Hi folks,
The first of our regular "Last Mondays" Free Culture Alliance NYC meetups
will be held on Monday evening (Jan 31) at 6 PM at Josie Woods Pub at 11
Waverley Place by NYU:
http://www.yelp.com/biz/josie-woods-pub-new-york-2
Afterwards, a bunch of us will walking over together to join the nearby
Free Culture NYU meeting at 7:30 PM.
There should be folks from Students for Free Culture, the Internet
Society-NY, Wikimedia NYC and other like-minded movements at the pub.
Come and celebrate with us the success of the strike back against SOPA!
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Free_Culture_Alliance_NYC
Thanks,
Richard
Wikimedia NYC
Tomorrow, on Wednesday Jan 18, Wikipedia will hold a blackout to protest
the SOPA/PIPA legislation in Congress that poses a serious threat to the
open Internet:**
**http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_anti-SOPA_blackout
More locally, on Wednesday from 12:30-2 PM, the NY Tech Meetup is hosting a
'Rally for the Future of Tech' in front of 780 Third Ave, at 49th street,
in Manhattan:
http://nytm.org/sos/
These speakers have been confirmed for the rally: Clay Shirky, Alexis
Ohanian, Scott Heiferman, John Perry Barlow, Andrew McLaughlin, Eli
Pariser, Tim Karr, and David Segal.
Bring a sign on why Wikipedia and similar projects need an open Internet to
thrive, and maybe we can also find each other, and go get lunch as a
wiki-group afterward.
Also, I'd like to welcome everyone of our upcoming Wiki-Conference at NYU
on Jan 28, where SOPA certainly promises to be a hot topic:
http://bit.ly/wikiday2012
**Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
Wikimedia NYC
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The Wikipedia Day 11th Birthday Bash is a celebration and
mini-conference to be held on Saturday January 28, 2012, hosted at ITP
at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and also supported by Wikimedia New
York City, Free Culture @ NYU and other Free Culture Alliance NYC
partners.
The NYC celebration is one of a number of Wikipedia Day being held in
the United States and worldwide.
You can register for the Wiki-Conference here:
http://bit.ly/wikiday2012
See full event details and schedule (and add your own lightning talk!) at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Wikipedia_Day
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
Wikimedia NYC
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