Re: [liberationtech] Mobile App for ICE Checkpoints?

Wonderful work, Celso. We'd be happy to help you find volunteers at Stanford and elsewhere, and I am sure that folks on other lists (cc'ed above) would be willing to help you as well. Thanks, Yosem On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 4:28 PM, Celso Mireles wrote: > Hi Folks, > >

Re: [liberationtech] Mobile App for ICE Checkpoints?

Hi Folks, Glad to see new energy around this idea of using technology to fight back against an oppressive system. I started an open source project to see if there was interest in developing an app that provides real-time verified alerts about immigration raids to people. I've gone through a

Re: [liberationtech] Mobile App for ICE Checkpoints?

Great news! Celso should also join Progressive Exchange, where there is a lot of interest in this project. Thanks, Yosem On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 1:31 PM, Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes < alps6...@gmail.com> wrote: > I contacted Celso Salinas-Mireles, an immigration rights activist and >

[liberationtech] OTF Funding Opportunities & Announcements

From: dan --- OTF FUNDING ANNOUNCEMENTS --- == Please find below several upcoming internet freedom-relevant funding application deadlines. There are two sections, the first for OTF support and the second for all alternative

Re: [liberationtech] [SPAM:####] Re: Decentralization

Difficult question, Yosem. I would try splitting it in two. First, what causes tide turns in general? Hard to answer by numbers besides a generic "80/20 rule", but seems there are other possible triggers besides marketing. Malcolm Gladwell in "The Tipping Point" suggests that (1) few people have

Re: [liberationtech] Mobile App for ICE Checkpoints?

I contacted Celso Salinas-Mireles, an immigration rights activist and coder, about this, and he told me he has an open-source project that tries to do just that, but he needs help in getting it going. So it sounds like this is a great opportunity to jumpstart this badly needed app and get it into

[liberationtech] DataRescueDC @ Georgetown (Feb 18-19)

From: Joseph Andrew Koivisto Georgetown University will be hosting a DataRescueDC event February 18th-19th to help archive and describe digital research data funded and hosted by federal research agencies. The organizing team (including several folks from the University of

Re: [liberationtech] Mobile App for ICE Checkpoints?

I'm very close to the immigrant rights community, and I haven't seen anything like these mobile apps pop up. So far it's been hotlines and stuff.. This reminds me of the comments of a journalist friend of Amy Goodman on election night: "Welcome to the rest of the world!" and here we go,

[liberationtech] Questions on upcoming next-gen onion services

Subject: Questions on the coming next-gen onion services From: David Goulet via tor-t...@lists.torproject.org On 11 Feb (06:14:34), Lolint wrote: > Hi Hello! > > I have some questions about the coming switch to next-gen onion services: > > o What will happen to current onion

[liberationtech] New Citizen Lab report: Bitter Sweet: Supporters of Mexico’s Soda Tax Targeted With NSO Exploit Links

Dear LibTech I am pleased to announce a new Citizen Lab report , entitled “Bitter Sweet: Supporters of Mexico’s Soda Tax Targeted With NSO Exploit Links,” authored by John Scott-Railton, Bill Marczak, Claudio Guarnieri, and

Re: [liberationtech] Mobile App for ICE Checkpoints?

This discussion is something that really should be vetted privately with immigration groups working on this. There is a lot of fear stoking migrants' anxieties right now, and misinformation swirling about what's happening. I suggest connecting with United We Dream, Make the Road NY, or DRUM, for

Re: [liberationtech] Mobile App for ICE Checkpoints?

From: Nithin Coca This is one case where we should look abroad for examples, as these types of situations are not abnormal globally. I know that in Iran, there is a tool that is used for avoiding morality police - something that should be easily

Re: [liberationtech] Mobile App for ICE Checkpoints?

From: Craig A. Bowman A few of us are also talking about using the ushahidi ( https://www.ushahidi.com) platform to do this. In conversations with them now about how it might work best. > 11, 2017 at 9:29 AM, Ms. Andrea Morales > < >

Re: [liberationtech] Mobile App for ICE Checkpoints?

From: Andrea Morales To: Dan Sisken One easy way of doing this would be to use Waze and add "police" check points but add "ICE" in the description of the checkpoint itself. > On Feb 11, 2017, at 9:11 AM,

[liberationtech] Mobile App for ICE Checkpoints?

From: Dan Sisken An idea based on this week's news about increasingly aggressive ICE actions targeting immigrant communities. Does anyone know of any examples of a mobile, crowd-sourced app that could be used to pinpoint ICE checkpoints. Such an app

[liberationtech] Three new FOSS umbrella organizations in Europe [LWN.net]

https://lwn.net/Articles/713073/ by Matija Šuklje Last year, three new umbrella organizations for free and open-source software (and hardware) projects emerged in Europe. Their aim is to cater to the needs of the community by providing a legal entity for projects to join, leaving the projects