Reykjavík Digital Freedoms Conference 2009
On December 1 2009, FSFÍ will hold its second annual conference on digital freedoms at the University of Reykjavík. FSFÍ has invited Eric F. Saltzman from Creative Commons and Daniel Schmitt from WikiLeaks as keynote speakers and joining them will be a number of interesting Icelandic ones.
Conference Schedule
09:00 Registration and coffee
10:00 Introduction – Tryggvi Björgvinsson, chairman FSFÍ
10:20 Eric F. Saltzman, Creative Commons
11:20 Harald Gunnar Halldórsson, lawyer
11:40 Kristín Atladóttir, Ph.D student at the University of Iceland
12:00 Lunch (on your own)
12:45 Sveinn í Felli, OpenOffice.is
13:05 Tómas Edwardsson, Opin kerfi
13:25 Ólafur Garðarsson, Íkon
13:45 Pétur Ágústsson, TM Software
14:05 Ólafur Sigurvinsson, Kerfisþróun
14:25 Eiríkur Hrafnsson, Idega
14:45 Coffee Break
15:00 Daniel Schmitt, WikiLeaks
16:00 Birgitta Jónsdóttir, member of Parliament
16:20 Ian Watson, Bifröst University
16:40 Hjálmar Gíslason, DataMarket
17:00 FSFÍ Freedoms Award 2009
About the FSFÍ Freedoms Award
This year’s recipient was Bjarni Rúnar Einarsson, who was chosen by the board of FSFÍ for his contributions to the free culture society in Iceland over the last decade. Notably Bjarni was instrumental within several free culture groups in Iceland, such as Vinix, the KDE-translation group, and netverjar.is, an organization fighting for netizen-rights, which in many ways may be considered as the prelude to FSFÍ. Additionally Bjarni has advocated the use-of, translations, as well as developed free software for several years and the free culture community in Iceland owes him a debt of gratitude.
Speakers
Eric F. Saltzman
Creative Commons
Eric F. Saltzman is one of the founders of Creative Commons, a global organisation promoting and advancing free culture through free sharing and remixing of works. Creative Commons was established in 2001 and only 7 years later, in 2008, it was estimated that 130 million works licensed under the Creative Commons licenses.
Harald Gunnar Halldórsson
Lawyer
Harald Gunnar Halldórsson is a lawyer and a student at the University of Iceland law school. He has worked with FSFÍ on matters such as the use of Creative Commons licenses in the Icelandic jurisdiction and the re-examination of Icelandic copyright laws.
Kristín Atladóttir
Ph.D. student at the University of Iceland
Kristín Atladóttir is working on her Ph.D study in cultural economics. The aim of her study is to research whether economical assumptions regarding copyright hold after the changes to copyright law over the past decades. Recently she has been looking at the affect copyright is having on the music industry.
Sveinn í Felli
OpenOffice.is
Sveinn í Felli is the frontman of a group working for the adoption, translation and training of the free and open source office suite, OpenOffice.org. This summer he and a group of teachers at Verkmenntaskólinn á Akureyri wrote a course material in the form of the OpenOffice.org book available under a Creative Commons license on a wiki at http://www.openoffice.is/.
Tómas Edwardsson
Opin kerfi
The Icelandic information technology company Opin kerfi has been supporting the GNU/Linux operating system since 1996. Recently they have helped a number of schools migrate to free and open source software.
Ólafur Garðarsson
Íkon
Íkon has in the last couple of years worked on the adoption of free and open source software in Iceland. The company has but up terminal server setups in Iceland, runs a web hosting service and is putting up an application service over the Internet.
Pétur Ágústsson
TM Software
The software company TM Software has a long experience working in the field of free and open source software. They provide consultancy, requirements analysis, service on migration and adoption of free software for business.
Ólafur Sigurvinsson
Kerfisþróun
Kerfisþróun develops and maintains the accounting software Stólpi and in recent years moved into being a service provider of free and open source software. Kerfisþróun has integrated a lot of free software solutions with Stólpi and helped the National theater move to free software.
Eiríkur Hrafnsson
IOS / Idega
The formerly proprietary software Idega was released as free software under the GNU GPL (version 3) this year. It is therefore the first Icelandic commercial free software. IOS (which stands for Idega Open Source) is the maintainer of the software and provides consultancy work on use, installation, maintenance and development of the software.
Daniel Schmitt
WikiLeaks
Daniel Schmitt is the spokesman of the project WikiLeaks, which allows whomever to leak confidential information to the public. WikiLeaks recently leaked the a presentation from the Icelandic bank Kaupthing showing that bank had loaned money to the bank’s biggest debtors without any collateral.
Birgitta Jónsdóttir
Member of Parliament
Birgitta Jónsdóttir is a member of the political party, Hreyfingin and was elected as member of parliament earlier this year. She has for example sent in a parliamentary query on governmental expenses on proprietary software licenses and speaks for a bill on the opening of public data.
Ian Watson
Bifröst University
Ian Watson is an assistant professor at the social science department of the Bifröst University but has also taught information design and typography at the Icelandic Academy of Arts. At the Bifröst University Ian is the editor of the Bifröst Journal of Social Sciencewhich is an Icelandic open access journal published under Creative Commons.
Hjálmar Gíslason
DataMarket
Hjálmar Gíslason is an innovator who is now working on his fourth startup company, Datamarket, which specialises in collection, processing, and distribution of information from databases. Hjálmar is also interested in the opening of public databases and with others he has started a project to map access information to public databases.
