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City Mine(d) is organizing the KRAX Conference, a meeting between creative ideas in Barcelona and other cities, from April 23 to 26, 2008, focusing on urban autonomous cultural spaces - public spaces that support the creativity of a city’s residents, and generate debates about the way the city is managed. These are autonomous cultural production initiatives based on new models of (self)management and a coherent discourse in response to urban changes. There’s a need for political institutions to get to know and recognize these spaces and the value and richness they add to the city.

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It's time for NYC Drupal Camp again!

This time, I'm involved in organizing the event and also doing a workshop on how to evaluate contributed modules. The workshop is geared towards a broad range of folks, anyone from novice to experienced users of Drupal (drupal is a free/open source Content Management System)

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This is the conference description of the panel:

What would a truly anarchist or anti-capitalist Internet look like? In light of the current debate of Net Neutrality in the United States and its implications for anti-capitalist or extra-capitalist communications, what interventions can or should anarchists make for Internet justice to prevail?

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A data-centric look at Content Management and a discussion of how to plan and execute migrating from other Content Management Systems to Drupal, or from Drupal to other Content Management Systems. This workshop will include a hands-on work session/demo where we will complete the conversion of a website from Slashcode to Drupal for Autonomedia, a non-profit press collective.

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Another version of the Free Software for Librarians talk

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Radical Reference has been providing library services to political activists and independent journalists since July 2004. They help people online, in the street, in the classroom and on the exhibit floor. Their technology based services are delivered using Free/Open Source tools and yours can be, too. Learn about Radical Reference and how you can use their model to deliver services in your own communities.

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What do people mean when they say "free software"? What do we lose as a movement when we make decisions to use tools that are developed by profit-centric corporations? What community-centric alternatives exist?

In answering the above questions, we will give an accessible history of Free/Open Source software, including touching on licensing and copyright issues and then applying them to an activist community project, Radical Reference. This is a discussion for activists that use the internet as well as those that consider themselves to be techies.

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Starting with a primer on Free Software, this multi-day intensive took a group of Hawaiian activists through the process of selecting, setting up, and utilizing a website content management system, wiki, as well as secure and encrypted communications protocols.

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The Internet will continue to grow as a tool for media distribution, media rights advocacy, and community outreach for PEG entities. PEGspace is an initiative to help access centers best use the Internet to further the mission of public media through collaboration.

Learn how your center can improve its online effectiveness. Issues include developing a PEG-centric community of technical support and resource sharing using Free/Open Source software to enhance your web toolkit.

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Jenna and I were the keynote presentation for this day of skills shares put on by the students in Library and Informations Sciences at Simmons College.

Content was very similar to our previous presentation on the same topic