Wizards of OS

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WOS1: exhibition area
WOS3: Jimmy Wales
WOS4: Outside area between Columbiahalle and Columbiaclub

Wizards of OS , or WOS for short , was a conference held four times in Berlin from 1999 to 2006 . Her topic was the potential of the PC and the Internet , open source , open content , free communication and open cooperation in the creation of knowledge and the knowledge system of digital media in general.

background

Wizards of OS was organized by the author Volker Grassmuck in cooperation with the Federal Agency for Civic Education . Thorsten Schilling and Tilman Baumgärtel were involved in the organization .

The conference was interdisciplinary and wanted to offer “a platform for a meeting of 'hard' technical sciences and 'soft' cultural and social sciences, of hackers and lawyers, business people and artists, activists and politicians” . She regularly attracted celebrities from the open source world. The speakers at the WOS included legal experts and computer scientists, but also journalists and numerous artists and representatives of human rights and development aid organizations.

In addition to lectures and workshops, there was always a supporting program with concerts, art exhibitions and film screenings, key signing parties and award ceremonies. At the HU Berlin , Grassmuck organized several accompanying seminars, the University of Graphics and Book Art Leipzig organized a WOS symposium after the first conference, the Kunstverein Hamburg and the Volksbühne Berlin each organized WOS workshops with conference participants. Wizards of OS was planned in advance as a four-part conference series, but at shorter notice than ultimately carried out. The second edition was originally planned for September 1999 at the ZKM Karlsruhe.

The name itself is a corruption of Wizard of Oz . The "OS" in the name stands for Operating Systems (and not, as is often assumed, " Open Source "). The organizing association mikro eV has been dealing with these since 1998, the subject of free software was only taken up late in the planning for an event on "Operating systems of technical and social systems".

Events

1999

Wizards of OS - Open Sources and Free Software from July 16 to 17, 1999 in the House of World Cultures in Berlin was the first event in Germany that was dedicated to the culture, philosophy, politics and economics of free software.

Around 300 to 700 visitors heard about 50 lectures by u. a. Detlef Borchers , Dieter Ernst , Volker Grassmuck , Benedikt Härlin , Friedrich Kittler , Armin Medosch , Tim O'Reilly , Peter Weibel , Thorsten Schilling , Alexeij Shulgin and Norbert Szyperski .

Richard Stallman introduced the concept of a free encyclopedia, which he later launched as GNUPedia . The Oekonux project , which has set itself the task of investigating the potential of free software to fundamentally change the prevailing political and economic structures , also found its origin in the conference .

2001

The second edition took place under the motto Open Cultures & Free Knowledge from 11th to 13th October 2001 in the House of World Cultures.

The around 100 speakers included Detlef Borchers , Hansjürgen Garstka , Volker Grassmuck , Georg Christof Florian Greve , Johnny Haeusler , Sascha Kösch , Stefan Krempl , Maurizio Lazzarato , Bo Leuf , Thomas Macho , Armin Medosch , Axel Metzger , Andy Müller-Maguhn , Janko Röttgers and Thorsten Schilling .

2004

WOS3 ( The Future of the Digital Commons ) took place from June 10th to 12th, 2004 in the Berlin Congress Center and four other locations in Berlin.

There were lectures and a. by Ross Anderson , Markus Beckedahl , Detlef Borchers , Wolfgang Coy , Dragan Espenschied , Stefan Gradmann , Volker Grassmuck , Benedikt Härlin , Stevan Harnad , Stefan Krempl , Thomas Krüger , Felix von Leitner , Weni Markowski , Armin Medosch , Eben Moglen , Cornelia Sollfrank , Rena Tangens , Michael Tiemann , Jimmy Wales and Harald Welte .

The European EDV Academy of Law started the Creative Commons country project Creative Commons Germany at the conference , after Lawrence Lessig first presented the German translation of the license. At the associated Wikipedia Community Days on June 13th, Wikimedia Germany, the first country chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation, was founded.

In the framework of the conference, u. a. the foreign premiere of the first feature film under CC license, CH7 , took place.

2006

WOS4 - Information Freedom Rules took place from September 14th to 16th, 2006 in the Columbiahalle and four other venues in Berlin. Thematic focus was authorship and culture , economy and work , as well as rules and tools of freedom .

The around 1000 participants included 120 accredited journalists and bloggers as well as 90 speakers and workshop leaders, including Yochai Benkler , Detlef Borchers , Christian von Borries , Danny Bruder , Wolfgang Coy , Urs Gasser , Volker Grassmuck , Martin Haase , Armin Medosch , Janko Röttgers , Thorsten Schilling and Hal Varian .

Lawrence Lessig started his registeredcommons.org project here , and Larry Sanger presented his plans for the Citizendium to the public . Helge Haas moderated the public event The Show of Free Knowledge .

literature

Web links

Commons : Wizards of OS  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ^ Wizard of OS: Concept
  2. ^ The Wizards of OS - Operating Systems of the System Society ( Memento from October 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. a b c d Volker Grassmuck : Free Software. Between private and public property. (PDF; 1.6 MB) 2., corr. Edition. Federal Agency for Civic Education , Bonn 2004. ISBN 3-89331-569-1 . P. 21ff
  4. Wizards of OS - events, texts, resources, mailing lists on free software, operating systems, cyberlaw and the knowledge system of digital media ( Memento from October 4, 2001 in the Internet Archive )
  5. Peter Zschunke: Conference: Openness as Productive Force , Spiegel Online , July 13, 1999
  6. a b c Patrick Goltzsch: Digest "Netz und Politik" (NETPOL Digest) 17 ( Memento from July 16, 2003 in the Internet Archive ) , July 20, 1999
  7. ^ Wizards of OS # 1 ( Memento from September 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) , Telepolis , June 14, 1999
  8. Stefan Krempl : Sankt IGNUtius preaches again ( Memento from September 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) , Telepolis , July 18, 1999
  9. Armin Medosch : Wizards of OS 2 ( Memento from August 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) , Telepolis , October 5, 2001
  10. ^ Elisabeth Bauer, Oliver Frommel: Conference Wizards of OS - Programmed for freedom , Linux magazine 2004/08
  11. Stefan Krempl : New copyright for creative people  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.vdi-nachrichten.com   , VDI nachrichten , June 18, 2004
  12. ^ Katja Schmid: Creative Commons Launch in Germany ( Memento from June 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) , Telepolis , June 14, 2004
  13. Volker Grassmuck : Information Freedom Rules ( Memento from May 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) , Telepolis , August 7, 2006
  14. ^ Achim Klapp media advice: Wizards of OS
  15. Volker Grassmuck: closing report on WOS4 , official WOS blog, October 13, 2006
  16. derStandard.at: "RegisteredCommons" are supposed to help enforce free licenses , October 5, 2006
  17. ^ Roland Alton-Scheidl: Copy - but correct , oe1.ORF.at, September 27, 2006
  18. Torsten Kleinz: Wikipedia founder plans competition , Focus Online, September 15, 2006