Re: [liberationtech] Could you help me build a Tech for Social Good course syllabus?

2018-11-01 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi— Yosem, are you interested in focusing on praxis or theory or history? Acknowledging here that one cannot rigorously separate the three, still—obviously--a course that looks at what has been done in the name of social good (by any party) and also what has actually worked (as evaluated by… )

Re: [liberationtech] Stanford Liberationtech: Ready for migration?

2018-09-04 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
ase feel free to share them publicly or privately, whatever you prefer. As > of Monday of next week, we'll start implementing. We being? Yosem and Gonzalo? > > Thanks, > Yosem (and Gonzalo) Cheers, Louis > > On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 12:34 PM Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: >

Re: [liberationtech] Stanford Liberationtech: Ready for migration?

2018-09-04 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 2018/08/30, at 20:23:16, Yosem Companys wrote: > > Any questions? Anything we overlooked? Please let Gonzalo or me know. > Thanks, Yosem and Gonzalo, The list covers the basics, which is good. I have a few suggestions ,but before I pose them to this list, ought I to wait until the new

Re: [liberationtech] Ebola: A Big Data Disaster

2016-03-05 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Sean, Thanks for posting this. I'll be reading the case study this weekend. It's somewhat relevant to a talk I'll be giving later this month at the Strata + Hadoop conference, in San José, CA, on Big Data Ethics. I touch on the problem (read: fraught opportunity & responsibility) posed by the

Re: [liberationtech] Ecuador towards the pos-capitalism: copyleft politics

2014-06-09 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Bernardo, This and other news from Flok Society is inspiring. But I find it useful to force a critical perspective. Thus * What actual policies is the national government of Ecuador taking that adopt Free/Libre Open Knowledge recommendations arising from this (and other, some

Re: [liberationtech] Communities needed to mitigate heartbleed type bugs

2014-04-25 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 25 Apr 2014, at 14:21, Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com wrote: On 04/23/2014 10:04 AM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: On 23 Apr 2014, at 08:38, Nick liberationt...@njw.me.uk wrote: I took the liberty of changing the subject line to something that hopefully somewhat summarises your email

Re: [liberationtech] Low-Cost Tablets

2014-04-15 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Sumantra, You are aware of DataWind's low cost tablet, the Aakash? See http://www.akashtablet.com/ and the associated articles and pages. (I believe the Indian government is subsidizing them, making them affordable, or at least seemingly so, to the supposed users, students.) There have been

Re: [liberationtech] [cfabrigade] Mapping Sea Levels

2013-07-15 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
BTW, If you haven't read Kim Stanley Robinson, who has written extensively on the more or less immediate effects of the our climate catastrophe, you might find his work interesting, especially his latest. louis On 15 July 2013 21:41, Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com wrote: And http

Re: [liberationtech] Query on implications of dragnet eavesdropping

2013-06-21 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
of the affected, too; but more then at power's obligations of information. Cheers, and thanks, Louis Yrs, Shava Nerad shav...@gmail.com On Jun 21, 2013 12:37 AM, Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, This may be a banal or mundane query and probably doesn't directly pertain

Re: [liberationtech] Query on implications of dragnet eavesdropping

2013-06-21 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 2013-06-21, at 13:38 , Griffin Boyce griffinbo...@gmail.com wrote: Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com wrote: My understanding is that the TSA archives but does not examine the data except under specific FISA searches. This is their justification that it isn't really domestic spying

Re: [liberationtech] Query on implications of dragnet eavesdropping

2013-06-21 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 2013-06-21, at 14:05 , Griffin Boyce griffinbo...@gmail.com wrote: Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com wrote: Every day, one learns a new thing… or at least has one's guesses confirmed—and then does the same old. I think all of us (undefined set of persons but including those

[liberationtech] Query on implications of dragnet eavesdropping

2013-06-20 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi, This may be a banal or mundane query and probably doesn't directly pertain to recent reports of NSA tapping or any other agency's. But let's say that in their apparent dragnet the NSA or any other similar agency finds probable cause to consider one or more persons as involved in a

Re: [liberationtech] Frei PiratenPartei

2013-05-18 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
fiorella, Thanks for the links to the events; I'd not been aware of them. I probably won't be able to participate in the conferences--geography not being as pliable as electrons are transmissible--but I'd be interested to read your paper. The question here was first asked about the

Re: [liberationtech] Schneier: Focus on training obscures the failures of security design

2013-03-27 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Doesn't this paragraph—below—sort of make intense discussion moot? I mean, if passwords are so last century, and if training is focused on getting workers to use already obsolete techniques that do nothing to secure against real threats, then…. where's the discussion? If the premise is correct,

Re: [liberationtech] skype

2013-03-21 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 13-03-21, at 06:58 , Andreas Bader andreas.ba...@nachtpult.de wrote: Louis Suárez-Potts: One is tempted to suggest using other than Skype. Alternatives exist, and these are secure, at least according to their claims. As well, Skype's code is not transparent, in the way that other, open

Re: [liberationtech] skype

2013-03-20 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
One is tempted to suggest using other than Skype. Alternatives exist, and these are secure, at least according to their claims. As well, Skype's code is not transparent, in the way that other, open source, applications' are. louis On 13-03-20, at 22:39 , Eric S Johnson

Re: [liberationtech] Qt TorBrowser

2013-03-17 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 13-03-17, at 10:32 , Griffin Boyce griffinbo...@gmail.com wrote: While I think that more coders should develop tools that bypass censorship, this is questionable for several reasons. It's important to avoid even the appearance of impropriety. Using another developer's name is uncool,

Re: [liberationtech] wordpress

2013-03-17 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Matt is responsive. Have you tried contacting him? Louis On 13-03-17, at 19:30 , Eric S Johnson cra...@oneotaslopes.org wrote: Seeking direct contact with any authority at WordPress.com (Matt Mullenweg? Someone else?) to help substantiate ownership of one of Vietnam’s top independent

Re: [liberationtech] F2C Videos are up!

2013-03-06 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hey, thanks! I'll do my best to further promulgate these. BTW, I had not been aware of the Denver conference. It's likely too late for me to go, but will track it, if possible, with the aid of the free Internet. :-) Cheers louis On 13-03-06, at 11:29 , Yosem Companys compa...@stanford.edu

Re: [liberationtech] Hispanohablantes / Spanish-Speaking LibTech Community

2013-03-05 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
— Louis Suárez-Potts, PhD President, Age of Peers, Inc. Community Strategist Apache OpenOffice PMC Twitter: @luispo Skype: louisiam G-Things: luispo @gmail.com On 13-03-05, at 14:37 , Jeanine Finn jef...@ischool.utexas.edu wrote: Yo también

[liberationtech] F2C

2013-03-05 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
The Freedom to Connect conference ended today.[0] It was held in Silver Spring, MD. I also seemed immensely interesting and relevant to this list. Amy Goodman's Democracy Now! broadcast much of it; she also interviewed several interesting participants.[1] But who on this list was there? And

Re: [liberationtech] Please help out a student!

2013-03-03 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Bernard, No doubt you have a much better timeline already, but the authors of this one, from Al Jazeera, might be able to supply more details if asked. See: http://aje.me/Yld95a -louis On 13-03-03, at 19:10 , Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb ei8...@ei8fdb.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-