"Free Culture, Free Software, and Free Content will join forces under the banner of “Free Society” at FSCONS on October 24-26 at the IT University of Götheborg, Sweden.

"Join us at the third annual FSCONS, a meeting place for social change, focused on the future of free software and free society. Open discussion and brainstorming are two of the primary factors that pave the way for change.

"Free Culture, Free Software, and Free Content will again join forces under the banner of “Free Society” at FSCONS 2009 in Gothenburg, Sweden, 13-15th November.

"The second annual FSCons is about to take place in Gothenburg, Sweden the 24th to the 26th of October. I am giving a talk about Perl and debian, and there are lots of good talks this year as well as the second Nordic Free Software Award, won last year by Skolelinux. We hope you'll attend if you are in the neighborhood!"

Associate members of the Free Software Foundation form a dedicated part of the community: a free software society that supports the ethical cause of computer users' freedom.. If you support the goal of a free software society, please join with your peers around the world in taking this important step.

"Three big names from the world of community movements: Free Software Foundation Europe, Creative Commons and Wikimedia come together under the banner of Free Society at this years FSCONS in Gothenburg Sweden.

The lectures and events surrounding the conference will range from modern Kernel design over citizen journalism all the way across to licensing in the 21st century.

Until October 22 you can nominate a person, a project or an organisation for the Nordic Free Software Award. The Nordic Free Software Award given to people, projects or organisations in the Nordic countries that have made a prominent contribution to the advancement of Free Software. The award will be announced during FSCONS 2010 in Gothenburg.

"...If we do want free society we also need free content, not only free software. A free society citizen is truly both a receiver of someone else's work and a contributor. But right now most of the contributions to free society are in software development – not necessarily on top of the list of most interesting activities everybody can do..."

"...The following text has been crossposted from Stephen Downes: The Future of Education, liveblogged notes taken at the conference by Stephen Downes at the First International Conference Free Knowledge, Free Technology - Education for a free information society [...] The conference deals first with the concept of public goods and public education, and their relationship with Freedom.