Voor diegene die interesse hebben in cultuur en auteursrecht is er morgen een vertoning van RIP, a remix manifesto in het Louis Hartlooper Complex in Utrecht.

Na afloop is er een gesprek/discussie over auteursrecht en muziekcultuur. Hierbij zal ik Paul Keller (Creative Commons Nederland) vervangen als moderator. Verdere deelnemers aan dit gesprek zijn Pitto (DJ, winnaar Grote Prijs van Nederland in de categorie dance), Joost Gerritsen (De Gier | Stam & Advocaten) en Mirko Tobias Schaefer (faculteit Geesteswetenschappen UU). Meer info is hier te vinden: http://www.xpertcmkb.nl/?p=1527

I’m on my way to the iSummit in Dubrovnik (Croatia). Thanks to the scholarship I got from the iCommons organisation I will be able to participate in the event for those involved in Creative Commons and related topics.

Last year I also participated at the iSumit in Brazil as part of the Dutch Creative Commons team and it was the anxious long trip (I really dislike flying! Kinda like B.A.) to Brazil more than worth! I hope this year will be just as rewarding. I will be discussing some of my ideas regarding the commons and open formats. Ideas which have been brewing for the last three months or so and which have lead to the start of Spreadopenmedia.com together with Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves (involved with Xiph.org among others) and more recently Jon Philips (involved with Creative Commons .org). At this moment Spread Open Media is still more an idea / thought than a working project and I’m looking forward to discuss these indeas at the summit!

I plan to blog about these thoughts as soon as I have the time.

Last Saturday I gave a presentation at the general meeting (ALV) of the Dutch Linux users groep (NLLGG). I talked about our foundation (Stichting Open Media) and the projects (Simuze and Netcultuur) we initiated. The presentation will be made available on the the NLLGG’s website and I plan on putting it online at www.open-media.nl as well.

There were only a small group of people available, which was to expected when your giving a presentation about media and the other presentation in the next room is about a hot topic such as virtualization. Heck, I’ve would have gone and watched the virtualization presentation myself if I wasn’t supposed to present

Anyway, I met some nice and interesting people and I hope they liked the presentation. At least I found it a whole lot more satisfying than the radio interview on BNN United.