- Wizards of OS
Wizards of OS (Wizards of Operating Systems, or "WOS") is a
Berlin -based conference.Its topics are the cultural and political potentials of
free software ,software technology, digital networks and media, and more generally information freedom and open cooperation in the creation and proliferation of knowledge. The conference is interdisciplinary and aims to be a platform of exchange between, chiefly, scientists, engineers, social researchers, scholars from the humanities, artists and activists.The name is a word play on Wizard of Oz. The acronym OS stands for
operating system (notopen source ).WOS3
The first Wizards of OS conference took place in 1999, the third conference in 2004 had the topic "The Future of the Digital Commons" and featured, among others, the launch of the German translation of the
Creative Commons licenses.Wizards of OS 4 - Information Freedom Rules
The
Wizards of OS 4 took place from September 14 to September 16, 2006. Some of the topics were the future ofCreative Commons ,open music and the compensation of artists and Europeancopyright legislation .Larry Sanger announced an initial proposal of his projectCitizendium .External links
* http://wizards-of-os.org
* [http://www.wizards-of-os.org/programm/live_stream.html archive of video and audio recordings from the sessions]
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