[liberationtech] Fwd: Your Input on Researcher and Social Entrepreneurship Collaboration

2013-04-28 Thread Sam King
-- Forwarded message -- From: Rohisha Adke Hi everyone, A friend and I are doing research on collaboration that happens (or doesn't happen) between researchers in social sciences/humanities and those who could apply the research through "entrepreneurial ventures," especially thos

[liberationtech] Fwd: [svc4all] Food Hackathon 9AM April 6, 2013 - 7PM April 7, 2013 (Saturday and Sunday)

2013-03-28 Thread Sam King
-- Forwarded message -- From: Jim Murray Date: Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:08 AM *Food Hackathon 9AM April 6, 2013 - 7PM April 7, 2013 (Saturday and Sunday) http://foodhackathon.eventbrite.com/# * We thought you might be interested in the event highlighted below. *To register, see

[liberationtech] Fwd: USAID/Humanity United Tech Challenge for Atrocity Prevention

2013-03-22 Thread Sam King
-- Forwarded message -- From: Mia Newman Date: Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 7:15 AM Subject: USAID/Humanity United Tech Challenge for Atrocity Prevention To: Sam King Hi Sam, Not sure if you remember me, but we talked when I was president of Stanford STAND for the past few years, and

[liberationtech] Fwd: CodeHS Crowdfunding Campaign -- CS in HS

2012-11-14 Thread Sam King
I just donated to the below campaign -- the folks involved are both motivated and capable, and I'm confident that they'll make a big impact if we get them the resources they need. Sam King Director | Code the Change <https://codethechange.org> - ask me how you can help the CS f

[liberationtech] Fwd: Stanford Social Entrepreneurship Exchange NOV 8th 6:30-8:30 PM

2012-11-05 Thread Sam King
There's a social entrepreneurship fair on Thursday. If you are interested in programming for a social enterprise or starting one, this is a great opportunity to learn about resources. Sam King Director | Code the Change <https://codethechange.org> - ask me how you can help the CS

Re: [liberationtech] archives public

2012-08-09 Thread Sam King
In general, I prefer it when the reply-to is as it is in this mailing list. When I want to reply to the sender, I hit reply, and when I want to reply to all, I hit reply all. When the reply-to is the list, it becomes more annoying to reply just to the sender. Sam King Director | Code the Change

[liberationtech] Fwd: RemixEd: An edtech hackathon

2012-07-28 Thread Sam King
-- Forwarded message -- From: Jeremy Keeshin If there are any people who are around the area and interested in education technology and building products for teachers, there is a hackathon called RemixEd (http://remixedk12.com/) on August 4-5 in Mountain View. You can contact Mik

Re: [liberationtech] question about browser/Gmail subject line / browser history exposure

2012-07-04 Thread Sam King
k that most people I know are starting to have the expectation, "anything that I do on a computer or on the internet will leave traces." That is very dependent on the culture and familiarity with computers on the part of the user, though. Sam King Director | Code the Change <http://co

[liberationtech] Coding for Social Good event in July: Contributing Code

2012-06-28 Thread Sam King
Details are at http://contributingcode.cloudfoundry.com/ It's sponsored by VMWare, and Github, Benetech, and Code for America are participating. There will be talks, cool people, food, tshirts, prizes, and the opportunity to make the world a better place. Sam King Director | Code the C

Re: [liberationtech] Outside of the list/listmembers is Libtech basically private, or basically public? WAS - Re: Urgent question

2012-06-04 Thread Sam King
cular countries or current events under the assumptions that the people involved would consider that private-ish. Greg does bring up a good point regarding community standards versus security, though. Sam King Director | Code the Change <http://codethechange.org> - we have a Code Jam for

Re: [liberationtech] Urgent question

2012-06-04 Thread Sam King
e can sign up for, you should assume that whatever malicious user you are worried about has an account on the list and is getting every email that anyone sends to it and indexing it themselves. At that point, any privacy you're getting is just security through obscurity. Sam King Director

[liberationtech] Three CS Social Change Events for the Quarter

2012-05-18 Thread Sam King
e quarter is over, there will be a journalism hackathon. Details aren't finalized yet, but email me if you're interested, and I'll keep you posted. Sam King Director | Code the Change <http://codethechange.org> - we have a Code Jam for social good coming up! Teache

[liberationtech] Code the Change: Code Jam 5/12/12 1pm to 9pm: Use CS and Design Skills for Good!

2012-05-08 Thread Sam King
Code the Change is having an 8 hour Code Jam on Saturday, May 12, from 1pm to 9 pm, at Branner Dining Hall. This Code Jam is a good opportunity to have a real world impact and for people of all skill levels to learn more about web programming or the many other ways that CS can be used for social c

[liberationtech] Fwd: Want to meet a former US Senator, Co-founder of Kiva, and Co-founder of RadicalFusion?

2012-04-30 Thread Sam King
The Engagement Summit is a great way to learn from some CS Social Change practitioners -- they have a great line up of people. Check it out at Old Union on Sunday at Noon (pizza provided). Sam King Director | Code the Change <http://codethechange.org> - we have a Code Jam for social good

[liberationtech] Fwd: Green Energy Hackathon

2012-04-27 Thread Sam King
-- Forwarded message -- From: Deep Sahni Date: Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 3:24 PM We had a great hackathon last weekend at Stanford. The CTO from the White House showed up and spent 2.5 hours with the students! We would like to invite the Code the Change group and it's members to our h