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The Wizards of OS is a Berlin-based conference.

The topics are the potentials of PC and internet, free communication, open cooperation in creation and collecting of knowledge and the knowledge system of digital media. The conference is interdisciplinary and wants to be a plattform for meetings of "hard" technical and "soft" cultural/social scientists.

The name is a malapropism of Wizard of Oz. The OS stands for operating system, not for open source.

1 WOS3

The theme of the third conference in 2004 was "The Future of the Digital Commons".

2 External link

http://wizards-of-os.org

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