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08:51:34 02/23/07
AspirationTech Nonprofit Development Summit 2007 Thursday AM breakouts
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http://devsummit.aspirationtech.org/
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08:33:27 02/23/07
AspirationTech Nonprofit Development Summit 2007 Calendars Session
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http://devsummit.aspirationtech.org/index.php/Open_Standards_Deep_Dive:_Calendar_Formats_and_Event_Syndication
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22:00:17 02/21/07
Nonprofit Developers Summit 2007 Oakland Integration Session
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Integration Session The Summit will be a first-of-its-kind convening to bring together the range of developers, technologists, managers, eRiders, integrators, users and other practitioners who self-identify under the umbrella of roles around ?developing nonprofit software?. The event will provide an opportunity both to gather as a community and to take stock of the field, while building connections and capacity.' http://www.aspirationtech.org/events/devsummit Attribution: Aspiration Technologies Nonprofit Software Development Summit
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00:08:02 02/19/07
AAAS Climate-Change Town Hall SF
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This special event has been organized by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)?under the auspices of the AAAS Center for Public Engagement with Science and Technology?in collaboration with the California Science Teachers Association (CSTA), National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), and the United Educators of San Francisco (UESF, representing the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers). http://www.aaas.org/news/press_room/climate_change/mtg_200702/ Filmed with a built-in iSight from the 2d row (and a portion from the back row when recharging), significant portions omitted. Posted for noncommercial documentary/news uses only; stay tuned for AAAS to post professional footage.
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23:10:09 12/28/06
Lines for James Brown memorial at Apollo theatre
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The lines stretched for more than three blocks and the crowds swarmed the block in front of the theater.
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05:10:43 10/06/06
MacArthur BART Transit Village meeting
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Public meeting held at Beebe Memorial Church in Oakland,CA on Thursday, October 5, 2006, revealing plans and receiving public comment on concept plans for a transit village at the MacArthur BART station in North Oakland.
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08:52:56 10/01/06
Kennedy and Newsom at West Coast Green
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Inspirational opening keynote by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (of Hudson RiverKeepers) and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom speaking about the environment, pollution, global warming, education and corporate influence on politics at the West Coast Green conference in San Francisco on Saturday, September 30, 2006. Introduction by a PG%E executive and a local attorney. Seeking help to create transcript and excerpt clips. Shot with a consumer Sony miniDV cam, mostly (not 100%) on a tripod; about 30 seconds near the end lost due to tape change.
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01:26:08 09/17/06
Rosalie Sorrels FrogSong house concert
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Folk musician Rosalie Sorrels performing live at FrogSong Cohousing (Cotati, CA) house concert September 16, 2006. Filmed with built-in iSight on MacBook.
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06:52:47 08/06/06
Jenny Preece at WikiMania on Community, Social Interaction and Wikipedia
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Abstract Online communities have become a key source of information and support. These communities enable Wikipedia users and contributors to coordinate their activites, patients to cope better with their diseases, students to discuss homework projects, hobbyists to pursue their passions, and teens to chat about their lives. Scholars use online communities to track academic topics, lawyers seek legal information, and professionals exchange business knowledge. A variety of software facilitates information exchange and communication including: wikis, blogs, discussion boards, instant messaging, and immersive virtual environments. In this talk I will discuss the concept of an online community, review my research terrain and briefly present some findings, for example: a framework for developing and analyzing online communities, and results from studies about empathy, information exchange, and why people often observe but do not actively contribute (i.e., ?lurk?) online. Empathy, information exchange, and behavior online varies between communities. In one study, for example, we found strong differences in the amount of lurking in patient support communities compared with technical support communities. Analysis of survey responses from 219 observers revealed reasons for lurking that included: wanting to learn more about the community, intending to be helpful, poor usability, poor group dynamics, and desire to take without giving back. Based on our findings, we proposed changes in social management and information architecture to encourage participation, support empathy between participants, and facilitate information seeking and browsing. Finally, I will suggest future research and development directions for encouraging community activities associated with Wikipedia. -- http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:JP1
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06:51:07 08/06/06
Brewster Kahle at Wikimania: Free Knowledge & Access to Information
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Abstract The goal of universal access to our cultural heritage is within our grasp. With current digital technology we can build comprehensive collections, and with digital networks we can make these available to students and scholars all over the world. A current challenge is establishing the roles, rights, and responsibilities of our libraries and archives in providing public access to this information. Another current issue will be whether the services will be primarily commercial therefore making the next generation library system a proprietary rather than public one. With these roles defined, our institutions will help fulfill this epic opportunity of our digital age. -- Proceedings page at http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:BK1 [production note: tape problems affect the first few minutes; final Q%A's are cut off; shot from back of large, dim room; hard to follow both speaker and slides]
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12:32:23 08/05/06
Semapedia.org - An internet of things
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http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:AR1 Alexis Rondeau grew up in Frankfurt, Germany. Having finished school in 1998, he lived and worked in the US for two years before returning to Europe in 2001. He has been studying computer science and economics at University of Vienna since 2003. Abstract Our goal is to connect the knowledge from Wikipedia with relevant places and things in physical space. As a community we invite you to take part and hyperlink your world with information that matters. The workshop will demonstrate how Semapedia works and how you can distribute knowledge using cell-phone readable physical hyperlinks yourself. In addition to the workshop we will go for a tagging session to try out the system in real-life.
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12:31:32 08/05/06
Chris Messina on BarCamp at WikiMania 2006
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All the World's a Wiki: How BarCamp was Planned in 6 Days Using a Wiki, IM, IRC, Blogs and Word of Mouth http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:CM2 Abstract: BarCamp is the wiki of events. Organized by the participants themselves, each camp reflects the flavor of local community and gives an equal voice to all those who attend. Indeed, the model demands that all attendees present or help someone else present. In that way, BarCamps represent the best of traditional knowledge-transfer conferences while focusing on the oftentimes more interesting and rewarding social aspect of "hallway conversations". In this presentation, I would like to discuss how the BarCamp wiki was used to organize the original BarCamp and how it has since then been used to fuel an international movement of camps, traveling from Palo Alto to Ireland to Amsterdam and hitting India, Korea and over 30 other locations in its brief existence. BarCamp represents a radical shift in event organizing models, the power of open and transparent systems for learning and sharing knowledge as well as a tool for galvanizing both on and offline communities.
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11:34:41 08/05/06
Eben Moglen and Lawrence Lessig - Document Licenses and the Future of Free Culture
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The Free Software Foundation's attorney and Larry Lessig talk about how to make open documentation and WikiMedia licenses interoperable/cross-licensable. Video shot from back row includes just first portion of talk.
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11:27:25 08/05/06
Larry Lessig at Wikimania 2006:
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synopsis from Peter Kaminski's blog: The storyline: The 20th century, with its read-only labor, culture and politics, was weirdly totalitarian. The 21st century is a revival of a different (normal, given history) way to organize and produce within society. To fulfill this, we all need to practice free culture, and demand support of it. He talked about a new thing, the problem that the various free culture licenses are not interoperable yet. (Interoperability - value diversity and opportunity over control.) This causes problems because it creates islands of free content that can't be mixed together. So he suggests we set up a body -- he recommends the Software Freedom Law Center -- that can certify licenses as "close enough" and then have the various license providers add compatibility clauses to existing licenses so derivative works can be relicensed to a "close enough" license. More: http://peterkaminski.com/2006/08/wikimania_plenary_larry_lessig.html Lessig bio is on conference proceedings wiki http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Presenters/Lawrence_Lessig Lessig Blog: http://www.lessig.org/blog/ Production: Video was shot from last row of the audience with Canon Optura miniDV cam mostly balanced on my head in lieu of a tripod... not recommended for people subject to seasickness. No tapes were used... FireWire direct to iMovie. Minor snippets omitted while waking up the camera from tape-saver mode.
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18:01:46 07/16/06
Paul Hackett at DemocracyFest 2006
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partial transcript (he closed out the evening): How's everybody doing. Are you awake? Are we democrats? Are we proud democrats. My name is Paul Hackett, and I am a Proud Democrat. "All the jokes have been told, all the political lines have been hit, so of course they leave it to the guy who's not running for a damn thing" "Its July. November is just around the corner. We Democrats, we can sit around, laugh, cry, poke fun at that chucklehead who is running the country. Keep this in mind: we have an awful lot of work ahead of us to be successful in November 2006 and more importantly in November 2008. ... Lets focus on some basics, lets get it crisp, let's get it clear recite together we are democrats we are the party of fiscal responsibiltiy, strong national defense, limited government, and fair trade sometimes I get booed "you sound like a republican" [he unpacks the elements] on the campaign trail, people say "he's angry" "If you're not angry you're not paying attention" Christian... yes, "none of your damn business" why are we even engaged in this conversation? there's a reasaon why there's a separation of powers, a reason why separation of church and state. how politicians make decisions: [holds up finger to sense wind direction] "we're going that way" we face the greatest challenge in our nation's history This is Our Land... great country we've got to fight to build a new democratic party steeped in the tradition of this country if we don't do it now, don't reach down and find the courage and guts to confront what's wrong with our country, it's going to be gone. I don't see too many young people here tonight. I need to see more. This fight is not about 40-, 50-, 60-somethings. This fight is about the next generation of Americans The fight for freedom of speech, freedom of/from religion 4 listed by FDR by god it's the Democratic party that represents those 4 freedoms make no mistake about that we didn't go off to some foreign country for some other country's freedoms only to come hold and be told we don't have our freedoms why do we allow this administration to sell our freedoms down the river. the dem party that built 21st-century america. By working Americans. That's our history. That's got to be our future. social issues... when I was running in the house race, the short-lived primary in the house race. [heckler: run again!] Well, maybe... staff: don't talk about those social issues. Meeting with gay leaders. "who the hell cares. It's 2006, we're having this conversation, who gets rights and who doesn't get rights? 18 years I've been a lawyer. There's not a sign in Hamilton County courthouse, straight americans go in here, gay americans go in here" "sanctity of marriage... are you kidding me? My marriage is just fine. It doesn't need protecting by Bill Frist." CIVIL rights [framing] Values... who gets their values from political leaders in Washington, D.C.? We have got before us the great challenge. It's gonna take a hell of a lot of work. Voluntarism. Money. Every ounce of effort we've got to make sure we take back our country. Because make no mistake, our country has been hijacked. We have got to do a better job of reaching out to independents. In 2006, 2008... this is the opportunity. Make no mistake. Barry Goldwater is spinning in his grave. We've gotta be tough. Fight. Lose some of these races. We've got democracy on the line Peace. Prosperity. And the freedoms that define america.
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16:19:55 07/16/06
Marc Maron at DemocracyFest
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Comedian Marc Maron speaking at DemocracyFest in San Diego. Explicit language. Partial transcript: "I walked around DemocracyFest today, got some info about WTC 7, about how meat is bad, I got a communist newspaper... I'm just happy we're all on the same page finally, moving towards solution and action." Electoral Fraud: "Why can't we start cheating? We have all these blogs and shit." This administration's done just amazing things with Mexico... outsourced electoral fraud there, American-style. Bush... exactly the right Prez. to oversee the end of the world... will remain steadfast mixture of born-again Christian and stupid that some people mistake for courage and focus that would be... the 38% "the 38% are fucking morons and we do not need to reach out to them in any way." Evangelicals: "they creep me out" "Get rid of Lieberman" heckler - "OK, I'm on it, I'll take care of that. I'll fly to CT. Some dude in San Diego said to get rid of you. So, can you go?" Christian Right.. .he might end the world, they're ready to go. Started World War III, faciliated the floods in New Orleans. Katrina - not complacency or intolerance... an experiment in strip-mining poor people to reveal the real estate below them riffs on the word "retarded" vs "that's guy's a fucking retard." they have "mentally challenged" like the middle class not thinking they're poor. Cheney: "the fucking antichrist". "Half-expecting a lizard to crawl out of his face." "Where the hell are really good assasins when you need them." Apologizes... "we should do it the right way" Audience: "give him a blow job" Maron: He would say "what is that" Don't you miss having a president who you could imagine having sex. Pharmaceutical co's have been on a 30-year experiment to medicate the left. Depression is depression. Most people just think they're depressed and they're not. Folks, there's a fine line between depressed and disappointed. Depressed = "aware" - a reasonable response to horrendous things. "I feel great" - that's creepy, weird. Move along. "I'm doing the big work, handing out communist newspapers in San Diego". "I don't know man. You guys are hardcore. The ones doing the stuff" "Just forwarding email is not political action" signing a petition... run for school board... congress... statehouse... DO SOMETHING! I think you gotta get out there, computer men. Computers are feeding on our time, disabling our ability to take action. Don't you ever sit down just to check email. All that time is being stored in big time vats on the Microsoft campus. Bill Gates and his wife hook up to their nipples and do the big time dance. I read it in a book. I'm not anti-Christian. It's more honest to go through life filled with dread, panic and fear. I think that takes more courage. I grow this beard once a year, in honor of christ. I walk through malls at Christmas, saying "no, unh-unh, this is not how it's supposed to be." The best part is... if there's a santa at the mall I get to say "you're just a clown at my birthday party" I'm just happy that they were not able to get that Creationism taught in PA. [audience "rick santorum" ]- I'll take care of that too.... how sweet is that going to be to see that guy lose! To see his arrogant strange latent-homosexual fase. Katherine Harris - going down to, nobody wants to work with her. Go ahead, take pictures of me with your phonese. Our culture... I just made phone calls with mine. What am I, stupid? Where do people get all this time? If I have time to masturbate once a day and read the paper I'm ahead of things. MySpace... "I can't keep up with the present as well" [audience: "run for office"] where the hell would that happen? "Vote for me, I'm funny." backbone... I'm not a runner-awayer, I'm a decider. "de cider's kinda hot" (singing) Blackberry.... "you're gonna shoot something at me, that's gonna make my joke fail." riffs on technology, GPS, cellphone dependency. my phone has bach, beethoven, wagner on it. "have we no respect for brilliance?" riffs on ringtones did beethoven ever imagine... 5th symphony would emit from someone's projects? We have to stop blaming Rove for everything. He does not have control of the weather. [to heckler] You're not a conspiracy theorist, you're an independent speculative investigator. "you're one of those blog geeks, who'll go: 'maron tried to make jokes... the geeks have the power." Young voters... if we can make the companies that get them distracted look evil to them.. fans: I actually have 15 fans and I know them all. grim joke: war in Iraq.. run out treasury. in the future, gap between rich and poor so big ... military recruitment: "Hungry? Need a place to sleep?" terrorism.... lack of women is at the core just from personal experience if you don't have a woman in your life keeping you down somehow, you have no perspective on reality. [imitates bomber being told "you are not going anywhere, we have company coming over"]