Three big names from the world of community movements: Free Software Foundation Europe, Creative Commons and Wikimedia come together under the banner of Free Society at this years FSCONS in Gothenburg Sweden.

The lectures and events surrounding the conference will range from modern Kernel design over citizen journalism all the way across to licensing in the 21st century.

Each of the three main organizers is responsible for one track at the conference. The FSFE will coordinate events dealing with Free Software where as Creative Commons and Wikipedia will educate and talk about Free Culture and Free Content respectively.

This first of a kind event will allow the participants to reach across the boarders of their individual community and by nourishing cross topic discussions stimulate the creation of joint projects.

FSCONS is more than a series of presentations. Alongside the lectures there will be plenty of room for discussions either self initiated or as part of seminars, workshops or panel discussions.

FSCONS is a place to meet. The venue (the IT-University in Gothenburg) allows for a lot of space being dedicated to meet other activists and exchange ideas and experiences in a creative and innovative environment. Complimenting this approach, the schedule of the events will be flexible and provide enough time to engage in social activities without missing any events.

Despite its setting in northern Europe FSCONS is certainly not an event limited to this region. It is more a chance to engage in shaping the movements of tomorrow in a city where tradition meets invention and art meets technology.

In this sense
Vällkommen till Göteborg 08!

PS:

Our previous web-pages are accessible at http://fscons.org/2007.

Sign up to get info from the FSCONS team (low traffic): http://mail.fscons.org/mailman/listinfo/info

You can get the videos from last year’s FSCONS:
http://www.fsfe.org/en/advocacy/audio_videos/fscons_2007