There are four meetings in the three days Monday 29, and Tuesday 30, and Wednesday 31, January 2007.
The meetings are about vote fraud, DRM, freedom of the Net, and our Wikipedia. The First Event is a meeting of the New York City Council. The topic will be voting machines. Seth Johnson will argue that we should prevent vote fraud, even if a computer is used to commit the fraud. This is an unpopular position today, and the more of us in the meeting, the better chance we have of reducing vote fraud. This meeting is at 10:00 am sharp Monday 29 January 2007 in Council Chambers in City Hall on the Island of the Manahattoes. Here is the official announcement, taken from http://www.nyccouncil.info/rightnow/calendarpage.cfm?DayToEdit=1/29/2007 <blockquote> Joint Meeting. Committee(s) on: Governmental Operations; Technology in Government 10:00 AM, Council Chambers - City Hall Oversight: Developments with New York City's Compliance with The Help America Vote Act of 2002 and Security Issues Relating to the Selection of Permanent Voting Systems Res 131: Resolution urging the New York State Board of Elections to promptly certify Precinct Based/Optical Scan voting systems for procurement by the local Boards of Elections and urging the New York City Board of Elections to select a Precinct Based/Optical Scan system as the new voting technology for the City of New York. </blockquote> The Second Event is a Street Outreach to explain what DRM is and why no one should run Microsoft's new wiretap and remote control system called "Vista". The first mover of this action is Defective by Design: http://www.defectivebydesign.org/en/blog/926 The action takes place on Monday 29 January 2007, at 11:00 am at Cipriani's on 42nd Street and at 2:00 pm at the Nokia Theater, both in New York. For full details go to the page above. Here are some links about the new Microsoft system for keeping root on home machines: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=9005047 http://badvista.fsf.org/blog/analysis-of-microsofts-suicide-note-part-1 http://badvista.fsf.org/blog/analysis-of-microsoft-s-suicide-note-part-2 http://polishlinux.org/gnu/drm-vista-and-your-rights The Third Event is a big New York County Lawyers' Association meeting on Network Neutrality. The meeting starts at 6:00 pm on Tuesday 30 January 2007 in the NYCLA Home of Law at 14 Vesey Street, near City Hall. Below is a text version of the official flyer: http://www.panix.com/~jays/NYCLA_NetNeut_013007.pdf <blockquote> New York County Lawyers' Association Cyberspace Law Committee and Entertainment, Intellectual Property and Sports Section (co-sponsor) present Network Neutrality: Will Regulation Preserve or Peril the Internet? SCHEDULED SPEAKERS Professor Tim Wu Columbia Law School. Credited with coining the term Network Neutrality and named one of Scientific American's 50 people of the year in 2006 for his work on the subject Marjorie Heins, Esq. Activist, writer, and founder of the Free Expression Policy Project at the Brennan Center for Justice, NYU School of Law Gale A. Brewer NYC Council Member and Chair, Committee on Technology in Government of the New York City Council Tim Karr Campaign Director, Free Press and SavetheInternet.com Bruce Regal, Esq. Senior Counsel, NYC Law Department Anthony L. Soudatt, Esq. Technology Consultant and Attorney Moderator and Vice Chair, Cyberspace Law Committee Tuesday, January 30, 2007 6:00 - 8:00 P.M. NYCLA Home of Law 14 Vesey Street New York, New York (around the corner from City Hall) NYCLA Evening Forums are free and open to the public. Entrance and facilities for those with disabilities are available. For wheelchair access, a ramp is provided. Please call at least one day in advance to make arrangements. For more information, call (212) 267-6646. RSVP [EMAIL PROTECTED] </blockquote> The Fourth Event is a meeting of Evan Korth's class in computers and society, and is co-sponsored by NYU Free Culture Club and NYU ACM and NYU Women in Computing. Jimbo Wales, founder of the Wikipedia, will speak at 3:30 pm Wednesday 31 January 2007 in the Courant Institute at 30 Mercer Street, near Washington Square, Manhattan. Below is a text version of the official announcement: http://www.freeculturenyu.org/2007/01/23/jimmy-wales-of-wikipedia-on-january-31st <blockquote> Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia on January 31st January 23, 2007 by Fred Following up Cory Doctorow, next Wednesday we'll be hosting Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia. The lecture will be held during a class of Evan Korth's Computers and Society course and is also co-sponsored by NYU's ACM and NYU's WinC chapters. Jimmy will be giving a talk entitled "Free culture, transparency, and search." Read more about Jimmy on his Wikipedia entry here. We're extremely lucky to have Jimmy and expect to have a full house, so please arrive early in order to ensure you get a seat. Here are the full details: Jimmy Wales Owner, Wikia, Inc.; Founder, Wikipedia; President, Wikimedia Foundation "Free culture, Transparency, and Search" Wednesday, January 31st @ 3:30pm - 5pm Courant Institute, 251 Mercer Street, Room 109 Free and open to the public. </blockquote> The Free Software Movement has won some battles, and we have lost some too. Our strength is such that when we take the field, we have a good chance to win. The engagements we have lost, we have, mostly, lost by default. Let us go and fight, fight against DRM and fight for our Net. Jay Sulzberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Corresponding Secretary LXNY LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization. http://www.lxny.org _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
