Hello FreeCulture Folk! We now have 12 people planning to attend this informal meetup in New York thus far. Please pipe up and let us know in the next couple of days if you want to join in, as we will be deciding on an appropriate location this coming weekend. Send a note to me or Jay Sulzberger (cc'd on this note) and we'll put you on the list.
We now have Karl Fogel joining us, a well-known free software contributor and advocate, campaigner for copyright reform, and author of "Producing Open Source Software" (winner of a JOLT award) and contributor to the recent "Beautiful Code" (which Andy Oram co-edited) He's a recognized expert in managing free and open source projects, and has many insights that apply to other types of efforts as well. Seth Seth Johnson wrote: > > Hello FreeCulture-ists, > > Andy Oram of O'Reilly Media will be in New York City on Thursday, > August 30th. We've been planning an informal meetup with him over > dinner, and we thought we'd put out a call and see if any of you Free > Culture folks would like to join in an informal chat with him about > his various interests. > > I'd probably meet up with him in my neck of the woods (uptown) if it's > only a few folks; but depending on who wants to hook up, we could move > it to somewhere in midtown or downtown Manhattan or Brooklyn. I think > it'll start at 8pm. If you all want to join us, send word to me or > Jay Sulzberger (cc'd on this message) by some time next week. > > Andy is active with Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility > and writes often on technology, information and communications policy > issues. I've picked out some of his articles so you can get a sense > of his areas of concern, and he's also suggested some questions which > I've pasted as a bit of a blurb at the bottom of this message, along > with his bio. He's proposed considering issues of "open content and > collaboration, funding models for content, and the economics of > digital networks." You can see a list of his articles at > http://praxagora.com/andyo/professional/article.html . > > Right now he doing some research on new media tools as well as online > technical documention, described at > http://praxagora.com/community_documentation/ . He's proposed > considering issues of "open content and collaboration, funding models > for content, and the economics of digital networks." > > You folks would probably get a kick out of his fiction, too -- see his > work "Fair Players" below. > > Fiction > > Fair Players: A Fanciful Tale > > http://praxagora.com/andyo/fiction/fair_players/index.html > > Snippet: > > Late into the night Carol sat with her players, reading from > time to time the small pamphlets that came with them, turning > each player over, tapping them, listening to the back of each > one, getting intimate with them. They did not respond the way > most physical objects did. But she could tell they had their > own logic. > > And as she put them side by side, she realized that certain > things didnt act right. Sometimes she would punch in a command > that was meant to move a number or an image from one device to > another, and the recipient refused to take the information. > This was intriguing, and struck her as wrong. > > DRM/Censorware/Human Rights and Free Software > > (On DRM) Never Again to Validate One's Experience > > http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2002/01/never_again_to_validate_ones_e.html > > Why I Do Not Install Filters on my Children's Computer > > http://praxagora.com/andyo/ar/filter_argument.html > > Why Human Rights Requires Free Software > > http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/10/11/platform.html > > A Free Software Agenda for Peer-to-Peer > > http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2002/02/28/andyobru.html > > "Network Neutrality" and "Quality of Service" > > Network Neutrality and an Internet with Vision > > http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/53907/ > > Network neutrality and the false idol of innovation > > http://www.oreillynet.com/etel/blog/2006/05/network_neutrality_and_the_fal.html > > A Nice Way to Get Network Quality of Service? > > http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/06/11/platform.html > > An Open System Promotes Diversity of Content > > http://praxagora.com/andyo/ar/for_diversity.html > > Open Standards/ODF > > Open Standards Alliance: Make Your Voice Heard > > http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2004/09/open_standards_alliance_make_y.html > > The Massachusetts Open Document Adoption: No Conflict of Interest > > http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2005/12/massachusetts_opendocument_ado.html > > How a standard can kill a standard (OOXML versus ODF) > > http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/07/how_a_standard_can_kill_a_stan.html > > Decentralized Net Applications: > > Gnutella and FreeNet Represent True Technological Innovation > > http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2000/05/12/magazine/gnutella.html > > The Value of Gnutella and Freenet > > http://praxagora.com/andyo/wr/gnutella_freenet_policy.html > > WIPO Xcasting Treaty > > The Problem with Webcasting > > http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/etel/2006/01/13/the-problem-with-webcasting.html > > New Media > > Characteristics of New Media in the Internet Age > > http://commons.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/Chapters_for_Characteristics_of_new_media > > Splitting Books Open: Trends in Traditional and Online Technical > Documentation > > http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/opensource/news/2004/09/23/online_trends.html > > Online Tech Support/Documentation: > > How to Help Mailing Lists Help Readers > Results of Recent Data Analysis > > http://praxagora.com/andyo/professional/mailing_list_follow_up/ > > Do-It-Yourself Documentation? > Research Into the Effectiveness of Mailing Lists > > http://praxagora.com/andyo/professional/mailing_list/mailing_list.html > > Why Do People Write Free Documentation? Results of a Survey > > http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/06/14/why-do-people-write-free-documentation-results-of-a-survey.html > > "Interview With the Editor:" > > > http://praxagora.com/andyo/ > > An informal gathering > with Andy Oram, Editor at O'Reilly Media > ---------------------------------------- > > ...to discuss open content and collaboration, funding models for > content, and the economics of digital networks (and numerous other > things) > > Date: Thursday, August 30th, 2007 > Time: 8:00 pm > Place: TBD > > Discussion will be kicked off by topics such as: > > * Why do people contribute free content, and what can society or > businesses do to increase participation and quality? > > * In an age where many people can't afford books or don't want to read > them, how do people learn technical skills? > > * What characteristics distinguish the arts in digital media from > twentieth-century and pre-twentieth-century media? > > * How can writers earn a living from content in an age of free > redistribution? > > * How will new stages of high-bandwidth networking be funded (can > advertising carry the cost?) > > Biography: > > Andy Oram is an editor at O'Reilly Media, a highly respected > book publisher and technology information provider. An employee > of the company since 1992, Andy specializes in free software > projects and software engineering. His work for O'Reilly > includes the first books ever released by a U.S. publisher on > Linux, the 2001 title Peer-to-Peer, and the recent best-seller > Beautiful Code. > > Andy is also a member of Computer Professionals for Social > Responsibility and writes frequently on policy issues and > trends related to the Internet and to technical innovation and > its effects on society. Copyrights, trademarks, and patents, > business aspects of open source, and telecom issues are among > the topics covered in his articles at: > > http://praxagora.com/andyo/professional/article.html > > He is currently doing research on free, online, technical > documention, along with experiments in new tools, as described > at: > > http://praxagora.com/community_documentation/ > > An article he wrote about art on the Internet, titled > "Characteristics of new media in the Internet age," is > maintained as a wiki at: > > http://commons.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/Chapters_for_Characteristics_of_new_media -- RIAA is the RISK! Our NET is P2P! http://www.nyfairuse.org/action/ftc DRM is Theft! We are the Stakeholders! New Yorkers for Fair Use http://www.nyfairuse.org [CC] Counter-copyright: http://realmeasures.dyndns.org/cc I reserve no rights restricting copying, modification or distribution of this incidentally recorded communication. 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