Schlagwort: konferenz

Unter dem Titel Kapitalismus abwracken! das schöne Leben gewinnen veranstalten die Falken, die Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung und das Bildungswerk Berlin eine Konferenz für junge Leute von etwa 16 bis 26 Jahren.

Jenseits des Kapitalismus: Wie wollen wir leben, arbeiten, vergnügt sein?

Jugendkonferenz zu Kapitalismus und dem ganz Anderen
vom 3. – 5. Juli 2009
in der Bildungsstätte Kurt Löwenstein bei Berlin

Nicht erst seit der momentanen Krise gibt es eine Kritik am Kapitalismus. Schon seit seiner Entstehung werden Alternativen für eine andere Gesellschaft diskutiert. In der Geschichte gab und gibt es einige Versuche anders zu wirtschaften und neue Formen des kooperativen Zusammenlebens auszuprobieren.

Als vor 20 Jahren die Mauer fiel, sprachen viele vom »Ende der Geschichte«. Damit war gemeint, dass das westliche Modell von Marktwirtschaft und Demokratie gesiegt hat und von nun an die beste aller möglichen Welten sein wird. Wir wollen auf unserer Jugendkonferenz diesen Mythos in Frage stellen und mögliche Alternativen diskutieren.

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This post finally concludes my coverage of the ox4 conference (part 1, part 2, part 3). On the third day, George Dafermos presented a case study of the FreeBSD project. He talked mainly about how the project is structured and how division of labor emerges.

The core team comprises 9 people which are elected by the committers and who, in turn, decide who gets commit rights. There are about 250 committers (who have the right to commit code to the code base) and about 5500 contributors (who have to filter their contributions through one of the committers). This confirms the 1-9-90 rule of thumb: less than 1% of participants steer the project (the core team), less than 10% contribute regularly (the committers), the rest contributes occasionally (the contributors). Officially, the core team also has the task to resolve conflicts, but there are very few conflicts, and usually the involved people resolve them by themselves.

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[Fast schon beim Remix angekommen… — Linksfraktion beim CSD (src)]

Nee echt, das freut mich ganz ehrlich, dass auch die Bundestags-Linksfraktion endlich aufwacht und sich verstärkt mit dem Thema der Wissens-Commons beschäftigt. Wird sie eine originär eigene Position finden? Oder wird sie »nur« dahin kommen, zu vertreten, was die klugen Wissens-NGOs seit Jahren fordern? Na, das wäre auch schon mal was.

Zu diesem Behufe veranstaltet die Linksfraktion am 15. Mai 2009 eine eintägige Konferenz mit dem Titel »Wem gehört Wissen? Wissen und Eigentum im digitalen Kapitalismus«. Einfach anmelden, hinkommen und mitreden (was hoffentlich möglich ist). Ort: Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen, Potsdamer Straße 2, 10785 Berlin.

[Update]

Wer danach noch fit ist, geht zur politischen Konkurrenz in die Sophiensäle in Berlin und hört sich um 19:00 Uhr Lawrence Lessig an, der zu den »Copyright Wars« vorträgt.

This post continued my coverage of the ox4 conference (part 1, part 2). The topic of Raoul Victor’s talk was Money and Peer Production. He pointed out that money as a dominant social relation emerged only with capitalism. In pre-capitalist societies, most social relations weren’t based on money and symmetric exchange. That’s an important reminder since people often believe that money and markets are more or less neutral tools which can be used for non-capitalist purposes, since they are far older than capitalism. They forget that money and markets have never been the primary means of organizing production in any non-capitalist society, they only played minor, supporting roles. Money cannot become the dominant social form outside of capitalism, and capitalism cannot exist without money.

Raoul also explained that money is just the incorporation of symmetric exchange; you cannot abolish money without abolishing exchange, and vice versa. Money emerges spontaneously when it is needed, e.g. cigarettes were used as a substitute money in times of war. When markets are forbidden but there is no other adequate way of organizing production and distribution, black markets appear—markets in their worst form. So money can only be abandoned by getting rid of its root cause: exchange.

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[Update: Im CommonsBlog gibt es eine deutsche Übersetzung der wesentlichen Teile des Vortrags]

Great opening talk by Law Prof. Louis Wolcher on a one day conference »The Law of the Commons« organized by the Seattle Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild Friday, March 13, 2009. He is speaking about the forgotten tradition of commoning as a social practice of people taking their lives in their own hands [via].

This post continues my coverage of the Fourth Oekonux Conference. Johan Söderberg talked about the Czech open hardware project Ronja. RONJA was developed to provide a cheap, easily producible alternative to Wi-Fi, allowing wireless data transmission between computers. Amazingly, Ronjas use visible light for data transmission, but they are quite fast (10 MBit/s) and allow reliable point-to-point data transmissions, except in case of fog.

The goal of the Ronja project was not only to build affordable open hardware for data transmission, but also to allow the creation of anonymous, censorship-proof networks that can’t be controlled by companies or the state. All design information has been published under the GNU Free Documentation License. The Ronja hardware was sufficiently successful to be employed not only by private people, but also by companies.

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Über Ostern findet in Berlin der Anarchistische Kongress statt. Ich werde dort am Karfreitag (10.4.) um 14 Uhr einen Vortrag zum Thema »Beitragen statt Tauschen – Commons und Peer-Produktion als Grundlagen einer nichtkapitalistischen Gesellschaft« halten. Der Vortrag wird wahrscheinlich ähnlich wie mein WAK-Vortrag im Februar ausfallen – wer den verpasst hat, hat jetzt also eine Chance zum Nachholen.

Der Kongress findet auf dem Gelände der Technischen Universität (Straße des 17. Juni) statt, einen Lageplan gibt es im Programmheft (PDF). Als Anarchisten würde ich mich ja eher nicht bezeichnen, da mir der Anarchismus übertrieben staats- und politikfixiert und auf dem wirtschaftlichen Auge meist ziemlich blind zu sein scheint, aber im Kongressprogramm wird sicher noch die eine oder andere interessante Veranstaltung zu finden sein.

From March 27th to 29th, the Fourth Oekonux Conference (announcement) took place in Manchester. It was great to meet some nice people again and to meet many nice and interesting people for the first time (in real life, that is, since I knew many participants already from virtual communications and it was a good experience to finally meet them in person).

Here are some quick notes which I wrote down during the conference sessions and polished and extended a bit afterwards.

During the first day, I didn’t took many notes, since I was busy as session helper (moderating the discussions and so on). Stefan Merten talked about Current limitations of peer production, and ideas on how to overcome them. Since Stefan doesn’t like the idea of social agreements between producers which might involve a coupling between giving and taking (as I discuss in my book), he is stuck with having to hope for technical solutions. Computers are machines for making perfect copies of digital goods, and Stefan hopes for machines can take make perfect copies of physical goods—the old Replicator dream.

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Version 1.0 of the 4th Oekonux Conference program has been released. 26 speakers cover a wide range of topics from immaterial to material peer production and theory to practice. As far as titles of the speeches are given — a very interesting program!

The 4th Oekonux Conference is organized by Oekonux project in cooperation with P2P Foundation and takes place in Manchester (UK) from 27th to 29th of march 2009. Conference organizers ask for registration, which would help to prepare the conference.