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BREIZH ENTROPY CONGRESS
April 15-17 2010, Rennes, France
Call for Proposals
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Passionate individuals and non-profit organizations from the region of Rennes,
Brittany, France invite you to participate in the first Breizh Entropy
Congress.
This inter-disciplinary event focuses on free (as in freedom) creations and
culture.
Through a meeting fostering open-mindedness, exchange of ideas and learning,
we hope to show solutions to technical, social and political problems, and
celebrate free, reclaimed and creative art and technology.
We happily welcome entropy, as a means to break artificial boundaries between
disciplines and find unexpected ways of doing things that promote
liberalization, sharing and reclaiming of technologies that traditionnally
belonged to the realm of corporations and well-funded academic labs.
NB: We are grateful for any kind of distribution of this CfP!
FORMATS
We gladly accept your proposals for the following formats. You can submit
a proposal alone or as a group. The list is not exhaustive.
- Lecture (Friday & Saturday 10:00-18:00). One hour slot to
explain or present your project or idea.
- Panel discussion (Friday & Saturday 10:00-18:00). One hour
of debate on the subject you propose.
- Lightning talk (Friday & Saturday 10:00-18:00). 5 minute short talk to
outline your idea and give a web link to the audience.
- Workshop (Friday & Saturday 10:00-18:00). Hands-on practice in electronics,
mechanics, chemistry or software, led by yourself. Can be any length between 1
and 8 hours.
- Music concert (Thursday 18:00-24:00). If you play music licensed under
CC or any other free license, be most welcome. All styles accepted. Duration
30min – 2 hours.
- Artistic performances (Thursday 18:00-24:00). Duration 10min – 2 hours.
- Exhibition and artistic installations (during the complete event). Come and
bring your cool hardware and/or artistic projects.
- Posters (during the complete event). We will have space in the exhibition
room for you to stick posters about your projects, ideas or events.
SUGGESTED PROPOSALS
Free hardware
- Free your manufacturing: FabLabs & RepRap
- Free your vintage electronics: DIY vacuum tube fabs
- Free your silicon: DIY semiconductor fabs
- DIY thin film technology
- Drones (UAVs)
- Soldering workshops
- Electronics workshops
Free devices
- Free your applications: file format reverse engineering
- Free your drivers: device protocol reverse engineering
- Free your logic design: open FPGA cores and tools
- Free your PCBs: free “traditional” electronics designs
- Home automation
Free software
- Innovative & original free software tools
- Free games
- Reverse engineering tools & techniques
- Pentesting tools
- Graphics & live audio processing tools
- Free software economy
Free radio
- Free your waves: open source software-defined radios
- Free your communications: wireless mesh networks
- Amateur radio
- Open hardware mobile phones
Free science
- Any type of uncommon science experiment contributing to free knowledge
- Cyclotrons
- Gyrotrons
- Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging devices
- Free your space exploration: google LunarXPrize projects
- Free your energy generators: alternative & DIY power stations
- Artificial intelligence & neural networks
- Cognitive sciences
- Alternative scientific paper review/publication systems
Free society
- Ensuring access to public data
- Political debates on net neutrality
- Ethical & problematic free licensing schemes
- Visions of freedom
- Intellectual property
- Future of free software and legal threats
- Preserving the commons
- Access to knowledge
- Escaping control society
- Liquid democracy
Free individuals
- Privacy
- Accessibility
- Hijacking of established practices and purposes
- Darknets
- Hackerspaces
- TAZ
- Creative hijacking of public space
Free art
- Free artwork and/or artwork made with free software
- Artistic performances
- Artistic installations
- Any style of freely-licensed music
- Computer-assisted music
- Remix culture/Transformative works
- Free cinema
- Demoscene
…And anything that does not fit…
http://www.breizh-entropy.org/cfp.html
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