TheBook

Creating FSCONS: The Book

This page is for coordinating FSCONS: The Book, a publication with essays from the speakers at FSCONS 2008.

Deadlines:
2009-01-01 (First draft, text up for general feedback)
2009-01-15 (Second draft, text up for proofreading)
2009-02-01 (Finished text)

Name	Topic	Notes	Wordcount
Smári McCarthy	The End of (artificial) Scarcity	I think this was the general theme of most of the conference, and I'd love to pour in some ideas I've had on the subject, traversing the entire digitization of society from software to hardware and on...	Current: 3778 (18. november 2008) Goal: 12000-15000
Nikolaj Hald Nielsen	From consumer to creator - The Lego generation in the digital age	Lets see if I have bitten of more than I can chew here... I reserve all rights to make the title less ambitious if the essay does not live up to such a grand name :-)
Mike Linksvayer		Something on free culture relative to free software or the commons and digital freedom, or melding the two. Thinking...
Stefan Larsson	Conceptions and Law	Looking for conceptions tied to law and societal systems. Conceptions that not always function as well in a new context as they did in the older. Connected to copyright history and property. An english version inspired by this swedish one Om Sanning och Rätt in the book FRAMTIDSBOKEN: Vol 1.0 'The Darling Conceptions of Your Time'
Bengt Gördén
Johan Söderberg
Victor Stone	The Unexpected Collaboration	How open content is driving a new way of thinking about the creative process.
Ansgar Bernardi
Denis Jaromil Rojo
Leif-Jöran Olsson	Building from within – on how to engage the solidarity movement in free software
Henrik Moltke	RMS on FREE BEER	Transcript of my RMS Free Beer interview - http://www.archive.org/details/Richard_Stallman_on_FREE_BEER + short foreword about trying to reach broader audiences - this is the best I can do due to time / money constraints. Let me know if you think it'll work - I won't be offended if not :)
Rasmus Fleischer	Meaning out of abundance	My talk about "The (nonlinear) history of copyright", but in a very different order, and somewhat extended with some discussions about the difference between how we could think about "digital freedom" in the decade 1995-2005, compared to now. This text is already finished (for publishing in a smaller magazine) but could maybe be reworked a bit for this book.	Current: 2700-2800 words
Jeremiah C. Foster	deb: The practical results of Free Software praxis.	How does one realize the potential of Free Software. One concrete way is to use and develop an entirely free operating system developed by the Free Software community. That operating system is called debian and is built on debs. Let's investigate.
Ville Solarius