Archive for June, 2006

2006/07/06 Proposed Agenda

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egeorge - June 30, 2006 @ 10:43 am · Meetings

  • Introductions
  • Bob Stepno, a journalism professor at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and remote blog group regular is visiting this week. He’s going to talk about something bloggy and journalismy, maybe citizen journalism, maybe we can persuade him to tell us about how he uses/discusses blogging in his journalism courses. Perhaps he’ll discuss the Rocky Top Brigade.
  • Moment of nostalgia for this being our last ever blog group meeting in Baker House, before Berkman moves offices. Hey, we outlasted a building!
  • Stylefeeder party on Church St. at the Top10Sources HQ. Food and fun!
  • contradancing afterward with Bob!
  • Upcoming events of interest:
    • If you’re definitely going to one of these far-flung supercool events, comment and let us know so other blog group folks will know to look for friendly faces (and to potentially coordinate travel, lodging shares etc.). You can definitely expect to see many of us at the events local to Boston.
    • Alliance for Community Media, in Boston, July 5-8
    • BlogHer in San Jose, July 28-29
    • Wikimania at Berkman, August 4-6
    • Summer vacation
  • Various upcoming & potential stuff on our schedule:
    • July 13: We will need to either move blog group or cancel it this day since Berkman will be in the process of moving to our new office. edit: Erica is working on a new location so that we can hopefully catch Tracy from Platial while she is in town.
    • July 20, 27: open
    • August 3: Something takign advantage of all the fabulous Wikimania folks who will already be in town.
    • Get Colin Rhinesmith to report-back to us on the Media Giraffe conference, Democracy and Independence: Sharing News and Politics in a Connected World
    • Zach would like to present on a new project he is affiliated with, Others Online
    • We’re percolating at least one something to do with Second Life
    • Dan Bricklin, known for his work on VisiCalc and wikiCalc
    • Someone who can fill us in on what’s happening with China and the Internet –> Rebecca MacKinnon will be speaking with us sometime after she gets back from her current summer trip to China and other parts of Asia.
    • Shava Nerad is working with Tracy from Platial to have her present (Tracey is gone for July so we’re looking at Aug or Sept).
    • If you want to help shepherd a potential future topic or if you have ideas of your own, please talk to Erica or j. We’d love - and could really use - your help!
  • Eat:

    • This week: Stylefeeder party!

    • Last week: contradancing! then Redbones

During the meeting, participate via:

  • Webcast: rtsp://harmony.law.harvard.edu/webcast.sdp or as backup http://harmony.law.harvard.edu/webcast.sdp (Erica will try to get the webcast set up in advance)

  • IRC chat
  • live notes
  • Join us at Baker House!

2006/06/29 Proposed Agenda

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j - June 27, 2006 @ 6:21 pm · Meetings

  • Introductions
  • The Filipino Librarian, Von
  • Anyone attend BloggerCon IV in San Francisco, June 23-24?
  • Next week: Bob Stepno returns (briefly) on July 6, then we’ll go down to the Stylefeeder.com party on Church St., then contradancing afterward with Bob!
  • Upcoming events of interest:
    • If you’re definitely going to one of these far-flung supercool events, comment and let us know so other blog group folks will know to look for friendly faces (and to potentially coordinate travel, lodging shares etc.). You can definitely expect to see many of us at the events local to Boston.
    • Media Giraffe conference, Democracy and Independence: Sharing News and Politics in a Connected World in Amherst, June 29-July 1 –> conference blog is much better website: http://newshare.typepad.com/mgp2006/
    • Alliance for Community Media, in Boston, July 5-8
    • BlogHer in San Jose, July 28-29
    • Wikimania at Berkman, August 4-6
    • Summer vacation
  • Various upcoming & potential stuff on our schedule:
    • Dan Bricklin, known for his work on VisiCalc and wikiCalc
    • Someone who can fill us in on what’s happening with China and the Internet –> Rebecca MacKinnon will be speaking with us sometime after she gets back from her current summer trip to China and other parts of Asia.
    • Shava Nerad is working with Tracey from Placial (sp?) to have her present (Tracey is gone for July so we’re looking at Aug or Sept).
    • We’re percolating at least one something to do with Second Life
    • If you want to help shepherd a potential future topic or if you have ideas of your own, please talk to Erica or j. We’d love - and could really use - your help!
  • Eat:

    • This week: contradancing! then Redbones

    • Last week: SMILE THAI at 8:45 pm for the Wikimania meeting

During the meeting, participate via:

2006/06/22 Proposed Agenda

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j - June 20, 2006 @ 3:21 pm · Meetings

  • Introductions
  • Ubuntu by Brett?
  • Report on VloggerCon in San Francisco, June 10-11
  • Report on Grassroots Use of Technology in Boston, June 16-17
  • We may have someone who attended the Identity Mashup conference who will talk a little about distributed security stuff.
  • We should plug Zach’s new course and see if there are ways we can help.
  • Upcoming events of interest:
  • Various upcoming & potential stuff on our schedule:
    • Dan Bricklin, known for his work on VisiCalc and wikiCalc
    • Someone who can fill us in on what’s happening with China and the Internet (RMack? Eric Priest when he returns from Asia? - Eric will be back from China again later in the summer.)
    • Shava Nerad is working with Tracey from Placial (sp?) to have her present
    • If you want to help shepherd a potential future topic or if you have ideas of your own, please talk to Erica or j. We’d love - and could really use - your help!
  • Eat:

    • This week: SMILE THAI at 8:45 pm for the Wikimania meeting

    • Last week: junk food in a hotel room (no meeting last week!)

During the meeting, participate via:

  • Webcast: rtsp://harmony.law.harvard.edu/webcast.sdp or as backup http://harmony.law.harvard.edu/webcast.sdp NO WEBCAST THIS WEEK

  • IRC chat
  • live notes
  • Join us at Baker House!

No Meeting on June 15

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j - June 15, 2006 @ 12:21 am · Meetings

Just a reminder that we aren’t meeting on June 15–at least not at Berkman. If someone wants to e-mail the list to gather people together for dinner or a meeting elsewhere, please feel free to do that. Neither Erica nor j can make a meeting on the 15th. We’ll gather at Berkman again on June 22.

The 22 would be our joint meeting with the Boston Weblogger Meetup, but it appears that group has had a leadership and schedule change, so they may not join us that week.

Upcoming events of interest:

2006/06/08 Meeting: Dinner at Gandhi in Central Square, 7 pm

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j - June 4, 2006 @ 3:06 pm · Meetings

Since Harvard University’s Commencement is Thursday, June 8, we are being wise and not meeting in Harvard Square.

Erica has made a reservation for a group dinner at a restaurant not in Harvard Square and away from the grad-craziness: Gandhi (Indian) in Central Square at 7 pm. Here is info and a map. The reservation is for 10 people so we’d love to collect rsvps and get a sense if we need to make the reservation bigger. (Comment to let us know you’re coming, but show up even if you don’t!)

Neither Erica nor j can be at the meeting on June 15. If the rest of the group wants to gather for dinner, great! Neither of us is able to coordinate that dinner, however. Volunteer to make a reservation and circulate the info by commenting!

We will return to our regular weekly schedule on June 22–just in time for the Boston Weblogger Meetup!

Upcoming events of interest:

2006/06/01 Proposed Agenda

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j - June 4, 2006 @ 2:44 pm · Meetings

  • Introductions
  • Wikis 101: An Introduction to Wikis in 15 Minutes by j
  • Ubuntu by Brett
  • BarCamp!!!
  • 6/8: Let’s not meet in Harvard Square because of Harvard’s Commencement
    • Let’s do dinner instead of a regular meeting! Would someone like to coordinate dinner for the group at a restaurant not in Harvard Square?
  • No meeting 6/15.
    • Neither Erica nor j will be available.
  • Upcoming events of interest:
  • Various upcoming & potential stuff on our schedule:
    • Dan Bricklin, known for his work on VisiCalc and wikiCalc
    • Someone who can fill us in on what’s happening with China and the Internet (RMack? Eric Priest when he returns from Asia? - Eric will be back in early June for a little bit, after 2 months in China. Do we want Erica to try grabbing him?)
    • If you want to help shepherd a potential future topic or if you have ideas of your own, please talk to Erica or j. We’d love - and could really use - your help!
  • Eat:

    • This week:

    • Last week:

During the meeting, participate via:

  • Webcast: http://harmony.law.harvard.edu/webcast.sdp

    • Uh … maybe not. We weren’t able to get it working. Bill W. wonderfully recorded the talk. j has the sound file. It needs to be edited before being posted, so it will be a few days before it goes up.

    • IRC chat
    • Because the blog was down, there are no live notes.