Thursday Meetings at Berkman Blog

• Introductions
• Ubuntu by Brett?
• Report on VloggerCon in San Francisco, June 10-11
• Report on Grassroots Use of Technology in Boston, June 16-17
• We may have someone who attended the Identity Mashup conference who will talk a little about distributed security stuff.
• We should plug Zach’s new course and see if there are ways we can help.
• Upcoming events of interest:
  • Boston Weblogger Meetup Monday, 6/26, 7 pm, Trident Booksellers
    • Last week should have been our joint meeting with the Boston Weblogger Meetup Group. Someone new has taken over that group and moved the meeting day.
  • If you’re definitely going to one of these far-flung supercool events, comment and let us know so other blog group folks will know to look for friendly faces (and to potentially coordinate travel, lodging shares etc.). You can definitely expect to see many of us at the events local to Boston.
  • BloggerCon IV in San Francisco, June 23-24
  • GnomeDex in Seattle, late June (Amanda W may be going)
  • Media Giraffe conference, Democracy and Independence: Sharing News and Politics in a Connected World in Amherst, June 29-July 1
  • Alliance for Community Media, in Boston, July 5-8
  • BlogHer in San Jose, July 28-29
  • Wikimania at Berkman, August 4-6
  • Summer vacation
• Various upcoming & potential stuff on our schedule:
  • Dan Bricklin, known for his work on VisiCalc and wikiCalc
  • Someone who can fill us in on what’s happening with China and the Internet (RMack? Eric Priest when he returns from Asia? – Eric will be back from China again later in the summer.)
  • Shava Nerad is working with Tracey from Placial (sp?) to have her present
  • If you want to help shepherd a potential future topic or if you have ideas of your own, please talk to Erica or j. We’d love – and could really use – your help!

• Eat:
  • This week: SMILE THAI at 8:45 pm for the Wikimania meeting
  • Last week: junk food in a hotel room (no meeting last week!)

During the meeting, participate via:

• Webcast: rtsp://harmony.law.harvard.edu/webcast.sdp or as backup http://harmony.law.harvard.edu/webcast.sdp NO WEBCAST THIS WEEK
• IRC chat
• live notes
• Join us at Baker House!