Cost of Freedom
  • Announcement
  • Preface: the Voices of Free culture
  • Introduction
  • Collective Memory
    • The Uncommon Creativity of Bassel Khartabil
    • Bassel, and My Freedom
    • About Bassel
    • #NEWPALMYRA and the Free Bassel Campaign
    • Palmyra 3D, Premonition Vision Of Bassel
    • Rebuild Asad Al-Lat
    • Supporting Bassel
    • What Does Freedom Mean to You, Mr. Government?
    • Bassel K
    • My Friend is Not Free
    • Liberté
    • Free Bassel
  • Opening:Freedom
    • Keeping Promises
    • The Shit of Freedom
    • “Freedom To” vs. ”Freedom From”
    • Free Culture in an Expensive World
    • What is Open?
    • The Open World
    • Costs of Openness
    • My Brain on Freedom
    • Too Poor Not to Care
    • Inside or Outside the Movement
    • Freedom as a Commodity
    • Free as in Commons
  • Architectonics Of Power
    • Hacking the Contradictions
    • Time to Wake Up
    • The Cost of Internet Freedom
    • Why I Choose Privacy
    • Why I Choose Copyright
    • Why I Refused My Proprietary Self
    • Image, Identity, Attribution, Authorship
    • The Burden of Journalism
    • Architecture = Power
    • From Outer Space
    • Free Software Economics
    • Beyond Capitalism
  • Affordances
    • Queering
    • Nomadic Family
    • Self-Sufficiency
    • Collective Validation
    • Transdisciplinarity
    • Resilient Networks
    • Reconciliation
  • Epilogue
    • Internal Freedom
    • Love Letter To Computers
    • Towards a possible manifesto; proposing Arabfuturism(s)
    • The Cost of Future Tense
    • Andromeda Report – Gliese 832 C Expedition
  • Appendix
    • Call for Participation
    • Attributions
    • Online Resources
    • License
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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 , , , and lots more at and

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

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

  • 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:

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/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassel_Khartabil
http://freebassel.org/
http://costoffreedom.cc/
http://www.adamhyde.net/open-is-not-a-license/
http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2015/10/29/cost-of-freedom/