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 networks and media, and more generally information freedom and open cooperation in the creation and proliferation of knowledge. The conference was interdisciplinary, and included among its attendees scientists, engineers, social researchers, scholars from the humanities, artists and activists.

Jimmy Wales at WOS3 in 2004

The name was a word play on The Wizard of Oz. The acronym "OS" stands for operating system (not open source).

Individual conferences

The first Wizards of OS conference took place in 1999.

The third conference took place in 2004, with the subtitle "The Future of the Digital Commons". It featured, among others, the launch of the German translation of the Creative Commons licenses.

Wizards of OS 4 took place from September 14 to September 16, 2006, with the subtitle "Information Freedom Rules". Some of the topics were the future of Creative Commons, open music and the compensation of artists and European copyright legislation. Larry Sanger announced an initial proposal of his project Citizendium.[1]

gollark: Well, here's my code, if anyone wants it.
gollark: I mean, C isn't even technically Turing-complete, and Python is written in C, so it's fine.
gollark: Can't ubq solve the halting problem?
gollark: It's not like there are speed constraints beyond "it has to take less than several minutes", right?
gollark: Presumably this is why ubq said https://discord.com/channels/346530916832903169/746231084353847366/821686080167477248 at some point.

References
  1. "Next Wikipedia, take a right". Dossier Open Source. 1 August 2007.
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