The originally
German Oekonux (pronounced "urkonooks") project was founded to research the possibilities of
free software
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to fundamentally change the current political and economic structures.
Oekonux considers that the mode of production of free software represents a new mode of production that has the potential to supersede the
capitalist mode of production.
See als
Hipatia{{Webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081201070443/http://www.hipatia.net/index_es.php?id=manifesto_es , date=2008-12-01 , a related Spanish language initiative.
History of the project
At the first „
Wizards of OS
Wizards of OS (Wizards of Operating Systems, or "WOS") was a semi-annual Berlin-based conference that was held four times between 1999 and 2006. Its topics were the cultural and political potentials of free software, software technology, digital ...
“ conference in July 1999 a spontaneous discussion round was founded after the panel „New Economy?“. Thereupon a
mailinglist was created to continue the exchange—Oekonux was founded. A
website
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to publish texts and to access mailinglist archives, and a
wiki
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followed soon.
In April 2001 the first Oekonux conference was organized in
Dortmund
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followed by a second conference in November 2002 in
Berlin
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. The third conference took place in
Vienna
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in May 2004, where
Creative Commons
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Austria
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was launched. A fourth conference was held in
Manchester
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in March 2009 in cooperation with P2P Foundation.
The project launched a journal entitled „Critical Studies in Peer Production“ in 2011. After releasing one issue, the journal editors separated from Oekonux and relaunched the journal under the name „Journal of Peer Production“.
External links
www.oekonux.org- Oekonux Homepage (English)
en.wiki.oekonux.org- Oekonux Wiki
The Foundation for P2P AlternativesJournal of Peer Production
Free software projects