“CKUT now has podcasts.
click on the little red icon on the programming grid.”
- from Marc Heckmann (top techie at ckut)
I asked them for this a while ago. very nice.
I’ll be listening more frequently - especially to the xx files.
UbuntuBelowZero
What: Ubuntu Below Zero
Where: Montreal, Canada
When: Sunday 30 October - Thursday 10 November 2005 (see below for details)
Who: Open to the Public
All core Ubuntu developers will be in attendance and anyone else who is interested or involved in Ubuntu is welcome to attend as well.
While the developer summit is open, we do need to have an idea of who is going to be coming so we can plan the space requirements. Please fill in your information at /Attendees. Please also note that this is a developer summit, not a typical “presentations and speeches” conference. It’s hard work with an intense schedule, mapping out the road to Breezy+1. You’ll be collaborating with the lead developers and helping to define the concrete deliverables that make up the next six months work.
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I am definitely going to swing by this. I’m excited to get a feel for how software projects of this magnitude (and that are this geographically dispersed) are handled. Also going to sit in on this BOF on Zeroconf support if it happens.
I”ll be going to these (if I can make it to the second one - they’re on the same day). And if any of you know someone who’s interested in using tech to make government (three levels) more transparent - please hook me up with them. I think we’re going to start a seperate group to work on that - if we can find a couple of interested people.
EVENT 2: Oct 19
Cities and Democracy - Democratizing the world, one city at the time?
Moderator: Rosa Pires
Venue: Multi-Caf, 3591 Appleton, (corner Cote-des-Neiges), 733-0554
Time: 5-7pm
EVENT 3: Oct 19
Technology, Culture and Power - Security and Surveillance: How big is Big Brother?
Guests: Khalid M’Seffar, CKUT Funky Revolutions
Moderator: Kenneth Werbin
Venue: Café Pharmacie Esperanza, 12 St-Viateur West, 948-3303
Time: 7-9pm
This event takes place in the context of the
International Media and Democracy Day.
http://www.uberculture.org/projects/imdd.html
organized by UotS
damn! Hugh’s making it happen. I thought this project was cool when he told me about it - but I guess I missed the part where he said that started it.
“About LibriVox
LibriVox is a hope, an experiment, and a question: can the net harness a bunch of volunteers to help bring books in the public domain to life through podcasting?
LibriViox’s wants all books in the public domain to be available, for free, in audio format, on the internet. We ask volunteers to record chapters of books in the public domain in digital format, catalog them, and podcast them. We get most of our texts from Project Gutenberg, and the Internet Archive hosts our audio files. Check our catalog, and use the files as you wish.
We are a totally volunteer, open source, free content, public domain project. For the moment we don’t need any money, we’ll let you know if that changes! ”
Congratulations, hugh. I’ll see you on the conference circuit. Francois and Miriam just joined it this weekend (Mir was invited to an interesting conference in Ottawa, Francois was with Benoit and I on a panel in London, Sylvian does a lot of presentations, Daniel Lemay often presents on behalf of ISF. Add to that Robin, Omar, plus lots of others like Karl, Ed, Boris, Denis, Steven, etc. We’re a pretty loud bunch ;-) Montreal is cooking with smart + active geeks these days - I’m really happy that I live here.
October 22th
To celebrate our achieving 10,000 users we invite our users to a Pubcrawl of ISF’s hotspots (some of the ones that serve beer and that can fit 100 people). More details to come, but make yourself free for the 22th!
Le 22 octobre
Afin de célébrer le fait que nous atteindrons d’ici quelques jours le seuil des 10,000 utilisateurs, nous invitons tous les usagers du service à se joindre à nous pour la Tournée ISF 2005. Nous visiterons quelques-uns des cafés du réseau Île Sans Fil (un échantillon de ceux qui peuvent accueillir une centaine de personnes à la fois et qui, bien sûr, servent de la bière). Des détails suivront sous peu, mais assurez-vous d’être disponibles le 22 octobre prochain.
I did my first speed geek the other day. stressfull and fun.
Zeke’s organizing something at Artivistic this coming week + weekend on Art + Blogging. I think it’s going to be fanstastic.
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Artivistic :: art.information.activism/e
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Artivistic is a transdisciplinary event on the interPlay between art, information and activism.
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steph organized this.
Conférence - Connaissance libre, en action pour tous les peuples du monde
De passage à Montréal pour quelques jours, Juan Carlos Gentile activiste depuis de nombreuses années au sein du mouvement du logiciel libre, souhaite rencontrer les acteurs sociaux du logiciel libre et des technologies de l’information afin de présenter c-o-d-e-x, un événement qui se tiendra parallèlement au Sommet mondial de la société de l’information (SMSI), à Tunis entre le 16 et le 18 novembre 2005.
Juan Carlos Gentile réalisera une présentation en français:
le lundi 12 septembre 2005 à 19h30 au café Utopik 552 rue Sainte-Catherine (près du métro Berri-UQAM) - Montréal Coût: vous serez invité à contribuer au financement de la semaine
québécoise de l’informatique libre (http://sqil.info).
Cette présentation est organisée par le réseau Koumbit, conjointement avec le groupe FACIL, pour l’appropriation collective de l’informatique libre.
Juan Carlos Gentile participera également à l’atelier “La société civile et le Sommet mondial de la société de l’information”, qui se tiendra samedi le 10 septembre dans le cadre des journées Alternatives. http://www.alternatives.ca/rubrique217.html
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Juan Carlos Gentile est un musicien numérique impliqué depuis longtemps au sein du mouvement du logiciel libre. Il a joué un rôle important dans le réseautage des différents acteurs du logiciel libre en Amérique Latine, notamment par son travail étroit, au Brésil, avec les militants du Parti des Travailleurs, actuellement à la tête de ce pays. Il est membre fondateur de “Hipatia” (http://hipatia.info), un groupe international travaillant sur le thème du logiciel libre et de la connaissance libre. Il est présentement de passage à Montréal, en route vers le Vénézuela où il participera au programme de migration au logiciel libre, décrété par le gouvernement de Hugo Chavez.
I went on Koumbit’s weekend retreat. Amazing time. Amazing people.
“Koumbit est une organisation sans but lucratif dont la mission est de favoriser l’appropriation de l’informatique libre par les groupes sociaux québécois en développant une plate-forme informatique collective et en assurant un support à l’utilisation des logiciels libres.”
They’re an IT workers collective. Super interesting model. I think that they see themselves as a traditional workers collective, but everything I’ve seen so far has indicated to me that this is a form of working together that could only be done by IT workers. I’m excited to attend some more of their meetings and maybe bring a few contracts to them to work on with them.
pics from the weekend by anne goldenberg
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