Monday, December 10, 2001
Date: Monday 10 December
Speaker: none
Topic: LinuxWorld Expo, Microsoft Refund, Microsoft Settlements,
Dmitry Sklyarov
Location: Killarney Rose, 82 Beaver Street, near Wall St. and Pearl St.
second floor, staircase at rear
6:30-8:45pm
on the Island of Manhattan
Directions: IRT 1/2 train to Wall St. Station, exit front of downtown train, down William St., left on Beaver St. or A/C/E J/M/Z 4/5 1/2 to Fulton St (aka Broadway/Nassau). Or walk from Ferry. Or heliport.
This meeting is free and open to the public.
The speaker's self-description:
"Jesse Erlbaum is the Chief Technology Officer for the Vanguard Media Corporation (http://www.vm.com/), located in New York City, where he has worked since 1994. Vanguard Media, founded in 1989, builds custom software for its clients on a contract basis. The firm has developed custom software for a variety of clients including the WPP Group, Time Inc., and the Asia Society. Vanguard Media's work ranges from developing internal business intranets and applications to public consumer websites.Jesse has been a fervent supporter of all things open-source for many years. In addition to his work at Vanguard Media, Jesse is a programmer and registered author on CPAN (the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network). His Perl module, CGI::Application, was recently featured in an article on Perl.com . article "
Jesse was a panelist on Jay Sulzberger's panel at the NYSIA "Software Summit" in January 1999 - alongside Richard M. Stallman and others.
The speaker supplied this description of his talk:
"Description: Jesse will discuss and answer questions about basic techniques, both technical and managerial, which can be employed to make interactive web application development less risky and more fun. He will discuss how Vanguard Media uses a combination of technology (Linux, Apache, Perl, MySQL), management techniques (two-phase funding, specifications) and management enabling technology (CVS, advanced development environments, HTML::Template, CGI::Application) to successfully build custom software on time and on budget. Questions are encouraged, from specific technical details to account management strategies."
You are invited to bring a computer (at your own risk), watch
or help. At least one member will try to install GNU/Linux on a
pen/tablet device. BSD Unix may also be installed.
There will also be a key signing of Public Keys PGP/GnuPG (GNU Privacy Guard).
Free and open to the public.
N.B. The URL is temporary.
N.B. The URL is temporary.
Thanks to Ruben Safir and his family for hosting this event.
N.B. The URL is temporary.
Transcript
Ogg Vorbis audio format:
Part
1 | Part 2
Hosted by Prof. Edmond Schonberg.
Free and open to the public.
Unforeseen events have forced a schedule change.
N.B. The URL is temporary.
On Tuesday 1 May 2001, The United States Court of Appeals, at the
Second Circuit Courthouse, at Foley Square in Manhattan, heard the
appeal on the July (2000) MPAA v. 2600
DVD DMCA case.
LXNY announcement
Transcript on Cryptome or
Transcript at Electronic Frontier Foundation
2600's audio recordings
11 May update. [Thanks to
The Court of Appeals has asked the parties to respond by May 30th to a set of
questions, mostly about U.S. Bill of Rights (First Amendment) issues.
The LXNY Meeting:
This was a lively discussion, with eyewitnesses describing the
proceedings, and those who missed it asking questions. We also
discussed the SDMI intimidation of Professor Felten. We discussed each
of the Amicus Curiae briefs, and announced lists of the sponsors. These
included Harold Abelson, Richard Stallman, Arnold Reinhold, Andrew
Appel, Steven Bellovin, Kernighan and Plauger, Marvin Minsky, Bruce
Schneier, Eugene Spafford, and many others.
[Shortened]:
1. DMCA and related moves are an attack against our freedom. They
are being used to violate our Fair Use rights.
2. Free software will suffer ``irreparable harm'' if products are
released on closed (proprietary formats and the courts prevent us from
creating and distributing means of utilizing purchased products in our
environment. This creates an artificial demand for closed systems.
3. Computer programming is unimaginable in a world of so-called
`Intellectual Property'. The Internet is seriously threatened by Judges
issuing injunctions against links. See the Amicus Brief by the Online
News Association et. al. on the effect of these prohibitions on
Journalism.
4. Principle at stake: No one has the right to dictate conditions of
use, such as requiring linked products to be purchased or used, or the
manner of interaction or interpretation.
We had a large turnout for the long installfest. Special thanks to Matt Lederman for hosting the event. We expect more of these.
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David Sugar writes: "On the evening of Tuesday, Feb. 6, I will be speaking before LXNY to discuss recent events and future plans for Bayonne, the telephony application server of the GNU project. Recent events to be covered include the recently held Free Telephony Summit (January 22nd), where leaders from many free telephony software projects, including myself, Craig Southern from OpenH323, Zaphir from PreViking, Kevin Lenzo from CMU Sphinx, Luan Dang from Vovida Org, and several people representing the Voxeo community site recently gathered at the offices of Open Source Telecom to discuss the current status of, interoperation with, and further advancement of free telephony software in general."In addressing LXNY, I do hope to talk further about Bayonne, where it actually fits in the GNU project as a whole, and particularly the effort to promote GNU Enterprise solutions, and certainly how we will work to further support many of the other free telephony projects currently underway. I plan to cover Bayonne architecture and how usable applications can be deployed, whether for SOHO, enterprise voice applications such as call centers and voice mail, or for deploying Bayonne hosted carrier services for the current and next generation telephone network."
Bayonne can be used to send large numbers of telephone calls, queue them if busy, and interact by voice and telephone with the World Wide Web. It includes Common C++- and a scripting language to make control of the activity simple.
spoke about the 4C Entity and the threat to make the ATA specification
an instrument of proprietary interests.
more info on the
threat to ATA, etc.
announcement (includes links)
info on shells