FSCONS 2008/Summary

summary and key facts

Conference Tag line

FSCONS 2008 is the first among many Free Society conferences that bridges the gap between free software and cultural freedom. Co-arranged by Free Software Foundation Europe, Creative Commons and Wikimedia Sverige, FSCONS 2008 is already a landmark event in bringing the different movements working for digital freedom together. Freedom Tunnel Photo by Colin Mutchler More than just a series of presentations, FSCONS 2008 is a cross-cultural meeting place where grass root organisations, companies, academics, cultural workers and hackers come together in a united effort to discuss and liberate all aspects of digital culture.

Dates

FSCONS 2008 was held October 24th - 26th in Gothenburg, Sweden

Themes/Tracks

• Free Culture
• Development
• Free Software

Speakers

• Andreas Ericsson
• David Cuartielles
• Eva Hemmungs Wirtén
• Frank Schulenburg
• Fredrik "DXter" Jonsson
• Henrik Moltke
• Christian Lanng
• Inge Wallin
• Johan Eklund
• John Buckman
• Katja Henttonen
• Lars Aronsson
• Mike Linksvayer
• Nicklas Lundblad
• Niclas Nilsson
• Peter Stuge
• Rasmus Fleischer
• Tham Wickenberg
• Victor Stone
• Bengt Gördén
• Jan Szczepanski
• Stefan Larsson
• Håkan Hydén

Topics/Talks/Presentations

Free Culture

Why Google is just second best for open access information - Jan Szczepanski

Why Google is just second best for open access information - Jan Szczepanski

The darling conceptions of your time - Stefan Larsson & Håkan Hydén

The darling conceptions of your time - Stefan Larsson & Håkan Hydén

Book chapter from Freebeer: http://swepub.kb.se/bib/swepub:oai:lup.lub.lu.se:1507999?tab2=abs&language=en

Ten facts you should know about Wikipedia - Frank Schulenburg

Ten facts you should know about Wikipedia - Frank Schulenburg

• Video: http://www.miroguide.com/items/3503416

Development

Towards 10Gbps open-source routing - Bengt Gördén

Towards 10Gbps open-source routing - Bengt Gördén

Slides: http://www.bag.org/bengt_gorden_fscons2008.pdf

Number of visitors

In 2008 we had X visitors from Y countries.

Videos

http://blog.fscons.org/?cat=7

Photos

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/fscons08/

Slides

• http://www.slideshare.net/bergie/midgard-2-the-cloud-you-can-control-presentation
• http://www.bag.org/bengt_gorden_fscons2008.pdf

Other

Conference Book: Freebeer

• http://freebeer.fscons.org/index.html

Old conference web site

• http://fscons.org/2008/

Blog posts related to FSCONS 2008

• FSCONS 2008 Video blog posts http://blog.fscons.org/?cat=7
• FSCONS 2008 Blog posts http://blog.fscons.org/?cat=3