---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Bollier <[email protected]> Date: Sun, May 19, 2013 at 4:14 PM Subject: Last-minute updates and reminders for ECC To: David Bollier <[email protected]> Dear ECC Participant, We have a final set of announcements and reminders to share with you before the conference and side events begin. First off all: Please remember *our conference hashtag: #4thecommons * Here is the list of issues we want to bring to your attention: OPENING SESSIONS STREAM DESCRIPTIONS SIDE EVENTS STREAMING ECC COMMUNICATION PLATTFORM ECC WIKI + YOUR DATA + PARTICIPANTS LIST * **OPENING OF ECC AND PUBLIC CONFERENCE ON WEDNESDAY, MAY 22 4.30 pm * Please be on time. The event will surely be filled to capacity. Here is a link to spread the word and for any non-conference participant to register: http://www.boell.de/calendar/VA-viewevt-de.aspx?evtid=12704&crtpage=1 *STREAM DESCRIPTIONS * The descriptions of each Stream in the conference program are abbreviated versions. The longer, more detailed descriptions can now be found on our Conference Wiki at: http://p2pfoundation.net/Overview_of_the_Economics_of_the_Commons_Conference... *SIDE EVENTS * There is a whole range of self-organized side events that we wish to draw to your attention. A few listing can be found here: http://p2pfoundation.net/Overview_of_the_Economics_of_the_Commons_Conference... Several of these side events were organized since our last letter to ECC participants. These include: Side Event: Commons for Public Health (not to be confused as restricted to health issues) "Public Health, Seeds, Open Knowledge and Clean Tech: A Common(s) Pathway? - Discussing a Commons-based Knowledge Transfer and Innovation System" Tuesday 21 May: 11:00 - 17:00 Venue: Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Luisenstr 57, 10117 Berlin A program is now available here: http://p2pfoundation.net/Commons_for_Public_Health_-_2013 RSVP: Lukas Fendel / Universities Allied for Essential Medicines [email protected] ******************** Side Event: Education Commons Wednesday 22 May, 13:00-16:30 Commons education, education commons, Global Commons Initiative, research commons, School of Commoning, University of Notre Dame in the Heinrich Boell Foundation Building/ meeting point: lobby RSVP: Leo Burke <[email protected]> <[email protected]> ******************** Side Event: Enabling a global climate commons pathway - through an emerging loose international federation of commons Wednesday 22 May: 14.00 to 16.00 Conference Room 2, Schumannstr 8, in the Heinrich Boell Foundation building RSVP to: Brian Davey <[email protected]> <[email protected]>and Justin Kenrick <[email protected]> <[email protected]> ******************** Side Event: Commons in post-soviet area -- Dying or transforming towards a modern form of commons? How can experiences of transformational countries be joined into the commons movement? Wednesday, 25 May, 12.00 - 14.00 Venue: Heinrich Boell Foundation; meet in the lobby RSVP to: Kai Ehlers <[email protected]> <[email protected]> POST CONFERENCE SIDE EVENT: In the context of: "How to get there from here? conference followup and post-conference planning." Commons Abundance Network (CAN) Invitation to explore mutual empowerment through exploration and further development of THE COMMONS ABUNDANCE NETWORK Saturday, May 25th, 9am -12 Venue: Heinrich Boell Foundation, room depending on number of attendees RSVP to: Wolfgang Hoeschele: [email protected] *STREAMING OF SESSIONS, ESPECIALLY KEYNOTES * On Wednesday, May 22 the entire opening event will be streamed, starting at 4.30 pm Throughout the conference, all keynotes will be streamed at scheduled times. Please spread the following links for streaming: On the hbf website (chat available): http://www.boell.de/economysocial/economy/economy-commons-10451.html On the ECC Communication Platform: http://commonsandeconomics.org/live/ The streams (in an edited version) will also be available at: https://www.youtube.com/user/boellstiftung (search for ECC2013) If you wish to embed the streaming into your websites and blogs: here is the code <embed src='http://www.boell.de/data/flash/jwplayer.swf' height='350' width='588' allowscriptaccess='always' allowfullscreen='true' flashvars="&author=Heinrich-Boell-Stiftung&bandwidth=157829&description=Live-Stream%20von%20Veranstaltungen%20der%20Heinrich-Boell-Stiftung%20auf%20http%3A%2F% 2Fwww.boell.de%2Fstream&file=stream01&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.boell.de %2Fimages%2Fdemokratie%2Fnetzpolitik.gif&lightcolor=0xa7a796&plugins=viral-2&screencolor=0xf2f2f2&streamer=rtmp:// livezone02.netdna.com/live/64870&title=Live-Stream"/> If you share those links with all those who cannot attend the conference, we'll multiply our audience. *ECC COMMUNICATION PLATFORM (CP)* Throughout next week, the platform is not open for registration for the general public. Only ECC participants can have an account at this moment and post their own contributions. However, non-participants are currently able to comment on all posts and comment using Twitter (with the hashtag #4thecommons) -- and during the conference everybody will be able to follow the video stream and other real-time tools. After the conference the ECC Communication Platform will be opened completely, so that everybody can register and post on it. If you wish to read material from CP during your trip to Berlin you can now use a downloadhelper, ready to be used from mobile devices for all PDF or ePub documents (right column of each post, as for instance here: http://commonsandeconomics.org/2013/05/19/an-urbanism-for-the-commons/) *ECC2013 WIKI * First of all, please verify YOUR data on the wiki, and send any proposed changes to Michel Bauwens at [email protected] This is the official overview page of the conference: http://p2pfoundation.net/ECC2013 Research on the topic of Commons Economics: http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Commons_Economics Comprehensive list of participants: http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:ECC2013_Participants List of organizational affiliations: http://p2pfoundation.net/ECC2013/Organizations That's all! We are looking very much forward to seeing all of you! For the Steering Committee of ECC, Silke Helfrich and David Bollier -- David [email protected] Now blogging at www.Bollier.org Commons Strategies Groupwww.wealthofthecommons.orgwww.viralspiral.cc 511 Old Farm Road Amherst, MA 01002 USA413-259-2009 -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/