Re: [silk] bangalore treats

2013-04-01 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote: I wouldn't wish ccd coffee on my worst enemy these days 1. Walk into a CCD 2. Order a double shot of espresso 3. Waiter warns you sir, it is very strong coffee 4. Yes I know, I still want it 5. Brings you a

[silk] Hacking the World

2013-04-01 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Interesting piece on Aaron Swartz, and on Biella. Biella, want to say more? Udhay https://chronicle.com/article/Hacking-the-World/138163/ April 1, 2013 Hacking the World An anthropologist in the midst of a geek insurgency By Nathan Schneider Hacking the World To hold an event in the Great

Re: [silk] What is happiness?

2013-04-01 Thread Bruce Metcalf
Shrabonti Bagchi shrabont...@gmail.com wrote: I keep going back to this piece by Tim Kreider whenever someone talks about finding the meaning of happiness http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/averted-vision/ Averted Vision By TIM KREIDER Happiness is a mystery, like religion,

[silk] Introduction

2013-04-01 Thread Yosem Companys
Hi all, I'm one of the coordinators of the Program on Liberation Technologies at Stanford University, where we study and design technologies that can be used to promote the public good, including democracy, human rights, freedom, and development, among others. We're located at

Re: [silk] Introduction

2013-04-01 Thread Jon Lebkowsky
Great to see you here, Yosem! On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Yosem Companys ycompa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm one of the coordinators of the Program on Liberation Technologies at Stanford University, where we study and design technologies that can be used to promote the public good,

Re: [silk] Introduction

2013-04-01 Thread Caitlin Marinelli
Yosem, great to meet you! I'm from the US originally, but working at a company based out of IIT-Madras, called Uniphore, and our focus is precisely on one type of 'liberation technology': speech technology. Broadly speaking, using multilingual speech recognition in 14 Indian languages and voice

Re: [silk] Introduction

2013-04-01 Thread Yosem Companys
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Jon Lebkowsky j...@polycot.com wrote: Great to see you here, Yosem! Nice! I'm sure there's a lot of cross membership on our various lists. Yosem

Re: [silk] Introduction

2013-04-01 Thread Yosem Companys
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Caitlin Marinelli caitlin.marine...@gmail.com wrote: Yosem, great to meet you! Same here :) I'm from the US originally, but working at a company based out of IIT-Madras, called Uniphore, and our focus is precisely on one type of 'liberation technology':

Re: [silk] Introduction

2013-04-01 Thread Charles Haynes
Hi Yosem, Nice to see you here! I've just finished a year working in Africa (Johannesburg and Kampala) building local software development capability The idea is to build up local development ability rather than continuing to allow Africa to be treated as a market to be exploited. Love to hear

Re: [silk] Introduction

2013-04-01 Thread Biju Chacko
On 1 Apr 2013 22:31, Yosem Companys ycompa...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Caitlin Marinelli Happy to chat more about it, and would love to learn more about the other liberation technologies you're mapping out. Feel free to email me privately to discuss further.