[d@DCC] Open Source Conference 2004

From: Jason Young <jyoung _-at-_ lexinformatica.org>
To: Digital Copyright in Canada <discuss (at) digital-copyright.ca>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 06:14:58 -0500

May 9th - 11th, 2004

OPEN SOURCE CONFERENCE TO EXAMINE FUTURE OF INNOVATIONS

Industry leaders, Academics, IT Professionals, hospital and health 
care administrators, lawyers and government officials will peer into 
the future of software innovation at a groundbreaking conference on 
open source peer-production models from May 9 to 11 at the University 
of Toronto's Convocation Hall, 31 King's College Circle, Toronto, 
Canada.

The conference, Open Source and Free Software: Concepts, 
Controversies, and Solutions, will debate the future of open source 
models of development in software and beyond, addressing how this 
movement will affect the way we work, learn and stay healthy. Open 
source, a way of producing and sharing computer code freely between 
industry, government and developers, has achieved widespread success 
in many areas of information technology. The conference will look at 
the growth of open source methods and ideas in several institutions. 
Panelists will discuss current legal issues, public policy concerns 
and business models as well as technological issues, uses in health 
care and its current and future role in education via concepts of 
open content and open access.

Among the 30 confirmed speakers for the event are Robert Young, 
founder of Red Hat, the world's largest commercial Linux distributor; 
Brian Behlendorf, Apache, co-founder; Steve Weber, author, political 
scientist at University of California at Berkley; David McGowan, 
Professor, University of Minnesota Law School, Margaret Jane Radin, 
Professor, University of Stanford and Dr. Yuri Quintana, creator of 
Cure4kids, a developing world-oriented pediatric support network.

The conference is organized by UofT's Knowledge Media Design 
Institute(KMDI) the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy and a number 
of other organizations.

For more information, please visit the conference website at: 
<http://osconf.kmdi.utoronto.ca>http://osconf.kmdi.utoronto.ca

Please be reminded that the deadline for early bird registrations to 
the conference is February 28th 2004.

The Conference is brought to you by the ...

University of Toronto Knowledge Media Design Institute
Connaught International Symposia Fund
Center for Innovation Law and Policy
Citizen Lab of the Munk Centre for International Studies
Department of Computer Science
Information Policy Research Program
University of Toronto Libraries and its Resource Centre for Academic Technology

We acknowledge the support of ...

Communications and Information Technology Ontario
IBM Centre for Advanced Studies
Linux Professional Institute, Seneca College
Ontario Ministry of of Economic Development and Trade
Caseware International,
Openflows Networks Ltd.
The Commons Group
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