NY Arena: Sunday 7 September 2003 NY Fair Use Meeting and ThreeJewels Free Software Workshop: Organizing so that we may always boot what we want and learning about the boot process

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Subject: [fairuse-discuss] Sunday 7 September 2003 New Yorkers for Fair Use
Meeting and ThreeJewels Free Software Workshop: Organizing so that we may
always boot what we want and learning about the boot process
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 21:51:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Sulzberger <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]

Sunday 7 September 2003 there will be a New Yorkers for Fair Use meeting,
and also a Free Software Workshop.  These two meetings are different
meetings, though I and other folk will be at both meetings.


New Yorkers for Fair Use will meet this Sunday, 7 September 2003, at 4:00
pm, at the Gyro Place and Bagel and Pizza Joint across the street from
Cooper Union, at Astor Place, that is, Eighth Street/Saint Marks and Third
Avenue. The Lexington Avenue subway line has a stop at Astor Place.  The
Gyro Place is about one half block east of the stop.  Look in the back for
us.

This meeting is free and open to the public.

New Yorkers for Fair Use will meet again within ten days after this meeting
so that all who wish to volunteer for actions in late September and October
2003 may join the effort.  Sufficient advance notice will be given of the
second public meeting of NYFU in September 2003.

NYFU is preparing actions against software patents in the European Union and
against so-called "Digital Rights Management" worldwide.  We need volunteers
for specific actions and we also need general discussion so that more
actions may be planned.  Please join us and others around the world in this
large fight for our ancient rights of ownership, free speech, and free
assembly, and also for our new powers of composition, transformation, and
publication using our computers and our Net.


For overviews of the instant battles:

http://www.masternewmedia.org/2003/09/05/microsoft_palladium_threat_just_around_the_corner_now.htm
http://www.nyfairuse.org/action/palladium
http://www.chguy.net/news/feb01/gilmore-copy.html
http://www.philsalin.com/patents.html
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/developer/0,39020387,2107481,00.htm
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.03/view.html?pg=3
http://swpat.ffii.org/news/03/ekon0820/index.en.html
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/01/2113219&mode=thread&tid=123&tid=155&tid=99


If you would like to join NYFU in actions against software patents, DRM, the
DMCA, and like assaults on our rights and practical powers, write to me at
[email protected] , or fill out the form at

http://www.nyfairuse.org/cgi-bin/nyfu/contactus

To learn something about NYFU go to

http://www.nyfairuse.org

This New Yorkers for Fair Use meeting will end at 5:45 pm.


At 6:00 pm, three blocks south of the Gyro Place, the Free Software Workshop
will start in the

Three Jewels Refuge and Free Internet Cafe
211 East 5th Street
east of Third Avenue
Island of the Manahattoes

Subway: Eighth Street stop on the N, R, sometimes W, lines; Astor Place on
the 6 line; Third Avenue on the crosstown L line; Lower East Side-Second
Avenue-Houston Street on the F, V lines

Note that some of these lines may not be running right this weekend.


The Workshop will start at 6:00 pm and run until 9:00 pm.


This Sunday we will discuss the process of booting a home computer today,
and will compare such

FREE BOOTING

with the odd, not yet abroad in the wide world, process of booting an
Englobulated system of Palladiated hardware and Palladiated software.

If you want to bring interesting hardware which runs free software we'd like
to see it.  In particular, though most of the hardware of the Xbox is not
unusual, we'd like to see an Xbox boot a free operating system.


This meeting is free and open to the public.

There are certain rules which will be strictly observed:

1. No meat eating inside the Refuge.

2. No personal abuse.

Every member of every free software org, tribe, drinking club, and family,
is invited, without prejudice, without fear, and without favor.

Newcomers are particularly invited.  Come down and join us, even if you are
just starting to learn about free software.


Jonas Arnaldo and Kevin Mark and Jay Sulzberger will be available to answer
any questions we may.


In the next few weeks we will have these meetings:

1. Second part of Introduction to Common Lisp: Lisp and RoboCup,
http://www.lispnyc.org

2. Introduction to network security, special emphasis on time series
analysis and key management

3. How to buy parts and assemble a computer well suited to run a Free *n*x


We thank the Three Jewels, LXNY, and GNUbies for their generous help in
making this Fest possible, and we thank the Three Jewels for hosting this
Workshop, and Sunday Workshops to come, Sundays of Free Software in New York
City.

Jay Sulzberger <[email protected]>
Corresponding Secretary LXNY
LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization.
http://www.lxny.org

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