European Tour

I’m off on a short European tour for the next weeks — in all likelihood my only trip to Europe this summer. I’ll be visiting three conferences where I have planned talks. These include:

• The iCommons iSummit (essentially, the Creative Commons conference). I’ll be talking about philosophy of free culture movement and continuing my pitch for a set of goals for free culture and the Definition of Free Cultural Works. I’ll be in Dubrovnik Croatia between 14-18 June and will be giving a talk 16 June.
• After missing last year — my first absence since DebConf 1 — I’ll be at DebConf 7, this years instance of the annual Debian Conference. I’ll be giving a an overview of academic work on Debian on 21 June and facilitating a round-table discussion among Debian derivatives on 22 June. I’ll be in Edinburgh for the shin-dig between 18-23 June.
• For 26-28 June, I’ll be a guest of Eric von Hippel in Copenhagen for a small meeting/workshop of people interested in and working on issues around von Hippel’s idea of, user innovation — an area of research I am seriously considering pursuing full time next year.

Between 23-26 June, I’ll be traveling through the UK from Edinburgh. I have tentative stops planned for a variety of places along the way including Manchester, Cambridge, and London. I suppose there will be pub nights or something similar in each place. Get in contact if you want to meet up along the way.