[vox] Opportunity for EFF to speak at UC Davis in October

[T. Mark]

That's a great guest to have.  Makes me think of how dour things seem as far as UCD vis-a-vis FOSS.. the Computer Science dept. as well as the libraries seem content to keep on working within the confines of the megaconglomerate.  Maybe ask some Law School folks--  I think they have some ACLU presence if not NLG.  Maybe they better appreciate how important liberty-minded licensing is.  Also a thought crossing my mind--  "those were the days" when we had Installfests in the Engineering Bldg!  Another sobering item.. some time ago I browsed the CS Dept site to see what research was cookin', found one of the decorated/published guys was busy systematically analyzing the contribution patterns of devs doing Github commits.  Can't remember if the author is former Microsoft or still is.  Basically-- taking full (profitable) advantage of our doing work in the open!  Coincidentally, one of my fave podcasts had a mini-debate about this-- just how much openness is best for what situations, along with  which Release Schedule approach has most advantages for a given Linux distro.  (I think it was LinuxLuddites -- I ought go back and find the clip.)Thanks for all the advocacy!
  --Mark  --https://twitter.com/linuxusergroup
25. Aug 2016 04:41 by brian at brie.com:


> I hope we can find someone to help coordinate on UCD.
>
> I look forward to hearing again from EFF, especially with the current
> TPP trickery going on.
>
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 09:12:49PM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote:
>>
>> Any takers? :)
>>
>> -bill!
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 05:03:32PM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote:
>> > 
>> > Shahid Buttar, Director of Grassroots Advocacy at the
>> > Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), has offered to
>> > come speak at LUGOD's October meeting, and was wondering
>> > if we had any contacts at UC Davis that could help
>> > them arrange an aligned event at UC-Davis earlier that day?
>> > 
>> > Thanks!
>> > 
>> > -- 
>> > -bill!
>> > Sent from my computer
>>
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