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If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
OpenCity 2006 is a freeform, multi-venue festival celebrating free culture, independant politics, and Open Source Software.
It takes place November 2-4 in various location around Winnipeg's Exchange District. Workshops will happen at VideoPool 3rd floor screening room (2pm), November 4 during the day and multidiciplinary performances will begin at 9pm at Graffitti Gallery. It's about an uprising and convergence of social innovation, cultural innovation, and technological innovation, celebrating a democratic and open exchange of ideas. OpenCity brings together progressive politics, the arts community, and the Free and Open Source Software community with the common goal of strengthening independent voices and encouraging shareable creativity. OpenCity 2006 was founded in the belief that our Culture is a Commons -- and an important part of what makes us human. If our cultural commons becomes privatized, we are diminished as human beings.
OpenCity 2006 will be featuring indy bands, video art, panel discussions, political soap boxes and more.
OpenCity strongly advocates replacement of proprietary software with free software or open source software.
Ubuntu Linux is one of the most powerful, secure, and free versions of Linux.
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For more information about alternative forms of licensing for creative
works see:
http://creativecommons.org
For more on what inspired this festival, see:
![[Join the FSF Campaign Against DRM]](http://www.fsf.org/graphics/dbd.png)
The Free Software Foundation (FSF), established in
1985, is dedicated to promoting computer users' rights
to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer
programs. The FSF promotes the development and use of
free software, particularly the GNU operating system,
used widely in its GNU/Linux variant.
http://www.fsf.org/
Lawrence Lessig was heavily inspired by the Free Software Movement to extend these principles to other creative work.
http://www.free-culture.cc
or download the entire book here
http://www.free-culture.cc/freeculture.pdf
This event is sponsored by the Prairie Linux User Group
http://www.plug.ca
When the winds of change are blowing some people are building shelters, and others are building wind mills
-Chinese proverb
Congrats and Best Wishes
Wishing you an exciting event in Winnipeg. Art should be a communication between artist and audience first and foremost. To reduce it to a commodity is worse than stripping it of meaning. It is a perversion of its meaning in which whatever made it valuable in the first place becomes trampled beside its potential to extract another dollar or two out of it. We give corporations power by the choices we make when we value only what tell us to value.
http://www.okalrel.org