IP: O'Reilly peer to peer conference Feb 14-16 in SF

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 12:10:45 -0800
> From: "Tim O'Reilly" <tim () oreilly com>
>
> Dave,
>
> I had promised to send a bit more info about our upcoming "peer to peer"
> networking conference, which will be held in San Francisco Feb 14-16.
> The content of this conference may be of interest to your IP readers,
> since it's at the intersection of networking technology, some really hot
> button issues around intellectual property and freedom of speech, and a
> lot of really intriguing new technologies.
>
> As many of your readers will know, the interest in Napster kicked off a
> lot of buzz that has since spread into other areas, as people start to
> make connections between what happened with Napster, and emerging trends
> in peered web services, the "two-way web", instant messaging as an
> application platform, device-device interaction, distributed
> computation, and of course, the various other file-sharing networks.
>
> We've put together a conference on both the technical and
> business/social implications of this next generation of internet apps,
> with a really first rate speaker list, including Bill Joy, Larry Lessig
> of Stanford, Ray Ozzie of Groove, Ian Clarke, creator of Freenet, Gene
> Kan of Gnutella, David Anderson of >Kan of Gnutella, David Anderson of Seti@Home, Clay Shirky, who's offered
> some of the most penetrating analyses of the impact of Napster, and many
> more.  There's an unusual mix of open source grassroots projects,
> startups, and big companies.
>
> For the full program, people can go to
> http://conferences.oreilly.com/p2p.  We also have a number of articles
> about p2p and the various technologies that are collectively being
> grouped together around that meme at http://www.openp2p.com.
>
> --
> Tim O'Reilly @ O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
> 101 Morris Street, Sebastopol, CA 95472
> +1 707-829-0515, FAX +1 707-829-0104
> tim () oreilly com, http://www.oreilly.com



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