Archive for the 'net politics' category.
Dec 30 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | Add a Comment
Change.org is a citizen-driven effort to identify the best ideas to effect the change the Obama Administration has promised. Anyone can go to http://change.org/ideas and submit a policy idea, discuss with others and vote on the best ideas from around the country.
OneWebDay, the Earth Day of the internet, has submitted a proposal to make OneWebDay a national day. Please review their full proposal below, and, if you support it, vote for it at Change.org.
The idea behind OneWebDay is to focus attention on a key Internet value (universal access and digital literacy in 2009), focus attention on local Internet concerns (connectivity, censorship, individual skills) and create a global constituency that cares about protecting and defending the Internet. OneWebDay is like an Earth Day for the Internet, celebrated every September 22 since 2006! We are building an organization that works like the Web: an open platform that supports collaboration on annual projects that educate and activate a broad range of communities about issues that are important for the Internet's future.
In recognition of President-elect Obama's deep understanding of the power of the Internet and his stated pledge to bring "true broadband to every community in America," we hope that the new Administration will recognize OneWebDay and partner with us in 2009 to organize a week of national (and global) service to bring more access and skills to communities that are still left behind in the new digital world.
Tomorrow is the deadline! Please take action and vote at Change.org now!
Nov 17 | Posted by Dave Fletcher | 1 Comment
Sarah Lai Stirland reports in Wired that Susan Crawford, a professor at the University of Michigan Law School, and Kevin Werbach, a former FCC staffer, organizer of the annual tech conference Supernova, and a Wharton professor, will lead the Obama-Biden transition team’s review of the FCC. Susan has notably pursued greater broadband access for Americans and believes that internet access is “like water, electricity, sewage systems: Something that each and all Americans need to succeed in the modern era.”
Good news for the Web and the future of Web design indeed.
Read more here.
Aug 13 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | Add a Comment
ISOC-NY's August monthly meeting will take place tomorrow, 14 August 2008, at NYU.
Date: Thursday, 14 Aug 2008
Time: 7:00 pm–9:00 pm
Location: Room 317, 251 Mercer Street NYC (SW corner of West 4th)
Note: Use the entrance on the west side since construction blocks the Mercer Street entrance. Must bring photo ID.
Agenda
- Meet new members. We expect and welcome new faces!
- By-laws reform. Progress report from Joseph Shraibman.
- Planning future meetings and events. Good news is we have just received a sizable grant from ISOC-NY for our Fall program.
- ISXubuntu Linux project progress report. News from our trusty coders.
- OneWebDay planning progress report. Washington Square Sep 22 event taking shape.
- NYC Broadband. Discussion of new report from from the Mayor's office.
- ICANN. We have been accepted as an at-large structure.
- Status of Connecting .NYC. An update from Tom Lowenhaupt.
- Web standards. How can we make our own site more W3C compliant?
Jeffrey Barke is senior developer and information architect at theMechanism, a multimedia firm with offices in New York, London and Durban, South Africa.
Aug 7 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | 1 Comment
I know Apple is quite restrictive about information, but I was a bit surprised to see how far the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) for the iPhone SDK goes: iPhone developers are legally banned from sharing programming tips, discussing code or asking questions of one another in forums or over e-mail!
From Webmonkey:
"F**KING NDA" has become a mantra on Twitter. Every time a developer posts about his or her latest run-in with the metaphorical brick wall that is Apple's NDA, the capitalized expletive is sounded off. "F**KING NDA" has become such a phenomenon, a website has sprung up at F**kingNDA.com to track the twisted tweets.
Apple's software development kit (SDK) for the iPhone is the primary set of tools for building apps for the iPhone, especially if the creations are to be included for sale in the device's App Store. The NDA, which must be agreed to before the SDK can be downloaded, prevents programmers from discussing the finer points of their code.
"There is no legal way for developers to talk about they are developing," Williams laments. "No way to post tutorials. No way to give code away. It's hard to interact with other developers and to write code without reinventing the wheel. Normally, you could post [a coding question] on Twitter and get an answer within minutes."
More info on why the iPhone NDA is no good:
Jul 17 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | Add a Comment
ISOC-NY's July monthly meeting will take place tonight, 17 July 2008, at NYU.
Date: Thursday, 17 Jul 2008
Time: 7:00 pm–9:00 pm
Location: Room 317, 251 Mercer Street NYC (SW corner of West 4th)
Note: Use the entrance on the west side since construction blocks the Mercer Street entrance. Must bring photo ID.
Agenda
- Meet new members. We expect and welcome new faces!
- By-laws reform. Needed but a drudge! How can we set about it?
- Planning future meetings and events. Good news is we have just received a sizable grant from ISOC-NY for our Fall program.
- ISXubuntu Linux project progress report. News from our trusty coders.
- OneWebDay planning progress report. Washington Square Sep 22 event taking shape
- Access advocacy program. Just an idea at present—the city needs some kind of central resource for those with connection difficulties.
- ICANN. Tom Lowenhaupt will report on his experiences at the ICANN Paris meet in June.
- Web standards. How can we make our own & OneWebDay sites W3C compliant?
Jeffrey Barke is senior developer and information architect at theMechanism, a multimedia firm with offices in New York, London and Durban, South Africa.
