further_bunny writes:

"Open Season"

London, October, 2005

NODE.London presents : Open Season, London, October 2005

This October the UK government, as part of its presidency of the EU is holding a pan-European conference on how to consolidate regulation and control of intellectual property, copyright and technology.

Looking for creative alternatives, NODE.London is declaring this October an 'Open Season' on technology, media, culture, politics and art with a diverse and challenging series of events – building towards London-wide media arts events in March 2006.October 2005

Sat-1st–Sun-2nd
WSFII
(The World Summit on Free Information Infrastructures)

Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd October 2005, 11am–6pm.
Limehouse Town Hall, 646 Commercial Road, London E14 7HA
Booking details http://wsfii.org/register £10, concs £7.50

This event brings together practitioners and projects from the front lines of information infrastructure development to map out connections between Free Networks, Open Hardware, Free Media and Culture, Open Maps/Geodata, Open Civic Information and Community Currencies.

Tues-4th
Future Wireless
(practical.discourse.creative / Cybersalon & Open Spectrum UK)

Tuesday 4th October, 12noon-10pm.
The Science Museum's Dana Centre, 165 Queen's Gate, South Kensington,
London SW7 5HE
http://www.cybersalon.org
Book through bookings@cybersalon.org £5

A day of presentations, demonstrations, practical workshops, artistic interventions and debates to illustrate and probe the nature, impact and potential of wireless Internet, mobile telecommunications and other radio-based technologies.

Fri-7th–Sat-8th
Open Congress
(Creativity and the public domain)

- Friday 7th Saturday 8th October 2005, 11am - 5pm.
- Tate Britain, Millbank London SW1P 4RG
http://opencongress.omweb.org/
Tate booking: 020 7887 8888
or online http://tinyurl.com/dub2u
£20 or £15 concessions for both days

Open Congress explores how methods derived from Free / Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) production can be deployed by those working in the area of art, visual culture and cultural production in general.

Monday 10th – 7pm–9.30pm
Cybersalon on Brazilian Open Source Software & CopyLeft
Guanabara
Parker Street
Nr. Drury Lane
London WC2
No booking, free event
http://www.cybersalon.org/info

Speakers:
Gilberto Gil — Minister of Culture, Brazil
Claudio Prado — Digital Policy Coordinator, Ministry of Culture, Brazil
Dr. Richard Barbrook — Cybersalon and University of Westminster

This Cybersalon will discuss the Brazilian government's open source software project and its support for copyleft at the forthcoming WSIS conference on 18–19th November in Tunis, Tunisia. [WSIS is the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society]

(6.30pm: press reception)
7.00-9.30pm: Cybersalon lectures and discussion
10.00pm: charity auction of football shirts signed by Pele and Brazilian team
10.30pm until late: DJ set and surprise performance

++ many other exciting related events: check http://nodel.org/october.html for more details.