Open-News-Network e.V.

Open News Network e.V. is a German group ("Eingetragener Verein").^[1] It is a network both in the technological and in the social sense. It aims to provide open, non-commercial access to text based usenet.^[2] Membership is constituted by support of the project. Support may be in the form of active collaboration, allocation of resources, or both.^[3]

In 2006, Marc Lee and Christoph Ganser won an award from the Viper Film, Video and New Media Festival in Basel, Switzerland in the Transposition category for Open News Network.^[4][5]

History

• 21 Feb 2005 Posting in de.comm provider usenet Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
• 8 Mar 2005 Joern Bredereck announced the idea.
• 12 May 2007 society according to German law incorporated.

Usenet

Open-News-Network e.V provides traditional Usenet groups.^[6]"It is a Germany based cooperative network of Usenet enthusiasts who run their servers on otherwise unused resources."^[7]

References

1. ^ "Open News Network: Kunstprojekt stellt Journalisten in Frage" (in German). Golem.de. January 19, 2006. http://www.golem.de/0601/42804.html. Retrieved 29 November 2009. 
2. ^ "Computers: Usenet: Public News Servers". Open Directory. November 7, 2009. http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Usenet/Public_News_Servers/. Retrieved 29 November 2009. 
3. ^ "General Facts". Open News Network Wiki. October 21, 2008. http://wiki.open-news-network.org/index.php/OpenNewsEn. Retrieved 29 November 2009. 
4. ^ "25e Festival Viper de Bâle: deux oeuvres suisses primées". SwissInfo.ch (French). March 20, 2006. http://www.swissinfo.ch/fre/index.html?siteSect=203&sid=6562864&cKey=1142864472000. Retrieved 29 November 2009. ^{[dead link]}
5. ^ "Viper Swiss Award geht an Ursula Biemann" (in German). SF Tagesschau. March 20, 2006. http://tagesschau.sf.tv/nachrichten/archiv/2006/03/20/kultur/viper_swiss_award_geht_an_ursula_biemann. Retrieved 29 November 2009. 
6. ^ http://albasani.net/stats/top1000/open-news-network.html.en
7. ^ http://www.groupsrv.com/science/about429202.html