2007/11/08 Proposed Agenda
Zach Braiker shares his love of new tech stuff with us once again.
Brett, Erica, and j are working on lining up some great speakers and topics in the coming weeks. Please stay tuned! As always, if you have suggestions or people you can arrange to bring in, please do!
By the way, we will not meet on November 22 because of Thanksgiving.
Upcoming events of interest:
- David Weinberger leads a Web of Ideas discussion about copyright on Wednesday, November 14, at 6:30 p. (It’s really 6:30 p. j checked.) “‘Designing Copyright from the Ground Up’: Suppose we had the chance to start over again with copyright, designing it to accommodate the digital era and designing it to support the greatest public good. What would it look like? How would we manage the clash between the need for leeway with the complete and precise knowledge of use that networked usage provides?” RSVP is required, as space is limited. To RSVP, please send an email to rsvp [at] cyber. law. harvard. edu by November 13 at 12:00PM.
- See the Berkman Calendar for upcoming Berkman stuff.
- Feel free to publicize related events here! Let Erica or j know, comment, or add them yourself if you have an editor account.
Various upcoming & potential stuff on our schedule:
- Second Life guided tour + how-to session - Shava & Fish are on deck for the near future
- Brett is working on bringing several design folks in this Fall
- Erica is working on bringing in a group from Somerville wanting feedback in building a good online news forum & placeblog
- OpenID - Why you should use it, why you should develop with it (Erica is trying to schedule Rod Begbie)
- What’s the latest in the Free Culture movement? (and what about the Miro player?)
- Skype: How does it work? Why use it? j can lead something
- Dan Bricklin, known for his work on VisiCalc and wikiCalc
- People to do sessions on maps & mapping: Ben Sheldon / Adam / Tracy Rolling of Platial
- Digital natives / what kids are doing online: Miriam Simun - ask in the Spring
- Video: Steve Garfield? / David Temez of Boston Media Makers?
- Streaming radio - how to make your own streaming radio station, the new rules around it
- Principles of design/UI, how to learn as a beginner?
- Latest tools for blogging / Latest mashups and widgets / How have tools changed in the past year or so?
- you?
- 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!+
