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This category will index conference events related to Peer to Peer topics.

Please also do check our Delicious tag on the topic.

A list of specific lectures on P2P is available here

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Contents 1 Key Upcoming P2P Conferences 2 Milestones and Conference Reviews 3 Resources 3.1 2010 Conference Agenda 3.2 Agenda Sites 3.3 Reviews 3.4 Tools 3.5 Directory

Key Upcoming P2P Conferences

1. Discussions on the Future of the Economy an interdisciplinary conference on how to transform our economic infrastructure for the sustainable future.

1. DIY Citizenship: Critical Making and Social Media. Centre for the Study of the United States, Munk School of Global Affairs. University of Toronto, Nov 12-14, 2010 [1]

Milestones and Conference Reviews

November 2009:

1. David Bollier reviews the Free Culture Forum meeting], which establishes a charter for a free culture in the digital age.
2. Sam Rose and Paul Hartzog review the November 3 conference in Manchester, on Media Ecologies for Post-Industrial Production
3. Review of: CPoV: Wikipedia Research Initiative Conferences in Bangalore (12/13 January 2010) and Amsterdam (26/27 March 2010), Institute of Network Cultures and Centre for Internet & Society. Interview with Johanna Niesyto and Nate Tkacz.
4. Review of: The 3rd Free Culture Research Conference (FCRC), Freie Universität of Berlin and Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (8/9 October 2010). Interview with Leonhard Dobusch and Michelle Thorne.

Resources

2010 Conference Agenda

• Calendar of 2010 social change conferences

Agenda Sites

1. Peter Suber maintains a list of Open Access Movemnent conferences.
2. JD Lasica selects the key social media conferences of 2009
3. IC4TD Events: maintained by Ismael Peña-López

Reviews

1. See the tag: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens/P2P-Conferences

2. Ismael Peña-López regularly live-blogs conferences and they are available here

By July 2009, the following conferences were covered:

• First Annual ICT4D Postgraduate Symposium; Second Annual ICT4D Postgraduate Symposium; Third Annual ICT4D Postgraduate Symposium
• Web 2.0 for Development
• e-Stas 2007, Symposium on Technologies for Social Action; e-Stas 2008; e-Stas 2009,
• 3rd Internet, Law and Politics Congress; 4th Internet, Law and Politics Congress; 5th Internet, Law and Politics Conference
• Towards a Social Science of Web 2.0
• Web 2.0 for Education ; Open Ed Tech 2008 ; Working Session on Open Social Learning
• Development Cooperation 2.0
• iCities 2008, Blogs, e-Government and Digital Participation
• Network Society: Social Changes, Organizations and Citizens
• Fighting the Digital Divide through Education
• Citizen Politics
• Course on Digital Competences

Tools

Augmenting Conferences through technology: great overview of tools and examples by George Siemens and Terry Anderson et al. Reviews Augmented Conferences, Blended Conferences, Online Conferences etc...

Also:

• Pentabarf is an open source conference planning software.
• Open Conference Systems, is "a free Web publishing tool that will create a complete Web presence for your scholarly conference".

Directory