From jrjacobs at stanford.edu  Mon Mar  2 17:40:11 2009
From: jrjacobs at stanford.edu (James Jacobs)
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:40:11 -0800
Subject: [opensource] NYC drupal camp makes the NY Times!
Message-ID: <49AC8A7B.2000903@stanford.edu>

FYI: coverage of NYC drupal camp (http://groups.drupal.org/node/18467)
made the NY Times. looks like they had a great turnout and a great
message to the general public from organizer Eric Goldhagen!!

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/02/nyregion/02open.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=drupal&st=cse

james




From vijoy at stanford.edu  Tue Mar  3 14:33:33 2009
From: vijoy at stanford.edu (Vijoy Abraham)
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 14:33:33 -0800
Subject: [opensource] NYC drupal camp makes the NY Times!
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cool!  thanks for forwarding.


On Mar 2, 2009, at 5:40 PM, James Jacobs wrote:

> FYI: coverage of NYC drupal camp (http://groups.drupal.org/node/18467)
> made the NY Times. looks like they had a great turnout and a great
> message to the general public from organizer Eric Goldhagen!!
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/02/nyregion/02open.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=drupal&st=cse
>
> james
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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> opensource at lists.stanford.edu
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From jsalsman at gmail.com  Wed Mar 18 12:28:33 2009
From: jsalsman at gmail.com (James Salsman)
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:28:33 -0700
Subject: [opensource] Fwd: [Wikimedia-SF] Maker Faire 2009?
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	<AF3FA056-A9F3-47BB-B729-D503DD0DE58C@wikimedia.org>
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FYI

In my opinion, the Open Source Lab should try for a free booth at the Maker
Faire and see whether the private aspects of Stanford override the
educational aspects in their determination of whether you can get a free
booth.  It can't hurt to ask, but free booths are likely to run out so
applications may close on a first-come, first-served basis; so it would be
better to put in a request sooner than later.

Sincerely,

James Salsman

http://talknicer.com/


Phoebe Ayers wrote:
>
> Jay, Sounds good, thanks for the update.
>
> List members: are people interested in submitting a booth proposal?
> For non-commercial makers, it's free, but we need to submit a
> proposal with a "description of our project". The page is a little
> confusing -- it looks like the deadline was March 12, but they also
> say the deadline is March 31st. Either way we need to get going.
>
> The page says that "We particularly encourage exhibits that are
> interactive and that highlight the process of making things" -- I
> think the demo part of the booth went over well last year (though I
> know internet access was a pain) -- maybe we could focus on "how
> to edit"? Or maybe focus on non-Wikipedia projects (how to make
> everything else)?
>
> What do you all think? Reply to me or the list, if there's interest
> I'll start a wiki page and we can write up a little proposal.
>
> Jay: can you do us a favor and ask your contacts if they are still
> accepting proposals? -- Phoebe
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Jay Walsh <jwalsh at wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
>> At this time, no. O'Reilly has not repeated their offer of free
>> space (valued at a couple thousand bucks) and we're pretty
>> overbooked in terms of other big communications work.
>>
>> That being said... the 'call for makers' is still wide open, and
>> I'm sure that local volunteers (with some tangential level of
>> support from WMF) could at least get a small space and with a
>> more DIY sort of resource situation, be in the space again.
>>
>> http://makerfaire.com/bayarea/2009/callformakers/
>>
>> We certainly know the people who organize it, so maybe we could
>> try to make that connection. Wild horses couldn't keep me away
>> from the event, I know that much.
>>
>>
>> -- Jay Walsh Head of Communications WikimediaFoundation.org +1
>> (415) 839 6885 x 609
>>
>> On Mar 18, 2009, at 9:14 AM, phoebe ayers wrote:
>>
>>> Maker Faire is on again for May 30-31 in San Mateo. Is there
>>> any chance Wikimedia will have a booth again? Or was that a
>>> one-time event for us?
>>>
>>> -- Phoebe
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From bennetsen at gmail.com  Fri Mar 20 08:22:05 2009
From: bennetsen at gmail.com (Henrik Bennetsen)
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:22:05 -0700
Subject: [opensource] =?windows-1252?q?Obama=92s_Groundbreaking_use_of_the?=
	=?windows-1252?q?_Semantic_Web?=
Message-ID: <8bf04b5b0903200822o23abdbe8v165acd00ca358d0c@mail.gmail.com>

Thought some people here (you know who you are ;)) could share in this guy's
geekgasm:)

In a revolutionary move, Obama?s administration is set to utilise next
> generation web technologies to bring an unprecedented level of transparency
> to government. In this case it will shed light on how the roughly US $800
> billion dollar economic stimulus will be spent. The recently launched
> recovery.gov <http://www.recovery.gov/>website (powered by nothing other
> then Drupal) brought with it the promise that citizens would be able to view
> where the money was going and how it was going to be spent.



> To enable the citizen masher to do their wizardry, the administration will
> be opening up a veritable candy store of goodies: Semantic Web<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web>
> , RDF <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework>, Linked
> Data <http://linkeddata.org/>, SPARQL<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARQL>
> , RDFa <http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-rdfa-primer/>, SIOC<http://sioc-project.org/>
> , ATOM <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(standard)>, RESTful<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restful> APIs,
> JSON, Widgets, Wikis <http://semantic-mediawiki.org/>, XForms, P2P
> Networks. Wow. They only forgot the lions and tigers and bears oh my? This
> is an unbelievable stack of technology. I didn?t think the government even
> knew what an RSS feed was :)


http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/03/19/obama-groundbreaking-use-semantic-web/



-- 
Henrik Bennetsen
Associate Director
Stanford Humanities Lab
Stanford University

Wallenberg Hall, 450 Serra Mall
Building 160, Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2055, USA

bennetsen at gmail.com
Cell: +1 415.418.4042
Fax: +1 650.725.0192
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From bennetsen at gmail.com  Thu Mar 26 10:56:25 2009
From: bennetsen at gmail.com (Henrik Bennetsen)
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:56:25 -0700
Subject: [opensource] MIT to make all faculty publications open access - Ars
	Technica
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>
> In the latest salvo in the fight over open access scholarship, the faculty
> of MIT have voted to make any publication originating at the university open
> access.


http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/03/mit-to-make-all-faculty-publications-open-access.ars
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From bennetsen at gmail.com  Tue Mar 31 00:59:11 2009
From: bennetsen at gmail.com (Henrik Bennetsen)
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:59:11 +0200
Subject: [opensource] Fwd: Open Source Bridge - The conference for open
	source citizens
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Claire Stager <stager at cs.stanford.edu>
Subject: [Fwd: Open Source Bridge - The conference for open source citizens]

CS/CSE students,

FYI on an upcoming conference.  Session proposals are due March 31st.

*****************************************************************

Reid Beels
Open Source Bridge

reid at opensourcebridge.org
http://opensourcebridge.org

Open Source Bridge is a new conference for developers working with open
source technologies. It will take place June 17-19 in Portland, OR, with
five tracks connecting people across projects, languages and experience to
explore how we do our work and why we participate in open source. The
conference structure is designed to provide developers with an opportunity
to learn from people they might not connect with at other
events. Registration for students is just $99 for three days.

Open Source Bridge is run entirely by volunteers who believe in the need
for an open source conference that focuses on the culture of being an open
source citizen, regardless of where in the stack you choose to code. All
proceeds from conference registration and sponsorship go directly to the
costs of the conference.

Our sessions and events will share in-depth knowledge about using, creating
and contributing to open source as citizens of a greater
community. You'll find relevant information whether you write web apps
for the cloud, tinker with operating system internals, create hardware, run
a startup, or blog about technology.


We're still seeking session proposals, so submit yours by the end of March
31st.

Some examples of our proposals so far:

Brian Aker on Drizzle, a reboot of MySQL designed 'for the cloud'; Linux
Kernel hacker Greg K-H about how Linux manages development; Ward
Cunningham, inventor of the wiki, about what's next in collaboration; Amber
Case, an anthropologist living in both the physical and virtual worlds,
about Cyborg Citizenship. (You can view all current proposals at
http://opensourcebridge.org/proposals/)

In addition to regular conference sessions, we will hold an unconference
day for free-form sessions, and host a 24-hour dedicated 'hacker lounge' at
the top of the Portland Hilton. In addition to hosting the hacker lounge,
the Hilton has offered Open Source Bridge attendees steeply discounted room
rates, starting at $139/night. Up to four people can share a room.

The city of Portland is a great place to visit. It has a thriving technical
community, a love of all things open source and offers many attractions for
visiting geeks, including Powell's technical books, dozens of local
brewpubs, and large greenspaces like Forest Park--all accessible by mass
transit.

Visit http://opensourcebridge.org/ to learn more about the conference, see
our session proposals, and register to attend.

Thanks!


----- End forwarded message -----




-- 
Henrik Bennetsen
Associate Director
Stanford Humanities Lab
Stanford University

Wallenberg Hall, 450 Serra Mall
Building 160, Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2055, USA

bennetsen at gmail.com
Cell: +1 415.418.4042
Fax: +1 650.725.0192
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From jeff at osuosl.org  Tue Mar 31 06:35:30 2009
From: jeff at osuosl.org (Jeff Sheltren)
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:35:30 -0700
Subject: [opensource] Fwd: Open Source Bridge - The conference for open
	source citizens
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*and* you'd be close enough to come visit the OSU Open Source Lab  
should you be interested in doing so :)

-Jeff

On Mar 31, 2009, at 12:59 AM, Henrik Bennetsen wrote:

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Claire Stager <stager at cs.stanford.edu>
> Subject: [Fwd: Open Source Bridge - The conference for open source  
> citizens]
>
> CS/CSE students,
>
> FYI on an upcoming conference.  Session proposals are due March 31st.
>
> *****************************************************************
>
> Reid Beels
> Open Source Bridge
>
> reid at opensourcebridge.org
> http://opensourcebridge.org
>
> Open Source Bridge is a new conference for developers working with  
> open
> source technologies. It will take place June 17-19 in Portland, OR,  
> with
> five tracks connecting people across projects, languages and  
> experience to
> explore how we do our work and why we participate in open source. The
> conference structure is designed to provide developers with an  
> opportunity
> to learn from people they might not connect with at other
> events. Registration for students is just $99 for three days.
>
> Open Source Bridge is run entirely by volunteers who believe in the  
> need
> for an open source conference that focuses on the culture of being  
> an open
> source citizen, regardless of where in the stack you choose to code.  
> All
> proceeds from conference registration and sponsorship go directly to  
> the
> costs of the conference.
>
> Our sessions and events will share in-depth knowledge about using,  
> creating
> and contributing to open source as citizens of a greater
> community. You'll find relevant information whether you write web apps
> for the cloud, tinker with operating system internals, create  
> hardware, run
> a startup, or blog about technology.
>
>
> We're still seeking session proposals, so submit yours by the end of  
> March
> 31st.
>
> Some examples of our proposals so far:
>
> Brian Aker on Drizzle, a reboot of MySQL designed 'for the cloud';  
> Linux
> Kernel hacker Greg K-H about how Linux manages development; Ward
> Cunningham, inventor of the wiki, about what's next in  
> collaboration; Amber
> Case, an anthropologist living in both the physical and virtual  
> worlds,
> about Cyborg Citizenship. (You can view all current proposals at
> http://opensourcebridge.org/proposals/)
>
> In addition to regular conference sessions, we will hold an  
> unconference
> day for free-form sessions, and host a 24-hour dedicated 'hacker  
> lounge' at
> the top of the Portland Hilton. In addition to hosting the hacker  
> lounge,
> the Hilton has offered Open Source Bridge attendees steeply  
> discounted room
> rates, starting at $139/night. Up to four people can share a room.
>
> The city of Portland is a great place to visit. It has a thriving  
> technical
> community, a love of all things open source and offers many  
> attractions for
> visiting geeks, including Powell's technical books, dozens of local
> brewpubs, and large greenspaces like Forest Park--all accessible by  
> mass
> transit.
>
> Visit http://opensourcebridge.org/ to learn more about the  
> conference, see
> our session proposals, and register to attend.
>
> Thanks!
>