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NYC LOCAL: Saturday 18 April 2009 Open Everything NYC: Leslie Hawthorn of Google and Robert David Steele of Open Source Solutions |
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Subject: Open Everything NYC, 18 April 2009
X-URL: http://nyc.openeverything.us/
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:08:58 -0400 (EDT)
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Venue & date Open Everything NYC 2009 will be held at UNICEF
Headquarters, United Nations Plaza in New York, NY on April 18, 2009.
Registration will open at 8:00AM, events will begin promptly at 9:00AM.
The event will come to a close at 6:00PM, a location for post event
socializing will be announced at the end of the day.
Summary
Open Everything (global site) is a collection of events scattered all
over the world, organized by ordinary people just like you. The purpose
of the event is to explore and discuss 'open'. The interpretation of
the idea is in the hands of attendees, and each event differs from the
next.
Let there be no confusion, Open Everything is not a tech conference.
There is much more to 'open' than technology, part of the goal of the
event is to bring the less known aspects of 'open' to the attention of
the general public.
At Open Everything NYC 2009 there will be two invited guest speakers
and a number of open sessions left in the hands of attendees. Feel free
to come prepared with a topic to share, discuss, or present. Also feel
free to act spontaneously and lead a group discussion with no
preparation at all. The magic of the event is that it is open and we're
all free to contribute as we desire.
The event is free and open to the public, we do require that you
register so we can give you a fancy name badge and maybe even a
T-shirt. We'd also like to know how many people to expect so that we're
prepared.
Wish your city had an event? Join the discussion and we'll be happy to
help you organize an Open Everything of your very own ;).
Questions/Comments/Concerns about the Hong Kong Event? public at
johndbritton.com
Featured speakers
Leslie Hawthorn - Google, Inc. | Common Sense
Just as the adoption of Free and Open Source software has seen a
significant uptake in the past few years, so have the principles of
meritocracy and transparency that underpin this development
methodology. These two principles have broad implications for both
civic life and the business world, promising to empower citizens
through greater access to data and disruption of existing models. In
this talk, Leslie will explore some areas in which the concept of
Open could be most broadly useful, where it is taking hold
successfully and where we still must journey to achieve the promise
of an Open world. She will also explore some best practices for
engaging effectively with this Open world using lessons learned from
her work with the FOSS community.
About Leslie: Leslie Hawthorn is a Program Manager for Google's Open
Source Programs Office, where she's the Community Manager for the
Google Summer of Code community. She recently conceived, launched
and managed the Google Highly Open Participation Contest, the
world's first global initiative to get pre-university students
involved in all aspects of Open Source software development. Leslie
has also organized more than 100 open source conferences and
hackathons, most held at Google's Corporate Headquarters in Mountain
View, California, USA. When not wrangling FOSS developers, she's
usually speaking about Open Source, FOSS in education, and community
building or writing for the Google Open Source Blog. Prior to
joining Google, Leslie got her feet wet in Silicon Valley high tech
at a small communications semiconductor startup, where she worked in
Marketing and Public Relations. She holds a Honors B.A. in English
Language and Literature from U.C. Berkeley and her personal website
is http://www.hawthornlandings.org.
Robert David Steele - OSS.net | Open Source Intelligence
Robert David Steele, the foremost proponent for Open Source
Intelligence (OSINT) and public intelligence in the public interest,
will introduce "the other open source." In combination, Free/Open
Source Software (F/OSS) and OSINT empower the public as never
before. Information asymmetries and data pathologies that have been
used to concentrate wealth and perpetuate poverty, disease, and the
externalization of environmental costs, as well as to promote wars
that benefit the few at the expense of the many, will be explained.
Each person registered in advance for this event will receive a free
copy of the speaker's book, THE NEW CRAFT OF INTELLIGENCE: Personal,
Public, & Political (OSS, 2003). Robert will remain for the rest of
the afternoon to interact in a small group setting, and will also be
available to do an impromptu "SPY IMPROV: Everything You Ever Wanted
to Know," should there be a sufficiency of interest.
About Robert: Robert David Steele Vivas, 56, is a former US spy,
co-founder of the US Marine Corps Intelligence Center (today a
Command), and CEO of Open Source Solutions Network (OSS.Net, Inc.)
as well as pro bono CEO and angel funder of Earth Intelligence
Network, a 501c3 Public Charity that creates public intelligence
(decision-support) in the public interest. For 20 years he has been
the foremost international proponent for Open Source Intelligence
(OSINT), and offers 30,000 pages of free information online from 750
international authorities, all easily accessed via www.oss.net/BASIC
and www.oss.net/LIBRARY. Since 2002 he has helped pioneer peace
intelligence and is the originator of he proposal for a United
Nations Open-Source Decision-Support Information Network (UNODIN) to
be funded by the United States of America, and to include an
Assistant Secretary General for Decision-Support, a Multinational
Decision-Support Centre that relies exclusively on open sources of
information that can be easily shared with Non-Governmental
Organizations (NGO) and other stakeholders, and a diplomatic Office
of Information Sharing Treaties and Agreements.
He is the author of ON INTELLIGENCE: Spies and Secrecy in an Open
World; THE NEW CRAFT OF INTELLIGENCE: Personal, Public, & Political;
INFORMATION OPERATIONS: All Information, All Languages, All the
Time; THE SMART NATION ACT: Public Intelligence in the Public
Interest; and ELECTION 2008: Lipstick on the Pig. He is the
contributing editor of PEACEKEEPING INTELLIGENCE: Emerging Concepts
for the Future and is the contributing publisher of COLLECTIVE
INTELLIGENCE: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace, and of PEACE
INTELLIGENCE: Assuring a Good Life for All (forthcoming, raw
material at www.oss.net/PEACE). All of his books are available at
both Amazon in hard-copy, and free online at www.oss.net. His vision
for the future of Earth Intelligence can be reviewed at
www.earth-intelligence.net.
Map/directions
Address
UNICEF House
3 United Nations Plaza
New York, NY 10016
Google Map Directions
Location UNICEF House is located at 3 United Nations Plaza, between 1st
and 2nd Avenue on 44th Street.
Directions by NYC subway The closest subway stop is Grand Central/42nd
Street which services the 4/5/6 lines, the 7, and the shuttle to Times
Square.
Registration
The event is free and open to the public, however registration is
required. Please complete the online registration form
Sponsors
We are currently seeking event sponsors, please contact public at
johndbritton.com if you'd like to sponsor the event
Links
Blog about the event and we'll link to your post here. Email public at
johndbritton.com to be included.
* Mindtouch Blog
* John Britton's Blog
* Creative Commons Blog
* Gentooligans Blog
* Open Knowledge Foundation Blog
* Serendipity35 Blog
* Open Education News
* North Side Green Party
* Gifts Galore
* BoingBoing
* Data Commoners
* Good Magazine Blog
* Google Open Source Blog
Connect
* Facebook
* Twitter
* Open Everything Discuss Mailing List
License
Creative Commons License
Open Everything NYC 2009 by Open Everything NYC 2009 is licensed under
a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.
Based on a work at nyc.openeverything.us.
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Jay Sulzberger <secretary@lxny.org>
Corresponding Secretary LXNY
LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization.
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