Hi friends,
I'm writing to let you all know about an un/conference at Noisebridge on
June 29-30, Digital Rights in Libraries. You're all super invited, and
we also have a call for volunteers (keep reading)!
We've got some killer speakers lined up:
https://libraryfreedomproject.org/digital-rights-in-libraries/digital-right…
For more info, please check our our press release and poster that I've
pasted below! Also, the Library Freedom Project has had some fun media
lately (here
<http://www.onthemedia.org/story/librarians-vs-patriot-act/?utm_source=local…>
and here <http://www.thenation.com/article/206561/librarians-versus-nsa>
and here
<http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/06/03/usa_freedom_act_before_s…>),
if you're curious.
Additionally and importantly, we could use a few technology trainers to
help with some of our open sandbox privacy tools sessions. We know a lot
of librarians want to build some skills, and so in these sessions we
were hoping to have ample technology trainers available to help
participants learn as much as possible.
The times we're looking for people to come by and help are:
Monday, June 29 @ 2-3
Monday, June 29 @ 4-5
Tuesday, June 30 @ 2:30-3:30
Tuesday, June 30 @ 5:30-6:30
Let me know if you might be available or have any questions. Also let me
know if you know someone else who might be interested. Or anything at all.
Peace. And thanks a million. <3 Oakland.
April
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DRiL
*Librarians Convene With Leading Anti-Surveillance Advocates and
Technologists In San Francisco to Defend Digital Rights â June 29-30,
2015*
Librarians, technologists, and privacy activists and are gathering in
San Francisco on June 29-30 to strategize about initiatives to protect
reader privacy, reform digital lending, combat censorship, and champion
access to information technology in light of emerging concerns over
government surveillance, censorship, and other forms of electronic
exploitation of personal data.
The two-day event
<https://libraryfreedomproject.org/digital-rights-in-libraries/digital-right…>,
which will take place at San Francisco's iconic Noisebridge hackerspace,
falls directly after the American Library Association's Annual
Conference; it's also being held in San Francisco this year.
Attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic
Frontier Foundation, who are leading lawsuits challenging the legality
of the National Security Agency's mass surveillance programs, will
present, along with experts on copyright and the future of digital
lending from Creative Commons and the Internet Archive. Technologists
from the Freedom of the Press Foundation (where Edward Snowden is a
board member) and Mozilla will be onsite providing in-depth technology
training at the hackerspace. The event also features librarians from a
number of libraries, including the San Francisco and Oakland Public
Library systems, as well as Oakland-based Hack the Hood, speaking on the
challenges of providing access to technology and training for Bay Area
youth.
Librarians have long been working on the front lines of information
activism and their communities' right to research. Whether by providing
access to technology and the Internet, as well as free education, or by
standing firm for over a decade as staunch opponents of the USA PATRIOT
Act, librarians are at the grassroots of the Internet freedom debate and
are uniquely plugged into serving the information needs of local
communities, especially those that lack technological or financial
resources.
The conference is being organized by the Library Freedom Project, a
recent grantee from the Knight Foundation that is a partnership among
librarians, technologists, attorneys, and advocates to teach librarians
about surveillance threats, digital rights, and privacy-protecting
technology. The Nation Magazine recently featured
<http://www.thenation.com/article/206561/librarians-versus-nsa> the work
of the Library Freedom Project as a cover story.
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What: "Digital Rights in Libraries"
Date: June 29-30, 2015
Where: Noisebridge hackerspace, 2269 Mission Street; San Francisco
Website:
https://libraryfreedomproject.org/digital-rights-in-libraries/digital-right…
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__libraryfreedomproject.…>
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*Contact:*
Alison Macrina
alison(a)libraryfreedomproject.org <mailto:alison@libraryfreedomproject.org>
April Glaser
april(a)libraryfreedomproject.org <mailto:april@libraryfreedomproject.org>
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Hi all,
My car was recently towed in Oakland. I've come to terms with letting it go if I must, hence I do not have the funds nor desire to pay their exhorbitant fees for extrortion.
My question is if anyone has gone through a similar situation in Oakland or California for that matter. Do you have any advice/best practices?
While I'm not necessarily concerned with my credit, I am concerned with my ability to eventually drive a car legally and staying out of jail.
Much love,
-Luis M.
"Help open a people-powered common space in Oakland, California omnicommons.org/donate?v=es"
I regularly see broken windshield glass on the sidewalks in Temescal.
Sounds like there are some thieves who systematically cruise the
neighborhood looking for anything they can grab out of parked cars - check
the eye witness report from one of our members below.
Temescal is a relatively up-and-coming neighborhood in Oakland, but you
really should not be leaving any valuables visible in your car *anywhere*
in the Bay Area...
I know the apartment building across the street had its security camera
trained on the Omni for a while. If you experience a car break-in, there's
a possibility the police may be able to use that tape to catch these
A-holes.
If you see anything suspicious (like in this case, a car driving up on the
wrong side of the road checking out parked cars), make sure to jot down a
license plate if you can...
Patrik
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: ken osborn <misterkenosborn(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 11:04 PM
Subject: Re: Any new pics from fungal microscopy meetup?
To: Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd(a)gmail.com>
Hi Patrik - I went to the meetup and even brought a microscope, but as I
was unloading my car another drove up on the wrong side of the road and
opposite the car parked in front of me. Then what happened next was hard
to believe, but I then witnessed a smash-and-grab. It happened very fast
and was more than a bit confusion because at the same time that was
happening I was on the cell with my daughter and another call came in just
as the car drove up so I was paying attention completely until I heard the
sound of a window breaking, almost like a gun shot. I did not leave
immediately but went into the meetup interrupting Alan to let folks know
that they should make sure if they drove to the meetup and left anything
visible inside their car they should move it so it was not visible. What I
saw clearly demonstrated that these guys cruise looking for something they
can grab rapidly. They also are very brazen. This was in broad daylight
and I don't think they could have missed seeing me while I was on the
phone. While I was not about to put myself in harm's way to stop them I
did attempt to get the license number but by the time I got to the street
they were too far away for me to read the plate. I'm not sure if there is
a solution to this as a potential problem for attendance, but I may be
taking BART in the future. The problem with that is my wife freaked and
said it would be better to have the care damaged than her husband walking
alone at night in that part of town. Maybe. The other possibility is to
talk to the Oakland PD and see if they would have a patrol car in the area
on a regular basis. I have seen lots of broken glass in the street and now
recognize it as car break-ins that must be taking place more than
occasionally. - Ken
On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 3:04 PM, Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> How was the fungal microscopy meetup yesterday? Sorry I couldn't make it -
> woudl have loved to!
>
> We're putting together an article about CCL - possibly for TechCrunch or
> some guest blog post. - and I was wondering if there were any more cool
> pics that came out of the meetup yesterday, since it seemed like you had a
> good crowd signed up.
>
> If you have any on the "people having fun doing real work in the lab"
> category, and you wouldn't mind getting credited somewhere high-profile,
> let us know...
>
> Thanks!
>
> Patrik
>
--
Ken Osborn
Misterken Photography
Web: www.flickr.com/photos/misterken
Email: kozborn(a)sbcglobal.net
> Anyone got a spare 26-pin cable I could give you $ for? Need one for
> use with an extension board. Thanks.
you can use a ribbon cable for an IDE/PATA hard drive, or a floppy disk
drive, they have more than enough pins.
if there are too many pins you can just hacksaw off the extras. Just
don't cut too close to the last row you need - leave an extra full row
just to be safe. And then glue the cut end of the ribbon cable clip so it
doesn't pull off when you forget you cut it.
does anyone know how to edit the Support Us! thing on the left side of
http://sudoroom.org ?
i want to add support for a one-time donation through stripe. I am told
it is something like this:
https://stripe.com/blog/stripe-checkout
of course it would need to be a locked link, so nobody can change it and
redirect donations toward themselves.. and I don't know how access control
works.
I also don't know anything about how to actually install this function or
any function into a webpage. I have no idea what i'm doing.
does anyone reading this list know how to set up one-time donations on our
webpage? Can we do that now? Is there anything i can do to help?
thank you!
-jake
