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CfP: Open Knowledge Conference - Geneva (9/17-18)

by Eddan Katz

http://blog.okfn.org/2013/05/07/okcon-2013-call-for-proposals-out-now/ > The Open Knowledge Foundation is pleased to announce that the 2013 Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) will take place in Geneva, Switzerland on 17th -18th September. The theme of this year’s edition will be Open Data – Broad, Deep, Connected. > When: 17th – 18th September 2013 > Where: Geneva, Switzerland at the CICG – Centre International de Conférence de Genève > Official Website: http://okcon.org/ – register at http://okcon.org/tickets/ > Social media: http://twitter.com/okfn with hashtag #OKCon and on Facebook > Press: http://okcon.org/press – Press Release for event Announcement > > > The world’s leading open data and open knowledge event, OKCon is the latest in an annual series run since 2005. Last year’s installment in Helsinki had more than 1000 participantsfrom over 50 countries and was the largest event of its kind to date. Previous speakers have included inventor of the World Wide Web Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Hans Rosling of Gapminder, Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive, and Ellen Miller of the Sunlight Foundation. > > Located in Geneva, a major site for the United Nations and many other international institutions, this year’s event will focus on coordinating and strengthening public policy around the world to support a truly global and interconnected ecosystem of open data. > > Open Data – Broad, Deep, Connected > In the last few years we’ve seen government open data initiatives grow from a handful to hundreds, and we’ve seen open data become important in areas such as research, culture and international development. This event will explore how open data is not only expanding geographically but also touching new sectors and new areas. How should governments and international institutions such as the UN react to these changes? How should business take advantage of new opportunities and contribute to the open data economy? How do citizens and civil society organizations turn data into accountability and into change? > > This year’s OKCon will focus on the following questions: > > How do we broaden open data – not only geographically across countries and regions, but also across domains and institutions? For example, whilst open data is now firmly on the agenda for government, in business its potential is only just starting to be explored. Similarly, though “open” is prominent in some areas of research, such as genomics, in others it is still barely known. > > How do we deepen open data – ensuring a commitment not only for today but for the long term, and ensuring that open data is fully embedded into processes and policies? For example, though many governments have now signed up to the Open Government Partnership and announced open government data initiatives, in many cases the amount of data actually released remains limited. > > How do we ensure the open data ecosystem is connected? Much of the value of open data will be lost if open data ends up locked into isolated silos – whether these are legal, technical or social. In today’s globalized world it makes no sense if open data ‘stops at the border’: we need data that extends across countries and institutions, and is easy to interconnect thanks to common standards and interoperable infrastructure. > > Organizers > The event is jointly organized by the Open Knowledge Foundation, Open Knowledge Foundation Switzerland with the support of the Federal Councillor Alain Berset and the Canton of Geneva and with Lift Events as an organizing partner. > > FAQs > Will there be other events in town during the Conference week? > Yes, we’re planning satellite workshops on Monday 16th September and Thursday 19th September. Please consider this when booking your travel! > > When will the Call for Proposals be launched? > We will launch a Call for Proposals inviting you to send us your ideas for talks, panels and workshops in April. We can’t wait to make this happen together with you! > > I’d like to offer my support as a volunteer. How can I apply? > We expect to welcome around 30 stewards in our team. Applications for these positions will be opening shortly, with preference given to those already in the Open Knowledge Foundation Task Force. Stewards will receive a free ticket. > > Tips or support for travel and accommodation? > We’re planning to provide a travel bursary programme, and details of recommended hotels and hostels with good connections to the OKCon venue will be announced in the coming weeks. > > What’s Happening with OKFestival? > Last year our annual Open Knowledge Conference expanded into the inaugural Open Knowledge Festival (OKFestival) which took place in Helsinki in September. This was a great event with a broad structure and festival atmosphere, and we look forward to future Open Knowledge Festivals. With their expanded format we’ll likely be running these in alternate years, giving plenty of time to plan and bring the community together.

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Fwd: [noise@ischool] Fwd: 24 hours left to apply for AdaCamp San Francisco (June 8&9)

by mattsenate＠gmail.com

// Matt ----- Forwarded message ----- 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 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- 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. To learn more about sponsoring AdaCamp, email sponsors(a)adainitiative.org. Forward this email This email was sent to megfinn(a)ischool.berkeley.edu by contact(a)adainitiative.org | Update Profile/Email Address | Instant removal with SafeUnsubscribe™ | Privacy Policy. Ada Initiative Inc | 1117 Geary Blvd #311 | San Francisco | CA | 94109

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CNC Mill Tutorial

by Matthew Senate

https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/O:55 Many thanks to Jack for the run-down! May the Mill be with you // Matt

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Fwd: Bay Area News & Letters Update

by Troy Massey

Some valuable connections within the state of our global economy and actions by the established powers that currently reign in our desires and work for a better world for all. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- 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

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CFP: New Media, Global Activism and Politics Vol. 20, no. 3 (August 2014)

by Eddan Katz

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 > _______________________________________________ > MEA mailing list > MEA(a)lists.ibiblio.org > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/mea

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Re: [sudo-discuss] Hey writers!

by Vicky Knox

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 >>> >>> >> >

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First 3d Gun Fired

by Ibrahim Moss

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/06/3d-printed-gun-fired_n_3222669.htm… Ibrahim Moss ibrahim.moss(a)gmail.com

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Erotica and women's bodies

by Romy Snowyla

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

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Virtual currency question?

by Ryan Bethencourt

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.com www.linkedin.com/in/bethencourt www.logos-press.com/books/biotechnology_business_development.php

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Microcontroller Newbie Night @ sudo room - Tomorrow night!

by Hol Gaskill

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

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