Meeting 2008-02-20
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- Date: Wednesday, February 20, 2008
- Time: 8:30PM
- Place: Torgerson 3180
Attendance
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Goodies
Game
News
Creative Commons and OLPC announce "Free Content Drive"
Creative Commons, One Laptop Per Child, and TextbookRevolution.org will be collaborating to compile free content. CC will be burning LiveDVDs of the content, OLPC will bundle books, and TextbookRevolution.org will compile a list of free college textbooks.
Blog entry at Harvard Law about the project
Creative Commons - LiveContent 2.0
Slashdot summary
University of Oregon follows Harvard with open access
From reading it, it sounds like UO is just suggesting OA very strongly, and making a commitment to pushing it. I see nothing solid.
The vote happened one day after Harvard's so it's not really a responce.
Science Commons
Open Access News
Bittorrent devs create Comcast busting encryption
Several BitTorrent developers have joined forces to propose a new protocol extension with the ability to bypass the BitTorrent interfering techniques used by Comcast and other ISPs.
- Wasn't the current encryption good enough to stop Comcast's packet sabotage? I don't use Comcast so I don't know.Matt 05:04, 19 February 2008 (JST)
REM posts new videos under open source license
The perl artistic license v2. Interesting.
Draft Lessig
Update (Tuesday 8:00): Lessig is now in contemplation.
I'm looking through the photos at the end...they all have conflicting licenses and he never gives the video a CC license. Unless he actually got permission from all those people (which would totally defeat the point of CC), he completely misused CC. You heard me, Lessig misused his own license. --Conley 10:55, 20 February 2008 (JST)
Software patent case may be revisited
The same court that validated software and business method patents almost ten years ago has agreed to hear a case to decide whether or not to overturn its previous ruling.
Techdirt article
Slashdot summary
New open access journal for new music and culture
Movie Night
I got an email from Kellie Kauffman:
"We need to get a jump on the first film we have coming up (I know its like a month away but with spring break and all yea). We will have a space in our poster cases starting this week so if you have a poster or something to advertise for His Girl Friday please let me know. We do have the request that anything done with us has the VTU logo on it and you can find it attached to this email.
We also need a flyer to take to A-1 sometime in the next week. Flyers must be to residence halls 2 weeks prior to the event and spring break makes it a bit of a pain. You might want to talk to Conley about trying for the small grant again. I assume we will be working like we did last semester where we split the costs. I will attach a co-sponsorship contract to another email sometime this week so you can have it for applying for the grant. Sorry I know a lot of this is confusing. Just need to get a jump on it. We will also need a title for the second film by the His Girl Friday showing, if not sooner. Thanks!"
I have the VTU logo; who's up for flyer-making?
Reevessa 00:43, 21 February 2008 (JST)
- By all accounts I'm still available to fix that audio sync problem. Of course if for some reason I can't do it I'm just going to do what I do best and hand the task off to someone else. Namely, Duff. --Matt 08:26, 21 February 2008 (JST)
Stallman's Speech
- 8:00 PM
- Tuesday, March 25
- Torgerson 2150
T-shirts
We mentioned making t-shirts once. Does someone want to volunteer to do this?
Show and tell
Patrik found Steampunk Taxidermy
Steampunk Taxidermy because it's art and you wouldn't buy this stuff, so it's gotta be free culture right?
Conley hacked up wp-latex
It gives me error output now, and center aligns the images. Re: Bounded Closure.
I did not contribute back my code :( --Conley 03:47, 20 February 2008 (JST)
I just emailed the author some changes and suggestions. Most likely he will give me some comment about how he doesn't keep up with the plugin anymore, and I should just go away. --Conley 04:02, 20 February 2008 (JST)
Matt tried to add the tuxonice (suspend2) patch to his kernel
I eventually gave up, but at least now I understand the meaning behind this XKCD comic. The next Ubuntu release has suspend2 packages, so I'm just going to hope that they will patch the kernel for me. --Matt 14:16, 20 February 2008 (JST)
Open floor
Free Film
Check out a list of free films.
Suggestions:
- I'm in the mood for a really old movie. Let's watch The Kid. It's a Charlie Chaplin one. --Conley 04:23, 15 February 2008 (JST)
