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Who's next "Karl Lagerfeld"?

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Plateforme de crowdfunding mode - I AM LA MODE

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Comprenez le fonctionnement du site de financement participatif mode

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Probably many people would like to attend the OuiShare Fest in Paris, but can´t afford the trip. It would be great to attend online :-)

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If you need a carpark, think about us ;)

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1 year 1 month 11 days with 1.111€!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DtM8VaqgrU

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This video was created as an EXCHANGE for setting up film scene in the studio of Andresa Salgueiro... LX Factory in Lisboa, 20.11.2012

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Community build trust of teachers

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Private tutor to learn language, music or school tutoring at home

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Find the best teachers in your area. From math tutoring to yoga, Apprentus is the best and fastest way to find high-quality teachers.

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http://dest2013.digital-ecology.org/

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News site with Joomla 3.1 template for latest news.

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How to study and improve trust in our communities of users ?Which elements can build trust in a specific comnunity ? Especially in communities of carpooling, carsharing which present a risk for new users : to share a personal vehicule with strangers is not so natural...

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New lifestyles - Beyond life/work dichotomy

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New lifestyles - Beyond life/work dichotomy

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I wish we would discuss new models of communal habitats: imagined as futuristic hubs for technological & societal innovation, for hackers, scholars, artists. Topics are both theoretical and practical: low-cost & DIY subsistence, well-being in such communities, organisational & financial patterns, ethical & political perspectives (total inclusion, common property, open innovation), networks of spaces & nomadism, role in local environment... and the possibility of creating a generic model, and its potential to scale in the current European situation. -From CHT#1 live-in hacklab, Lanzarote

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Talk about new business model coming with collaborative Economy

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Talk about new business model coming with collaborative Economy

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P2P Marketplace, renting, freemium, ec..

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What are the dimensions of value and how do we measure them

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Efforts to exchange value on a different basis than the money/private property structures supported by current legal practice need to have legal form, what does this look like (Janelle Orsi, Chris Cooke)

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Enabling people (on the 3rd day) to create their own experience of sharing economy, like a "collaborative trip" : they could make in an hour or less their own trip using airbnb, voiturelib, colunching websites, and so on..

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We could organise a workshop which aims to create a law project about collaborative economy. It would contains measures that favor sharing and solve the legal issues of it (like ridesharing vs taxis).

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Upcyclingfestival

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The occasion to exchange second-hand things. With a thema (for exemple, only books) or not.

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how-to on building interaction between different services /initiatives

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Whole territories and local communities in Europe are being desertified as crisis destroys their sources of work and wealth - just claim that the old model be maintained at any cost, and lack the culture and skills to manage transition - how do we start and promote a different model from scratch? are there positive experiences?

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could it be interesting to pick someone from the ineteconomics.org pool to examine the macroeconomic potential of the sharing model?

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How to (re)distribute value in the contributive economy?

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How to (re)distribute value in the contributive economy?

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While more and more people are struggling to make a living in these times of crisis, big companies are accumulating huge profits from private data, crowdsourcing - a large free lunch provided by new crowds of unpaid volunteers: internet users. How to design a economic system which fully recognizes free contributions as economic value?

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instruments and strategies for awareness raising among people who never heard about it before

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take some shots during events , flash interviews... to be used for a multimedia blog during and after Fest

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instruments and strategies for attracting people who

never heard about share economy before

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would be interesting to come up with ideas & experiences about how codesign can apply to community services, engage citizens and eventually help build a sustainable model – an anticrisis strategy they don't often talk about in Brussels

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It would be interesting to explore the links between creativity and collaborative economy. How to promote creativity in education and prepare children to think in a collaborative way ?

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Would be really great to have a panel discussion, or something interactive/collaborative about challenges/opportunities in building & fostering communities around coll con/sharing economy ideas.

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STAGESURFING.FR / LOG IN, CHECK IN, PLUG IN 

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STAGESURFING.FR / LOG IN, CHECK IN, PLUG IN 

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Introducing collaborative music to the OuiShareFest ! Let's rock !

StageSurfing helps talented musicians to find a stage beyond their local borders and, vice versa, helps stage owners find talented artists, using collaborative tools.

For example, a young music band from Glasgow would find a stage in Rouen to play. On the other hand, a music band from Rouen would also find a stage in Glasgow. This concept should work for any artists from any cities.

It would be great to share this project during the OuiShareFest and it would be fun to have a living proof of the project at the OuiShareFest, ie a concert made possible thanks to collaborative means.

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How can we waste less time working to pay rent and spend more time doing what needs to be done?

How to recognise the role of our egos in strategising and goal-setting. How & when to collaborate and when to work alone.

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None of the alternative money systems are at all interoperable

Making them so is pretty difficult

No-one is talking about this because everyone wants their own system to go viral like bitcoin.

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On pourrait faire appel à Eric Grelet pour des dessins humoristiques en direct lors du OuiShareFest.

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Evolution, Revolution,

will this change the world

and let us find efficient solutions

to biggest world matters ?

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Distribute buttons that indicate whether the participant is interested in swapping parts of their clothing

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Develop a conceptual framework to describe and compare website-genres belonging to losely connectect terms like co-creation, collaborative consumption, sharing economy, p2p, face-to-face economy, community economy, transumerism, peer production, mass mingling, etc. This helps to set up a research agenda! One example...

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Human at the heart of the digital strategy

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Human at the heart of the digital strategy

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Would be interesting to see how the different actors

do to promote their community and

pass from digital to real life

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What if everything's shared ?
What if 0 waste ?

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Sharing storytelling

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Bring something meaningful for you and make it even more awesome 

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Bring something meaningful for you and make it even more awesome 

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Tell the participants to bring something special for them, let them explain why it's so important and let some of the

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Skill sharing in real time between participants

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> How societies with different cultural backgrounds react towards the sharing economy model?

> Are there "more sharing"  and "less sharing" societies?

> How can someone coming from a "suspicious culture" trust a stranger?

> How can sharing economy be successful in a society with low internet usage numbers? What if this society panics with the idea of sharing personal info online? Are there other ways?

> Can sharing economy compete economic models based on high levels of consumption, when the last models target and use efficiently people's feelings / subconscious / ego and not logic?

etc.etc.

These are some (draft) questions that maybe would be worth to be discussed in a panel / workshop.

It would be ideal to have people from different countries and different fields, eg from south/north/east Europe, as well as economist, marketers, psychologists, etc.

It could be a session with different presentations or a panel, or both, trying to give answers to an agenda of questions (like the above ones and more).

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je pense être en mesure de pouvoir

faire une intervention sur le financement

participatif de projets réalisés à Saint-Etienne ...

ça vous intéresse ?

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Steven Keil can bring the PLAY to the OuiShare Fest

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Steve Keil: A manifesto for play, for Bulgaria and beyond

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http://www.ted.com At TEDxBG in Sofia, Steve Keil fights the "serious meme" that has infected his home of Bulgaria -- and calls for a return to play to revitalize the economy, education and society. A sparkling talk with a universal message for people everywhere who are reinventing their workplaces, schools, lives.

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Vincent Puig is also a friend of Stiegler and is directing "IRI Pompidou" : Institut de recherche et d'innovation". They are working on several cultural projects, one of them is "technologies collaboratives et outils de transindividualisation". Have a look. http://www.iri.centrepompidou.fr/recherches/technologies-collaboratives/?lang=fr_fr

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Create events on platforms

like blablacar to organize car sharing !!

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Getting collcons to share their trade (offer/request) data to enable more trades to be fulfilled and hence create a bigger/stronger overall marketplace. We need discussion at business level and technical level. They go hand in hand. More soon...

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Having amazing protocols is one part of the problem. Getting networks to adopt them is another. Getting users to migrate is yet another. No one protocol or network is going to "win". We don't have the luxury of time to sit back and just see "how this will all play out".

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A group activity pioneered by Alpha Lo. Participants share what they need and what they have to give. The result is surprisingly bountiful!

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What is a gift circle?

A gift circle is an open circle where people come to help each other, and share their needs and services. People share their services and help as a gift, without expectation of anything in return.

What is the purpose of a gift circle?

To allow people to help each other and to create a sense of community. And to further the gift economy.

What is a gift economy?

A gift economy as we define it is where people give something without the expectation of anything in return.

What are examples of gift economies?

Burning Man, Rainbow gatherings, Wikipedia, open source software.

What is the format of a gift circle?

The format we use is a work in progress, and an open source adventure. We are still experimenting.

The form we have been using is with everyone sitting in a circle, and then the order goes:

1. Check-in - where people say their names and a little bit about their recent or current experience(s).This helps everyone get to know each other better and get comfortable.

2. Sharing of needs. People share what their needs are. This could be a ride to the city, finding a housemate, someone to walk the dog, editing services, etc., etc.

3. Service offering. People offer something to the group, just "putting it out there" for whoever might need that service or object. Alternatively an offering can be made to the group as a whole. One way this can be done is to write on a slip of paper the services you have to offer and then put that in the middle of the circle. Then anyone who wants can pick up that slip of paper up. (Although we have not found this format necessary.)

4. Giving thanks. People express gratitude for services and things they have received from previous circles.

5. Scheduling. People get together and share when they can get together to give/receive their services.

Is the circle open or closed?

The circle seems to work better when it is open, because new people allow new services to be offered.

What the time frame for a gift circle?

The circle can be anywhere in length from half an hour to a couple of hours.

What is the motivation for people to give?

Sometimes people give because they genuinely care about others and want to help them. Sometimes it is because they have a gift they would really like to share with others. Sometimes it is because they want to build community. Sometimes it may be because they want to get to know others better.

What is the role of gratitude?

Gratitude changes the mood in the circle. The circle can be guided to access their sense of gratitude.

Is there barter in the gift circle?

For the most part we are focusing on pure gifting without the expectation of anything in return. So it is not barter that occurs in our circle. However participants can of course choose to do a little barter on the side.

What is role of non-attachment?
When we give, we give from a place of wanting to share. There is no expectation of getting anything in return. We may also give from a place of wanting something in return. There is an attachment to an expectation. Letting go of this attachment creates a whole new energetic. A group may not start with this level of non-attachment, but it can evolve to this level.

What if people have a hard time expressing their needs?

It can be a new experience for people to express their needs directly, especially to a group. But it is part of the empowerment process. Many of us may have learnt not to ask or expect for our needs to be met. There can be gentle encouragement from the group for people to express their needs, and others can gently prompt a person to find and express their needs. Sometimes it just takes a little time to realize what your needs are, and that you can ask for them to be met. There can also be discussion time for circle members to discuss how they feel expressing their needs.

Is there a facilitator?

Yes, we have found it useful to have a facilitator for the meeting. Sometimes different people may chime in and suggest ways to lead. As more people become adept at facilitating the meeting, the meeting can become more 'multi-facilitator facilitated.'

What is role of facilitator?

To think about overall time needs - approximately how long should each person speak in order for the process to finish on time; does the group need to break into smaller circles to enable each person to have time to talk? To guide the group to listen more deeply to each other. To sense the mood the circle and allow things to flow in order to allow the best experience for the group as a whole.

How often do you meet?

We meet once a week.

Should you have the same facilitator every week?

We have found it useful to have different people facilitating. This allows many people to gain the understanding of how to facilitate the circle, and for the circle to benefit from the personality of many different people, and for members to understand the role of the facilitator as an equal. Facilitation can give people a different sense of the circle, that they have to be aware of many things at the same time. By introducing different people to facilitating it builds a sense of awareness in more members. Multiple facilitators gives the circle more resilience. If 'founding facilitators' are not there or drop out, the circle will still go on.

What happens if people are not following up to get their services?

We found initially that it was a strange experience for some people to call up someone to see if they could access the service offered. People can give encouragement to each other to follow through on calling up people to get the service. It can take a little time to learn to do things in this new way.

If the circle gets big how do you have time for everyone to say their needs?

We have sometimes been splitting the group into smaller subgroups. In those subgroups people get a chance to share with each other their needs. The subgroups can then share back to the larger groups, relating the needs of the people in the subgroups.
Should the format be the same each week? How does the circle evolve?
Experimentation is welcome in the circle. People can try different formats and ways of expression. Play with different exercises to get people to come from different motivations, to listen, to have games to build community. We suggest that people at the end of each meeting consider what worked and what did not. Then this develops a feedback process to adjust and adapt. Different group composition creates different dynamics. The circle needs to be adaptive to these different conditions.

What happens if things are not working properly?
The group holds within it the seeds of how to figure out for itself how to solve problems within the circle. There can be meetings outside the circle to figure out how to orient and adjust so that the circle works.
What if a circle doesn't have people who give?
A culture of giving needs to be grown. It can be useful to start off with people who already care about each other, and are more willing to give. Then as new people come in that culture can be shared. A sense of community and caring about each other creates the atmosphere for giving. If people are a little hesistant to give, the circle can orient itself a little more to building community, and a sense of shared identity. Improvisational exercises, games or icebreakers represent one way for people to relax and get to know each other more.
What is the role of higher consciousness in the gift circle?
A higher consciousness field allows people to become more connected, intuitive and open. There is an intuition of when to help someone out, what needs to express. The consciousness field can allow people to be heard, and that itself is transformative. The field guides the unfolding of the circle.
How does a circle get into higher consciousness states?
Listening, opening the heart, being vulnerable, silence after people express.
Where can I go to get in the discussion loop, find out more?

email alplo@yahoo.com

Get a copy of Alpha Lo's and Alden Bevington's book Open Collaborations, available at: https://www.createspace.com/3359137

Is there a network of gift circles?
Yes there is, and they learn from each other different best practices, share knowledge, and help co-evolve the gift circle movement. There is beginning to be gatherings, workshops, and teleconferences that bring together people from different gift circles.

What are pods?
Pods are where two to four people get together from the gift circle and work on clarifying what their deeper intentions and goals are for life. From there they can make a strategy to achieve these goals, and figure what their needs are in relationship to these strategy. Fellow pod members commit to helping each other with these needs for a certain length of time which can be anywhere from 3 weeks to much longer. They also bring their needs to the larger regular gift circle. In this way over time people can keep track of how their needs are fitting into a longer range goal.

How does gift circles relate to neighborhood development projects?

Starting a gift circle in an area is a great way to begin the process to develop the social capital - networks of trust, people willing to help each other, with which you can then open-source community projects. So for instance if you wanted to start an urban farming/network of community gardens in your area, or you want to start a bike coop, or gift economy holistic health clinic, tapping into the power of a network of gift circles in your area for help with the project can get the project rapidly happening.

How can gift circles help with social justice issues?

Gift circles create a model where the people being helped also help others. So its more empowering than traditional welfare models. Gift circles have helped homeless people get housing whilst they are also helping others. Gift circles allow the rich to help the poor and the poor to help the rich.

What is an organizational gift circle?

This is a gift circle which brings together many different organizations. The organizations share their needs and gifts. This allows different organizations to begin synergizing, working together and sharing resources.

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Javi Creus  - mapping wasted assets in Paris

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Javi Creus  - mapping wasted assets in Paris

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Javi Creus from IdeasForChange wants to do a workshop focused on identifying wasted resources (cars, buildings, food, etc.) and how to create value from it

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Open, collaborative strategies for exponential growth of businesses or organizations. We are generators of innovation for impact. Somos generadores de innovación para el impacto. Estrategias abiertas y colaborativas para el crecimiento exponencial de tu empresa u organización.

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Alfons Cornella booked the dates to attend.

We should evaluate doing a Co-Poker activity

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Use Barcamp/Open Space method for organizing workshops the day of the event

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Use Barcamp/Open Space method for organizing workshops the day of the event

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One of my favorite events I attended was an open-source jamboree.  All workshop 'tracks' were seeded on a wiki before the event, than put on a board. When people arrived at the event, we were all able to post our own ideas for workshops/skillshares, but only if we lead them.  It was a fantastic event and I learned a lot.  Here's the final agenda we came up with (attached)

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Agenda - eAdvocacy Jamboree | Aspiration

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Event partners working with Aspiration to design the agenda and sessions include Blue Oxen Associates, Caltha.pl (Warsaw, Poland), Change.org, CiviCRM, CivicSpace, DemocracyInAction, Drupal, Joomla!, MobileVoter, New Organizing Institute, Non-Profit Soapbox/PICnet, Protest.net, and Radical Designs. More partners are being added, and we welcome more involvement!

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Would be nice to code awesome things during the event. for example, OuiShare Worldwide map (data picked from facebook groups for example). Geeks leverage sharing economy!

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If Open Science & Knowledge François Taddei is great

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If Open Science & Knowledge François Taddei is great

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Apprendre au 21e siècle - François Taddei

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Comment former au mieux les nouvelles générations ? Que faut-il apprendre dans un monde où les changements s'accélèrent et les connaissances croissent exponentiellement ? Si les meilleures universités forment leurs étudiants par la recherche, comment peut-on démocratiser ces manières d'apprendre et comment permettre au plus grand nombre d'atteindre les frontières des connaissances si celles-ci avancent à grand pas ?

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He is a friend of Stiegler - also amazing! from "La Quadrature du Net"

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Digital sharing as a fundamental right - Philippe Aigrain

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Philippe Aigrain, co-founder of La Quadrature du Net and CEO of SOPINSPACE, is a passionate advocate of our right to share digital works and a promoter of a new policy of copyrights. He talks to Marc Barto about his philosophy of file-sharing and new proposals to finance this change.

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It could be nice to speak about collaboration dedicated to political decision making

"Démocratie Ouverte" group can probably propose speakers about this subject.

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How to create a FabLab, how to organize a Mini Maker Faire, Arduino tutorials, ... etc

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Michel Bauwens says he is amazing :)

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Rencontres et Débats Autrement du mercredi 25 janvier 2012, Invité: Bernard STIEGLER, à l'occasion de la sortie de son livre : "ETATS DE CHOC" Bêtise et savoirs au XXI è siècle

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We should have a panel about open knowledge/open science

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would be awesome to have him. Quelqu'un a un contact ?

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Make a buzz video about the Fest

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Let's have at least one Disco Soupe during the Fest :)