This meeting is at our regular time and place. Everybody is welcome.
What: NBLUG General Meeting
Topic: Chilling Effects of Intellectual Property laws
Who: Wendy Seltzer from EFF
When: November 11th, 2003 @ 7:30PM
Where: O'Reilly and Associates, Sebastopol, CA.
Details:
Copyright, licensing, and technological protection measures in the DMCA
throw up lots of hurdles to open source development of interoperable
software. Wendy Seltzer, an attorney with the Electronic Frontier
Foundation, will talk about the legal landscape for reverse engineers --
and what you can do to help EFF fight to fix the law.
Wendy Seltzer is a Staff Attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation,
specializing in intellectual property and free speech issues. As a Fellow
with Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Wendy founded and
leads the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse, helping Internet users to
understand their rights in response to cease-and-desist threats. Prior to
joining EFF, Wendy taught Internet Law as an Adjunct Professor at St.
John's University School of Law and practiced intellectual property and
technology litigation with Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel in New York.
Wendy speaks frequently on copyright, trademark, open source, and the
public interest online. She has an A.B. from Harvard College and J.D. from
Harvard Law School, and occasionally takes a break from legal code to
program (Perl).
http://www.eff.orghttp://www.chillingeffects.org
If you (or somebody you know) might be interested in speaking to a friendly
group of 25-45 people about something related to Linux or Open Source,
please contact speakers(a)nblug.org.
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Kyle Rankin
NBLUG President
The North Bay Linux Users Group
http://nblug.org
IRC: greenfly(a)irc.freenode.net #nblug
kyle(a)nblug.org
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WHAT: General Meeting
TOPIC: MythTV (Encoding Video with Linux)
SPEAKERS: Scott Doty, Kyle Rankin, and M.E.
WHERE: O'Reilly and Associates, Sebastopol, CA.
http://nblug.org/location.shtml
WHEN: 14 October 2003 @ 7:30PM
Scott Doty has been working with video encoding with Linux and MythTV to
record Television and Video with Linux. He will offer us a review of
what he has done and inform us on what he has found to work very well,
and what to avoid. This should be an excellent presentation for
beginners through advanced users.
Kyle Rankin and M.E. will provide a co-presentation to work with video
encoding, and include some "neat tricks" with mplayer.
(ME: remember to bring in your DVD/VCR.)
GPG key signing party to follow. Visit
http://nblug.org/augie/gpg/gpg-announce.html to find out more.
augie.
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