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From: "Megan Finn" <megfinn(a)ischool.berkeley.edu>
To: "noise@ischool" <noise(a)ischool.berkeley.edu>
Subject: [noise@ischool] Fwd: 24 hours left to apply for AdaCamp San Francisco (June 8&9)
Date: Wed, May 8, 2013 6:20 AM
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AdaCamp San Francisco: June 8&9
"AdaCamp DC was a fantastic experience, one of the best conferences I've been to!" - AdaCamp DC attendee
AdaCamp attendees
Applications for AdaCamp San Francisco are still open but closing today! AdaCamp SF is a two-day unconference for supporters of women in open technology and culture held on Saturday June 8 & Sunday June 9, 2013, in San Francisco, California. At an unconference, the topics of conference sessions are chosen by the conference participants on the day of the conference. Topics may include fan fiction and fan culture, open education, open source, Wikipedia and related projects, open data, open government, social justice, recruiting and retaining women, activism, parenting, any intersectional topics, career development, and of course, feminism.
This year AdaCamp has two tracks. The main track is for people who identify as significantly female, and includes unconference sessions, an Impostor Syndrome workshop, tutorials, lightning talks, and a hackathon (several hours for group collaboration on projects, not necessarily coding or hacking). The allies track is for people of any gender, and consists of a 2 hour Allies Workshop on Saturday morning, teaching simple ways to support women in open technology and culture, followed by an unconference for the rest of the day.
AdaCamp is invitation-only, but we encourage everyone interested in attending to apply. You do not have to write code, have a job in open tech/culture, be a certain age, or be anything other than a supporter of women in open tech/culture. We value diversity of all sorts: age, race, geographical locations, language, sexuality, gender identity, educational background, hobbies, spiritual or religious beliefs, and other areas. Find out more about the diversity of previous AdaCamp attendees by reading the final report for the most recent AdaCamp. Child-feeding parents are welcome. Unfortunately no further travel funding is available.
If you want to know more about whether AdaCamp SF is right for you, read the final report from the most recent AdaCamp, AdaCamp DC.
Applications to AdaCamp San Francisco will close in 24 hours on Wednesday May 8 11:59 PM California time (06:59AM Thursday UTC).
"The experience profoundly changed me. I'm looking into volunteer and educational opportunities that I would not have considered before attending AdaCamp. And I really want to share what I'm doing." - AdaCamp attendee
We thank our gold level sponsors Mozilla, Automattic and Google Site Reliability Engineering; and our silver level sponsors Linux Foundation, Red Hat, Intel, and Puppet Labs; for their support of AdaCamp San Francisco.
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From: Bay Area News & Letters <banandl(a)yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, May 7, 2013 at 8:25 PM
Subject: Bay Area News & Letters Update
To: BA local N&L <banandl(a)yahoo.com>
Dear Friends,
This Sunday, May 12, at 6:30 p.m. we will discuss our 2013-14 draft
perspectives: "Capitalism's violence, masses' revolt show need for total
view" which is available in full in our May-June issue online at:
http://www.newsandletters.org/issues/2013/May-Jun/DPMayJun_13.asp
We hope you join us at Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library (come up the back
staircase).
6501 Telegraph Ave. (at Alcatraz)
Oakland, Ca.
In Solidarity,
Bay Area News & Letters
thought this CfP would be interesting and maybe even useful in thinking about collaborative writing projects.
> From: Carolyn Guertin <carolyn.guertin(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: [MEA] CFP: New Media, Global Activism and Politics Vol. 20, no. 3 (August 2014)
> Date: May 4, 2013 10:49:48 AM PDT
> To: MEA(a)lists.ibiblio.org
> Reply-To: MEA(a)lists.ibiblio.org
>
> *Convergence*
>
> The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies
>
>
>
> Call for Papers
>
>
>
> Special issue on: New Media, Global Activism and Politics
>
> Vol. 20, no. 3 (August 2014)
>
>
>
> Guest editors: Carolyn Guertin (University of North Texas at Dallas) and
> Angi Buettner (Victoria University of Wellington)
>
>
>
> *Deadline for refereed research articles: *30 August 2013
>
> Indignados. Arab Spring. #Occupy. The 99%. Idle No More. #Upsettler.
> GlobalNoise. Strike Debt. These are just some of the new terms to emerge
> from the global mass protests of the last two years. They are part of a sea
> change as political engagement, citizen journalism and tactical media
> evolve as tools of protest and communication. These terms mark only one
> small part of a much larger shift in media production and distribution that
> is the rise of user-generated content or social media. Within digital
> culture, the creative act has become a form of activism carried out through
> the repurposing of pre-existing materials and media for political
> change—and it is a practice that has swayed policy, overturned governments
> and politicized subcultures and peoples on a global scale.
>
> In the 19th century, the crowd emerged as a new social force. It was a
> force, it was argued, that shook the foundations of society and led
> individuals to commit irrational acts. In the 21st century, we have seen
> the power of crowds re-emerge as an ostensibly smarter and more nimble
> cultural force empowered by mobile technologies, crowdsourcing
> methodologies and networked systems. How has activism changed as a result
> of new technologies? How are new media enlisted to assist in the planning
> and enactment of socio-political change? How are governments and political
> candidates using social media? How has social media altered policies,
> elections and the democratic process?
>
>
>
> Topics might include:
>
> - Hacktivism
>
> - Wikileaks
>
> - Arab Spring
>
> - #occupy
>
> - Indignados
>
> - Idle No More
>
> - #upsettlers
>
> - Global Noise
>
> Strike Debt
>
> - Crowdsourcing
>
> - Lobbying
>
> - Flashmobs, smart mobs or network armies
>
> - Riot simulation or protest modeling
>
> - Microblogging as a form of protest
>
> - Protest apps, including geolocative ones
>
> - Eco-activism
>
> - Activism in education
>
> - Gaming and new media activism
>
> - New media and the environment
>
> - Politics and new media
>
> - Activist or protest art
>
> - Appropriation, subvertising, culture jamming or memes
>
> - Slacktivism
>
> - Clicktivism
>
> - Cyberfeminism
>
> - DIY culture
>
> - Prototyping
>
> - Global protest networks
>
> - Participatory culture
>
> - eDemocracy
>
> - Government sponsored social media
>
> - Public media initiatives
>
> - Elections and social media
>
>
>
> *Queries may be directed to the guest editors, Carolyn Guertin at *
> carolyn.guertin(a)gmail.com* or *Angi Buettner at Angi.Buettner(a)vuw.ac.nz
>
>
>
> *Convergence* is published by Sage and all contributors must consult
> the*guide to manuscript submission at:
> *
> http://www.uk.sagepub.com/journalsProdDesc.nav?prodId=Journal201774#tabview…
> * for details of house style.*
> --
> Carolyn Guertin, PhD
> Languages and Communications, University of North Texas
> author of *Digital Prohibition: Piracy and Authorship in New Media Art
> *(Continuum,
> 2012)
>
> Website: http://carolynguertin.com/
> Email: carolyn.guertin(a)gmail.com
> Skype: carolyn_guertin
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I love all of your responses!sesnopser rouy fo lla evol I
It seems that a regular meet-up, projects or workshops are in store. As
there seems to be a lot of overlap of ideas and potential for
collaboration, we should all meet and put our heads together!
**Looking at our compacted calendar, how about a nice chill post-Kopimism
pre-Natural Decay meetup, this Sunday, 4p, complete with snacks? Too soon?
How about next Sunday?**
Below are suggestions I've recorded from your responses on the listserv and
AFK conversations. We could talk about these things during the meetup!
- Poetry slams and talent showcases (Jenny)
- A writers' collective website: LinguisticAlchemystic (Jenny)
- Sudo Radio broadcasts (Ray)
- Sci-fi writers meetup (Ryan)
- Sudo Press: A self-publishing platform with graphic and editorial
support focusing on Hacktivism (Eddan)
- Book-binding/sewing, book-selling (William, Romy, Ray)
- Algorithmic poetry meetup/workshop (Rabbit, Anthony)
- Twitter haikus (Patrick)
- User generated algorithm seeds *tear* (Ray)
- Writers/Comic book artists collab (Romy)
- Drop-in writing help workshop (me and a screenwriter I met at Art
Murmur)
- Screenwriters'/actors' meetup (the screenwriter)
ykciV
,sguH
2013/5/7 Vicky Knox <vknoxsironi(a)gmail.com>
> I love all of your responses!sesnopser rouy fo lla evol I
>
> It seems that a regular meet-up, projects or workshops are in store. As
> there seems to be a lot of overlap of ideas and potential for
> collaboration, we should all meet and put our heads together!
>
> **Looking at our compacted calendar, how about a nice chill post-Kopimism
> pre-Natural Decay meetup, this Sunday, 4p, complete with snacks? Too soon?
> How about next Sunday?**
>
> Below are suggestions I've recorded from your responses on the listserv
> and AFK conversations. We could talk about these things during the meetup!
>
> - Poetry slams and talent showcases (Jenny)
> - A writers' collective website: LinguisticAlchemystic (Jenny)
> - Sudo Radio broadcasts (Ray)
> - Sci-fi writers meetup (Ryan)
> - Sudo Press: A self-publishing platform with graphic and editorial
> support focusing on Hacktivism (Eddan)
> - Book-binding/sewing, book-selling (William, Romy, Ray)
> - Algorithmic poetry meetup/workshop (Rabbit, Anthony)
> - Twitter haikus (Patrick)
> - User generated algorithm seeds *tear* (Ray)
> - Writers/Comic book artists collab (Romy)
> - Drop-in writing help workshop (me and a screenwriter I met at Art
> Murmur)
> - Screenwriters'/actors' meetup (the screenwriter)
>
> ykciV
> ,sguH
>
>
> 2013/5/3 Vicky Knox <vknoxsironi(a)gmail.com>
>
>> I want to respond to you all right now but I need to run to Sudo Room to
>> hopefully speak with you all IN PERSON! I will be doing a shoe/bike
>> experiment in which I transplant an organ of one into the body of the other
>> for a very practical purpose!
>>
>> V
>>
>>
>> 2013/5/1 Eddan Katz <eddan(a)clear.net>
>>
>>> It seems as though there is enough talent here to start our own
>>> publishing house. Anyone up for sudo-press? A self-publishing platform with
>>> graphic and editorial support focusing on Hacktivism?
>>>
>>> We can share writing opportunities in different fora (book, blog,
>>> magazine, conference, etc.) and develop collaborative multidisciplinary
>>> writing projects on the wiki. We could host drafting workshops where we
>>> give each other feedback on works in progress. Heck, we could even run our
>>> own writing contest based on themes we're interested in and build an
>>> intellectual community around it.
>>>
>>> Just my 2 bitcoins. Whatever that's worth these days.
>>>
>>>
>>> sent from eddan.com
>>>
>>> On May 1, 2013, at 8:28 AM, Ryan Bethencourt <ryan.bethencourt(a)gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I've written before for Techdirt.com (during the first dotcom boom) and
>>> published in Biotech Business development (
>>> http://www.logos-press.com/books/biotechnology_business_development.php)
>>> but I'd love to restart the habit of writing in my blog and also get some
>>> hints and tips from anyone that's written sci-fi :)
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 8:23 AM, Anthony Di Franco <di.franco(a)gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Wut
>>>> On May 1, 2013 1:53 AM, "Vicky Knox" <vknoxsironi(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> !sretirw yeH
>>>>>
>>>>> Are we alone in the universe? This is a shout out from someone who
>>>>> lives in your star sector requesting a star sector block party! In other
>>>>> words: If you are a writer and would like to use your passion-skill for the
>>>>> purposes of furthering the grasp of Sudo Room upon the innocent brains of
>>>>> unsuspecting learners, please give me/the list a holler. I'd like to get a
>>>>> sense of who's out there, and most importantly who's interested in banding
>>>>> together to do some siiick writing.
>>>>>
>>>>> We are not alone.
>>>>>
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>> sudo-discuss mailing list
>>>>> sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org
>>>>> http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> sudo-discuss mailing list
>>>> sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org
>>>> http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ryan Bethencourt
>>>
>>> Tel: (415) 794 6463
>>> ryan.bethencourt(a)gmail.com
>>>
>>> www.bamh1.com
>>> www.linkedin.com/in/bethencourt
>>> www.logos-press.com/books/biotechnology_business_development.php
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> sudo-discuss mailing list
>>> sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org
>>> http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss
>>>
>>>
>>
>
It's interesting to me how porn a
Nd erotica always advertise with women's bodies with their faces cut off
American apparel digs this etc
Lots of art theory discusses this
I would love for any Sudo room event to break the mold and show men's bodies in any erotic theme as well ... Also would love to see the male body as the focus of any erotic film or dance to balance out the Imbalance and unnatural obsession with t and a we see on the porn industry
Sent from my iPad
Hi All,
I've been reading/following the whole evolution of bitcoins as currency and
I'm still a bitcoin skeptic (I prefer potential rather than spent
processing power :) ).
So I was curious, has anyone in the past tried to create a virtual currency
based on a resource value, like future usage of CPU time (i.e. $1 would
equal an equivalent amount of electricity and hardware wear and tear for x
number of CPU cycles, which could be exchanged either for the cycles, at a
super computer bank or for other currencies)?
To me it seems that bit coin is like a spent CPU resource rather than a
future resource and by flipping the equation to future rather than past
value a currency based on this type of commodity would be useful... any
thoughts?
R
--
Ryan Bethencourt
Tel: (415) 794 6463
ryan.bethencourt(a)gmail.com
www.bamh1.comwww.linkedin.com/in/bethencourtwww.logos-press.com/books/biotechnology_business_development.php
Hi Folks,
Going to change things up a little bit for tomorrow's microcontroller night. I've finished for now with my active microcontroller projects (can it be???) so I'll be doing a few newbie-level projects/experiments myself.
On the menu for tomorrow night:
-DIY alarm clock w/ RGB LED output.
-DIY motion detector w/light and maaaaybe camera
-anything you want to bring and work on
Of course for total newbies, we will begin with blinking an LED and move rapidly from there - it's easy with a little help!
link to the face book:
https://www.facebook.com/events/384770284968953/
Also[0] I will be skipping town for a few weeks. Would anyone like to take over hosting this event for the next three sessions? Only involves sending an email, creating a FB event and sending out a few seed invites to FB-enabled sudoers and whoever else you want, and of course welcoming people who arrive. The latter bit is of course the most involved, but if you are friendly and able to direct people to the soldering iron, wire pile, ac adapter bin etc it's a snap. Dates are May 21, June 4, and June 18. You can continue hosting if you get into the swing of it, or anyone can really. I just want it to exist at sudo room.
Also[1] A few medium term group projects have been identified in and around the discussion at the last event. If you might like to get involved in these but cannot attend tomorrow night, I'll post some details to controllers(a)lists.sudoroom.org afterward. Hasn't been much traffic there yet, but stay tuned for project info.
Hope to see y'all there!
Hol
my dear brothers and sisters, my sudoroom comrades.
i have reinterpreted the genius codex of our forerunner jae
they are now in an accessible comic book form on the wiki...
let us now spread the good word of 3D Printing throughout this fair land...
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/3DPrinting#New_Interpretation_Comics_of_Jay_…
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