pirate party – Data Science, Data Analytics and Machine Learning Consulting in Koblenz Germany https://www.rene-pickhardt.de Extract knowledge from your data and be ahead of your competition Tue, 17 Jul 2018 12:12:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.6 Organization of the Open Access event 2013 in Oxford. https://www.rene-pickhardt.de/organization-of-the-open-access-event-2013-in-oxford/ https://www.rene-pickhardt.de/organization-of-the-open-access-event-2013-in-oxford/#respond Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:08:07 +0000 http://www.rene-pickhardt.de/?p=1552 During the past two months I invested quite some of my spare free time to contribute to the organization of the open access event Rigor and Openness in 21st century science which will take place in the University of Oxford on April 11th and 12th.
The Idea of the conference came up during Heinrich’s time in Oxford where he and me have been working a lot on related work and he was working closely together with people from the Akorn project (c.f. Heinrichs blog article why openess benefits research)
Thanks to a great effort of the organizing team (mostly students from Oxford + Heinrich and me) we can finally publicly announce the conference.
As you can see from the web page
http://www.rigourandopenness.org/
we have been able to attract quite some famous speakers to Oxford for the various sessions, keynotes and the debate. I am particularly proud that we could even get hold of Amelia Andersdotter MEP and member of the Swedish pirate party for the public debate together with people from publishers…

Please help us to spread the word of the conference. Even if you cannot come to Oxford or live abroad some of your friends might be close and might want to attend.
The topic of open access is important since we have to preserve or knowledge (c.f. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cost_of_Knowledge)

]]> https://www.rene-pickhardt.de/organization-of-the-open-access-event-2013-in-oxford/feed/ 0 Stealing music is bullcrap and not acceptable! https://www.rene-pickhardt.de/stealing-music-is-bullcrap-and-not-acceptable/ https://www.rene-pickhardt.de/stealing-music-is-bullcrap-and-not-acceptable/#respond Tue, 15 May 2012 13:30:50 +0000 http://www.rene-pickhardt.de/?p=1333 After a series of successes of the German pirate party in elections there came up a big discussion on the German web about copyright in the publishing industry. see for example:

Being myself a member of the pirate party people often assume that I want to legalize file sharing and make music free of charge for anybody. Even though I think this can be a smart move in online music marketing I don’t follow these goals. After a huge discussion with two musicians I am befriend with I have the feeling that I should make this public clear statement once and for all:
I don’t support people steeling music in p2p file sharing services. This does harm the musician!
What I support is the idea of a modern copyright law that respects modern technology and also the behavior of the market and our society. This means in particular the establishment of modern business models for musicians.
I encourage any German person reading this blog to participate in the Working group copyright of the pirate party. You can participate and follow the mailinglist and join the discussion without being a member of the party. Most pirates don’t want to get rid of the copyright (as stated in media) but they want to modernize it and they enjoy music and are on the side of the musicians. Especially musicians should join the discussion since it is a topic that is of their concern!

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