EC SUPPORTS EUROPEAN EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMME ON FREE SOFTWARE
Free Technology Academy set up as distance learning campus
A Consortium formed by three universities and led by the Free Knowledge Institute (FKI) has received the support from the EC's Lifelong Learning Programme to offer an international educational programme on Free Software. Following the Open Educational Resources movement, all learning materials will be freely available through the Internet. The use of Free Software (also referred to as Open Source software or Libre Software) is expanding rapidly in governmental and private organisations. However, still only a limited number of IT professionals, teachers and decision makers have sufficient knowledge and expertise in these new fields. In order to cover this gap, the Free Knowledge Institute and three European universities have founded the Free Technology Academy. The first course materials will be available after this summer.
Open Net Coalition warns EU Parliament for Net discrimination
Amendments in the European Parliament to the "Telecoms Package" 1 may allow operators to take control of their customer's usage of the Net. According to amendments pushed by AT&T, "network management practices" could be used to discriminate what content, services and
Oprichtingsvergadering Free Technology Academy
Op
donderdag 5 en vrijdag 6 februari 2009 vindt de eerste
bestuursvergadering van de Free Technology Academy plaats in
vergadercentrum LEX op de campus van de Open Universiteit Nederland in
Heerlen. Dit initiatief, mede gesteund door het Leven Lang Leren programma van de Europese Unie, beoogt
een internationaal onderwijsprogramma op het gebied van vrije software (ook wel open
source genoemd) en open standaarden.Programma
Het programma zal bestaan uit zeven Engelstalige modules, waarvan het
materiaal als Open Educational Resource wordt gepubliceerd. Aan het
eind van dit kalenderjaar zullen de eerste cursussen in dit programma
gevolgd kunnen worden.
HAR2009
International technology & security conference. Four days of technology, ideological debates and hands-on tinkering.
On August 13-16, 2009 the 20th anniversary edition of the four-yearly Dutch outdoor technology-conference will take place near Vierhouten, NL.
OKCon 2009
OKCon is the annual Open Knowledge Conference organised by our fellow organisation The Open Knowledge Foundation. OKCon is back for its fourth installment bringing together individuals and groups from across the open knowledge spectrum for a day of discussions and workshops.
As the (open) agenda is still being built, please watch the OKCon 2009 website, especially if you would like to contribute to the programme!
NOiV Congress 2009
Following the tradition of the former programme OSOSS (Open Source as Part of Software Strategy), on Thursday March 5th 2009 the first congress of the Programme NOiV will be held. The congress is organised in collaboration with ECP.nl (Platform for eNetherlands) and held in Utrecht, Netherlands. One of the keynote speakers will be Tristan Nitot, President of Mozilla Europe.
ODF Congress
On Thursday, January 29, the NOiV (programme Netherlands Open in Connection) will organise, in collaboration with Adobe, OpenDoc Society and Media Plaza, a workshop on the OpenDocument Format in Maarssen, Netherlands. Reason for the ODF-Congress is the obligation for Dutch goverments to support the OpenDocument Standard from January 1st, 2009 onwards, following the action plan for the use of Open Standards and Open Source Software in the public and semi-public sector.
2008-2009 Petition to stop software patents in Europe
Submitted by hinde on Tue, 23/12/2008 - 15:05.We have signed the Stop Software Patents .eu petition to support their view on serious restrains current software patent legislations cause. "The patent system is misused to restrain competition for the economical benefit of a few but fails to promote innovation. A software market environment is better off with no patents on software at all.
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New Years Drinks
On 15 januari 2009 many internet and ICT-related organisations celebrate the start of 2009 together with a newyears reception in Amsterdam. The participating organisations are:
Free Knowledge Institute, Internet Society Nederland, RIPE NCC, AMS-ix, Terena, Vereniging Open Domein, ISPconnect, Accessibility.nl, W3C Benelux, Gridforum.nl, OpenDoc Society, SURFnet, SELF, CAcert, SIDN, NLnet, NLnet Labs, Oophaga, HXX/HAR2009, Bits of Freedom a.i., and Vrijschrift.
We start at 18.00 and the gathering lasts until 21:00.
Network Civilization: Peer-to-Peer and the Rise of Green Capitalism
Just as the three quarters of oil engineers now agree that Peak Oil is in sight within the next decade (after that, oil production can only decline), can we also posit that we may have reached a moment of Peak Hierarchy, a moment in history in which it is no longer large centralized organizations that are most efficient or productive, but rather those that are organized as distributed networks and can draw on peer producting communities? This is the thesis explored by the P2P Foundation, a global network of researchers investigating the emergence of peer production, governance
