Andy Oram and a ragtag crew of incorrigibles^W^W^W^Wremarkable group of distinguished hackers, authors, organizers, and cranks will sit down at 7:00 pm on Thursday 30 August 2007 in the Mercantile Grill at 126 Pearl Street, on the Island of the Manahattoes.
http://www.mercantilegrill.com This meeting will not be informal. Andy will lead a discussion of Vi or Emacs^W^W^WGPL vs BSD^W^W^WLisp vs Perl^W^W^WXKCD vs Roswell, Texas. We intend to settle the question, under the Rule of the Medes and the Persians. This meeting will thus be the first of two. ad payment: The Mercantile Grill is a mercantile grill, and all who enter abide by the Mercantile Grill Rule: you eat, you pay: http://www.mercantilegrill.com/Dinner_1.htm Andy Oram is an editor of the book Beautiful Code. The book is beautiful. It is worth looking at some excerpts: http://safari.oreilly.com/9780596510046 For further information about this dinner and about Andy Oram: http://nten.org/events/meetup/2007/08/30/chat-on-online-tech-with-andy-oram-of-oreilly-media http://praxagora.com/andyo/professional/article.html http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/36 Jay Sulzberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Corresponding Secretary LXNY LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization. http://www.lxny.org PS. Here is a blurb from Andy Oram: <blockquote> Discussion will be kicked off by topics such as: * Why do people contribute free content, and what can society or businesses do to increase participation and quality? * In an age where many people can't afford books or don't want to read them, how do people learn technical skills? * What characteristics distinguish the arts in digital media from twentieth-century and pre-twentieth-century media? * How can writers earn a living from content in an age of free redistribution? * How will new stages of high-bandwidth networking be funded (can advertising carry the cost?) Biography: Andy Oram is an editor at O'Reilly Media, a highly respected book publisher and technology information provider. An employee of the company since 1992, Andy specializes in free software projects and software engineering. His work for O'Reilly includes the first books ever released by a U.S. publisher on Linux, the 2001 title Peer-to-Peer, and the recent best-seller Beautiful Code. Andy is also a member of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility and writes frequently on policy issues and trends related to the Internet and to technical innovation and its effects on society. Copyrights, trademarks, and patents, business aspects of open source, and telecom issues are among the topics covered in his articles at: http://praxagora.com/andyo/professional/article.html He is currently doing research on free, online, technical documention, along with experiments in new tools, as described at: http://praxagora.com/community_documentation/ An article he wrote about art on the Internet, titled "Characteristics of new media in the Internet age," is maintained as a wiki at: http://commons.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/Chapters_for_Characteristics_of_new_media </blockquote> _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.isoc-ny.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
