Here is a message from some friends of Fabricatorz at the Breizh Entropy Congress in Rennes, France. They have an open call for papers/proposals/talks on subjects related to free and open technologies:

March 10th is the deadline to send us a few words on the projects or the subject that you would like to present at Breizh Entropy Congress (Rennes, France, April 15-17 2010). After your submission, we will contact you before March 20th to tell you if it is going to be part of the schedule. The schedule with the timetable will be published on March 25th.

ANYONE can submit a proposal to Breizh Entropy Congress: students, entrepreneurs, enthusiasts, artists, free software activists, tinkerers, hackers... on ANY subject related to free and open technologies. This congress
is about eclectism!

To participate, send a mail to cfp@breizh-entropy.org including the following
points:
- Format of the submission: lecture, workshop, installation, lightning talk, other...
- Title of the submission
- Name of speaker(s)/presenter(s)/artist(s)
- Language (if applicable): French/English
- Summary of the submission
- Short bio of the speaker
- Hardware/logistics requirements
- Contact e-mail and (if possible) mobile phone

The complete call for proposals is online:
http://www.breizh-entropy.org/cfp.html

[ End of the day photo by Shasha Liu ]

The event went quite well. Even before, the Chinese government delayed the requirement for all computers sold after July 1 to install this spyware, green dam youth escort.

The party started at 9 AM on July 1 with a mass amount of journalists interviewing Ai Weiwei. Various summer fun activities continued all day. Matt, Phil, Yang Tao, and I brought out the speakers after lunch and began mixing it up until the night. Massive fun! Great connections and drinking all around.

Here are some links connected to this big press hit:

• http://government.zdnet.com/?p=5018
  
• http://www.nowpublic.com/tech-biz/chinese-protest-censorship-july-internet-boycott-green-tsunami
  
• http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-china-greendam1-2009jul01,0,3453969.story
  
• http://technews.am/conversations/mashable/china_gives_up_on_green_dam_people_celebrate
  
• http://www.chinadigitaltimes.net/china/ai-weiwei/
  
• http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article6554801.ece
  
• http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE55L0YD20090622
  
• http://mashable.com/2009/07/01/china-green-dam-celebration/
  
• http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/green-dam-net-filter-hurts-media-like-cancer--612649?src=rss&attr=all
  
• http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2349625,00.asp
  
• http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/07/01/china.filtering.software/index.html
  
• http://www.crn.com/software/218100514;jsessionid=LKBTTEVTW400KQSNDLOSKHSCJUNN2JVN
  
• http://twitter.com/rmack/statuses/2290583077
  
• http://www.digiactive.org/topic/green-dam/
  
• http://www.digiactive.org/2009/06/25/action-of-omission-to-protest-chinese-censorship/
  
• http://www.nydailynews.com/tech_guide/2009/06/22/2009-06-22_web_protest_planned_as_chinese_government_introduces_green_dam_filtering_program.html
  
• http://www.chinalyst.net/node/71453
  
• http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/30/censorship-china-internet-software
  
• http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2009/jun/25/china-censorship-green-dam-internet-boycott
  
• http://www.pcworld.com/article/145302/has_chinas_green_dam_burst.html
  
• http://shanghaiist.com/2009/06/23/ai_weiwei_protesting_green_dam_with.php
  
• http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/744ae9be-6639-11de-a034-00144feabdc0.html
  
• http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2009/07/02/2009070200228.html
  
• http://edition.cnn.com/2009/BUSINESS/07/01/china.green.dam.business/
  
• http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/30/AR2009063001047.html
  
• http://www.ictmag.info/politics/china-thinks-twice-on-green-dam/
  
• http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/31840/chinese-artist-ai-weiwei-calls-for-web-boycott/
  
• http://opennet.net/chinas-green-dam-the-implications-government-control-encroaching-home-pc

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We will bring our Laoban 1.0 Soundsystem with its new shiny grillz tomorrow. To all DJs and musicians out there (especially good ones!), this is an open call to come on out and plug-in to the speakers. We need you to come out and make some sound, art, and have a big ole green day brainstorm. The whole day is free and open! The entire day is to boycott the Chinese Internet.

To all our Internets Massive! To all Twitteronians, Identicators, Free and Open Source, Creative Commons'd out people in Beijing, or those who just want to have fun, please come out tomorrow for the full day or even just part of it. Matt Hope, Jon Phillips (rejon), Robin, Phil Dunn and so many more will most definitely be on hand to mix, make some projects in realtime and collectively boycott the Internet.

Party Day — See You in Caochangdi

WEDNESDAY 2009 1 July 9:00 AM to 11:30 PM, all day beer and chatting.

Blog friends, food friends, all are welcome. There will be gifts.

Phone: 010-8456-4194
Email: xuesheng512@gmail.com

Address: Beijing, Chaoyang District, Airport Service Road, Caochangdi No. 258 FAKE Studios

Breakfast menu: soy milk, gruel, youtiao, dumplings, four types of pickled vegetables, fried eggs, ham, tea eggs, fruit platter

Lunch menu: cinnamon lotus root, village style fungus mushrooms, seafood hot and sour soup, marinated duck, oyster sauce beef, fried fresh vegetables, Yangzhou fried rice, fried noodles, seasonal fruit

Dinner menu: cucumber, fish and egg soup, barbecue chicken, fish steaks, gulao pork, hot and spicy tofu, black peppercorn beefsteak, fried dishes, assorted mushrooms, udon, lotus fried rice, seasonal fruit

Midnight snack menu: cabbage hearts, spicy dried tofu, peanuts, fried broad noodles, gruel, fried bread with dipping sauce, garlicky vegetables, season fruit, four types of pickled vegetables

Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and midnight snack. Coke, Sprite, Fanta, orange juice, plum juice, lemon tea, Tsingtao, all kinds of beverages.

Guests can hang out in the lobby our outside eating and doing whatever they feel like.

Thanks to our great friend Robin Peckham for the realtime translation of the original post by the Wizzler.

UPDATE: Looks like Chinese government has delayed Green Dam Youth Escort. Regardless, the party goes on more in celebration mode!