[DDN] confirmed: DDN meetup in Boston this Thursday, 5pm

2005-02-14 Thread Andy Carvin
Hi everyone, I just wanted to confirm that we're going to have an informal meetup of DDN members this Thursday afternoon at 5pm, in conjunction with the LinuxWorld conference. The meetup is for any DDN member who happens to be in Boston, so it's not just for Linux geeks like Taran and Mad Dog. :

Re: [DDN] Tech Day 2005, New York NY - Meet Senior Robotics Engineer, Dr. Edward Tunstel

2005-02-14 Thread Taran Rampersad
Jon maddog Hall wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: During her participant on the Lego team, Lauren, ten-years-old, told her mother that she didn't want to be an ice-skater anymore, but now wants to "build robots that go to Mars." She can't wait to meet Dr. Edward Tunstel, a real robotics engineer.

[DDN] Fortune Digital Divide and Global Leadership

2005-02-14 Thread Lars Hasselblad Torres
Excellent article http://www.fortune.com/fortune/print/0,15935,1024216,00.html -- Lars Hasselblad Torres Researcher, AmericaSpeaks 802-223-4288 www.americaspeaks.org join the movement for deliberative democracy: www.deliberative-democracy.net ___ DIG

[DDN] Women and the elderly are crossing the digital divide, but the poor still lag behind, says new EU report (fwd)

2005-02-14 Thread Andy Carvin
From the European Union... -ac Women and the elderly are crossing the digital divide, but the poor still lag behind, says new EU report Women have overtaken men in the past three years in their pace of Internet take-up, according to a new Commission report. The over 55s are also increasingly ga

[DDN] INFORMATION LITERACY: Teaching Students to Swim in the Online Sea

2005-02-14 Thread David P. Dillard
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Re: [DDN] Tech Day 2005, New York NY - Meet Senior Robotics Engineer, Dr. Edward Tunstel

2005-02-14 Thread Jon maddog Hall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > During her participant on the Lego team, Lauren, ten-years-old, told her > mother that she didn't want to be an ice-skater anymore, but now wants to > "build robots that go to Mars." She can't wait to meet Dr. Edward Tunstel, > a real robotics engineer. I thought this wa

[DDN] flash slideshow interview with dirk koning

2005-02-14 Thread Phil Shapiro
hi everyone - Last week an inspiring pioneer of the community media movement, Dirk Koning, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, sadly passed away because of a heart ailment. When I went to visit the web site of the Grand Rapids Community Media Center (http://www.grcmc.org), I asked myself, "What can I

Re: [DDN] Tech Day 2005, New York NY - Meet Senior Robotics Engineer, Dr. Edward Tunstel

2005-02-14 Thread Tommy McDonell
Is there a fee for this and could students of mine come? Thanks. Tommy Tommy B. McDonell Doctoral Candidate, Steinhardt School of Education [EMAIL PROTECTED] Adjunct, Marymount Manhattan College Adjunct, City College of New York-Graduate Education H: 212-929-6768, before 10PM F: 212-929-1129 -