The September Project: An Update
Folks, *** feel free to forward *** The September Project (http://www.theseptemberproject.org) is a grassroots effort to encourage civic and campus events on freedom, democracy, and citizenship in libraries on or around September 11. PARTICIPANTS: Currently, over 600 libraries in 31 countries are organizing September Project events for their communities. A map of all participants can be seen here: http://www.drizzle.com/%7Eklockner/cgi-bin/tsp/2005/map.cgi PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES: Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, Cuba, Cyprus, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Nepal, New Zealand, Nicaragua, People's Republic of China (Hong Kong), Peru, Serbia and Montenegro, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, the United Kingdom, the US, and Venezuela. EVENTS: The events are simply inspired. For a listing of event examples, designed and hosted by public, academic, school, governmental, and special libraries, please visit our Events page: http://www.theseptemberproject.org/events.htm ACADEMIC EVENTS: There are too many community college, college, and university libraries participating to list all events, but here are a few to give you an idea of what will take place. University of Kansas/Lawrence Public Library "An Afternoon of Panel Discussions On Religious Cooperation & Community Involvement" http://www.lawrence.lib.ks.us/forums/sept-project.html Columbia College Chicago Library "Constitution Readout" http://www.lib.colum.edu/news.htm Eastern Connecticut State University "Iraq Perspectives" http://www.easternct.edu/depts/iraq-forum/ Edmonds Community College "A Faith-Based Discussion of Conflict and Humanity" http://www.edcc.edu/webinc/news.php?ID=609 University of Utah's J. Willard Marriott Library "Democracy in Action" http://www.lib.utah.edu/theSeptemberProject/ University of North Carolina Wilmington's William Randall Library "9/11 in Context" http://library.uncwil.edu/faculty/petersone/september.html Questions? Suggestions? Email: info@theseptemberproject.org david silver www.theseptemberproject.org English: http://www.theseptemberproject.org/tsp.pdf French: http://www.theseptemberproject.org/tspfrancais.pdf Greek: http://www.theseptemberproject.org/tspgreek.pdf Spanish: http://www.theseptemberproject.org/tspespanol.pdf
!! Submission deadline fast approaching -- September 12 !! *** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION (Please forward as appropriate) *** Group 2005 Workshop on: "Sustaining Community: The role and design of incentive mechanisms in online systems" At Group 05: International Conference on Supporting Group Work 6-9 November 2005, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA * THE TOPIC * What makes communities grow and prosper, or wither and die? In this workshop we'll explore this question by taking a close look at how incentive structures interact with short and long term viability. We'll address questions such as "What motivates participants to contribute?" "What social and technical mechanisms support (or deter) contribution?" and "How and to what extent can designers design sustainable communities?" * THE CONTENT * We are interested in open source communities, community-managed discussion spaces like Slashdot, social network-based communities such as Orkut, open content communities like Wikipedia, group blogs, "real world" communities, and other similar environments. * THE PARTICIPANTS * Our hope is to attract participants from a wide range of disciplines including anthropology, computer science, economics, interaction design, psychology, sociology, and so on. * THE FORMAT * Our goal is to raise questions and begin answering them from the divers directions supplied by the approaches of the attendees. The workshop will be highly interactive with minimal presentation of the position papers. * TO SUBMIT * See http://www.acm.org/sigs/siggroup/conferences/group05/SC.html for a complete description and submission information * IMPORTANT DATES * 12 September - Position papers due 04 October - Accept/Reject decisions made 08 October - Early registration deadline 06 November - Workshop Note: The first two dates are provisional; and may change once the early registration deadline is announced. * THE ORGANIZERS * Jason Ellis, Christine Halverson, Tom Erickson IBM T.J. Watson Research Center * FOR MORE INFORMATION * - Full description and information on submission requirements see http://www.acm.org/sigs/siggroup/conferences/group05/SC.html - General information about the Group 2005 conference see http://www.acm.org/sigs/siggroup/conferences/group05/ - To contact the organizers write to group-incentives@jellis.net -- ------------------------------------------ Tom Erickson IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Email: snowfall@acm.org (preferred); snowfall@us.ibm.com(IBM confidential) http://www.visi.com/~snowfall/
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