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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