- Tue 5 Dec 2000 LXNY
- LXNY General Meeting
Speaker: Robert B. K. Dewar
Professor of Computer Science, prolific writer, phenomenal programmer,
free software entrepreneur, and advocate spoke on
Topic: Ada Core Technologies, a free software business
Speaker Bio:
Dr. Dewar is a Professor of Computer Science at the Courant Institute of
Mathematical Sciences of New York University. faculty bio
He is a frequent contributor of thoughtful work on Usenet, especially in
the computer language areas.
He is co-author of two books, including the SETL book.
He was a columnist for Open Systems Today (the big Unix newspaper).
He has written high-quality compilers in a few weeks!
He is the author of the renowned SPITBOL (SNOBOL) compiler;
a real-time OS for Honeywell;
a back-end and run-time library for the Realia COBOL IBM PC compiler
and
he is one of the top authorities on the Ada programming language,
a principal author (with Professor Edmond Schonberg) of
GNAT, the GNU Ada Compiler
and one of the founders and owners of Ada Core Technologies.
He is also a gifted speaker, gives public talks about computers and
about freedom, and has assisted LXNY.
Ada Core Technologies, founded in 1994,
is a multi-million dollar multi-national company that provides support
services for GNU General Public Licensed products -- GNAT, the GNU Ada95
compiler, and its development environment (in GNOME Gtk+). GNAT uses
gcc and can even produce Java byte-code runnable on JVMs.
Dr. Dewar is CEO of ACT.
Linux Journal #80 December 2000 issue. InDepth column: "Elegance of
Java and the Efficiency of C++ -- It's Ada!" by Frode Teenebo/ .
An article on Ada including coverage of the GNAT compiler.
- Wed 13 Dec 2000 Beg
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LXNY GNU/Linux/Free OS Beginners Group
Time: 6:30pm Q&A 7:00 presentation
Speaker: Wendell Anderson
Topic: Recent GNU/Linux distributions
Place: CALC Canterbury
780 Third Ave. Room C-1, 48th/49th Street, Manhattan
N.B. The URL is temporary.
Meetings are free and open to the public.
- Wed 8 Nov 2000 Beg
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LXNY GNU/Linux/Free OS Beginners Group
Time: 6:30pm Q&A 7:00 presentation
Speaker: Jim Gleason
Topic: (GNU) Linux Hardware
Place: CALC Canterbury, 780 Third Ave. Room C-1, 48th/49th Street.
N.B. The URL is temporary.
- Tue 7 Nov 2000 LXNY
- LXNY General Meeting
LXNY members participated at will on Election Day and we did not hold a
meeting.
- Wed 11 Oct 2000 Beg
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LXNY GNU/Linux/Free OS Beginners Group
Time: 6:30pm Q&A 7:00 presentation
Speaker: Michael E. Smith
Topic: How to Learn GNU/Linux (and Unix)
Place: CALC Canterbury
N.B. The URL is temporary.
- Tue 3 Oct 2000 LXNY
- LXNY General Meeting
Speaker: Jay Sulzberger
Title: Successes and Failures of Mass Free Cryptography
Description with links
IBM provided a sumptious buffet and dessert.
- Mon 25 Sep 2000 NYSIA Conference
-
New York Software Industry Assoc ``NY
Software Summit'' Large conference with many tracks, including Free
Software, Linux, and Privacy, are being planned. Panelists included Bruce
Perens, Miguel de Icaza, Wendy Seltzer, Michael E. Smith, David Sugar,
Paul McNamara.
Moderators included Jay Sulzberger and Stephen Adler.
Place: Brooklyn Marriott Hotel
- Wed 13 Sep 2000 Beg at CALC
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LXNY GNU/Linux/Free OS Beginners Group
Time: 6:30pm Q&A 7:00 presentation
Speaker: Alex Khalil
N.B. The URL is temporary.
- Tue 5 Sep 2000 LXNY at IBM
- LXNY General Meeting
Speaker: Boas Betzler
Topic:
GNU/Linux on the S/390
Betzler is head of the project that ported the OS to the mainframe.
Announcement with links
Betzler spoke about the architecture of the S/390, the porting efforts,
gaining corporate approval, and the argument to IBM about freeing the
resulting work.
- Mon-Thu 14-17 Aug 2000 LWE
- IDG LinuxWorld Conference
and Expo
Place: San Jose, California
Ben Tilly gave a tutorial on Perl. Chris Lehmann of the
Beacon School is listed as a panelist. Chris DiBona, too. Jay
Sulzberger, Maddog, ESR, Bruce Perens, and Bob Young are listed as
contestants.
- Wed 9 Aug 2000 Beg at CALC
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LXNY GNU/Linux/Free OS Beginners Group
Time: 6:30pm Q&A 7:00 presentation
Speaker: Bruce Ingalls
Topic: Shell
- Tue 1 Aug 2000 LXNY at IBM
-
LXNY General Meeting
Speaker: Marc Waldman
Title: ``Publius: A censorship resistant, tamper evident, and
fault tolerant WWW publishing system''
Description
- Mon-Tue 17-25 Jul, 17 Aug MPAA-DeCSS
- 2600, defendant
U.S. Courthouse. 500 Pearl Street. In Manhattan.
Trial dates on the MPAA DVD case against the e-zine/website 2600.
Final Judgment was rendered by District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan.
Mike Smith's LXNY response to the U.S. Copyright Office /NTIA Request
for Comments [at Library of Congress in pdf] pursuant to and about
the DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act of 1998). LOCIS Library of
Congress Info System
Universal City Studios,
Inc. v. Reimerdes and Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Hughes
Background links.
Case.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Openlaw/DVD Resources page Harvard Law School
Subject.
DMCA legislative
history
DeCSS Gallery
by Touretzky
Free Dmitry Sklyarov! - arrested under DMCA
via Adobe Systems, Inc., 16 Jul 2001 [includes news and numerous links]
Anti-DMCA site
Portal to this subject via Cornell University Law School.
LII: Law
about...Copyright
A Protester's Guide to
the DMCA
Wayne State University Law School.
Jessica Litman
There was a demonstration the first day.
New Yorkers for Fair Use, NYLUG
The witness part of the trial has finished.
Judge Lewis Kaplan.
Thanks to Ruben Safir for some of the links.
- Fri-Sun 14-16 Jul 2000 HOPE
- Hackers on Planet Earth 2000
In Manhattan.
- Wed 12 Jul 2000 Beg
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LXNY GNU/Linux/Free OS Beginners Group
Time: 6:30pm Q&A 7:00 presentation
Speaker: David Solomonoff
Topic: Part 3: Securing Linux or BSD novice users' home/personal computers
against both hackers and intrusive commercial/marketing entities.
Place: CALC Canterbury
780 Third Ave. Room C-1, 48th/49th Street, Manhattan
- Tue 4 Jul 2000 LXNY
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Members celebrated Independence Day at home. No meeting.
- Mon-Thu June 26-29 2000
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PC EXPO
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, West 34th Street and 11th Avenue,
Manhattan
Conference began on Monday, Exhibit Hall opened Tuesday.
On Monday, a 3-hour GNU/Linux Workshop taught by
LXNY's Michael Smith.
LinuxMall hosted a full day ``Summit'' Conference on Monday.
LXNY booth in the GNU/Linux Pavilion. LXNY thanks the volunteers,
especially those who came at 10am and most especially those who got us
furniture - Marcus, Greg, David, David,
Michael, Jay, Lillian, Judd, Ed, Lyn, Ruben.
LXNY issued a
press release or
PostScript
about the Board of Education plan.
Jon ``maddog'' Hall, Executive Director of Linux International, and Mark
Bolzern of LinuxMall gave a keynote address on Thursday. Both have
attended LXNY meetings.
New owner: CMP Media merged with Miller Freeman.
(Note that the CMP management has extended a warm welcome to LXNY members.)
- Wed 14 Jun 2000 Beg
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LXNY GNU/Linux/Free OS Beginners Group
Time: 6:30pm Q&A 7:00 presentation
Speaker: David Solomonoff
Topic: Part 2: Securing Linux or BSD novice users' home/personal computers
against both hackers and intrusive commercial/marketing entities.
Place: CALC Canterbury
780 Third Ave. Room C-1, 48th/49th Street, Manhattan
N.B. The URL is temporary.
N.B., Date and time may change!
Meetings are free and open to the public.
- Wed May 10 2000 Beg
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LXNY GNU/Linux/Free OS Beginners Group
Speaker: Alex Khalil
Time: 6:30pm, 7:00
Title: Question and Answer session
Place: CALC Canterbury
780 Third Ave. Room C-1, 48th/49th Street, Manhattan
- Tue 6 Jun 2000, LXNY at IBM
- LXNY General Meeting
Topic: The Fight for Freedom
Michael Smith informally presented an account of the Board of Education of the City of New
York
`Teaching and Learning in Cyberspace Taskforce' plan or
PostScript
and LXNY participation in the meetings of April 12, 2000,
when the plan was formally presented and approved.
William Abernathy formally presented his preliminary plan for an
Open Source Organization.
General discussion.
- Tue 2 May 2000, LXNY at IBM
- LXNY General Meeting
What is Free Software?
What is UNIX?
and
Why is it a good match?
Michael Smith gave a special version of his Trenton Computer Fair talk.
- Wed Apr 12 2000 Beg
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LXNY GNU/Linux/Free OS Beginners Group
Speaker: Dr. Ruben Safir
Time: 6:30pm, 7:00
Title: Three ways Linux can improve your life,change society and empower
the user: Practical tools for Linux
Place: CALC Canterbury
780 Third Ave. Room C-1, 48th/49th Street, Manhattan
- Tue 4 Apr 2000, LXNY at IBM
- LXNY General Meeting
Topic: general discussion of copyright and patent related issues,
and of Stallman's appearance at Columbia University.
- Fri Mar 31 2000 Beg
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LXNY GNU/Linux/Free OS Beginners Group
Time: 6:30pm Q&A 7:00 presentation
Speakers: Randy and Lucia Wright
Place: New School University, Computer Instruction Center, 68 Fifth
Av, Manhattan
N.B. The URL is temporary.
- Tue 7 Mar 2000, LXNY at IBM
- LXNY General Meeting
Topic: Offense and Defense on the Net
An open meeting of shared experiences, led by Jay Sulzberger with
Spike of Stuyvesant and Ruben Safir.
- Sat 4 Mar 2000, LXNY and others at CALC
- Installfest
11:00 am - 4:00 pm
at the CALC/Canterbury training facility
780 Third Avenue Suite C-1 (48th/49th Street)
on the Island of Manhattan
Denis Ford's original
announcement
LXNY announcement
- Tue 1 Feb 2000, LXNY at IBM
- LXNY General Meeting
Simson L. Garfinkel spoke from 7:00pm until approximately 8:30pm.
The discussion was primarily about privacy issues: databases being
kept, confidentiality not protected, information being sold. Another
full house.
Garfinkel's ninth book is out from O'Reilly & Associates.
Entitled Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century
1st edition January 2000
ISBN: 1-56592-653-6
320 pages, $24.95
Biblio:
close to 400 articles and 9 books.
Practical Unix and Internet Security
by Simson L. Garfinkel and Gene Spafford
PGP: Pretty Good Privacy
Web Security and Commerce with Gene Spafford
Bio: Simson's own bio
He is an entrepreneur in addition to being a writer.
meeting announcement
- Tue 4 Jan 2000, LXNY at IBM
- LXNY Language Meeting
announcement
Topics: XML and Lisp and other languages.
Speaker: Philip Wadler (now of Lucent Technologies Bell Labs).
A full house. A lively speaker and audience.
Check out Philip Wadler's feature article on
``Generic Java''in the Feb 2000 CMP Dr. Dobb's Journal.
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