Stephen Weinberg will speak on ssh, Wednesday 16 May 2007 On Wednesday, 16 May 2007 at 7:00 pm at the GNU/Linux SIG of the Westchester PCUG, Stephen Weinberg will present a talk on using ssh to defend insecure links.
Official notice below my signature. (The notice says that Wednesday is is the 17th, not the 16th. I here assume that the day is Wednesday the 16th of May 2007.) Building the Broadband Economy, Thursday and Friday, 17 and 18 May 2007 On Thursday and Friday, 17 and 18 May 2007, there will be a big conference on Building the Broadband Economy at Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, New York. Gale Brewer, head of the Technology in Government Committee of the New York City Council will speak, as will many other distinguished guests. Poly is in downtown Brooklyn, and the A, B, C, 2, 3, M, R, 4, and other subway lines are within two blocks of Poly. For more information see: http://www.intelligentcommunity.org Official notice below my signature. Personal Democracy Forum, Friday 18 May 2007 On Friday 18 May 2007 at Pace University in downtown New York the Personal Democracy Forum will meet. Several famous and infamous speakers are scheduled. I believe the eating and drinking will be good. For full information see: http://pdf2007.confabb.com/conferences/PDF2007/details New York City Broadband Committee Hearing, Tuesday 22 May 2007 Backround: On Monday 30 April 2007 a hearing was held in City Hall in Manhattan on City Council Resolution 712, a resolution in favor of Net Neutrality. Text of resolution: http://webdocs.nyccouncil.info/textfiles/Res%200712-2007.htm Resolution 712 was introduced in the City Council in February 2007, sponsored by Council Member Gale Brewer. Res. 712 calls upon the United States Congress "to codify strong network neutrality principles in order to insure that the Internet will continue to foster innovation, increase competition, and spur economic growth as well as making the Internet faster and more affordable for all.". Testimony was taken and recordings are at: http://peoplesproductionhouse.org/?q=aggregator/sources/2 The next public hearing dealing with Net Neutrality is scheduled for noon, Tuesday 22 May 2007 in Brooklyn's Boro Hall, right next to Polytech University. It is important that those who know what the Net is, and want to keep the Net free, come to this and the other hearings to be held in Queens, Staten Island, and Manhattan. For information about the Broadband Committee see: http://nycbroadband.blogspot.com Below my signature is a long official notice of several Broadband Committee events, including information on how you can testify. Personal remark: The free software movement is a political movement. In New York City the Broadband Committee hearings offer a platform for us to speak in favor of freedom of the Net. Oddly, in the obscure knot of issues called "the digital divide", severely mathematical principles of engineering are deep entwined with the politics and economics. Entwined, but mostly invisible to the newspapers and network TV. Let us say what we want, and let us clearly convey the facts of the matter: We want the Net, the real and true Net we built, and we can get our Net, at high speed, and low cost, by providing enough bandwidth. Jay Sulzberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Corresponding Secretary LXNY LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization. http://www.lxny.org <blockquote> Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 11:34:47 -0400 From: "Edward J. Weinberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: nylug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Wednesday, May 17th at 7:00 pm 14 year old son, Stephen will be speaking about using SSH tunneling to provide a secure connection over insecure networks such as WiFi at the Westchester PCUG Linux Sig. He also tells me that it might work as a proxy to get around his school's "net nanny". He will be explaining how to do it from Linux and (using Putty) from Windows. Details at www.linuxpcug.org </blockquote> <blockquote> Subject: Intelligent Community Forum X-URL: http://www.intelligentcommunity.org/ Building the Broadband Economy 2007 ICF will hold the 2007 edition of its annual Building the Broadband Economy conference on May 17-18 at Polytechnic University in New York City, in association with Polytechnic's Institute for Technology & Enterprise. Now in its fourth year, BBE2007 is an international meeting place and idea exchange for government officials and their private-sector partners in telecom, IT, finance, real estate and consulting. It's a unique opportunity to learn from the world's most innovative communitie show they [EMBED] have made the broadband economy work for them, sometimes against great odds. It offers a global perspective on the best ways to create broadband infrastructure, attract knowledge workers, foster innovation and implement e-government that contributes to economic growth and bridges the digital divide. Featured speakers include IBM Global Government's Todd Ramsey, Deputy Mayor Daniele Auffray of the City of Paris, Verizon's Anthony DiMaso and Gale Brewer of the New York City Council. </blockquote> <blockquote what="official notices of Broadband Committee" edits="some past and less relevant event notices removed"> Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 19:25:37 -0400 From: Bruce Lai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: E-Update for the Committee on Technology in Government of the New York City Council (April 22, 2007). Hello All, The following are upcoming hearings to be convened by the Committee on Technology in Government of the New York City Council. The Committee is chaired by Council Member Gale A. Brewer (Manhattan, Council District 6). If you have any questions about the Committee's hearing schedule, please contact Jeff Baker ([EMAIL PROTECTED] / 212-788-9193), Counsel to the Committee on Technology in Government, or Colleen Pagter ([EMAIL PROTECTED] / 212-788-9085), Policy Analyst to the Committee on Technology in Government. Feel free to suggest potential hearing topics to Jeff and Colleen as well. Hope to see you at one of our upcoming events! < ... /> ***** THE FUTURE OF DIGITAL NEW YORK (IN THE HUFFINGTON POST) I recently published a blog post in the Huffington Post regarding the Gale and I's championing of the New York City Broadband Advisory Committee and the issue of universal, affordable access to broadband in New York City. * http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-lai/the-future-of-digital-new_b_46221.html ***** NEW YORK CITY BROADBAND ADVISORY COMMITTEE The Brooklyn Public Hearing Announcement On Tuesday, May 22nd from Noon to 3 pm, in the Courtroom hearing room in the Brooklyn Borough Hall, the New York City Broadband Advisory Committee will convene its second public hearing to hear testimony from Brooklyn residents, nonprofit organizations and businesses. Gale and I would like to thank the Office of the Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz for their help in securing this beautiful space. Brooklyn Borough Hall is located at 209 Joralemon Street in downtown Brooklyn. Here is a link to a Google map of where the hearing location, including where the closest subway stops are: * http://www.google.com/maps?q=209+Joralemon+St,+Brooklyn,+New+York+11201,+USA&sa=X&oi=map&ct=title <http://www.google.com/maps?q=209+Joralemon+St,+Brooklyn,+New+York+11201,+USA&sa=X&oi=map&ct=title> If you would like to testify at this hearing, please contact Jeff Baker ([EMAIL PROTECTED] / 212-788-9193), Counsel to the Committee on Technology in Government. Brooklyn residents, nonprofit organizations and businesses are particularly encouraged to testify. If you would like to help do community outreach for this hearing, please contact Ryan Merola ([EMAIL PROTECTED] / 212-788-6975). If you are a member of the press and would like more information about the Advisory Committee, please contact Bruce Lai, ([EMAIL PROTECTED] / 212-788-6975), Chief of Staff to Council Member Gale A. Brewer. For more information, visit the unofficial website of the NYC Broadband Advisory Committee: http://nycbroadband.blogspot.com/. Recap of the Bronx Public Hearing On Friday, March 30th, more than 200 people joined us on at Bronx Community College for the first-ever public hearing on broadband in New York City. Over 30 members of the public testified, including Bronx residents, public school students, leaders of nonprofit organizations and small business owners. The press release for the Bronx hearing is at the following web link: http://nycbroadband.blogspot.com/2007/04/press-release-is-available.html. The following are links to articles about the hearing in the Bronx on March 30th: * NY Daily News: http://www.nydailynews.com/boroughs/bronx/2007/03/27/20070327_air_your_views_at_wifi_public_hearing.html * Newsday: http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-nybroa305151459mar30,0,4224312.story * Metro: http://ny.metro.us/metro/local/article/Bridging_the_digital_divide/7717.html * NY1 http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?&aid=68237&search_result=1&stid=12 * Informationweek: http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=198100613&subSection=Breaking+News * Norwood News: http://www.bronxmall.com/norwoodnews/news/N70419page3.html * Chelsea Now: http://www.chelseanow.com/cn_27/chelseahighschool.html * Civil Defense: http://breitbart.wordpress.com/2007/04/03/bac-audio/ The following are some of the testimonies given during the Bronx hearing (click on each name to go to the testimony): * Andrew Gallagher <http://nycbroadband.blogspot.com/2007/04/testimony-from-andrew-gallagher-public.html>, Public school teacher from the Bronx * Angel Aracena <http://nycbroadband.blogspot.com/2007/04/testimony-from-angel-aracena-ma.html>, Director of Educational Technology for West Farms Technology & Career Center, Bronx * Seth Johnson <http://nycbroadband.blogspot.com/2007/04/testimony-from-seth-johnson-coordinator.html>, Coordinator, Dynamic Platform Standards Project * Joshua Breitbart <http://nycbroadband.blogspot.com/2007/04/testimony-from-joshua-breitbart-policy.html>, Policy Director for People's Production House (PPH) * Gary Axelbank <http://nycbroadband.blogspot.com/2007/04/testimony-from-gary-axelbank-director.html>, Director of Public Relations at Monroe College, Bronx * Kayza Kleinman <http://nycbroadband.blogspot.com/2007/04/kayza-kleinman-director-nonprofit.html>, Director, Nonprofit Help Desk, Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island The video for the entire hearing is at the following web link: http://www.bronxnet.org/c_program/whats_new/whats_new.htm. (Thank you BronxNet!) An audio report (or podcast) of the Bronx hearing (2-hour integral format, or 3-minute summary) is also available at the following web links: * http://nycbroadband.blogspot.com/2007/04/press-release-is-available.html * http://www.retc.fordham.edu/broadband.html Here's a list of the members of the Advisory Committee along with their bios: http://nycbroadband.blogspot.com/2007/03/list-of-members-of-committee.html. Finally, here's a briefing paper on the subject of broadband: http://nycbroadband.blogspot.com/2007/04/broadband-briefing-paper-type-here-full.html. (Thank you Colleen Pagter!) ***** </blockquote> _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.isoc-ny.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
