or: Why I was in California last week.
I attended the third Free Culture Conference. This time it was in Berkeley at the West Coast. I was also able to meet up with Markus from Bamberg. He wrote a summary of Lawrence Lessig’s Interview and the Conference at Netzpolitik.org. The first day was packed with keynotes. Most interesting was the Interview with Lawrence, the author of the book “Free Culture” and a talk about access to medicine.
The second day was more working group style. I attended a couple of discussion groups. It is amazing how well the Free Culture Groups operate in the States. They talk about stuff we (in Germany) can’t even think of.
The most important result from the conference is the open university campaign. To have more overlap between the work of different Free Culture groups we chose five points to work on:
An open university is one in which
- The research the university produces is open access.
- The course materials are open educational resources.
- The university embraces free software and open standards.
- If the university holds patents, it readily licenses them for free software, essential medicines, and the public good.
- The university network reflects the open nature of the internet.
where “university” includes all parts of the community: students, faculty, administration.
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