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BREIZH ENTROPY CONGRESS
April 15-17 2010, Rennes, France
Call for Proposals
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Passionate individuals and non-profit organizations from the region of Rennes, Brittany, France invite you to participate in the first Breizh Entropy Congress. This inter-disciplinary event focuses on free (as in freedom) creations and culture.

Through a meeting fostering open-mindedness, exchange of ideas and learning, we hope to show solutions to technical, social and political problems, and celebrate free, reclaimed and creative art and technology.

We happily welcome entropy, as a means to break artificial boundaries between disciplines and find unexpected ways of doing things that promote liberalization, sharing and reclaiming of technologies that traditionnally belonged to the realm of corporations and well-funded academic labs.

NB! We are grateful for any kind of distribution of this CfP!

FORMATS

We gladly accept your proposals for the following formats. You can submit a proposal alone or as a group. The list is not exhaustive.

  • Lecture (Friday & Saturday 10:00-18:00). One hour slot to explain or present your project or idea.
  • Panel discussion (Friday & Saturday 10:00-18:00). One hour of debate on the subject you propose.
  • Lightning talk (Friday & Saturday 10:00-18:00). 5 minute short talk to outline your idea and give a web link to the audience.
  • Workshop (Friday & Saturday 10:00-18:00). Hands-on practice in electronics, mechanics, chemistry or software, led by yourself. Can be any length between 1

and 8 hours.

  • Music concert (Thursday 18:00-24:00). If you play music licensed under CC or any other free license, be most welcome. All styles accepted. Duration 30min - 2 hours.
  • Artistic performances (Thursday 18:00-24:00). Duration 10min - 2 hours.
  • Exhibition and artistic installations (during the complete event). Come and bring your cool hardware and/or artistic projects.
  • Posters (during the complete event). We will have space in the exhibition room for you to stick posters about your projects, ideas or events.

SUGGESTED PROPOSALS

Free hardware

  • Free your manufacturing: FabLabs & RepRap
  • Free your vintage electronics: DIY vacuum tube fabs
  • Free your silicon: DIY semiconductor fabs
  • DIY thin film technology
  • Drones (UAVs)
  • Soldering workshops
  • Electronics workshops

Free devices

  • Free your applications: file format reverse engineering
  • Free your drivers: device protocol reverse engineering
  • Free your logic design: open FPGA cores and tools
  • Free your PCBs: free "traditional" electronics designs
  • Home automation

Free software

  • Innovative & original free software tools
  • Free games
  • Reverse engineering tools & techniques
  • Pentesting tools
  • Graphics & live audio processing tools
  • Free software economy

Free radio

  • Free your waves: open source software-defined radios
  • Free your communications: wireless mesh networks
  • Amateur radio
  • Open hardware mobile phones

Free science

  • Any type of uncommon science experiment contributing to free knowledge
  • Cyclotrons
  • Gyrotrons
  • Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging devices
  • Free your space exploration: google LunarXPrize projects
  • Free your energy generators: alternative & DIY power stations
  • Artificial intelligence & neural networks
  • Cognitive sciences
  • Alternative scientific paper review/publication systems

Free society

  • Ensuring access to public data
  • Political debates on net neutrality
  • Ethical & problematic free licensing schemes
  • Visions of freedom
  • Intellectual property
  • Future of free software and legal threats
  • Preserving the commons
  • Access to knowledge
  • Escaping control society
  • Liquid democracy

Free individuals

  • Privacy
  • Accessibility
  • Hijacking of established practices and purposes
  • Darknets
  • Hackerspaces
  • TAZ
  • Creative hijacking of public space

Free art

  • Free artwork and/or artwork made with free software
  • Artistic performances
  • Artistic installations
  • Any style of freely-licensed music
  • Computer-assisted music
  • Transformative works
  • Free cinema
  • Demoscene

...And anything that does not fit...

PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE

Sébastien Bourdeauducq

Sébastien is a passionate science and technology generalist. He is a core member of /tmp/lab, a Paris hackerspace, since 2008 and participated in organizing the Hacker Space Festivals. His projects include Milkymist (an open source hardware system-on-chip for live video art), Consumer-B-Gone (a mobile phone ringtone that blocks shopping carts), reverse engineering Prism54 Wi-Fi cards, and many others. Web: http://lekernel.net

Nicolas Brodu

Nicolas Brodu is a teacher and researcher, currently at University of Rennes 1. He is interested by the use of machine learning to investigate complex systems, as a way to deal with emergent phenomena. He develops free software, both for scientific and general use, amongst which the Encours.org teleconference server. See http://nicolas.brodu.numerimoire.net

Meven Car

Pierre Cosquer

Pierre is a student at the Computer Science Department at INSA de Rennes (an engineering school). He is a member of Actux and one of the developers of The ProPHET (http://codingteam.net/project/prophet).

Valérie Dagrain

Valérie is a consultant specialised in the stakes of information society and digital territories. She is involved full time on free software projects and on the advocacy of Internet at the service of citizens. She invests herself in usability, interoperability, digital inclusion, participative democracy, promoting access to knowledge and ensuring access to public data. She contributes in local development and the organization of Free Software events and workshops since 2002.

Nina Engelhardt

Nina is a student in computer science at ENS Cachan. She is a member of /tmp/lab and helped with the organization of the Hacker Space Festival 2009. Her interests are centered around the intersection of technology, culture and society.

Kevin Hinault

Developer in an ITC (Information Technology Consulting) company. Assistance on the Debian mailing-lists. Member of the April non profit organization. Active member of Breizhtux: mainly involved in the monthly Install Party and in organizing the RBLL (Rencontres Bretonnes du Logiciel Libre). Blogger on system-linux.eu. Occasional Mozilla contributor.

John Lejeune

Dived into Free Software ten years ago and since then, does not give up. Now involved in hackable-devices.com, he applies to hardware the principles of Free Software and DIY culture. His other passion is the radio broadcasting world, through associations like http://www.autres-mondes.org, http://radio.rmll.info or http://canalb.fr.

Yohann Lepage

Yohann is a master student in engineering in networks and telecommunications. He has a passion for innovative and free technology.

David Mentré

Founding member of Gulliver, lead developer of demexp software (http://demexp.org) and co-developer of MapOSMatic (http://maposmatic.org). Free Software activist for more than 15 years.

Carole Thibaud

Young video maker from Nantes, member of some non-profit organizations like Makiz'art (audiovisual creation and independant production), Mire (experimental cinema), and the Crealab network (digital creation). Vj, projectionist, editor, documentary director, she's interested as much in real time video as in the techniques of argentic cinema. www.carolethibaud.com

Kereoz

RZR

tags: programming, multimedia, 3d, audio, contrib, linux, debian, packaging, ubuntu, embeeded, telephony, openmoko, maemo, c, c++, privacy, android, qt, java, low tech, autonomy, amiga, diy ... url: http://rzr.online.fr/contribs.htm

Taz

SUBMISSION TEMPLATE

Send your submission before the deadline to cfp AT breizh-entropy.org. Be sure to include information about the following points:

  • Format of the submission
  • Title of the submission
  • Name of speaker(s)/presenter(s)/artist(s)
  • Language (if applicable): French/English
  • Summary of the submission
  • Short bio
  • Hardware/logistics requirements
  • Contact e-mail and (if possible) mobile phone

PRACTICAL INFO

Venue: Universite de Rennes, Campus Beaulieu 263 Avenue du Général Leclerc 35700 Rennes, France

Price: Free! Opening: Thursday, April 15th 2010, 18:00 Closing: Saturday, April 17th 2010, 18:00

For concerts & artistic performances on stage: Submission Deadline: February 2nd 2010, 23:59 Notification of Acceptance: February 4th 2010 Publication of Schedule: February 12th 2010

For all other formats: Submission Deadline: March 10th 2010, 23:59 Notification of Acceptance: March 20th 2010 Publication of Schedule: March 25th 2010

Website: www.breizh-entropy.org CfP Mail (for sending your proposals only): cfp AT breizh-entropy.org Orga Contact (for all the rest): contact AT actux.fr

DISCLAIMERS

Breizh Entropy Congress is a zero-budget operation entirely run by volunteers and we therefore cannot help anyone with their food, travel and accommodation expenses. However, we might be able to arrange makeshift accommodation for participants in need, contact us for more information. Breizh Entropy Congress is not an academic conference.