[community] First International Forum on free culture and knowledge accessibility (Barcelona October 29 to November 1 2009)

[J.C. DE MARTIN]

*First International Forum on free culture and knowledge accessibility
(Barcelona October 29 to November 1 2009)

Join online!!!!!!!!!!*

ENGLISH

http://www.fcforum.net

The International Forum on free culture and knowledge will take place 
from October 29 to November 1st 2009 in Barcelona. This event is a 
unique opportunity to bring together under the same roof the main 
organizations and active voices in the world of free culture and free 
knowledge; a meeting point to sit down and work together setting common 
agendas and strategies, and also to reflect, from a critical point of 
view, on the different views, dangers and contradictions of free 
culture. At the same time, the forum is an opportunity to give more 
visibility to alternative conceptions of knowledge, culture and 
creativity, different from the ones that the entertainment industry and 
universities insist on imposing.


Why Barcelona

In January 2010, Spain will take up the Presidency of the European 
Union. The Spanish Government has already announced that one of its 
flagships will be the reinforcement of the control over the Internet and 
the criminalization of the sharing culture in the digital environment. 
The consequences of those decisions will be noticed in the rest of the 
world. Furthermore, within this context
Barcelona is closing agreements about access to culture that will serve 
as models to other institutions in Catalonia and Spain. In October 29 
this year Barcelona will hold the Second Edition of the Oxcars Festival, 
an international event to honor the defense of culture and to show the 
existence of other creation channels, at least as good as the 
traditional ones. The last edition was a success with more than 2000 
participants. It brought the attention both of an interested public and 
of media. You can find more information about last year's edition at
http://exgae.net/exgae-multiply-and-share-forth/theoxcars
There are many active organizations, movements and persons related to 
free culture from different perspectives in Spain, offering a very rich 
sharing space and a source of new proposals from where an international 
process can bel aunched. In this regard, several worldwide voices, like 
during the last World Social Forum (Belem do Para, Brazil, 2009) 
recognize the necessity of creating international spaces for networking, 
coordination and building of a global framework for free culture and 
knowledge, analyze similarities and develop common agendas. The Free 
Culture Forum of Barcelona aims to create such a space.

What

The main objectives of the Forum are, on the one hand, building networks 
to optimize the efforts of the different groups and setting common 
demands against the proposals from industry and governments in their 
eagerness to control culture and information; and on the other hand 
reinforcing the self-organization of tools and infrastructures to 
support free culture.

How

The Forum will take place in 3 days that combine different methodologies:
October 29: Celebration of the Oxcars Free Culture Awards Festival.
October 30: Presentation of key experiences from around the globe and 
discussion on the key issues.
October 31: Working groups around the key issues of the Forum
November 1st: Bring together the results from the working groups. Define 
a common agenda and approve a manifesto for each topic.


Key issues
The working program is on:
* Education and Acces to Knowledge
* Organizational Logic and Political Implications of Free Culture
* Free Software and Open Standards: Knowledge Sharing Hacker Philosophy 
and Action Technical Ware
* Economies, New P2p Models and Sustainable Distribution
* Legal Perspectives and User Access

HOW TO JOIN THE FREE CULTURE FORUM ONLINE????

DURING THE FCFORUM:

The Fcforum will take place from Oct 29th to Nov 1 2009 (Barcelona time 
zone). You can check out the program at http://fcforum.net/programa From 
the http//www.fcforum.net you have access to the several ways to join 
online and in live the Fcforum listed below.

Live streaming:
The oXcars Awards Festival (Oct 29 from 21pm) at 
http://oxcars09.exgae.net/live/
The Fcforum (Oct 30 to Nov 1) will be live streamed at 
http://fcforum.net/live

The main conclusions and ideas will be transmitted though distributed 
microblogging services, too. The messages will be transmitted in 
English, Catalan and Spanish.
Identi.ca': http://identi.ca/fcforum/
The Fcforum encourages you to use Identi.ca becouse is free, otherwise 
at Twitter go to http://twitter.com/fcforum_net
In both cases, add '!fcf' to your messages so they will be received by 
the fcforum group.

You can also join the Facebook event at 
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=179317651046&ref=mf 
<http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=179317651046&ref=mf>

The collaborative wiki to support the Fcforum working groups is 
http://wiki.fcforum.net

AFTER THE FCFORUM:

The recordings will be availeble from the http://www.fcforum.net

Furthermore, and importantly, the Fcforum has as a goal to end up with 
Manifestos on free culture and a common action agenda. After the fcforum 
at http://www.fcforum.net you will be able to check the fcforum results 
and join and manifest your support if you wish.

For other questions and doubts the contact e-mail is: info(at)fcforum.net
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