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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.
Jun 30 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | Add a Comment
Not sure, because it's in the "from the strong-accusations-so-consider-the-source dept.," but I hate GoDaddy regardless, so…
An anonymous reader writes "A GoDaddy Vice President has been caught bidding against customers in their own domain name auctions. The employee Adam Dicker isn't just any GoDaddy employee; he's head of the GoDaddy subsidiary that controls the auctions. Dicker won some of the domains he bid for, and pushed up the bid price on auctions he didn't win. The conflict of interest is unethical, but could this practice also be illegal? Said a representative for a competitor, 'Even if controlled, that practice has bad news written all over it.' This comes hot on the heels of news that despite earlier promises to ICANN to end their 60-Day ban on transfers, GoDaddy quietly circumvented it by forcing customers to agree to the ban anyway. ICANN doesn't appear to be investigating or asking follow-up questions about this. What can be done to force ICANN to police the registrars for which it is responsible?"
From Slashdot
Jeffrey Barke is senior developer and information architect at theMechanism, a multimedia firm with offices in New York, London and Durban, South Africa.
Jun 21 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | Add a Comment
OneWebDay, a global celebration of the Web, is looking for 100 ambassadors for the 100 days leading up to this year's event (22 September 2008). OneWebDay ambassadors take a day to talk to their community (it can be as simple as a blog post!) about their values and how those values tie to OneWebDay's 2008 theme of participatory democracy.
To view the schedule, visit http://www.onewebday.org/base/index.php/OWD_Ambassadors_2008. To become an ambassador, contact volunteer@onewebday.org.
For more information, visit the formal invitation to be an ambassador and the OneWebDay slideshow.
Jeffrey Barke is senior developer and information architect at theMechanism, a multimedia firm with offices in New York, London and Durban, South Africa.
Jun 18 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | Add a Comment
ISOC-NY's next monthly meeting will be held at tomorrow, 19 June 2008, at NYU.
Date: Thursday, 19 Jun 2008
Time: 7:30 pm–9:30 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.
Provisional Agenda
- Meet new members
- By-laws reform
- Planning future meetings and events
- ISXubuntu Linux project progress report
- OneWebDay—planning progress report http://onewebday.org
- Access advocacy program
All meetings are open to the public, wheelchair accessible and free.
If you plan to attend a meeting, please RSVP to president@isoc-ny.org or via Meetup.com.
Jeffrey Barke is senior developer and information architect at theMechanism, a multimedia firm with offices in New York, London and Durban, South Africa.
Jun 9 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | Add a Comment
A forum presented by OneWebDay, ISOC-NY and the Information Law Institute at NYU during Internet Week New York as part of the build up to a politically-minded OneWebDay on 22 September 2008. It brought together a variety of renowned scholars, thinkers and activists to provide their perspectives on political engagement on the Net
Jeffrey Barke is senior developer and information architect at theMechanism, a multimedia firm with offices in New York, London and Durban, South Africa.
