ASU2: TravellPlan.Weimar

TravellPlan.Weimar

D-A-S-H workshop

The first europewide D-A-S-H workshop on will take place from April 28th to May 2nd in Weimar (Germany) and will attend to the fundaments of open source and open publishing concepts. People adressed are facilitators that are working in the field of new media and have experiences in projects that are working against racism, exclusion and discrimination.

Preliminary schedule

Monday, 28th of April 2003

1. Getting to know, Project introductions The first Getting-to know round will be combined with a detailed project introdution as well as with personal expectations for the seminar. Short multimedia presentations will be complemented with project informations on movable walls and with personal interviews of different participants.

2. Short breakdown of Open Spource A speaker will give a short introduction of history, background and development of Open Source. The basis for this presentation will be the state of knowledge of the participants that has been eveluated before the workshop. Afterwards will be time for questions and explanations.

3. Introduction: up to date political debate A speaker is giving an overview of the current political debate about open source. In doing so the World Summit on the Information Society will be introduced, that will take place in Geneva in December 2003. The short presentation is the start up for a moderated discussion about the meaning of disputs about open source within the so called civil society.

Tuesday, 29th of April 2003

On Tuesday, different introductory presentation will illustrate the background and up to date developments in different fields of open source applications. Following the 45 minutes presentations there will be room for questions and further illustrations.

1. Free Speech: Collaborative text production from Shlashcode via Indymedia to Wiki

2. From me to you Backgrounds, facets and consequences of the P2P Technology.

3. Net without wire WiFI or: new positions in the fight for bandwidth

4. Open Operation The meaning of open source software and operating systems

5. Moving on the meta-level Chances and possibilities in syndicalizing content (RTF/RSS, XML and more)

Wednesday, 30th of April 2003

1. Forms of Mediation / Practice: In the plenary there will be 10 minutes multimedia presentations of all projects present. Afterwards those projects will be discussed in details in the different workshops.

2. Three different workshops will take palce parallel, in which different practical exampels will be discussed. In preperation for that, every project will introduce itself with following questions:

What is the short term goal, what is the concept ?
What has been the success so far?
Where are the problems and the limits?

Workshop A: Content Management Projects that in the closer sense are working on questions of management of content on the basis of open source software, are asked to introduce themselves. But also projects that are following the question of collective publishing are invited. Workshop B: Access For All This postulation is still just as up to date than it has been in the beginning times of internet. Today the question of bandwidth, but also the question of access for socially marginalized groups, that cannot use all the networking capacities the internet is offering due to material disadvantages, are focused. Different aspects and concepts will be introduced and discussed. Workshop C: Implementation How can I encourage, empower and enable people to start using open source operating systems? This is the central question, that projects were asking before they started to offer linux educational tutorials, seminars and workshops. Different experiences are being discussed.

3. Plenary Discussion: What’s to be done? The speaker form Tuesday and two persons from each workshop are discussion the results from the workshops with the theoretical implications from the day before. Is theory meeting practice? And Where?

Thursday, 1st of May, 2003

1. Tactics, Strategies, Perspectives – Was tun? Three participants are discussing their visions, strategies and tactics in a to-be common perspective: How could such diverse projects, that have evolved in the broad field of open source, relate to each other and how can common potentials be used.

2. Two different workgroups develop different strategies and concepts of a networking collaboration

Strategies of mediating the idea of open source software
creating a draft of general principles atht are commonly shared, in order to strengthen open source positions within the public debate.

3. Introducing and Discussing the Results of the Workgroups

Friday, 2nd of May, 2003

1. Balance, Evaluation, Perspectives: In the Plenary – if necessary in workgroups – different possibilities of concrete to-be collaborations, networking and support will be evaluated.

2. Review of the Workshop: A review of the workshop in a written mode as well as in the plenary wil take place.