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Revised 19 March 2007

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Speakers Series at NYU


Speaker: Richard M. Stallman
3:30pm-4:45pm Wednesday 21 March 2007
Warren Weaver Hall, 251 Mercer Street, Room 109, New York, New York
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University


The talk is entitled "Free Software and Freedom: Free Software in Ethics and in Practice."

Richard Stallman will speak about the goals and philosophy of the Free Software Movement, and the status and history the GNU operating system, which in combination with the kernel Linux is now used by tens of millions of users world-wide.

This speech is part of a course on Computers and Society.
Sponsored by Free Culture @ NYU, NYU's ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) chapter, WinC (Women in Computing) and InfoLaw/NYU.
"We expect a full house, so please arrive early in order to ensure you get a seat."

About the Speaker: Richard M. Stallman founded the GNU Project in 1984. The Project establishes a free UNIX-like operating system for computing. He is the President of the Free Software Foundation.
Dr. Stallman is the principal author of GNU Emacs, the GNU C Compiler (gcc), the GNU symbolic debugger (GDB) and other programs, and the GNU General Public License (GPL) and GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).

Join LXNY in welcoming a return visit by Richard Stallman, a native New Yorker.
Directions:
R/W to 8th Street (at Broadway).
Lexington Avenue Local #6 Train to Astor Place.
West 4th Street A/C/E B/D/F/V
B/D/F/V to Broadway/Lafayette.
Distant: Christopher Street/ Sheridan Square on the 1.

This meeting is free and open to the public.

Free Culture [cookie].


InfoLaw



Speaker: Eben Moglen
Title: "The Empire & the iPhone: 'Technology Platforms,' the Commons, and the Way We Live Now."
8:00pm- Monday 19 March 2007
245 Sullivan Street, Room 212, New York, New York
Infolaw, New York University Law School

245 Sullivan St. is 2 blocks East of Sixth Avenue, between Washington Square South and West 3rd Street, in "Greenwich Village", Manhattan

Eben Moglen is Professor, Columbia Law School and Director, Software Freedom Law Center

Aaron Williamson, Infolaw Events Co-Chair If you have any questions please e-mail me at aaronw@nyu.edu or call (773) 727-8363.

245 Sullivan Street b/w Washington Square South and W.3rd Street Google map
Co-Sponsor: Information Law Institute Law Student Association Free and Open to the Public (Bring ID)

The sponsor says: "This event is open to the public, so please distribute this announcement to other interested groups in the area."
But mentions ID!


Speaker: Ray Beckerman
6:45pm Thursday March 22nd 2007
Place: Room 324 of Furman Hall

Ray Beckerman of Recording Industry v. The People and Vandenberg & Feliu, LLP.

NYU Law School 245 Sullivan Street b/w Washington Square South and W.3rd Street Google map
Co-Sponsor: Information Law Institute Law Student Association Free and Open to the Public (Bring ID)

The sponsor says: "This event is open to the public, so please distribute this announcement to other interested groups in the area."
But mentions ID!



NJLUG
New Jersey Linux Users Group [cookie]
Also contains links to other New Jersey Users Groups.


New York Software Industry Association [cookies]
There is now a NYSIA Free and Open Source SIG.
[events generally require pre-registration, payment and identification cards]

World Wide Web Artists' Consortium There is a WWWAC Open Source SIG.
[cookies][some events are free, some are pay]

Monthly New York Area Events Schedule


First Mondays

Linux/Unix SIG (LUNICS) of Amateur Computer Group of New Jersey


First Wednesdays


NYC *BSD User Group [cookie]


First Thursdays

C++ and Java SIG of the NYPC
Time: 6:45 - 8:00pm
Place: NYPC HQ, Suite 1560 in what is still called The New Yorker Hotel, A Ramada Hotel, 481 Eighth Ave. at 34th Street, Manhattan
There are also study groups within this group that meet regularly at other locations.

New York Linux Scene
This group may be meeting regularly on this day?
Warning: This group has a strange privacy policy, and contact may be perilous.


Second Mondays

New York chapter of the Internet Society [cookie]


Second Tuesdays

1. Long Island Linux Users Group

Place: Farmingdale State (formerly SUNY), Room 202/204 Gleeson Hall
Time: 8 pm.
Free and open to the public.


2. Visually Impaired Computer Users' Group of New York City

Place: The Associated Blind/Selis Hall, 135 West 23 Street, Manhattan.
Time: 6:30 - 8:00 pm.
The $12 annual dues may be collected. [Please give the exact amount.]

Free and open to the public.
VICUG NYC telephone hotline (212) 714-4967

Section 508 - FITAI (Federal Information Technology Accessibility Initiative. Legislation about Federal agencies electronic accessibility to disabled people.


3. NYPC Linux Society NYPC SIG, named ``The Linux Society''.
Place: NYPC HQ, Suite 1560 in what is still called The New Yorker Hotel, A Ramada Hotel, 481 Eighth Ave. at 34th Street, Manhattan
Time: 6:15pm (sharp) to 8:30pm

There is also a study group listed.

The NYPC web site says that SIG meetings are free and open to the public. This listing is based on the general pattern of this group.

4. Lisp NYC General Meeting.
Time: 7-8pm approximately, followed by socializing.
Location: TBA

In addition to the general meetings, there is a Music Special Interest Group (MuSIG) which meets on Friday evenings in SOHO.
Another group is trying to form to study FIX in LISP.
The RoboCup group seems to have stopped.


Second Wednesdays

1. New York Systems Administrator Association
Time: 6:30 pm meeting, 6:00pm- questions

This group has been meeting very infrequently. Meetings may be canceled without notice.

Starting June 2004, meetings may be monthly again. Details on NYSA meeting page NYSA meetings are free and open to the public.-->


2. GNUbies GNU/Linux/Free OS Beginners Group
Time: 6:30pm Q&A 7:00 presentation


Place: The IBM building, 590 Madison Avenue at East 57th Street, Manhattan

N.B. The URL is temporary.
These meetings are not open to the public. Contact GNUbies for IBM's attendance requirements, in advance of the meeting.


Third week
Westchester Linux SIG
1. "Linux Special Interest Group" of the Westchester PC Users Group.
Place: White Plains Middle School
The day varies.

contact: Ed Weinberg


New York Perl Mongers Page
2. New York Perl Mongers
The day varies. There may be multiple meetings, any day of the month, but many months have a meeting some day in the third week.



Third Sundays
Southern Connecticut Open Source Users Group

SCOSUG started April 22, 2001
"There is no fee to join and everyone is welcome."


Third Tuesdays

Perl Seminar New York [seasonal]
Meets in NYPC office at the New Yorker Hotel, 34th Street and 8th Avenue, Manhattan.

Contact James Keenan


Third Wednesdays?
New York Linux Users Group
Place: Google, 76 Ninth Avenue, Manhattan
Time: 6:30-8:00pm

These meetings are not open to the public. Contact NYLUG for Google's attendance requirements, in advance of the meeting.

After the meeting (c. 8:15 or 8:30), meet NYLUG at TGIFs 677 Lexington Avenue at E. 56th Street, 2nd floor, Northeast corner.


Third Thursdays
Unigroup of New York, Inc.[cookie]
Usually in odd numbered months only (Jan, Mar, May, Jul, Sep, Nov).


Place: Alliance for Downtown NY Conference Facility
104 Washington Street (between Rector and Carlisle Streets)


There is an admission fee for non-members.


Third Fridays
LISP NYC MuSIG

Time: 6:30 - 9:30pm
Place: Harvestworks
596 Broadway Suite 602 (just south of Houston Street)
NY NY 10012

F/V/B/D trains to Broadway/Lafayette
the #6 train Lexington Ave. Local to Bleeker Street
or the R/W train BMT Broadway Local to Prince Street.


Last Wednesdays Wireless
NYC Wireless
Time: 6pm
Location: Bway.net, 459 Broadway, 2nd Floor Manhattan

A volunteer effort to provide NYC with free wireless (802.11) Internet access.

This group plans to meet regularly on the last Wednesday of each month at this location.

Meetings are free and open to the public.



Other Events

Miscellaneous

Perl

New York Perl Mongers Page
The Yet Another Society

Publication

Computer Book Works

(212) 385-1616 78 Reade Street, between Broadway and Church Street
near Chambers Street, the courts, City Hall, Federal Plaza, and Candyworld.
on the WWW [cookie]


Businesses in this area have lost many customers since September 2001. They have a large section of GNU/Unix/Linux books and often display LXNY material. They also have sale books.
Monday-Thursday 10-6:30, Friday 10-6, Saturday 11-5

United States Government

http://www.chillingeffects.org A powerful resource on Internet and on-line rights and policies. [Thanks to Wendy Seltzer]

www.nyfairuse.org - New Yorkers for Protecting Fair Use of Copyrighted Material







For more information:

CRYPTOME[pronounced with 2 syllables]
Declan McCullagh Politech tracks legislation effecting the free use of computers and communications.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Electronic Privacy Information Center
League for Programming Freedom
FSF Digital Speech Project

SCO
Caldera paid SCO money and Caldera, still in Utah, not Santa Cruz, now calls itself "The SCO Group."
There is an outstanding refutation of the SCO/Caldera charges in historical and intellectual context by Eric S. Raymond and Rob Landley "OSI Position Paper on the SCO-vs.-IBM Complaint".

Metropolitan New York Government

http://www.nyccouncil.info/issues/committee.cfm?committee_id=106&ltsbdkey=5121. [cookie]





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