activism

WWF has launched a great effort to bring awareness to the environment – but can equally be used to bring about technology awareness. It’s the WWF Earth Hour.

The idea is to collect a billion people around the world who will switch off their lights for one hour all at the same time. This is the information for those in the GMT zone

On Saturday 28 March 2009 at 8.30pm, people, businesses and iconic buildings around the world will switch off their lights for an hour – WWF’s Earth Hour.

We want a billion people around the world to sign up and join in.

Sign up to show that you care about people, wildlife and the planet, and that you want the world’s leaders to take action to tackle climate change.

Some 934 cities from 80 countries have already signed up. In addition, a great number of iconic landmarks will be plunged into darkness, including Nelson’s Column, the Forth Bridge, the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, the Eiffel Tower, Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, Table Mountain in Cape Town and Sydney Opera House. The London Eye, too, will be dimmed for the hour. Visit our ‘Who’s signed up to switch off ‘ page to find out more.

Please join us, and help us make this the biggest mass participation event ever!

The real countdown has now begun for the FSCONS conference in Göteborg 24-26 October. The FSCONS has turned into one of those cool conferences with a good mix between the geek developers and the geek analysers.

Since any programming skills I may have are largely imaginary I attend the conference to listen to the latter group. Among them this year are

John Buckman from magnatune who will be talking about Squeezing the Evil out of the Music Industry, Rasmus Fleischer will present Copyright in an Historical Perspective, Eva Hemmungs Wirtén has written two books on her topic and I am looking forward to her talk on Digital Commons throughout history, Mike Linksvayer of Creative Commons is presenting a talk on How far behind is free+open culture? which should be good. Smári Mccarthy has a talk entitled Digital Fabrication and Social Change & Denis Rojo is presenting on Free software and the freedom of creation, Victor Stone is going to demonstrate Tracking Attribution Across the Web & Oscar Swartz is talking about The End of Free Communications?

And these are only the geek analysers! Most of the really fascinating stuff is stuff I don’t understand.

So it’s an easy guess to see that this years FSCONS is going to be really, really good.

Global Earth Hour

FSCONS fast approaching