EVENT: 11-13 Oct 2012 Paris FR Open World Forum

The Open World Forum is the leading global summit meeting bringing together decision-makers, communities and developers to cross-fertilize open technological, economic and social initiatives, in order to build the digital future. The event was founded in 2008 and now takes place every year in Paris. With over 160 speakers from 50 countries and an international …

Chuck Spinney: Paris-Berlin-Moscow Axis Reinstated

The Paris-Berlin-Moscow Axis Back Again by Immanuel Wallerstein It always amazes me how the world’s politicians and media spend most of their energy debating geopolitical prospects that are not going to happen, while ignoring major developments that are happening. Here is a list of the most important coming non-events that we have been loudly debating …

GNU Project Comparison

found this site of project comparisons on GNU social site. perhaps something useful here? PROJECT COMPARISONS Commodity webhosting approach StatusNet ..  Crabgrass ..  ownCloud ..  Diaspora  .. Elgg  .. Cyn.in  .. Lorea  .. Pinax  .. Open Atrium ..  SMOB .. BuddyPress  .. Daisychain ..  Partuza ..  The Appleseed Project ..  Socknet ..  Get6d ..  Knowee  …

Event: 24-26 January 2011, Paris, The Future of Urban Water: Solutions for Livable & Resilient Cities (UNESCO)

The aim of this conference is to share knowledge on recent advances in urban water management, and to catalyse change towards more livable and resilient cities – The “City of the Future”. Increasing global change pressures, escalating costs and other risks inherent to conventional urban water management are causing cities to face ever increasing difficulties …