Wizards of OS 2
-- Open Cultures & Free Knowledge --

at the
House of World Cultures Berlin
October 11-13, 2001

WOS 2 -- speakers

0100101110101101.ORG, authors of biennale.py and life_sharing, Bologna

Peter Bingel

Detlef Borchers, freelance journalist, Metten

Yann Moulier Boutang, theorist and economist, co-editor of the writings of Louis Althusser and editor of the publication, "Multitudes", Paris

Roberto Bui, member of the WU-MING novel writers collective, formerly a major player and strategist of the Luther Blissett project, Bologna

Paschutan Buzari, mikro, Berlin

Florian Cramer, scientific assistant at the Institute for General and Comparative Literature Science of the Free University Berlin

Susanne Dobratz, Open Archives Initiative (OAI), Computer Center of Humobldt University Berlin

Olga Drossou, Heinrich Boell Foundation

Joachim Euchner, Head of MHP project, convergence integrated media GmbH, Berlin

Hannes Federrath, Technical University Dresden, Faculty of Computer Science

Arno Fiedler, D-Trust GmbH

Micz Flor, one of the developers of Campsite, and training consultant at the Center for Advanced Media - Prague (CAMP)

Frank Fremerey, science writer and photographer, Bonn

Matthew Fuller, http://www.axia.demon.co.uk, London

Ami Ganguli, member of core developer team of Midgard, works at Nemein Solutions on Midgard 2, Helsinki

Hansjuergen Garstka, Privacy and Information Access Commissioner of the State of Berlin, Germany

Dirk Gomez, Ars Digita, member of the OpenACS Community, Berlin

Volker Grassmuck, conceptor of WOS, does research in the framework of the joint research project "Bild Schrift Zahl" at the Helmholtz Center for Cultural Technology of Humboldt University Berlin

Georg Greve, co-founder and president of the Free Software Foundation Europe and co-founder of the GNU Business Network, Hamburg

Boris Groendahl, Berlin

Nico Grubert, working in education und publishing at the Zope service-company beehive GmbH, Berlin

Seda Gurses, Virtual Women's University (vifu), Berlin

Keith Hart, anthropologist, author of "The Memory Bank: Money in an Unequal World", currently holds a research post at the University of Aberdeen and lives in Paris

Cori Hayden, expert on bioprospecting, biodiversity and pharmaceutical commercialization agreements, Cambridge, UK

Sebastian Hetze, Linux Systems AG, Berlin

Michael Hildebrandt, Research Associate, Human Computer Interaction Group, Department of Computer Science, University of York

Jeanette Hofmann, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin

Meg Hourihan, co-founder and until January 2001 Director of Development at Pyra (creators of Blogger), now at KnowNow, Menlo Park, CA

Tim Hubbard, Head of Human Sequence Analysis at the Sanger Centre and Joint Head of the open source genome annotation project Ensembl, a joint project between the Sanger Centre and the European Bionformatics Institute, Cambridge UK

Till Jaeger, Board Member of the Institute for Legal Issues of Open Source Software (ifrOSS), Partner of the law firm JBB, Berlin

Alexander Kandzior, Chief Executive Officer of Framfab Deutschland AG and one of the main architects of OpenCMS, Cologne

Thomax Kaulmann, Data Artist, main developer of Open Meta Archive, Berlin

Christopher Kelty, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Rice University, Houston Texas

Klaus Keuss, Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik

Michael Kleinhenz, OpenMusic activist, co-founder and board member of LinuxTag e.V., Kaiserslautern

Olaf Koglin, Institute for Legal Issues of Open Source Software (ifrOSS), Berlin

Marit Koehntopp, Independent Center for Privacy and Information Access of the State of Schleswig-Holstein

Sascha Koesch, CEO de:bug magazine | zeitschrift fuer elektronische lebensaspekte, Berlin

Birthe Koester, Official in Charge of Fundamental Issues of Information Access at the Independent Center for Privacy and Information Access of the State of Schleswig-Holstein

Stefan Krempl, freelance Journalist

Till Kreutzer, Junior Lawyer at the copyright law firm Kukuk, Hamburg

Frank Kunkel, Berlin, coordinator of the project Open Meta Archive, Berlin

Andreas Lange, Computer Game Museum Berlin

Maurizio Lazzarato, researcher on communication, information technologies and immaterial labour, Paris

Andreas Lehner, Chaos Computer Club, Berlin

Bo Leuf, co-developer of WikiWikiWeb and co-author of The WikiWay, Gothenburg, Sweden

Michael Linton, inventor of LETS (Local Exchange Trading Systems), Openmoney Project, Vancouver

Timothy Lord, Editor Slashdot.org, monkey.org, Knoxville, Tennessee

James Love, Director of Consumer Project on Technology, Washington, DC

Thomas Macho, Professor of Cultural Studies at Humboldt University Berlin

Roman Maczkowsky, employee and co-developer of the Virtual Privacy Office at the Independent Center for Privacy and Information Access of the State of Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel

Armin Medosch, Editor in Chief of Telepolis, London

Stefan Meretz, computer scientist and maintainer of the scientific political websites Kritische Informatik and Kritische Psychologie, founder of open theory and activist in the Oekonux project, Duesseldorf

Stefan Merten, computer scientist, founder and maintainer of the Oekonux project, Kaiserslautern

Axel Metzger, Board Member of the Institute for Legal Issues of Open Source Software (ifrOSS), Lecturer at the University of Hamburg

Herbert A. Meyer, Psychologist, senior research fellow at artop-institute, Humboldt University Berlin

Erik Moeller, Freelance Journalist, operator of the p2p portal InfoAnarchy.org and of the p2p journalism mailinglist P2PJ, Berlin

Andy Mueller-Maguhn, Spreaker of the Chaos Computer Club and Director of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number, Berlin

Richard K. Moore, author of the 'cybercredits' open-money system and of many anti-globalization articles, Dublin

Daniel Ockeloen, Software architect at Submarine, main architect of MMBase and member of MMBase Management Committe, Amsterdam

Oliver Passek, Netzwerk Neue Medien, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen

Christoph Oehler, Professor emeritus for sociology and research in higher education, Gesamthochschule Kassel

Kenta Ohji, philosopher, co-author of Eprouver l'universel. Essai de géophilosophie and member of the New Associationist Movement (NAM), Paris

Oliver Passek, Netzwerk Neue Medien, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen

Mark Pratt, Managing Director at the Zope service-company beehive GmbH, Berlin

Hans Peter Prenzel, primary school teacher and co-initiator of the Open Web School, Berlin

Daniel Probst, Political Economist, Mannheim University

Manfred Redelfs, Head of the Research & Investigations Unit of Greenpeace Germany, Co-Initiator of the "Netzwerk Recherche", Hamburg

Frank Rieger, gate5 AG, Spezialist for geographical information systems, Berlin

Daniel Riek, Technical Manager, Alcove, Bonn

Janko Roettgers, Author of "Netbeats - Musik im Internet" (2001) and Editof of Tonspion.de, Berlin

Donald K. Rosenberg, President of Stromian Technologies, a consultancy for OEM software licensing, and author of Open Source. The Unauthorized White Paper, Durham, NC

Hermann Rotermund, producer and advisor for digital media, digital television, eBook and Internet; from 1996 to 1998 concept and production of the Internet site of Radio Bremen and Coordinator of the website of the public TV network ARD; from spring 1997 until the end of 2000 Head of Project of the ARD Online Channel, the first multimedia channel in German digital broadcasting, Berlin

Werner Roth, Head for project StarOffice 4 Kids, StarOffice Product Strategy Group, Sun Microsystems, Paderborn

Thaer Sabri, Flawless Money LTD & IBUC, London

Christine-Dorothea Sauer, Central- and State Library Berlin, Directorate America Memorial Library, Berlin

Thorsten Schilling, Head of the Multimedia & IT Department, Federal Office for Political Education, Bonn

Pit Schultz, Berlin

Tom Schwaller, founder and for five years editor in chief of Linux-Magazin and site manager of Linux-Community, developer of Webware, and Linux Enterprise Specialist at IBM, Munich

Skúli Sigurdsson, Researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, expert for Iceland's Gene Database, Berlin

Tilmann Singer, Developer of SumoSushi, member of the OpenACS Community, Vienna/Berlin

Hubertus Soquat, Senior Official IT-Security, Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, Berlin  

Felix Stalder, co-founder of OpenFlows and author of "Making Money: Notes on Technology as Environment", Ph.D. thesis at the Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto

Kaushik Sunder Rajan, holds a degree in Biochemistry from Oxford and is a PhD student in Anthropology at MIT, Cambridge, MA

Malte Susdorff, Sussdorff & Roy, member of the OpenACS Community, Hamburg

Fritz Teufel, patent lawyer, physicist, Manager of Intellectual Property Department of IBM Germany, Stuttgart

Rob Vermeulen, Technical MMBase coordinator and member of MMBase Management Committee, Amsterdam

Richard Wright, artist, film-maker, researcher, and author of http://www.theBankofTime.com, London

Brigitte Zypries, Under-Secretary at the Federal Ministry of the Interior, in charge of the eGovernment projects of the Federal Government, Berlin