[edlug] FW: [Scottish] FOSS Cafe

["Peter George" <peter@xxx.xxx.xxx>]

Bob speaking in Glasgow.
 
P

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	Subject: [Scottish] FOSS Cafe
	
	

	_FOSS Cafe_
	time: 3pm Sunday 9th May, 2004
	venue: MONO Cafe, 12 Kings Court, King Street, Glasgow
	entrance: FREE
	
	
	
	FOSS Cafe is an informal introduction introduction to Free Open Source
	Software (FOSS) and some of the wider issues surrounding it. Presented
	as part of the MACHINISTA festival, it will feature talks by James
	Wallbank (Lowtech, UK) discussing Lowtech's work promoting free
	software for artists and local communities and the recycling of old
	computers, Bob Kerr (Edinburgh Linux Users Group, UK) discussing his
	initiative to bring free software into Scotland's public libraries and
	its relevance to non-profit organisations, and Lawrence Liang
	(Alternative Law Forum, India) talking about free software in India and
	its relationship to issues of piracy, copyright and globalisation. 
	Members of Linux groups from across Scotland are invited to attend as
	well as artists and visitors to the MACHINISTA festival.
	
	FOSS Cafe is a semi-social introduction to FOSS where people who are
	interested but new to the topic can meet with more experienced people. 
	The discussions will be introduced and chaired by Simon Yuill, a
	Glasgow-based artist and programmer who works with FOSS technologies.
	Later this year, the CCA will be hosting YOUR MACHINES, a series of
	hands-on workshops providing introductions to the kinds of creative
	work that can be produced through FOSS technologies, ranging from
	wireless networking to programming live audio-visual interactive works.
	
	
	Speakers:
	
	Lawrence Liang
	http://www.altlawforum.org/
	
	Lawrence Liang is a researcher with the Alternative Law Forum,
	Bangalore, where he coordinates the research project on "IP and the
	Knowledge/ Culture Commons". His area of work is on non legal media
	practises, popular culture and law. He is working on a long-term
	research project for ALF on Intellectual Property and the Public
	Domain. The project is funded by a SARAI research grant. He is also
	associated with the Centre for Study of Culture and Society (CSCS) on a
	year long seminar course on Law and Culture. He is currently doing a
	research residency at the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam.
	
	
	
	Bob Kerr
	http://www.edlug.ed.ac.uk/
	
	Bob Kerr is a member of the Edinburgh Linux Group.  He recently
	introduced the distribution of the free software "OpenOffice"
	throughout the Scottish Library system.
	
	http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/12/18/openoffice_cds_live_for_lending/
	
	http://www.newsforge.com/software/03/12/14/1545216.shtml
	
	
	
	James Wallbank
	http://www.lowtech.org
	
	James Wallbank is the director of Lowtech, an organisation set up by
	arts group Redundant Technology Initiative in 1997. Based in Sheffield,
	UK, Lowtech is an attempt to find a new, more positive way to engage
	with the ever changing and potentially divisive world of information
	communication technology. As such, Lowtech is a leading advocate of
	universal access to low or no-cost information technology, working with
	zero-cost technology rescued from the trash, and free, open-source
	software that costs absolutely nothing. Their Access Space is the first
	public access internet laboratory to be run entirely with free
	software. Lowtech believe that free technology is something which
	everyone can get involved with.
	
	
	
	FOSS Cafe has been supported by the CCA, Machinista and the Scottish
	Arts Council.  CCA is Glasgow's Centre for Contemporary Arts, six
	flexible arts spaces presenting the very best in contemporary visual
	art, performance, film, music, club nights and more.
	
	
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	YOUR MACHINES
	http://www.yourmachines.org
	
	CCA
	http://www.cca-glasgow.com
	
	MACHINISTA
	http://www.machinista.org.uk
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