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June 2006

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  1. Identity Open Space event in Vancouver

    Kaliya Hamlin , a friend of mine from various converenences, is involved in the planning/convening of an open space conference in Vancouver about single sign on, identity related issues. What do I mean by that? Well, I think Kaliya can explain it better . I agree with her that it is important for folks from our sector (social source, progressive technology) to be in on these discussions. The identity layer will really propell our experience of the internet to the next level.

  2. Drupal Camp Seattle June 28, 29

    CivicActions is co-sponsoring Drupal Camp Seattle with Vancouver Drupal ASP Bryght and Rain City Studios (also based in Vancouver) on Wednesday and Thursday, June 28, 29 at the Richard Hugo House . I’ll be facilitating and co-facilitating sessions for non-coders on e-campaigning with Drupal, boot-strapping your site with Drupal as a non-coder, CiviCRM for power users and a quick tour of the views module.

  3. Wardriving with Arthur

    Arthur Foelsche and I take a few minutes away from the rest of the CivicActions June Off Site in Geyserville, CA to troubleshoot and fix a mail issue for a client. Geyserville is a rather small town, no internet cafes. So we made due, after about 10 minutes of wardriving, we found an open wireless signal near the railroad tracks.

  4. More Drupal Mapping from Development Seed!

    Had a quick Skype with Eric Gundersen of Development Seed . Eric and I catch up every week or three to talk about developments in drupal development. Particularly the modules that our shops are working on (and modules that other shops are workign on too!). We’ll be having a call sometime soon to talk about their seed campaign module, our mapthing module, and forward and send. Basically this is my dream recipe that does viral e-activism with maps! Eric pointed me to this blog post about some google based geotagging work they are doing. “[They are] working on building a new geocoder module for Drupal to make syndication of content to maps and Google Earth easier.”

  5. MeCommerce from GoodStorm

    GoodStorm , the Drupal Powered on demand T-Shirt printing service, is launching a new service called “ MeCommerce ” (see article here which will allow bloggers (and other websites) to include an ecommerce widget which will: allow bloggers to insert product listings in a javascript and iframe box on their sites and keep 50% of the retail mark-up for themselves. Blog readers will be able to purchase books and CDs inside the box without leaving the blog page they are on. Blog publishers can populate their boxes by tag or with specific items of their selection.

  6. From Worldchanging: Crowdsourcing

    From Worldchanging Crowdsourcing describes the substitution of extremely low-paid or volunteer labor for what were formerly paying jobs: for instance, the substitution of computer science students and volunteer coders working on an open source project for paid software engineers working on a proprietary project. It should be noted that sometimes far more jobs are created overall in such a transcommercial approach .

  7. An Inconvenient Truth

    Last night I went to see An Inconvenient Truth , the Al Gore movie about Catastrophic Climate Change. I saw it with a group of friends and we went out afterward for dinner. Go see the movie. Every American should see this movie. You cannot watch it and wonder how things would be different if Mr. Gore had faught a little harder after the election of 2000. But that aside, seeing images of the Katrina Aftermath made me cry, literally. I could not watch it. I had a dream last night about the movie, in which I was moved to tears by the facts laid out so eloquently by Mr. Gore.

  8. DefectiveByDesign.org to target Apple on June 10

    The DefectiveByDesign.org campaign has really taken off! In about 3 days we had 1000 signups, in a week we had 1700! Thanks to the help of Diggers and SlashDoters! Well, we’ve decided that the target of the next action will be Apple because the iPod and iTunes music store make Apple the largest seller of DRM infected technology. On June 10, we’ll warn citizens in 6 cities of the dangers of DRM in Apple products. Sign Up