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For the first time — and annually henceforth – we are coming together with the other “top guns” in the authentic open source and libre/free spaces, to offer an annual opportunity for convergence among all the opens (55 by last count) that are committed to focusing on the 99% including the five billion poor.
By definition, this local to global network embraces transparency, truth, and trust, and a commitment to multinational ethical evidence-based decision support, natural design, and future-oriented hybrid governance striving to create a prosperous world at peace, a world that works for all.
SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/OSE-21
We are not, therefore, a commercially-driven cabal including Google seeking to monetize open source software and hardware for the benefit of a select few. We are instead, a vast network of ethical souls who believe that open source everything — the culture and mind-set of open source — is the true manifestation of an emergence of humanity in harmony with Earth and the cosmos, reaching toward our full potential together.
We explicitly embrace anonymity, identity, privacy, and security — all of which require “closed” assurances for individuals seeking to experiment and innovate without fear of repression. We are Anonymous. We are We.
BROADBRUSH PLAN
MONDAY: Open Source Intelligence Pre-Conference Training by Arno Reuser & Ran Hock (all day) combined with Hacker and Maker Spaces and Open Houses (Afternoon and Evening).
TUESDAY: Open Source Everything Hardware Day with Exhibits, concluding with a reception in Exhibits Area.
WEDNESDAY: Open Source Everything Software Day with Exhibits, concluding with a Black Tie Dinner opened by Lisa Garr, featuring Joan Blades and others in a Living Room Conversation about Open Power (Electoral Reform), and concluding with (invited) Major Bill DeBlasio’s vision for NYC as an Open City.
THURSDAY: Open Source Everything Society Day with a Town Hall Celebration instead of Exhibits, concluding with a Jazz Buffet Dinner and Robert Steele doing his SPY IMPROV (record ofd 8 hours 1 minute set at Hackers on Planet Earth 2010).
FRIDAY: Open Spaces, Open City, Open Shopping. Make of it what you will.
A book is planned, the Open Source Everything Handbook 1.0. The next event is planned for either Istanbul or Singapore.
All speakers are confirmed EXCEPT those marked with an asterisk.
Program will continue to be under development until 1 June 2015 at which point the program will be publicized, early bird registrations will be accepted, and sponsors as well as exhibitors will be actively recruited.
MONDAY 7 DECEMBER 2015
0800-1700 Open Source Intelligence Training — refreshments and box lunch for participants
Arno Reuser
Arno Reuser is a professional librarian / information professional with more than 30 years experience in information handling and -processing. He founded and managed the Dutch Open Source Intelligence Bureau about 15 years ago and managed it until October 2010. Today, in conjunction with his activities for Reuser’s Information Services he still holds a position as Senior Policy Advisor for OSINT at the ministry of Defence.
Arno is the world’s only OSINT professional who as a trained information professional/librarian not only has a professional background in information processing and handling, but also has a long term background in intelligence.
Arno’s expertise is to design and use systems that can translate information requirements into actionable intelligence. Or, in other words, finding pinpoint answers to questions, and to design and run training courses about this for government agencies, law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
OSINT Pathfinder Model
Ran Hock
Ran Hock, through his one-person company, Online Strategies, creates and presents seminars and workshops teaching people how to use the Internet more efficiently and effectively. In conjunction with this, he writes about the Internet, with seven books published and a variety of articles appearing regularly.
Over his career, Dr. Hock has trained over 14,000 online users in thirteen countries. He has created courses on using the Web for professional associations, government agencies and ministries, international organizations, schools, libraries, and companies.
Ran is the author of The Extreme Searcher’s Guide to Web Search Engines (1999, 2001), The Extreme Searcher’s Internet Handbook (2004, 2007, 2010), Yahoo! to the Max (2005), and The Travelers Web (2007), and is a frequent contributor and columnist for professional journals, including ONLINE and The CyberSkeptic’s Guide to Internet Research .
During his career he has held management and training positions with DIALOG and Knight-Ridder Information Services and has served as chemistry librarian at M.I.T. and as a reference librarian at the University of Pennsylvania.
More About Ran Hock
Internet Tools and Resources for Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)
1300-2200 Hacker and Maker Spaces — refreshments and cash bar
Directory Under Construction — 100 Tabletops Planned
1900-2100 OSINT Dinner (Dutch Treat)
MASTER OF CEREMONIES TUESDAY – THURSDAY
David Solomonoff
OPEN INTERNET & MASTER OF CEREMONIES David Solomonoff is the President of the Internet Society of New York (ISOC-NY), a Chapter of the global Internet Society (ISOC). ISOC plays a crucial role in advocating for an open Internet, accessible to all via protocols and standards that are developed in a transparent manner by the entire Internet community. He is also the Library Systems Manager for the State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center. He serves on the Technology Issues and the Globalization and Corporatization committees of United University Professions (UUP), the labor union representing SUNY faculty and staff. UUP is the nation’s largest higher education union.
David Solomonoff @ Phi Beta Iota
TUESDAY 8 DECEMBER 2015
0800-1700 Open Source Everything Hardware Day
Marcin Jakubowsky
OPEN SOURCE ECOLOGY. Marcin Jakubowsky is open-sourcing a set of blueprints for 50 farming tools that can be built cheaply from scratch. Call it a “civilization starter kit.” He is is the founder of Open Source Ecology, an open collaborative of engineers, producers, and builders developing the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS). Full bio.
TED (4:10) Open-sourced blueprints for civilization
Open Source Ecology Honors & Distinctions
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Catarina Mota
OPEN MATERIALS. Catarina Mota is wrapping up her PhD dissertation on the social impact of open and collaborative practices for the development of physical goods and technologies. She is the co-founder of Everywhere Tech (open source technology transfer), openMaterials (open source and DIY experimentation with smart materials) and altLab (Lisbon’s hackerspace); member of NYC Resistor; co-chair of the Open Hardware Summit 2012; research chair at OSHWA; TED Fellow. Full bio.
TED (9:55) Play with smart materials
Joshua Pearce
OPEN SUSTAINABILITY. *Joshua Pearce runs the Michigan Tech Open Sustainability Technology Lab, whose research concentrates on the use of open source appropriate technology to find collaborative solutions to problems in sustainability and poverty reduction. Specifically he is interested in exploring the way solar energy can be used to provide clean sustainable electricity with photovoltaic devices and how the sharing of open source hardware and software can create sustainable and equitable means of production. His research group frequently contributes to Appropedia.org and has become well-known for cost annihilation using open hardware including the first viable low-cost metal RepRap 3-D printer, the recyclebot waste plastic extruder, and a wide array of scientific equipment covered in the Open-Source Lab. Full bio.
Michigan Tech Open Sustainability Technology Home Page
Andrew Huang
OPEN SESAME – HARDWARE HACKING. *Andrew “Bunnie” Huang is an American hacker, who holds a Ph.D in electrical engineering from MIT and is the author of the freely available 2003 book Hacking the Xbox: An Introduction to Reverse Engineering. Huang is also a member of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity. As of 2012 he resides in Singapore. Huang was the hardware lead at Chumby; his responsibilities included the design and production of chumby devices, as well as the strategic planning and ecosystem development of the broader chumby hardware platform. He has completed several major projects, ranging from hacking the Xbox, to designing the world’s first fully integrated photonic-silicon chips running at 10 Gbit/s with Luxtera, Inc., to building some of the first prototype hardware for silicon nanowire device research with Caltech. In 2013, bunnie announced that he, in collaboration with Sean ‘xobs’ Cross, was at work on a laptop called Novena. The laptop is expected to be the first of its kind. The hardware and software for the Novena are entirely open and only include components where the manufacturing companies do not require non-disclosure agreements to obtain the documentation necessary for design. Full bio.
Mark McMurtry
OPEN FOOD (AQUAPONICS). *Mark McMurtry is the ‘Inventor of Record’ (1985) of media-based Ecoponics (so-called, Aquaponics). Over time, as major agri-biz companies came to investigate the invention’s patent potential,
Mark quickly “open-sourced” the data and rendered it unpatentable. This opened the door for an entire generation
of hobbyists and horticulturists to discover what we today call flood-and-drain aquaponics. Today Mark lives off the
grid on top of a mountain near Three Forks, Montana.
Integrated Aqua~Vegeculture System(s)
A Numerical Comparison of Two Approaches to Commercial-Scale Aquaponics
Philip Rutter
OPEN (PERENNIAL ADAPTIVE) SEEDS. *Philip Rutter is the founder of Badersett Research, a hazelnut and chestnut breeding operation. His work revolves around breeding disease and cold resistant perennial plants – chestnuts and hazelnuts – as a replacement for corn and soybean annual agriculture (average USA erosion is 5 tons of topsoil loss per acre). His plants come true from seed. Only seed-grown plants provide genetic diversity that copes with changing conditions and can avoid the inevitable catastrophic failure of clonal propogated seeds. He promotes the topic of crowd-sourced breeding, where like in history, entire communities bring back plant stewardship back into their culture.
Making the world better, one chestnut at a time
1300-2200 Open Source Everything Exhibits Concluding with Comedy & Reception in Exhibits Spaces
Lee Camp
Lee Camp (born July 21, 1980) is an American stand-up comedian, writer, actor, and activist. He is the host of the weekly comedy news show Redacted Tonight with Lee Camp on RT America.
Camp performed at the first five Netroots Nations for the liberal blogosphere as well as the 2008 Democratic National Convention, performing during presentations that also featured Pres. Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, Harry Reid, and John Edwards.
He gained a lot of attention when he appeared on Fox News morning show Fox & Friends in 2008, when, before the presidential campaign, they asked him to do left-wing jokes along with a right-wing comedian. Instead he went live on air saying “What is Fox News? It’s just a parade of propaganda, isn’t it? It’s just a…festival of ignorance.” The video clip went viral online and was viewed by millions.
Camp bears a tattoo on his left forearm, a quote from Howard Zinn, which says “Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can quietly become a power no government can suppress, a power than can transform the world.” Full bio.
Episode #47 – I Call For Class Warfare, Expose The TPP, & Show The MSM’s Biggest Failures
Lee Camp’s Home Page
Review: Lee Camp Moment of Clarity – The rantings of a stark raving sane man
WEDNESDAY 9 DECEMBER 2015
0800-1700 Open Source Everything Software Day
Micah Sifry
OPEN CIVICS. *Micah Sifry is a co-founder and executive editor of the Personal Democracy Forum, which covers the ways technology is (or is not) changing politics. His most recent book, The Big Disconnect: Why the Internet Is Not Changing Politics (Yet) is a wake-up call for activists inattentive to their lack of tools for sharing information or achieving unity.His most recent initiative is the launch of Civicist, a hub for news and analysis of the civic tech world. We will cover the growing ecosystem of people and projects using tech for civic purposes, building on the community-organizing and network-weaving we’ve done every June since 2004 during Personal Democracy Forum, and now year-round at Civic Hall. A member of the Sunlight Foundation satff, he is also an Adjunct Professor at City University of New York (CUNY).
PE 03 Mich Sifry on Progressive Activism Lacking Tools
PE 04 Mich Sifry on The Big Disconnect
Amazon Page
Jen Ziemke
OPEN CRISIS MAPPING. Jen Ziemke serves as Co-Founder & Co-Director of the International Network of Crisis Mappers, the world’s largest and most active international community of experts, practitioners, policymakers, technologists, researchers, journalists, scholars, hackers and skilled volunteers engaged at the intersection between humanitarian crises, technology and rapid mapping. Reuters AlertNet named Crisis Mapping one of its Top 20 Big Ideas in 2011. She is also, with Patrick Meier, the Co-Curator of the International Conference on Crisis Mapping (ICCM) series & Associate Professor of International Relations at John Carroll University (JCU). She was a 2013 recipient of the University of Michigan’s LSA Humanitarian Service Award, presented annually by the Dean to 3 living alumni in recognition of their work.
Stephen E. Arnold
OPEN CYBER. Stephen E. Arnold is a technology and financial analyst with more than 30 years of experience. Stephen has extensive operational and entrepreneurial experience, able to bridge the gap between new ideas and the financial implications of a technology. He is the author of The Google Trilogy: The Google Legacy, Google Version 2.0, and Google: The Digital Gutenberg and perhaps the single most critical voice with respect to false claims spanning analytics, big data, the cloud, and more. His most recent publication, CyberOSINT: Next Generation Information Access, is an indictment of the past 25 years of stove-piped mis-guided technology development, and a road-map for where end-users and their buyers should be going.
CyberOSINT Table of Contents
CyberOSINT Preface
Kaliya Hamlin
OPEN ANONYMITY, IDENTITY, PRIVACY, & SECURITY. Kaliya Hamlin is an expert in user-centric identity and data sharing and is widely known as Identity Woman. In 2005 she co-founded the Internet Identity Workshop (with Doc Searls and Phil Windley), five years later she founded the Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium to catalyze a network of companies working to give individuals the tools to collect, manage and gain value from their own personal data generated actively and passively as they interact with all kinds of digital systems. She was elected in August 2012 to the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) Identity Ecosystem Steering Committee, Management Council as the Consumer Advocate delegate. In 2012 Hamlin was named a Young Global Leader in 2012 by the World Economic Forum (WEF).
Independent Advocate for the Rights and Dignity of our Digital Selves
TEDxConstitutionDrive 2012 – Kaliya Hamlin – “The Need for Limited Liability Personas”
0800-1700 Exhibits Plus Hacker/Maker Spaces All Day
1800-2300 Reception, Lisa Garr, Living Room Conversation, *His Honor the Mayor
Lisa Garr, daughter of Terri Garr and host of a Coast to Coast radio program,
Joan Blades
OPEN CONVERSATION. Joan Blades is best-known as the founder of MoveOn.org, and more recently, of Moms Rising and Living Room Conversations. In the 1980’s she and her husband Wes Boyd co-founded Berkeley Systems, a San Francisco bay area software company they ultimately sold. Thereafter Joan has been an author, activist, and organizer. In 2011, Blades co-founded Living Room Conversations in an effort to bring both sides of the political spectrum together to discuss individual issues in a comfortable environment. Based on five basic rules of discourse, Living Room Conversations have been held on a variety of subjects from Energy and Immigration to California Realignment.
MoveOn – Democracy in Action
MomsRising
Living Room Conversations
Books by Joan Blades
Debilyn Molineaux
OPEN CONVERSATION. Debilyn Molineaux is President of the Coffee Party and a Managing Partner of Living Room Conversations. She is also the co-founder of Changing the Game; Power Politics & Participation, an ongoing conversation that involves designing, implementing and supporting efforts in bridge building work for organizations, coalitions, events & movements. Debilyn draws from her work with Coffee Party, USA, Reuniting America, as well as her successful 20-year career in advertising/marketing and small business ownership, to foster civil informed dialog. Debilyn has dedicated her working life to facilitating our larger conversation about our evolving social contract.
Coffee Party . Living Room Conversations
*Elizabeth Warren
*Jill Stein
*Cynthia McKinney
*His Honor Mayor Bill De Blasio
THURSDAY 10 DECEMBER 2015
0800-1700 Open Source Everything Society Day
*H. E. Nassir Abdulaziz, United Nations Alliance of Civilizations
Melissa Sterry
OPEN CITY. Melissa Sterry is a design scientist who is recognised as a world leading authority on the science, technology and thinking that could help build a better world. A recipient of several innovation, creativity and enterprise awards, including the Mensa Education and Research Foundation International Award for enhancing intelligence that benefits society, Melissa is a ’40 over 40 Women to Watch’ 2014 honoree, and inductee of the Global Women Inventors and Innovators Network Hall of Fame. One of the world’s most high profile female futurists, Melissa consults to both private and public sector clients globally. Specialising in futures in the built environment, utilities, manufacturing, engineering, design, publishing, media and communications, she has contributed to groundbreaking projects as far and wide as the United States, India, Europe and Asia. Full bio.
Melissa Sterry Folio
Elisabet Sahtouris
OPEN EARTH. Elisabet Sahtouris is an evolution biologist, futurist, professor, author and consultant on Living Systems Design. She shows the relevance of biological systems to organizational design in business, government and globalisation. She holds the World Business Academy’s Elisabet Sahtouris Chair in Living Economies, is an advisor to EthicalMarkets.com and the Masters in Business program at Schumacher College, also affiliated with the Bainbridge Graduate Institute’s MBA program for sustainable business. Dr. Sahtouris has convened two International Symposia on the Foundations of Science and written about integral cosmologies. Her books include A Walk Through Time: from Stardust to Us, Biology Revisioned, co-authored with Willis Harman, EarthDance: Living Systems in Evolution., and Gaia’s Dance.
Elisabet Sahtouris @ Phi Beta Iota
*Ross Jackson
*Betty Flowers
*Robert Young Pelton
*Robert Parry
*Nafeez Ahmed
*Frank de Langen
*John D. Caputo
1800-2100 Jazz Dinner Buffet with Robert Steele Doing SPY IMPROV
*Jazz Band
Robert David STEELE Vivas
OPEN EVERYTHING. Robert David STEELE Vivas is an activist for open source everything, intelligence with integrity, and electoral reform. He has authored, edited, and published ten books, mostly on intelligence and information operations, and generally focused on the public interest. He serves today as the pro bono CEO of Earth Intelligence Network, an accredited educational 501c3, and as a consultant on strateegic foresight, advanced information operations, and comprehensive architecture. He is the conceptualizer of the modern World Brain Institute, School of Future-Oriented Hybrid Governance, the Open Source Agency, and the United Nations Open-Source Decision-Support Information Network (UNODIN).
Personal Web Page
Essay & Book Reviews on Democracy Lost
Open Power / Electoral Reform Page
Open Source Activist Tool-Kit Page
FRIDAY 11 DECEMBER 2015
0800-2400 Open Space – Open City Day
*Group Visit to the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations
Hotel Spaces Open for Assignment by Reservation as well as Impromptu (If Not Assigned)
Hacker and Maker Space Invitations Around Town