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by jeremy hunsinger 24 Mar '03

24 Mar '03

it's not the first time internet research has been in nature, or probably the first time you've seen the article this is based on, it made rounds about 2 weeks ago in the blogs, but it is interesting nonetheless http://www.nature.com/nsu/030317/030317-5.html Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture

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Fwd: DEF CON Announcement: CFP, Media now on line! (fwd)
by jeremy hunsinger 24 Mar '03

24 Mar '03

I don't know how many of you are interested in security and the internet, but I am, and if you are, we could perhaps put together a birds of a feather or network of excellence, or similar topic. if you are interested in pursuing something, email me at jhuns(a)vt.edu. in the mean time, defcon occured and the media is online. Begin forwarded message: > From: Eugen Leitl <eugen(a)leitl.org> > Date: Mon Mar 24, 2003 2:49:56 PM US/Eastern > To: cpunx-news(a)leitl.org > Cc: grisvalpen <pigdog(a)pighaven.org>, cypherpunks(a)lne.com > Subject: DEF CON Announcement: CFP, Media now on line! (fwd) > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 22:06:46 -0800 > From: The Dark Tangent <dtangent(a)defcon.org> > To: bugtraq(a)securityfocus.com > Subject: DEF CON Announcement: CFP, Media now on line! > > Hello everyone, > > I would like to make several DEF CON related announcements. > > The Call For Papers for speaking at DEF CON ELEVEN (or XI, 0x0B, 1.1, > 11) is now on-line and in effect. Continuing last year, we will > continue > to pay speakers. We are also continuing to improve speaker quality. It > is > no longer enough to have green hair and an attitude. > Check it out at: > http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-11/defcon-11-cfp.html > > The speeches from DEF CON 0a are now on-line with the DEF CON media > server. > 90% of the talks are encoded with Real Helix and should be at a better > resolution than past media. The missing talks are being hunted down > now and > re-encoded. Only video is currently available, with the audio only > encoding > to follow. Listen to 60+ talks spanning privacy, wireless, hacking, > network > defense and more! > DEF CON 0a Media: > http://www.defcon.org/html/links/defcon-media-archives.html#DEF CON 10 > > Solicitation for papers, stories, and art: Contrary to rumors on IRC, > DEF > CON is not starting a publication. What we are doing is expanding the > show > program to be more of than just a show guide since last year's program > with > the added articles was such a huge hit. As such we are looking for > serious > technical articles, relating to the underground scene, privacy, > computer > security, humor, stories, and art. > Go to http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-11/defcon-11-program.html > > Thank you, > The Dark Tangent > > Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture

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Re: peace
by Robert Hassan 24 Mar '03

24 Mar '03

In response to Steve's experience with students who don't or can't talk about the war. Could it be, at some level, a way of dealing with guilt, a sort of horror at what is being done in one's name? I feel it here in Australia, where lying politicians and propagandistic media can't make their case effectively, so people either demonstrate or shun it. Another reason could be (for some undergraduate students) that they lack the historical perspective to make sense of what is going on. I have followed this closely, for months, and still find myself going through mental gymnastics to make sense of what is a hugely complex legal, ethical, moral, historical (and strategical) set of issues. On the other hand, I have taught students who were only vaguely aware of World War Two; for whom Vietnam meant interesting food and a great place to travel to; and the Middle East was just a hot region with strangely noisy people until 9/11 blasted its way into the general consciousness-to then be manipulated by our leaders.

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2 new papers and 2 updated papers on opensource.mit.edu + community stats
by Karim R. Lakhani 24 Mar '03

24 Mar '03

Hello All, Well spring has finally sprung in Cambridge, MA. It was a brutal winter! But now alas the sun is shining and the birds are chirping. Hope everyone is doing OK -- given the circumstances. We have 2 new papers and 2 updated papers on opensource.mit.edu, details below. BTW, some community stats: * We now have 83 papers on the site! * 205 researchers have signed up on our researcher directory * 225 members on the community list * 109 members on the discuss list (quiet recently!) Here are the new papers: ***************************************************** New Papers ***************************************************** Paper 1 Authors: Lee, Samuel, Nina Moisa & Marco Weiss Title: *Open Source as a Signalling Device - An Economic Analysis* http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/leemoisaweiss.pdf Abstract: Open source projects produce goods or standards that do not allow for the appropriation of private returns by those who contribute to these projects. In this paper we analyze why programmers will nevertheless invest their time and effort to code open source software. We argue that the particular way in which open source projects are managed and especially how contributions are attributed to individual agents, allows the best programmers to create a signal that more mediocre programmers cannot achieve. Through setting themselves apart they can turn this signal into monetary rewards that correspond to their superior capabilities. With this incentive they will forgo the immediate rewards they could earn in software companies producing proprietary software by restricting the access to the source code of their product. Whenever institutional arrangements are in place that enable the acquisition of such a signal and the subsequent substitution into monetary rewards, the contribution to open source projects and the resulting public good is a feasible outcome that can be explained by standard economic theory. Paper 2 Authors: Dalle, Jean- Michel & Paul A. David Title *The Allocation of Software Development Resources in 'Open Source' Production* http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/dalledavid.pdf Abstract: The paper develops a stochastic simulation model capable of describing the decentralized, micro-level decisions that allocate programming resources both within and among open source/ free software (OS/FS) projects, and which critically shape their growth. The core or behavioral kernel of our simulation tool is based on dynamic "growing" trees, and incorporates the effects of the reputational reward structure of OS/FS communities as characterized by Eric S. Raymond (1998). In this regard, our line of investigation also follows recent approaches associated with studies of academic researchers in “open science” communities. For the purposes of this first step, we mainly focus on showing the ways in which the specific norms of the reward system and organizational rules can shape emergent properties of projects, and we also point to a validation in this framework of the often adovcated, but yet mainly empirical "release early" rule. ************************************************************ Revised Papers ************************************************************ Paper 1 Author Chiao, Benjamin Hak- Fung Title: *An Economic Theory of Free and Open Source Software: A Tour from Lighthouse to Chinese-Style Socialism* http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/chiao.pdf The theory is that free and open source software is a private property under the guise of a common property. Such software is distributed under some licenses such as the GNU General Public License (GPL). The intents in The GNU Manifesto cause the GPL to have striking similarities with communism. The resulting economic properties, however, are similar to those in Chinese-style socialism: they both separate legal and economic ownerships. My departure from other analyses in the literature begins when I show that some public good properties of this type of software are observed in reality. Though non-profitable distributions are compulsory according to the provision of the GPL, the data shows that distributors have increased, for example, excludability of networks so that users are induced to buy the commercial packages. Social marginal cost is thus not zero. I refute the view that the development (including distribution) is insufficient. "Over- development" is even possible because "copylefting" allows agents to appropriate income from resource owners by establishing economic (not legal) rights over the software through informal hierarchies or trade secrets. Resource owners might not suffer. Without incentive compatibilities, the software might not be that valuable in the first place. Implications of increased substitutability of workers, absence of piracy breaking the tie-in of software and support, and branching of versions are also discussed. Paper 2 Authors: Osterloh, Margit; Sandra Rota & Bernhard Kuster Title: *Open Source Software Production: Climbing on the Shoulders of Giants* http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/osterlohrotakuster.pdf Abstract: Open source software production is a successful new production model in which a public good is voluntarily provided. We argue that by studying this new production model we gain valuable insight for organization theory beyond software production. Under specific conditions this model can be generalized, contingent on the interplay of motivational, situational, and institutional factors. It is argued that a production model building on the shoulders of predecessors and peers depends on a well balanced portfolio of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, low costs for contributors and governance mechanisms that do not crowd out intrinsic motivation. Best, Karim -- =============================================== Karim R. Lakhani MIT Sloan School of Management MIT Free/Open Source Software Research Project e-mail: lakhani(a)mit.edu voice: 617-851-1224 fax: 617-344-0403 http://opensource.mit.edu http://freesoftware.mit.edu http://mit.edu/lakhani/www

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a sign of the actual cultural atmosphere ?
by Frank Thomas 23 Mar '03

23 Mar '03

a sign of the actual cultural atmosphere, in the US as well as in Europe (and maybe elsewhere) ? from cnet: http://news.com.com/2009-1088-984352.html?tag=lh from today: Shoot the instant messenger Maybe he should paid a few extra bucks for the "ruggedized <http://news.com.com/2100-1040-929031.html?tag=nl>" model. George Doughty, owner of Doughty's Tavern in the mountain town of Lafayette, Colo., is without a computer and facing the prospect of jail time after shooting his Dell laptop last Sunday. According to Lafayette Police reports, Doughty got fed up with his notebook for unspecified reasons and decided to teach it a lesson with his handgun. He set the laptop on the floor of his bar, plugged it with several shots and then hung it on the wall "like a hunting trophy," according to a report in the region's newspaper, The Daily Camera of Boulder, Colo. Police weren't as much concerned with shooting as the fact that it happened in front of several bar patrons. Doughty faces trial March 19 on charges of felony menacing, reckless endangerment and the prohibited use of weapons. Doughty told CNET News.com he couldn't talk about the incident until after the trial. While Doughty's alleged reaction might have been extreme, the impulse isn't that unusual. In a recent European IT survey <http://www.ch.didata.com/documents/frustration_survey.pdf?tag=nl>, one out of 10 users admitted to physically abusing their PCs when they malfunctioned. [March 7, 2003] Cheers Frank Thomas

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tidbits on internet usage and access
by catherine middleton 23 Mar '03

23 Mar '03

Here are some interesting articles/reports about internet usage and access that I've come across on other lists this weekend. 1. Connected to the Future: A Report on Children's Internet Use, by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting "New Report from CPB Shows Surge in Internet Use Among Underserved Children, Study Finds Parents an Important Influence on Children's Internet Use" http://www.cpb.org/programs/pr.php?prn=314 2. From Michael Gilbert's Nonprofit Online News http://news.gilbert.org/ "The Mercury News covers how, drawing on techniques pioneered in Seattle during the WTO meetings, protesters against the war use the internet and wireless in real time." http://news.gilbert.org/clickthru/redir/4690/19315/rms 3. Also from Nonprofit Online News: "Thursday, March 20, 2003: I am very impressed. The United Way will be providing wireless internet access to poor West Philadelphia neighborhoods. This is precisely the kind of bottom up initiative that will nurture many other empowerment efforts. I'll be following this one closely." http://news.gilbert.org/clickthru/redir/4687/19315/rms

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FW: Slogans from War-Related Demonstrations - a Research Collecti ons Initiative
by Walker, Steve [IES] 23 Mar '03

23 Mar '03

The following may be of interest, Steve -----Original Message----- From: Powles John Sent: 21 March 2003 15:56 To: * GCU All Staff Subject: Slogans from War-Related Demonstrations - a Research Collections Initiative Slogans from War-Related Demonstrations - a Collecting Initiative Much of the material held to date by Research Collections is related to left wing politics and pressure groups. In the course of our recent work we have become aware of the many slogans being used at war-related demonstrations all over the world. We are now collecting together these slogans, together with links to other collections of relevant materials (links section coming soon). The slogans are being listed, together with a form for sending us contributions to the list, at <http://www.lib.gcal.ac.uk/researchcollections/antiwar.htm> http://www.lib.gcal.ac.uk/researchcollections/antiwar.htm Much of this material is clearly ephemeral in nature, so we will be organising and archivng as many as possible slogans for the benefit of future researchers, once the current level of activity has died down. An associated initiative to collect anti-war songs, which we have been receiving on a daily basis for some weeks now, can be found at Research Collections' Centre for Political Song < <http://www.centreforpoliticalsong.gcal.ac.uk/> http://www.centreforpoliticalsong.gcal.ac.uk/> website. Again, submissions via the site are welcomed. Please note: The relevant collections are headed Anti-War Slogans and Anti-War Songs because as far as we can judge almost all the available material appears to be anti-war. If anyone would like to submit slogans noted from pro-war demonstrations (giving place and time if known), or information about pro-war songs, we would be very grateful to receive them, and add them to our collections. Given current e-mail activity I would point out that, despite the nature of its collections, Research Collections is politically neutral in its activities - as information professionals we are here to facilitate research. John Powles Research Collections Manager Glasgow Caledonian University Tel: 0141-331-3920 Fax: 0141-331-3005 E-Mail: <mailto:J.Powles@gcal.ac.uk> J.Powles(a)gcal.ac.uk

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call for photographers; job position
by david silver 23 Mar '03

23 Mar '03

*** please feel free to forward *** fyi. peace, peace, peace, david 1. ARTHUR is ready and willing to publish gruesome WAR PHOTOS that, if Gulf War I were any indication (and it may not be, of course), are likely not to be made available to Americans by either the government or the mainstream media. Please note that we cannot currently offer any financial compensation to contributors. ARTHUR is a free, 48-page, labor-of-love bimonthly broadsheet with a 45,000 printrun (likely to go higher with the next ish). It is distributed to major markets across North America by a network of volunteers. Info on ARTHUR is available at http://www.arthurmag.com (At ARTHUR's website you will find links there to recent features on ARTHUR in Los Angeles Times and the Philadelphia Weekly.) Please pass this note on to any photographers who might want to work with us. Thank you so much. They can contact me at editorial(a)arthurmag.com best, JAY BABCOCK Editor, ARTHUR Magazine *** 2. THE FORD FOUNDATION 320 EAST 43RD STREET, BOX #162 NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10017 POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT PROGRAM OFFICER KNOWLEDGE, CREATIVITY AND FREEDOM PROGRAM MEDIA, ARTS AND CULTURE SUMMARY DESCRIPTION: Working with the Director, the Media, Arts and Culture (MAC) team and other Foundation staff, the Program Officer will be responsible for developing, monitoring, and evaluating the Foundation's US programming in public interest media with a primary focus on production. Building on the knowledge gained from the Foundation's lines of work in public interest media, the Program Officer will develop new initiatives that support high quality, innovative social documentaries and other media projects through the Foundation's Media Projects Fund. The Program Officer will also be expected to develop strategies that help public interest media to broaden and diversify their audiences; to strengthen the infrastructure of public radio and broadcasting; and to take account of new technologies. Individuals with interdisciplinary knowledge, interest and experience in more than one medium (e.g. film, television, radio, internet, and digital media) and strong interest in teamwork and collaboration are encouraged to apply. The purpose of this work shall be consonant with the Foundation's mission statement; Knowledge, Creativity and Freedom (KC&F) values of identity, community and creativity; and the unit's goal to advance media, technology, information resources and policies to strengthen diverse communities and promote democratic values. The Program Officer will develop grantmaking strategies; identify prospective grantees; solicit, review and respond to grant proposals; and prepare recommendations for Foundation funding. The Program Officer will also collaborate especially with colleagues in KC&F and in the Foundation's other programs and overseas offices to advance a worldwide agenda around the Foundation's goals in the Media, Arts and Culture fields. QUALIFICATIONS: Advanced degree or equivalent experience is required, as is substantial professional experience with public interest media production, distribution and exhibition systems and institutions, including interactive media, in the United States. Substantial experience with issues related to diversifying staffing and programming is also important. Superior analytical skills and the capacity to write and speak effectively are critical. Interest in working collaboratively and through teams and familiarity and/or experience with business planning and non-U.S. national media systems are highly valued, as is interest in and ability to work collaboratively with colleagues both in the U.S. and overseas, particularly in Africa and the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia, and Russia. Salary is based on experience and the Foundation's commitment to internal equity. A generous benefits package is included. To apply for employment, please send resume, cover letter, and brief writing sample (5-20 pages of original work) by April 30, 2003 to Ms. J. Graber (at the above address) or preferably by e-mail to resumes(a)fordfound.org. Equal employment opportunity and having a diverse staff are fundamental principles at The Ford Foundation, where employment and promotional opportunities are based upon individual capabilities and qualifications without regard to race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation/affectional preference, age, national origin, marital status, citizenship, disability, veteran status or any other protected characteristic as established under law. March 2003 #162

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Re: [Air-l] peace
by Irene Berkowitz 22 Mar '03

22 Mar '03

Hi Steve, For a moment of digression to academic things. The paper I just submitted to AoIR is about transpositions/tranformations on time and space and the focus on time. Great minds think alike. It is really difficult to put together and grossly understudied. Hope all is well in spite of the war. I feel hopeless, except to make my students more aware. I It's important to note that all conversations occur in some sense at the expense of others, in part because when a voice is raised it is difficult to raise others without causing a din, but mainly because such is time (itself an _enormously_ under-studied matter in internet studies, the cost of a focus on space) Irene Berkowitz Program Director, Curricular Publications and Systems Office of the Vice Provost Temple University tel. 215-204-7596 fax. 215-204 3175 berkowitz(a)mail.temple.edu

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reports from persons in bagdad
by Philipp Budka 22 Mar '03

22 Mar '03

hi all, on these websites you can find some reports on the situation in the iraqi-capital: http://www.nonviolence.org/vitw/ http://iraqpeaceteam.org/index.html there is no alternative to peace! -- Philipp Budka email: ph.budka(a)philbu.net tel.: +43(01) 95 28 244 tel. mobil.: +43(0)6991 95 28 244 Rustengasse 5/10 1150 Wien, Austria http://www.philbu.net +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ Bitte lächeln! Fotogalerie online mit GMX ohne eigene Homepage!

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