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Free Software and Beyond: The World of Peer Production – The 4th Oekonux Conference

Saturday, March 14th, 2009

Date: 27 – 29 March 2009
Venue: University of Manchester

The Oekonux project, together with the P2P Foundation will have its
4th international conference which will take place on 27-29 March 2009
in Manchester, UK.

This conference, titled “Free Software and Beyond: The World of Peer
Production”, will allow delegates to share their experiences with
peer-to-peer collaborative activities in contemporary society,
including free and open source software development, Wikipedia,
blogosphere, open publishing, social networking, sharing platforms
such as Flickr and YouTube. Moreover, it will encourage delegates to
develop methods and theories for understanding how these activities
take place and their impacts on modern society.

Manchester Free Software will be there selling books and badges from the FSF.

The conference programme is now available at
http://www.oekonux-conference.org/program/index.html

The conference is free to attend and everyone is welcome. To register,
please visit http://www.oekonux-conference.org/registration.html

For more information please visit the conference website
http://www.oekonux-conference.org/

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Software Freedom Day Event

Sunday, September 14th, 2008

Saturday 20th September is Software Freedom Day. As many of you will know, this is a worldwide event designed to promote software freedom and Manchester Free Software (like many other groups across the country and the world) will be hosting an event to celebrate.

As a group we like to celebrate software freedom everyday, but on Saturday 20th September we will be getting together with a whole host of people to talk about and demonstrate free software. The event will take place at the Marbella Cafe on Newton Street from 11am to 4pm.

We will have a number of Internet connected PCs available, which will be used to demonstrate LTSP. The Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) is designed to be used on low powered machines and so is brilliant for reusing old computers in schools or community projects.

Everyone is welcome and there will be plenty of people there who are learning about free software for the first time. We will be giving away CDs, leaflets and stickers. I’m also told that the cafe serves great food (veggie and vegan friendly).

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Free Software in Ethics and Society – Richard Stallman – Manchester 1st May

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

As mentioned previously, Richard Stallman was in Manchester last Thursday to give a presentation. Manchester Free Software organised the event in association with the BCS and the IET.

The talk was a resounding success with many “enlightening” points made and insightful questions asked. Over 300 people attended, filling the lecture theatre, causing latecomers to sit in the aisles.

Video

For those who could not attend, or wish to watch the presentation again, Andrew John Hughes videoed the event.

Each movie is provided as a Theora video stream together with a Vorbis audio stream using the Ogg container format. Three versions are provided, suitable for different downloading capabilities: Full size (704×576), half size (352×288), and quarter size (176×144). The audio stream is also provided as a separate download using Speex, which may be preferable if you are not bothered about seeing the visual content. Further details of these formats are available on the Xiph.org website. A DVD copy is available on request from Andrew John Hughes.

All videos are licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK: England & Wales license.

Creative Commons License Play OGG!

Torrent:

If possible, please use a .torrent from the Primary Mirror in preference to the HTTP mirrors. The .torrent contains versions in the following formats: Ogg Theora (high, medium, and low quality), and Ogg Speex.

HTTP Mirrors:

Primary Mirror

tdobson.net

High Quality :: Medium Quality :: Low Quality :: Audio Version :: Info & Licence

Tertiary Mirrors

Fuseyism

High Quality :: Medium Quality :: Low Quality :: Audio Version :: Licence

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Richard Stallman – 1st May

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

Add this to your diaries. Richard Stallman will be talking about free software in Manchester on 1st of May. The talk has been organised in association with the Manchester branches of the BCS and IET. Details from announcements are:

‘Free Software in Ethics and Practice’ – speaker: Richard Stallman

Thursday 1st May, 2008 – Talk starts at 6:45pm (ends approx. 8:30pm) with refreshments from 6:15pm.

Venue: Room D1, Renold Building, University of Manchester, Sackville Street, Manchester M1 3BB (map)

There is no need to book a place – just turn up on the night.
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