April 29, 2008
A couple of weeks ago, James Maguire came by our chapter meetings to check out Ubuntu. He wrote a review, and comments even showed up on the Ubuntu forums!
April 29, 2008
Nelson’s visit went well. We ate a lot of pizza and played Frets on Fire. Check out the pictures!
April 10, 2008
Free Speech, Free Software, Free Culture:
Cultural Participation in the Digital Age
Nelson Pavlosky (founder of Students for Free Culture, sued Diebold for abusing copyright law) is coming to speak on the third anniversary of Students for Free Culture.
There will be Free pizza!
March 28, 2008
Along with the VTU, we will be doing a showing of Royal Wedding.
March 17, 2008
Along with the ACM, we are bringing in Richard Stallman to give a speech entitled “Copyright Vs. Community”
Abstract:
Copyright developed in the age of the printing press, and was designed to fit with the system of centralized copying imposed by the printing press. But the copyright system does not fit well with computer networks, and only Draconian punishments can enforce it.
The global corporations that profit from copyright are lobbying for Draconian punishments, and to increase their copyright powers, while suppressing public access to technology. But if we seriously hope to serve the only legitimate purpose of copyright–to promote progress, for the benefit of the public–then we must make changes in the other direction.
Bio:
Richard Stallman launched the development of the GNU operating system (see www.gnu.org) in 1984. GNU is free software: everyone has the freedom to copy it and redistribute it, as well as to make changes either large or small. The GNU/Linux system, basically the GNU operating system with Linux added, is used on tens of millions of computers today. Stallman has received the ACM Grace Hopper Award, a Mac Arthur Foundation fellowship, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer award, and the the Takeda Award for Social/Economic Betterment, as well as several honorary doctorates.
March 17, 2008
Along with the VTU, we will be doing a showing of His Girl Friday.
January 11, 2008
Meetings are to be held weekly on Wednesday, 8:30 in Torgerson 3180 (We have a projector!).
The first meeting will be held on January 16th. Bring your friends, family, and XOs.
October 29, 2007
There is no regular meeting this week, because we are about to have our first big event! We are partnering with the VTU to do a showing of Night of the Living Dead and The Brain That Wouldn’t Die. Please come! It’s free!
August 30, 2007
We are going to be meeting weekly at
Squires Yorktown is on the second floor, across the hall from where we were last week, or just right of Squires Colonial. We have couches!
Check out the topics for discussion or create an account and suggest your own at our meetings wiki. Check out the main wiki as well.
August 22, 2007
We finally have a time and place scheduled for our first meeting.
You can also check out our wiki here.
Whether or not you received a CD of free music, here is the music streamed:
To contact us: