM making money with Free Software. -- StefanMerten

  (total: 3.25)

• Someone from Canonical (Ubuntu) - e.g. Jono Bacon, Ubuntu Community Manager at Canonical, Presenter of LUGRadio, the founder of Linux UK http://www.jonobacon.org/ -- Yuwei Lin

  (total: 4)

• ASUS EeePC -- YuweiLin

  (total: 2.25)

Licenses and Other Legal Issues

• Creative Commons Taiwan

  http://creativecommons.org.tw/ -- Yuwei Lin

  (total: 1)

  Anchor Grassmuck: (total: 2.75)

  Anchor Moldenhauer: (total: 2.5)

• Volker Grassmuck or Oliver Moldenhauer

  Volker (WOS) and/or Oliver (attac) may tell us something about the content flat rate idea (aka P2P tax). -- StefanMerten 2005-12-02 07:30:36

  Volker Grassmuck: (total: 2.75)

  Oliver Moldenhauer: (total: 2.5)

Definitions

• Media-related:

  • Definition of Free Cultural Works

  • Open Source Media Definition

• FLOSS-related:

  • Open Source Definition

  • Debian's Free Software Guidelines

• Others:

  • The Open Standards Definition. By Bruce Perens.

  • Open Standards Requirement for Software

  • Free Content Definition

  • Open Knowledge Definition ; Declaration on Libre Knowledge

• Also:

  • What do we need to have "economically-significant, replicable, open source physical production efforts?", i.e. true Distributive Production. Marcin Jakubowski proposes a set of OSE Specifications to judge such efforts.

  • The Social Contract for Virtual Citizens

  -- MichelBauwens

  Don't know how to rate this -- StefanMerten 2008-03-22 21:25:15

Material Peer Production

Theoretical Approaches and Suggestions for Systems

• Christian Siefkes, author of "From Exchange to Contributions", http://peerconomy.org/ -- StefanMeretz 2007-12-11 15:21:36

  Christian is an Oekonux contributor and as such will automatically be invited if he applies. Thus no rating necessary here. -- StefanMerten 2008-03-22 21:25:15

• Stan Rhodes, also working on a system called utilicontributism, http://p2pfoundation.net/Peer_Trust_Network_Project -- MichelBauwens

  (total: 3.25)

• Patrick Anderson, working on User Ownership theory and practice, http://p2pfoundation.net/User_Owned -- MichelBauwens

  Patrick is an Oekonux contributor and as such will automatically be invited if he applies. Thus no rating necessary here. -- StefanMerten 2008-03-22 21:25:15

(I would suggest an extensive panel combining the 3 authors above, giving them ample time to present their complex sytems (say one each at least); then adding 90 minutes of exchange and discussion in the afternoon for example.) -- MichelBauwens

Peer Production Projects and Design Communities

• Marcin Jakubowski, of http://openfarmtech.org, is creating a real life project for replicable material production -- MichelBauwens

  Contributed to the 3rd Oekonux conference. -- StefanMerten 2008-03-22 21:25:15

  (total: 3.5)

• Vinay Gupta, maker of hexayurt, is part of the appropedia.com open design community for appropriate technology -- MichelBauwens

  (total: 4)

• Smári McCarthy, active in personal fabricator movement, Author of Digital Fabrication Primer, Iceland -- MichelBauwens

  (total: 4)

• Karel Kulhavy

  Former Oekonux participant. Publishes blueprints for a DIY optical data transmission system (Ronja). -- StefanMerten 2005-12-02 07:30:36

  (total: 3.2)

• Markus Merz

  Current state of the restarted OSCar project -- StefanMerten 2005-12-02 07:30:36

  Contributed to the 1st Oekonux conference. -- StefanMerten 2008-03-22 21:25:15

  (total: 4)

• Hilmar Simon

  Current State of the Plus100 Open Source Car project

  (not rated yet)

• Jörg Metelmann

  Cultural scientist Jörg Metelmann studies the OSCar project with very interesting questions in mind.

  (total: 3.67)

• Jacco Lammers

  According to George the main developer of a new approach for an Open Source car.

  (total: 3.75)

• Rose White

  On 24C3 gave an very interesting talk on the history of knitting which started out as a very proprietary thing until some women encouraged peer production processes. -- StefanMerten 2007-12-30 13:33:45

  (total: 4.25)

• Jeppe from Task Forge

  An enthusiastic Danish Project, http://taskforge.njj.dk/post/about-me-and-this-project/ maybe speaking at ox4 would encourage them more -- FranzNahrada

  (total: 3)

Sociological and Philosophical Perspectives

Peer Governance

• Athina Karatzogianni

  Gave a talk on the P2P workshop concerning governance structures in Free Software projects. Wonders whether this is the "Revolution for Real". -- StefanMerten 2007-11-19 10:31:15

  (total: 2.17)

• Matthijs den Besten

  James Martin Research Fellow for the e-Horizons Institute at the Oxford e-Research Centre. He studies problem solving behaviour and structures that support it. Most recently, I have focused on problem solving in Wikipedia and Bugzilla, but at some point my interest extended as far as ant colonies. http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ierc0002/ http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/researchassociates.cfm?id=92 -- YuweiLin

  (total: 2.67)

• Francesco Rullani

  Assistant Professor at the Copenhagen Business School. His work centres on dynamics of innovation in an 'Open Source' collaboration environment. https://mail.sssup.it/~rullani/ -- YuweiLin

  (total: 3)

• Jon Aubrey

  Wikipedia Review has been very critical of Wikipedia governance, developing a sustained critique of what is going on -- MichelBauwens

  (total: 2.33)

• Dirk-Willem van Gulik

  President of Apache Software Foundation. Gave an very interesting talk on OOoCon 2004. In particular picked up a couple of governance questions. -- StefanMerten 2005-12-02 07:30:36

  (total: 3.75)

• Sheen S. Levine

  Has been on the second and third Oekonux conferences and gave very interesting talks. -- StefanMerten 2008-03-22 21:25:15

  (total: 3.33)

Peer Ethics

• Pekka Himanen

  Author of The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age. May be it works this time. -- StefanMerten 2005-12-02 07:30:36

  (total: 3.5)

• Pat Kane, The Play Ethic -- MichelBauwens

  (total: 3)

• Söderberg's play struggle would also fit here

  Johan is an Oekonux contributor and as such will automatically be invited if he applies. Thus no rating necessary here. -- StefanMerten 2008-03-22 21:25:15

• Michiel de Lange

  Playful Identities Researcher http://www.playful-identities.nl/HTML/index.php. Michiel has been involved in Kennisland http://www.kl.nl/ (a Dutch thinktank on the knowledge society which initiates innovative projects in the fields of creative industry, digital public domain, lifelong learning and social aspects of ICTs), Digitaal Trapveld Cybersoek http://www.cybersoek.nl/ (a computer neighborhood center, based in Amsterdam-east that helps people from "challenged" neighborhoods to start using new technologies). See http://www.bijt.org/wordpress/ more info. -- Yuwei Lin

  (total: 2.5)

Peer Property

• Dmytri Kleiner: Copyfarleft -- MichelBauwens

  (total: 0.75)

• IANG License -- MichelBauwens

  (total: 1)

• Patrick Anderson: Propertyleft -- MichelBauwens

  Patrick is an Oekonux contributor and as such will automatically be invited if he applies. Thus no rating necessary here. -- StefanMerten 2008-03-22 21:25:15

Peer Politics for a Change

Theoretical Approaches

• Johan Söderberg on Play Struggle

  Oekonux participant with interesting texts. -- StefanMerten 2005-12-02 07:30:36 (his book 'Hacking Capitalism' is really good)

  Johan is an Oekonux contributor and as such will automatically be invited if he applies. Thus no rating necessary here. -- StefanMerten 2008-03-22 21:25:15

• Adam Arvidsson on Ethical Hacking

  Gave a talk on the P2P workshop comparing capitalist economy and the "ethical economy". -- StefanMerten 2007-11-19 10:31:15

  Adam is an Oekonux contributor and as such will automatically be invited if he applies. Thus no rating necessary here. -- StefanMerten 2008-03-22 21:25:15

• McKenzie Wark

  Author of The Hacker Manifesto -- StefanMerten 2005-12-02 07:30:36

  (total: 3.33)

• Sandro Gaycken

  Gave a very interesting talk on Free Software and Anarchism -- Does this compute? at the 22C3. -- StefanMerten 2005-12-29 20:10:23

  (total: 3.33)

• John Holloway

  Contemporary leftist thinker. -- StefanMerten 2007-06-02 18:45:58

  (total: 3)

• Felix Stalder

  May probably talk about a couple of topics. -- StefanMerten 2006-09-16 17:47:03

  (total: 2)

Practical projects

• Hipatia

  The Hipatia group has similar lines of thought as Oekonux.

  José is member of Hipatia and offered himself as a contact person. -- StefanMerten 2006-05-30 05:42:58

  (I would suggest an event where Oekonux/Hipatia/P2P Foundation can bring their perspectives together) -- MichelBauwens

  (total: 4.75)

Peer Production and Public Policies

• Philippe Aigrain

  Has been working for the EU and furthered Free Software there. Has an own blog. -- StefanMerten

  (total: 3.75)

• Herve Crosnier, spoke at Nottingham -- MichelBauwens

  (not rated yet)

• Someone from the Spanish Free Software community

  The Free Software community is very active in different areas of Spain. In Estremadura there is a ongoing (planned) migrations of 100,000 desktops to FLOSS, in the public administrations, with (apparently) 10,000 desktops already migrated. -- AndresBaravalle

  (total: 3.5)

Gender Issues

• Hanna Wallach

  Member of Debian Women. Member of the EU FLOSSPOLS Gender Study. Could be invited or asked for someone on gender issues in Free Software. -- YuweiLin

  (total: 4.33)

• Yuwei Lin

  Could be invited or asked for someone on gender issues in Free Software. -- StefanMerten 2006-09-16 19:37:59

  Yuwei is an Oekonux contributor and as such will automatically be invited if she applies. Thus no rating necessary here. -- StefanMerten 2008-03-22 21:25:15

• Hannelore Vonier

  Could be invited to topics on "high tech matriarchy" being very near at "selbstentfaltung" and giving instructive critiques on patriarchal structures in free production modes (e.g. Wikipedia). This is her Blog (german), she is living in the USA. -- StefanMeretz 2008-01-29 15:54:44

  (total: 3.33)

Peer Production in Poor Countries

• Meike Richter

  Gave an interesting talk Fair Code -- Free/Open Source Software and the Digital Divide on 22C3. Basically explains why Free Software is useful for (non-)developing countries. See her master thesis on this topic. -- StefanMerten 2005-12-30 12:44:44

  (total: 2.75)

• Nah Soo Hoe or someone from one of the projects described in "Breaking Barriers"

  The book Breaking Barriers - A Compilation of Case Studies from Across the World lists many projects where Free Software played an important role - mainly in poorer countries. -- StefanMerten 2007-12-04 18:48:39

  (total: 4)

• Frederick Noronha, Bytes for All, Goa/India -- MichelBauwens

  (total: 3.67)

Free Software and Other Peer Production Projects

Free Software in Asia

• Chao-Kuei Hung

  Associate Professor at the Computer Science Department, ChaoYang University of Technology in Taiwan. CK Hung is a vocal free software activist in Taiwan and Asia. He coins the term 資訊人權 (Information Human Right). He is also Member of OFSET http://www.ofset.org/ and SLAT http://www.slat.org/slat/ For more info see http://people.ofset.org/~ckhung/index.en.php -- Yuwei Lin

  (total: 2.75)

• OSSF (Open Source Software Foundry)

  OSSF is one of Taiwan's Open Source Software Initiatives. OSSF is part of InfoComm Center, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, and receives its fund from Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) and Academia Sinica. http://www.openfoundry.org/ -- Yuwei Lin

  (total: 2.33)

Free Software in the South

• People from the Free Software community of South America

  José offered help. -- StefanMerten 2006-05-23 06:28:29

  (total: 4.33)

• Fernanda Weiden

  Member of Debian Women. Founder of Women Free Software Project in Brazil. Could be invited or asked for someone on gender issues in Free Software. -- StefanMerten 2006-09-16 16:54:40

  (total: 3.25)

• People mentioned on wiki:Archive_ox-en:02660.html

  The posting is about a new mailing list on Free Software in developing countries. Could be an interesting resource to find interesting speakers. -- StefanMerten 2005-12-02 07:30:36

  (total: 3.33)

• Atul Chitnis

  FOSS.IN, Bangalore, India. Seen on a WOS4 panel. -- StefanMerten 2006-09-16 16:59:38

  (total: 4)

• Claudio Prado

  Department of Digital Culture, Ministry of Culture, Brazil. Wants to abolish government and economy (while working for the government ). -- StefanMerten 2006-09-16 20:15:00

  I don't think Claudio Prado is a good choice. Despite having some fuzzy anti-capitalist elements in his speech he is only trying to make it possible for Brazil to export music and films to the first world. He has said in an interview that his actions in the government are in order to allow people to do 'open business'. Also he is not part of free software community and the other possible 'p2p in capitalism' speakers are much better options. -- PietroFerrari 2008-03-03 19:28:41

  (total: 2.6)

Free Software Community

• LUGRadio

  LugRadio is a fortnightly British radio show that takes a relaxed, humorous look at Linux and open source. LugRadio is licenced under Creative Commons licences. http://www.lugradio.org/ -- YuweiLin

  (total: 4.33)

Free Software in Schools

• FUSS http://www.fuss.bz.it/welcome-fuss-project

  Free Upgrade Southtyrol's Schools (FUSS) is not an association, but a project funded by the European Social Fund which has upgraded the computer systems of all the italian schools in the Autonomous Province of Bolzano/Bozen, removing all the software with a proprietary license used in the school activity with the FUSS GNU/Linux Soledad distribution. The project has developed the software solution and released it under a free software license. -- YuweiLin

  (total: 3.75)

• http://www.fsfeurope.org/projects/education/education.en.html -- Yuwei Lin

  Don't know how to rate this -- StefanMerten 2008-03-22 21:25:15

• OLPC http://laptop.org/

  -- YuweiLin

  (total: 3.33)

• There are a couple of projects who unfortunately so far never made it to an Oekonux Conference. -- StefanMerten 2005-12-02 07:30:36

  (total: 1)

• The more important experience at the present time is possibly the ongoing migration in the schoold of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. -- AndresBaravalle

  (total: 0.5)

• Besides that, the Open University (United Kingdom) is migrating the Virtual Learning Environment to Moodle with an investment of several million pounds, and is going to release part of its teaching material in a open learning initiative. -- AndresBaravalle

  (total: 0.5)

Free Science / Open Access

• Yuwei Lin

  Yuwei Lin can talk about Research 2.0, e-Research, e-Science. See http://www.ncess.ac.uk http://www.ylin.org

  Yuwei is an Oekonux contributor and as such will automatically be invited if she applies. Thus no rating necessary here. -- StefanMerten 2008-03-22 21:25:15

• People from http://www.openspf.de/

  At http://www.openspf.de/space/start/2004-12-09/1 there is a report about a conference. People which seemed interesting: -- StefanMerten 2005-12-02 07:30:36

  • Barbara Cohen

    Public Library of Science

    The PublicLibraryOfScience (PLOS) is a non-profit organization of scientists committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature freely accessible to scientists and to the public around the world, for the benefit of scientific progress, education and the public good.

    We are working for the establishment of international online public libraries of science that will archive and distribute the complete contents of published scientific articles, and foster the development of new ways to search, interlink and integrate the information that is currently partitioned into millions of separate reports and segregated into thousands of different journals, each with its own restrictions on access.

    http://www.PublicLibraryOfScience.org

    -- MichelBauwens

    (total: 3.33)

  • Stevan Harnad

    Self-archiving evangelist, seems to be more radical than most -- MichelBauwens

Details:

My provisional title topic will be:

"On the affinities and disaffinities among free software, peer-to-peer access, and open access to peer-reviewed research"

Here are some prior writings on this same topic:

On the Deep Disanalogy Between Text and Software and Between Text and Data Insofar as Free/Open Access is Concerned http://listserver.sigmaxi.org/sc/wa.exe?A2=ind03&L=american-scientist-open-access-forum&D=1&O=D&F=l&S=&P=55522

Apercus of WOS Meeting: Making Ends Meet in the Creative Commons http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3758.html

and

Harnad, S. (1998/2000/2004) The invisible hand of peer review. Nature [online] (5 Nov. 1998), Exploit Interactive 5 (2000): and in Shatz, B. (2004) (ed.) Peer Review: A Critical Inquiry. Rowland & Littlefield. Pp. 235-242. http://cogprints.org/1646/

• (total: 3.67)

• Jan Velterop

  BioMedCentral which seems to be a commercial OpenAccess publisher -- MichelBauwens

  (total: 1)

• People named on wiki:Archive_ox:09928.html

  The link is a report from a conference on OpenAccess. Hans-Gert has been there and probably help with a selection. -- StefanMerten 2005-12-02 07:40:02

  Don't know how to rate this -- StefanMerten 2008-03-22 21:25:15

• People who spoke on the

  Berlin 4 conference

  • Ulrich Pöschl

    Gave an very interesting talk about the improvements in quality which are possible by OpenAccess methods in contrast to classical peer review schemes. -- StefanMerten 2006-04-26 06:16:00

    (total: 3.67)

  • Peter Suber

    One of the most important activists in the field of OpenAccess. See http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/. -- MichelBauwens

    (total: 3.67)

Blogs

• Mario Sixtus

  Wrote an interesting article about blogs in c't 19/2005. Blogs at http://www.sixtus.net/. -- StefanMerten 2005-12-09 16:29:26

  (total: 2.33)

Texts

• Sebastian Lüttgert

  The person behind http://www.textz.com/. Became also known for a conflict around some texts by Adorno. -- StefanMerten 2005-12-02 07:30:36

  (total: 3)

Music

• Janko Röttgers

  Creator of the blog Mix, Burn & R.I.P. -- StefanMerten

  (total: 3.33)

• Netlabels

  Netlabels are certainly interesting for Oekonux. It would be nice if we could invite someone from this scene. -- StefanMerten 2006-06-12 18:28:16

  May be the respective people from the WOS4 can be asked. -- StefanMerten 2006-09-19 19:48:28

  (total: 3.67)

Wikipedia

• Kurt Jansson

  Kurt is an important member of the Wikipedia community and also an Oekonux participant. -- StefanMerten 2005-12-02 07:30:36

  Kurt is an Oekonux contributor and as such will automatically be invited if he applies. Thus no rating necessary here. -- StefanMerten 2008-03-22 21:25:15

• Patrick Danowski

  Patrick is also engaged in Wikipedia and is member of the German Wikipedia registered association. -- StefanMerten 2006-04-01 18:43:07

  (total: 2)