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| <nettime> FSCONS 2011, Gothenburg, 11.-13. november 2011 |
Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit http://fscons.org/ FSCONS is the Nordic countries' largest gathering for free culture, free software and a free society. The conference is organised yearly with 250-300 participants primarily from northern Europe. The main organiser is the Society for Free Culture and Software. The date for the next summit is 11-11-11 in Gothenburg (Friday November 11 through Sunday November 13). FSCONS exists to provide a meeting place where subjects covering society, culture and technology can be discussed and brought to life in peer discussions, without being confined to each particular subject area. It should provide both the physical and virtual space where people, organisations and governments, with interest in the three subject areas can meet in a participatory and constructive dialogue. The unique combination of topics creates a platform where cross-pollination between the areas can occur, and where new co-operations and thoughts can emerge which allows the participants to find new inspiration even from areas outside of their own. Keynotes 2011: Christina Haralanova and Richard Stallman http://blog.fscons.org/?p=649 Christina Haralanova is a feminist, a Free Software hacktivist and an IT trainer. Since fall 2010, Christina does a PhD in Communication Studies in Concordia University, under the supervision of Leslie Regan-Shade. As a free software hacktivist, Christina has participated actively in the creation of the Free Software Association Bulgaria (FSA-BG), and is a member of FACIL pour lappropriation collective de linformatique libre (since 2006) and Koumbit (since 2006) in Montreal, Canada. Christina was the Project Leader of the Legal Case Management Software (LCM) (2004-2005), an LPI proctor (2003 2005), a SPIP-bg translator. Richard Stallman Richard Matthew Stallman is a software developer and software freedom activist. In 1983 he announced the project to develop the GNU operating system, a Unix-like operating system meant to be entirely free software, and has been the projects leader ever since. With that announcement Stallman also launched the Free Software Movement. In October 1985 he started the Free Software Foundation. Other speakers http://blog.fscons.org/ FSCONS Schedule: http://my.fscons.org/schedule/ Registration: http://fscons.org/registration About FFKP Föreningen fri kultur & programvara (FFKP) is a non-profit organisation based in Gothenburg. Since 2005 we've worked in support of a modern democratic society through multi-stakeholder open discussions around current issues in culture, technology and society. The society works as a hub for operations in Sweden and the Nordic countries. We work across borders, both geographically and organizationally, in order to support the discussion between different organisations and people. The society is supported in its projects by, among others, the Nordic Culture Fund, Nordic Culture Point, Google, Nokia, University of Gothenburg and the Swedish Post and Telecommunications Board. https://ffkp.se/node/151 Our vision is a modern, open democratic society where policies and decisions are made on the basis of the knowledge and opinions from multiple stakeholders. We believe that our future society must be built with the consideration of multiple stakeholders, and that suppressing, ignoring, or otherwise preventing or discouraging opinions of some stakeholders is not consistent with a democratic society. FSCONS Manifesto: http://fscons.org/manifesto # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org