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Still trying decide if you’re coming to the Summit? Let this picture, taken from one of the venues, make up your mind for you…

This month, the office is getting bigger, to make space for some new faces at iCommons. You’ll get to meet them in the podcast. We’ll be updating our listeners on how the programme, artist in residence and registration for the Summit are progressing, and we’ll be playing some very cool tunes from the Brazilian leg of the South Africa-Brazil remix contest.

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Songs:

Noite de Carnaval by rostro - CC BY-NC-SA 2.5
Tudo vem da Africa by luciok - CC BY 2.5
Carnaval na Africa by flu - CC BY-NC-SA 2.5
Cigarra na Brasa by criscabello CC BY-NC-SA 2.5
Madrugada1 by celim CC BY-NC-SA 2.5

Photo: Daniela Faris CC BY 2.5

We did an audio interview with Jason, where he expands on some of the ideas expressed in this article. To download the AAC file directly, click here. For the mp3 file, click here. And for the Ogg Vorbis file, click here.

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I work in moral philosophy, which means that I spend my time trying to understand values, and what they should mean for us. Rather than being abstracted from everyday life, this strikes me as one of the most practical things anyone could be concerned with. Nonetheless, this may come off a tad abstract ‘ but bear with me and I hope it’ll be worth it.

In this article I will discuss what I take to be meaningful convergences between ubuntu and the Free Culture/iCommons project ‘ starting with a brief outline of what ubuntu is (and isn’t).

Ubuntu is South Africa’s contribution to moral philosophy; an ethic entailing or entailed by the claim ‘umuntu ngumuntu (more…)

Episode 2 of the iCommons podcast is now online and ready to be downloaded!In this episode, we’ll be discussing plans for the iCommons summit in Dubrovnik, Croatia, from 15 ‘17 of June: Daniela Faris explains the new-look artist in residence programme and Rebecca Kahn speaks to last year’s artist in residence Nathaniel Stern, about Dublin, net art and beer. Heather Ford gives us her hopes for the Commons in 2007 and there’s also a special report from Eva Lutterbuese, who is visiting us from the Creative Commons International office, and saving us from piles of paper. If you (more…)

Episode 1 of our fantastic new podcast is now available for download!

In which a lawyer, a media guy, a producer and some commoners discuss Open Film and how it was that one man was able to stop worrying, and love the commons. Also featured is an interview with Whispa, an awfully nice guy and the winner of CCMixter South Africa’s SAfro-Brazilian remix contest.

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Small FYI: In the conversation about Open Film, four licences are mentioned. What we meant to say was that there are six licence choices and four conditions to a CC licence. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/