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On May 9th to 11th 2004 the Knowledge Media Design Institute, University of Toronto, hosted a conference, Open Source and Free Software: Concepts, Controversies and Solutions. This event featured some of the world's foremost thinkers in high techn ology, intellectual property and knowledge creation, discussing the legal, moral, political, social, commercial, and technical issues of open source and free software. This website and the multimedia proceedings are the result of that event.

Open Source Conference live webcast and multimedia proceedings are a Knowledge Media Design Institute production and were produced using the ePresence Interactive Webcasting System. Conference Planning Committee Rajen Akalu Ron Baecker Simon Bates Robin Carriere Ron Deibert Rea Devakos Steve Easterbrook Bernie Hogan Jonathan Hoss Liss Jeffrey Michelle Levesque Russell McOrmond Gale Moore Jason Nolan Richard Owens Jocelyn Piercey Kelly Rankin David Rosen David Ryan Russ Schick Michael Truscello Dwight Wainman Daniel Wigdor Greg Wilson Executive Producers Ron Baecker Gale Moore Produced by Kelly Rankin ePresence Webcast Operator Peter Wolf Technical Director Ben Mazzotta First Camera Operator Luke Dellecese Second Camera Operators Igor Bilykh Leigh Honeywell Michelle Poirier Sunir Shah Leo Trottier Webcast Multimedia Proceedings edited by: Bernie Hogan Daniel Wigdor MJ Suhonos Meira Josephy Remote Audience Moderators Bernie Hogan Daniel Wigdor