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# Call for Participation

## Call for mini-essays on “the cost of freedom” in free knowledge movements in honor of Bassel Khartabil, October 2015

Dear friends,

I’m helping organize a book titled “The Cost of Freedom” in honor of Bassel Khartabil, a contributor to numerous free/open knowledge projects worldwide and in Syria, where he’s been a political prisoner since 2012, missing and in grave danger since October 3. You can read about Bassel at <https://www.eff.org/offline/bassel-khartabil>, <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/10/08/bassel-missing-syria/>, <https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/MDE24/2603/2015/en/>, and lots more at <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassel_Khartabil> and <http://freebassel.org/>

Much of the book is going to be created at a face-to-face Book Sprint in Marseille Nov 2-6; some info about that and the theme/title generally at <http://costoffreedom.cc/>

We’re also asking people like yourself who have been fighting in the trenches of various free knowledge movements (culture, software, science, etc.) to contribute brief essays for inclusion in the book. One form an essay might take is a paragraph on each of:

* An issue you’ve faced that was challenging to you in your free

  knowledge work, through the lens on “cost”; perhaps a career or time

  opportunity cost, or the cost of dealing with unwelcoming or worse

  participants, or the cost of “peeling off layer upon layer the

  proprietary way of life” as put in

  <http://www.adamhyde.net/open-is-not-a-license/>
* How you addressed this challenge, or perhaps have yet to do so

  completely
* Advice to someone starting out in free knowledge; perhaps along the

  lines of had you understood the costs, what would you have done

  differently

But feel free to be maximally creative within the theme. We don’t have a minimum or a maximum required length for contributed essays, but especially do not be shy about concision or form. If all we get is haiku that might be a problem, or there might be a message in that of some sort.

Other details: The book will be PUBLISHED on Nov 6. We need your contribution no later than **Nov 5 at 11:00 UTC** (Paris: noon; New York: 6AM; Tokyo: 9PM) to be included. The book will be released under CC0; giving up the “right” to sue anyone for any use whatsoever of your contribution is a cost of entry…or one of those proprietary layers to be peeled back. Send contributions to <book@costoffreedom.cc>

Feel free to share this with other people who you know have something to say on this topic. We’re especially looking for voices underrepresented in free knowledge movements.

Cheers,

Mike

p.s. Please spread the word about #freebassel even if you can’t contribute to the book!

source: <http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2015/10/29/cost-of-freedom/>


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