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The first ever conference of the Open Sustainability Network!

This is a BarCamp style conference about free content and knowledge sharing in sustainability, international development, appropriate technology and solutions to poverty. It is open to all those interested in these issues.

Where, when?

San Francisco, Saturday and Sunday, October 18-19, 2008.

• facilities at San Francisco State University, with a main conference room seating 375 and several break out rooms. Many thanks to David.reber for the persistence in booking this facility.

Daytime schedule: 8am to 4pm at the SFSU facility. Various group meetings around San Francisco after hours and on

Costs

• Registration
  • Not finalized, likely to be under $50 to cover a shirt (to help spread the idea) and box lunches
  • Registration fee will be likely be waived (or lowered to $5) for students with valid student ID card
• Lodging
  • Hotels
  • Couch-surfing
• Meals other than lunch
• Travel

Who should come?

Everyone interested in furthering the cause of open licensing and collaboration in the development of sustainable solutions broadly. Appropedia's angle is somewhat the directions of sustainable international development and poverty reduction. However, OSN's scope is broader and more inclusive.

Folks we'd love to see

(Please forgive us if we miss your name or your group...this list is being developed ad hoc and subject to human error, so please don't read any intention into our omissions or the sequence! Thanks, and particular thanks to Olivier Chaput for beginning this list.)

• Architecture for Humanity, Kate and Cameron
• FullBellyProject, Jock and Jeff
• AIDG
• Village Earth, Maury, David and more
• Paul Polak
• Practical Action
• Agroinnovations, Frank
• IDDS
• IPIDAT
• EWB (all countries)
• ESW
• SolarCooking.Wikia
• Akvo.org
• Village Hope
• LeapingStone
• American Rivers
• IRN
• Errsons
• Technology for the Poor
• Garrett Connelly
• Greenlivingpedia
• Howtopedia
• Demotech
• Ekopedia
• SD Wiki
• TipThePlanet
• P2P Foundation
• Open Source Ecology
• The Lighting Project
• Kickstart
• Inveneo

= Folks who are planning on coming

(Registration details coming soon) (Add your name here, or email curtbeckmann at appropedia dot org)

Still needed

• Sponsors to help defer costs
• Volunteers for
  • logo t-shirt design
  • helping distribute t-shirts and lunches

External links

• http://www.opensustainabilitynetwork.org

Name

We want a catchier name to use (at least unofficially - like "Wikimania" for the International Wikimedia Conference). Perhaps a conference name along the same lines as similar conferences like ecoCamp, GreenDevCamp and BIL. Openness is part of the concept of a BarCamp so "Open" doesn't need to be in the name.

Who's going?

Individuals passionate about these issues.

We want representatives from many groups that are inspiring or who might get inspired about open sustainability. Some ideas include:

• Open design people (See Open Design Collaboration)
  • Fab Labs
  • D-Labs/MIT?
  • OAN
• p2pfoundation.net
• Wikia
• Appropedia contributors (of course!)
• Greenlivingpedia.org
• Village Earth
• Full Belly
• EWB, ESW, esp USA & Canada
• WiserEarth
• D-Lab
• Rocky Mountains Institute
• "Majority world" orgs and people - very important to have representation from such places.
  • Latin American orgs and people - is there a possibility of sponsored travel & billeting?
  • Foreign students, especially in relevant disciplines.
  • Some, e.g. Asian Appropedians, could be represented by others (does Mel want to do a presentation on the Home biogas system (Philippine BioDigesters)? Chris on GEM mosquito control?)
• influential green bloggers, e.g.:
  • WorldChanging
  • thesietch.org (Boston based)
  • Little Devices that Could (Boston-based)

This list is not meant to be comprehensive (it could go on forever).

Format

• Mainly or entirely "unconference" or "BarCamp" in style , i.e. ad hoc, anyone can run a session.
• Many sessions will be announced beforehand.

Presentations

If you want to present, or see who is presenting, go to Open Sustainability Network Conference 2008/presentations. You don't have to tell us before the day - or even before the hour, if there's a free slot - but we like it if you did.

Registration

Please register, to guarantee your place. Check back here - we expect to have registration open by late May.

Cost

TBA. We hope it will be free (like BarCamp - and this will depend on sponsorship).

Or by donation (with a suggested amount)?

Sponsorship

Sponsorship is very welcome! Please contact one of the organizers, e.g. Curt, via his talk page.

Organizing

Want to help? Great! Please see Open Sustainability Network Conference 2008/planning.