Come one, come all!
Our next meeting for Wikipedia Meetup NYC is Sunday April 14 -this weekend-
at Symposium Greek Restaurant @ 544 W 113th St (in the back room), on the
Upper West Side in the Columbia University area.
This is a meeting for Wikipedia/Wikimedia users and everyone else too, who
has ever looked at Wikipedia and wondered what's going on behind it.
Remember, the agenda here is up to you! I encourage anyone who is
interested to sign up to give a presentation or suggest a topic for general
discussion at our wikimeetup page (given below).
---Meeting details---
2:00 PM - 5:00PM:
Salon-style forum for discussion of Wikipedia and Wikimedia issues.
5:00 PM onwards:
Shuffle tables and chairs, and then nosh and schmooze for our meal,
wiki-style.
---Sign up and info---
Page on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC
Page on Meetup.com:
http://www.meetup.com/WikimediaNYC/events/113531452/
You can officially 'sign up' at either of these pages, and please add your
ideas to the agenda!
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
PS, If you are new and have any questions about this event, feel free to
email me personally:
pharosofalexandria(a)gmail.com
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This is tonight.
This was a draft somehow still waiting to be sent. :(
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From: "Neil Kosslyn"
Date: Mar 30, 2013 10:10 AM
Subject: [free-culture] Free Culture things this week
To: "Free Culture @ NYU's Listserv" <free-culture(a)lists.nyu.edu>
> The first:
> The NYU Law Art Law Society presents:
>
> RESALE ROYALTY RIGHTS
> A Conversation Inspired by the Copyright Office's Call for Comments on a Federal Resale Royalty
>
> Tuesday, April 2nd from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
> Reception to follow
>
> Panelists:
> Christopher Reed, Senior Advisor for Policy & Special Projects, U.S. Copyright Office
> Christopher Sprigman, Visiting Professor of Law, NYU School of Law
> Frank Stella, Artist
>
> Moderator:
> Amy Adler, Emily Kempin Professor of Law, NYU School of Law
>
> NYU School of Law, Vanderbilt Hall 210
> 40 Washington Square South
> New York, NY 10012
>
> Reception to follow
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From: "Jeroen De Dauw" <jeroendedauw(a)gmail.com>
Date: Jan 26, 2013 3:30 PM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Call for participation - SMWCon Spring 2013
To: "Wikimedia developers" <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> *********************************************************************
> We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers.
> Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested.
> *********************************************************************
>
> This is an announcement for the Semantic MediaWiki Conference 'SMWCon
> Spring 2013'.
>
>
>
> WHERE
>
> The Spring 2013 SMWCon will be held at Interactive Telecommunications
> Program (or ITP),
> a department of New York University, in New York City, in the United
States.
> ITP is an incredibly creative place, located at 721 Broadway, between
> Washington Pl. and
> Waverly Pl., in New York's Greenwich Village neighborhood.
>
>
>
> WHEN
>
> March 20-22 2013.
>
>
>
> CONFERENCE WEBSITE:
>
> http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Spring_2013
>
> This will be the 10th edition of the Semantic MediaWiki Conference!
>
> SMWCon is open to everyone interested in collaborative knowledge creation
> using semantic wikis.
>
> The event brings together developers, users, and organizations from the
> Semantic MediaWiki
> community around the world.
>
> In what is becoming a tradition, we will spend the first day with
tutorials
> and a workshop for
> those who want to learn more about Semantic MediaWiki and build from it.
> The second and
> the third day of the conference will include talks from the developers and
> users of SMW.
>
>
>
> HOW TO PARTICIPATE
>
> We have started to form a program of the conference.
>
> Since this is a community driven event, please visit the following wiki
> page to get news
> about the program, add your name to the attendees list and register your
> talk:
>
> http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Spring_2013
>
> It does not have to be formal and/or complete, however, you're welcome to
> share more
> information about your talk, like a short abstract, and even desirable
> length. We are looking
> for use cases, updates on existing projects, lightning talks, or even
demos.
>
>
>
> IMPORTANT DATES
>
> February 20 - deadlines to submit proposals of talks (the earlier the
> better)
>
> March 20 - the conference itself
>
>
>
> See you in New York!
>
> Regards,
>
> Laurent Alquier, Program Chair
> _______________________________________________
> Wikitech-l mailing list
> Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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From: Lane Rasberry <lane(a)bluerasberry.com>
Hello,
There will be a tour of Consumer Reports for Wikipedians on Tuesday,
January 15, from 3-5pm. Consumer Reports is in Yonkers. If you plan to
attend then please confirm by signing up on the NYC meetup page at
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/January_2013>
I apologize to those who cannot make this time and there will be an
additional opportunity to visit after a few months. Feel free to share
this invitation with Wikipedians in the area and do not hesitate to
call or write if you want to know more.
My name is Lane Rasberry and I am the Wikipedian in Residence at
Consumer Reports. Consumer Reports is a research facility, publisher,
and advocacy organization. Most of the organization's scientists and
engineers work in any of the 50 laboratories at the Yonkers
headquarters. Almost all of the publishing work happens here also. I
am writing to invite Wikipedians on a tour of this place and to ask
questions about Consumer Reports' interest in Wikipedia and what this
could mean for Wikipedians in the area and internationally.
Consumer Reports is best known as a product testing organization.
Staff here review dozens of every kind of household appliance,
household product, and consumer good. I cannot plan exactly what this
tour will include because different testing happens on different days,
but I would expect that we would visit about seven laboratories and
the engineers who manage them. Most things in laboratories can be
photographed. In addition to the tour the staff here is curious to
meet Wikipedians and would like to talk with any of you. I am curious
to hear if any of you have ideas on what to do on Wikipedia with the
information this place collects.
Here is the agenda:
2:30pm - anyone who arrives early will be received by me to talk.
3:15-4:30 pm - a tour which walks through several laboratories
4:30-5:15 - discussion with Consumer Reports staff. Perhaps you have
questions for them and they also have questions for you.
5:15pm-till whenever - leave Consumer Reports to go for coffee and
dinner somewhere
There is no easy public transportation within about a mile of here. At
3pm upon request from at least one person, there will be a shuttle
from the Hastings station on the Metro North Hudson Line to Consumer
Reports. Upon request, there can also be a shuttle back to the
Hastings station sometime after the tour ends. At 5:20, 5:50, and
6:20, there are shuttles from Consumer Reports to the 1 line on 242nd
Street in the Bronx.
Thanks for your attention and reply to this or write me with any questions.
yours,
--
Lane Rasberry
206.801.0814
lrasberry(a)consumer.org
Hello,
My name is Lane Rasberry and I am the Wikipedian in Residence at
Consumer Reports. Consumer Reports is a research facility, publisher,
and advocacy organization. Most of the organization's scientists and
engineers work in any of the 50 laboratories at the Yonkers
headquarters. Almost all of the publishing work happens here also. I
am writing to invite Wikipedians on a tour of this place. If you are
interested please vote in this poll for a date and time.
<http://doodle.com/4zkask42ib8iyf3u#table>
Consumer Reports is best known as a product testing organization.
Staff here review dozens of every kind of household appliance,
household product, and consumer good. I cannot plan exactly what this
tour will include because different testing happens on different days,
but I would expect that we would visit at least three laboratories and
the engineers who manage them. Most things in laboratories can be
photographed. In addition to the tour the staff here is curious to
meet Wikipedians and would like to talk with any of you. I am curious
to hear if any of you have ideas on what to do on Wikipedia with the
information this place collects.
The agenda is to receive a ten minute presentation of what Consumer
Reports does, to take the tour, and then to talk about the potential
for organizations like this to engage with the Wikipedia community.
The tour will last a least an hour and discussion after the tour will
be as we like.
There is no easy public transportation within about a mile of here.
There are Consumer Reports shuttles to and from the 1 line at 242nd
and the Hastings station on the Metro North Hudson Line - after
choosing a date I will arrange for this if there is demand.
Thanks for your attention and reply to this or write me with any questions.
yours,
--
Lane Rasberry
206.801.0814
lane(a)bluerasberry.com
Unfortunately, due to the ongoing transit issues arising from
Hurricane Sandy, we have been forced to postpone the 'Wikipedia Goes
to the Movies' event that was scheduled for Saturday.
We will try to reschedule for sometime in late November (possibly the 17th).
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
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From: Hannah C. <hannahelainechen(a)gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 5:24 AM
Subject: [fc-nyu-discuss] 11/1 Aram Sinnreich lecture at NYU
To: fc-nyu-discuss(a)googlegroups.com
The first open Computers and Society lecture for fall 2012 will be on
Thursday from 3:30pm-4:45pm in room 109, 251 Mercer Street (Courant
buildint).
Aram Sinnreich will discuss his upcoming book, "The Piracy Crusade:
How the Music Industry’s War on Sharing Destroys Markets and Erodes
Civil Liberties"
Details:
Speaker: Aram Sinnreich, Assistant Professor at Rutgers University's
School of Communication and Information, in the Department of
Journalism and Media Studies
Topic: "The Piracy Crusade: How the Music Industry’s War on Sharing
Destroys Markets and Erodes Civil Liberties"
Address: 251 Mercer Street, room 109
Time: 3:30pm-4:45pm
Date: November 1, 2012
BLURB:
In the name of combating "digital piracy," the music industry and its
allies have spent billions of dollars to lobby for stronger copyright
laws, shuttered hundreds of promising businesses, and sued tens of
thousands of American internet users. Rutgers University Media Studies
Professor Aram Sinnreich investigates the rationale behind these
decisions, and explores their implications for free speech, civil
liberties, and market innovation, in his soon-to-be published book,
The Piracy Crusade. Ultimately, he argues, we are squandering our best
hopes for a functional democracy and a thriving marketplace in the
21st Century in order to chase a phantom in an unwinnable war.
Instead, we must focus on new laws, policies and economic models that
reward and thrive on the free sharing of information in cyberspace and
beyond.
BIO:
Aram Sinnreich is an Assistant Professor at Rutgers University's
School of Communication and Information, in the Department of
Journalism and Media Studies. Sinnreich's work focuses on the
intersection of culture, law and technology, with an emphasis on
subjects such as emerging media and music. He is the author of two
books, "Mashed Up" (published in 2010), and "The Piracy Crusade" (to
be published in 2013), and has written for publications including the
New York Times, Billboard and Wired. Prior to coming to Rutgers,
Sinnreich served as Director at media innovation lab OMD Ignition
Factory, Managing Partner of media/tech consultancy Radar Research,
Visiting Professor at NYU Steinhardt, and Senior Analyst at Jupiter
Research. He holds a Ph.D. in Communication from the University of
Southern California, and an MS in Journalism from Columbia University.
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From: Jennifer Baek <baek01(a)gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 6:13 PM
Subject: [FC-discuss] Awesome event: Steven Johnson on the Rise of the
"Peer Progressive"
To: Discussion of Free Culture in general and this organization in
particular <discuss(a)freeculture.org>, SFC Core <core(a)freeculture.org>
Hey all,
I wanted to share with/invite all of you to an awesome event happening at
New York Law School, put on by Personal Democracy Media and the Institute
of Information Law and Policy. This is a great opportunity to hear
luminaries speak about the rise of peer-to-peer collaborative culture as an
impetus for achieving real social progress! But rather than me telling you
what it's going to be about, I'm including a blurb about the event in this
e-mail (see below).
*REGISTER HERE<http://personaldemocracy.com/event/special-book-event-steven-johnson-rise-p…>
.*
*Students go for FREE. Enter Discount Code: NYLAW12*
*Location: New York Law School, 185 West Broadway, New York, NY 10013*
*Date: Monday, 9/24/12*
*Time: 7:30PM*
I hope to see fellow SFC-ers there, and would love it if we could talk/hang
afterwards.
Cheers,
Jennifer
--
Book Event: Steven Johnson on the Rise of the "Peer Progressive"Monday,
September 24 - 7:30pm - New York Law School
Is there a new political philosophy emerging from things like open source
software development; massive community sharing hubs like Wikipedia,
Kickstarter, and Reddit; peer-to-peer social networking; experiments in
"Liquid Democracy," and the rapid spread of resource sharing tools like
ZipCar, AirBnb and Car2go? Is it time to start talking about replacing the
"welfare state" with the "partner state"?
*On Monday September 24 at 7:30pm at the New York Law School*, we're
looking forward to exploring all those questions and more with noted author
Steven Johnson, whose new book *Future,
Perfect*<http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/2012/07/introducing-future-perfect.html>is
must-reading for people who believe in the power of open,
collaborative
peer-to-peer networking to achieve real social progress.
Johnson argues for a new breed of political beast: the "peer progressive."
You may be one if you're wary of centralized control, whether that's in the
hands of Big Government or Big Corporations or Big Labor, but you're not a
free-market libertarian either because you believe that markets frequently
fail to provide essential social goods. Peer progressives, Johnson argues,
think the way the Internet itself works--nobody owns it, everyone can
connect to it, anyone can improve on it--might offer a model for solving
other problems. And they're struck by how voluntary associations that are
organized non-hierarchically for non-financial goals like love, or social
solidarity, or a shared passion (like Wikipedia) can scale to the size of
millions of participants.
Additional speakers contributing to the conversation include:
- *Beth Noveck*, NY Law School Professor and served in the White House
as the first United States Deputy Chief Technology Officer and founder and
director of the White House Open Government Initiative
- *Tina Rosenberg*, co-writer of the Fixes column at the New York
Times online, and author of *Join the Club: How Peer Pressure Can
Transform the World* and the e-book *D for Deception*
- *Clay Shirky*, NYU Professor of Interactive Telecommunications, and
author of three books on social media: *Cognitive Surplus* (2010), *Here
Comes Everybody* (2008), and *Voices from the Net* (1994)
Moderated by *Micah L. Sifry*, PDM co-founder and editorial director.
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FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
Hi,
There will be a [[Raspberry Pi]] event at Alpha One Labs (a
hackerspace in Greenpoint) on Sunday, Sept. 23. It's free but there is
an eventbrite RSVP form. (see below)
-Jeremy
http://www.alphaonelabs.com/raspberrypi-foundation-visits-alpha-one-labs/ says:
> The RaspberryPi Foundation is visiting Alpha One Labs September 23rd and
> giving talks and workshops about the RaspberryPi to both members and
> RaspberryPi users in the local community.
>
> In case you haven’t heard of them, the Raspberry Pi Foundation is a
> charitable organisation founded with the aim of promoting the study of
> computer science and related topics, especially at school level. The
> Foundation is responsible for the design and sales of the popular RaspberryPi
> single board computer. You can find out more about the Foundation and the
> RaspberryPi here.
>
> The plan for the event consists of the following;
>
> Talk:
>
> RaspberryPi: Past, Present & Future – An introduction to the RaspberryPi,
> including an overview of its history and development, details on the
> technical specification and an outline of future developments with many cool
> tech demos along the way. Followed by a Q&A session.
>
> Tech Demos:
>
> A chance to demonstrate various OS’s, new revisions of the Pi and the latest
> add-on expansion hardware.
>
> Workshop:
>
> A Taste of RaspberryPi – A chance to play with the RaspberryPi hands-on.
>
> Show & Tell / Prizes:
>
> An opportunity to display RaspberryPi projects from the community with prizes
> for notable projects.
>
> The tour will be blogged/vlogged on the RaspberryPi website and will
> hopefully attract RaspberryPi enthusiasts and hackers/makers from across the
> areas we will be visiting, providing your hackspace with lots of worldwide
> publicity.