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NYC LOCAL: Wednesday 14 November 2007 NYLUG: James Vasile on GPL3 and the Tribes |
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13 Nov 2007 13:08:54 -0500 |
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what="official NYLUG announcement"
note="Web RSVP closes 2:30 pm, see note below">
From: Ron Guerin <info@nylug.org>
To: NYLUG Announcements <nylug-announce@nylug.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:30:01 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [nylug-announce] TOMORROW! WEDNESDAY: NYLUG presents James Vasile
on GPL3,
FOSS Legal Primer & The Interaction of Licenses & Communities
REMINDER: This meeting is tomorrow, RSVP closes TODAY
Visit http://rsvp.nylug.org to see if RSVP is still open.
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007 *RSVP CLOSES TUESDAY BUT SEE BELOW*
6:30pm-8:00 PM
Google
76th 9th Ave., between 15th and 16th St.
4th Floor, enter near 16th Street
** RSVP Closes at 2:30pm the day before the meeting (sharp!) ***
Please RSVP for EVERY meeting at this time.
Register at http://rsvp.nylug.org/
Check in with photo ID at the lobby for badge.
Latecomers can sign in, but it means having to sign in and
possibly wait a bit.
PLEASE NOTE: If you miss the RSVP cutoff you can still come to the
meeting and sign in.
James Vasile, Free Software Law Center
-on-
GPL3, The FOSS Legal Primer,
and The Interaction of Licenses & Communities
Please join us on Wednesday evening, for a presentation by James
Vasile of the Free Software Law Center on several legal topics of
interest to users of Free and Open Source Software. While version
three of the GPL is now old news, there are still some points about
it worth discussing, and many still have questions about what makes
it different from previous versions of the widely-used GNU General
Public License.
James will also be talking to us about the interaction between
licenses and communities.
Further Information:
* Free Software Law Center
http://www.softwarefreedom.org/
* GNU General Public License v. 3 (GNU GPL)
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
* Dragging developers towards the core:
How the Free/Libre/Open Source Software community enhances
developers' contribution
http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/rullani_socenv.pdf
About James Vasile:
James Vasile holds a Juris Doctor (JD) from Columbia Law School,
where he was a member of the law review and a Stone Scholar. He also
has a bachelor's degree in political science and economics from
Fordham University. He spent several years in the litigation
department of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, where he worked on a range of
cases and dealt with a variety of new media issues. Vasile has also
contributed code and documentation to numerous FOSS software projects.
He is admitted to practice in the State of New York.
Meeting Location:
Please note that this meeting will be held at Google, 76 9th Ave,
4th floor, between 15th and 16th Streets, and not at IBM. This is
the old Port Authority Building, and takes up the entire block.
You want the entrance nearest 16th Ave.
Map:
http://tighturl.com/u4
Free Refreshments!
Google is also graciously providing refreshments during the
meeting.
Books!!!
Our friends at Prentice-Hall kindly provide us with review copies
of various new titles. One of these could be yours, all you have
to do is agree to review the book within a reasonable period of
time.
Swag (Give Away):
During/after the meeting... unusually terrific swag may be given
away.
Stammtisch:
After the meeting ... Many of us have been meeting over at the
Hog Pit starting around 8:15-8:30. http://www.hogpit.com
22 Ninth Avenue at 13th Street, New York, New York 10014
Python Workshops:
We will be focusing on learning Python for the next couple of
meetings. Beginners are welcome! Download Dive Into Python
from http://diveintopython.org and join us.
Those interested in working on the new NYLYG Web site are
strongly encouraged to attend also.
The workshops meet every other Tuesday, at the NY Public Library,
Hudson Park Branch. 66 Leroy St. NY NY from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Next meeting is November 20th, followed by December 4th.
See the calendar at: http://tighturl.com/fp
Please see our home page at http://www.nylug.org for the HTMLized
version of this announcement, our archives, and a lot of other good
stuff.
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Jay Sulzberger <secretary@lxny.org>
Corresponding Secretary LXNY
LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization.
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