Hello Folks, 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 who'd like to join us 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 (it's about 8 or so people at this point); 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 want to join us, send word to me or Jay Sulzberger (cc'd on this message) by the end of this week. I've picked out some of Andy's articles so you can get a sense of his areas of concern, and he's suggested some questions which I've pasted as a bit of a blurb below, along with his bio. You can see a list of his articles at http://praxagora.com/andyo/professional/article.html . He's proposed considering issues of "open content and collaboration, funding models for content, and the economics of digital networks." He is currently doing research on new media tools as well as online technical documention, described at http://praxagora.com/community_documentation/ . He's also active with Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility and writes often on technology, information and communications policy issues. 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 A Free Software Agenda for Peer-to-Peer > http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2002/02/28/andyobru.html New Media Characteristics of New Media in the Internet Age (Wiki) > 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 "Network Neutrality," "Quality of Service" and "Internet Governance" A Nice Way to Get Network Quality of Service? > http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/06/11/platform.html 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 An Open System Promotes Diversity of Content > http://praxagora.com/andyo/ar/for_diversity.html Gee, When Did We Give Away the Internet? An Analysis of News about WSIS > http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2003/12/gee_when_did_we_give_away_the.html Why They're Talking about Internet Governance > http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2005/10/why_theyre_talking_about_inter.html The Ghosts of Internet Time > http://praxagora.com/andyo/wr/ghost.html Various (Censorship/Digital Restrictions Management/Free Software and Human Rights) (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 Human Rights Requires Free Software > http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/10/11/platform.html Why I Do Not Install Filters on my Children's Computer > http://praxagora.com/andyo/ar/filter_argument.html Open Standards/ODF 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 Open Standards Alliance: Make Your Voice Heard > http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2004/09/open_standards_alliance_make_y.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 _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
