<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div><div><div>Please excuse any unavoidable cross-postings…</div></div></div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span> Kevin Flanagan <<a href="mailto:kev.flanagan@gmail.com">kev.flanagan@gmail.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Monday, January 18, 2016 at 9:25 AM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> <<a href="mailto:wsf2016@lists.p2pfoundation.net">wsf2016@lists.p2pfoundation.net</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Call for Proposals to represent the Commons at the FSM 2016<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote id="MAC_OUTLOOK_ATTRIBUTION_BLOCKQUOTE" style="BORDER-LEFT: #b5c4df 5 solid; PADDING:0 0 0 5; MARGIN:0 0 0 5;"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Dear Friends,<br><br>Happy New Year (a bit late)<br><br>We hope the break was restful and you are now ready for thinking, planning and organising something great on the commons for the WSF. As you probably know registrations are now open and the group working on the program is already collecting proposals for seminars and sessions. The aim of this mailing list was to jointly elaborate and propose sessions to the WSF in order to avoid having to merge or re-adapt the different proposals at the very last minute and also to have a well developed jointly planned programme of activities on the commons. We even thought about having a proper space where all the commoners could stay and interact with other activist.<br><br>What does it mean in practice? That if any of you have something in mind to propose for the WSF it would be good to start brainstorming and planning together.<br><br>Considering who is in this mailing list (but please add or forward this to anyone you think could be interested in joining) we can cover at least four areas and more with your suggestions.<br><br>- Social commons<br>- Urban commons<br>- Spaces of production<br>- Digital (on this topic there are also some orgs from Quebec involved, we have been trying to reach them with no success -AccesCake and Sensorica)<br><br>We can also organise something broader on commons as a tool for change (personally I prefer change rather than resilience) and we should also think about organising something on environment/natural resources/community land rights (I have some orgs in mind)<br><br>In theory another topic could be women and commons (but I am not sure about how many orgs could be involved on that).<br><br>We are hoping to have at least 5 proposals to share space but the more the better ( i.e. one or two sessions per day per space - the WSF is on 9-14 Aug but first and last day do not count -) Would also be great to have some cultural and artistic projects involved to participate in the opening parade.<br><br>In case you haven't seen the FSM website yet here it is : <a href="http://www.fsm2016.org">www.fsm2016.org</a><br><br>Please get back to us even if your ideas are still at an early stage of development by the end of January.<br><br>One last but very important point: I am going on retreat until April so Elisabetta will remain alone as facilitator of this discussion.<br>Please contact her by email with ideas and proposals <a href="mailto:betta.cangelosi@gmail.com">betta.cangelosi@gmail.com</a><br></div><div>Also if anyone is free to volunteer to help her that would be great.</div><div><br></div><div></div>Best Wishes <br></div>Kevin<br><div><div><br><a href="https://twitter.com/flgnk">https://twitter.com/flgnk</a>; <a href="http://lists.p2pfoundation.net/wws/review/wsf2016" style="font-family: -webkit-standard;">http://lists.p2pfoundation.net/wws/review/wsf2016</a></div></div></div></blockquote></span><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><blockquote id="MAC_OUTLOOK_ATTRIBUTION_BLOCKQUOTE" style="BORDER-LEFT: #b5c4df 5 solid; PADDING:0 0 0 5; MARGIN:0 0 0 5;"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Skype: kev.flanagan<br>Phone: +353 87 743 5660</div></div></div></blockquote></span></body></html>