[FreeGeek] SFU COSTAR

[Dustin Harriman]

Hi Jack,

Pardon the tooting of my own horn, but Freegeek has also linked to the
Momentum Magazine article below on the front page of their website.
:)

Cheers,
Dustin

On 11/2/06, ifny <iamlachance at gmail.com> wrote:
> hello jack!
>
> the FG article is online at http://momentumplanet.ca/?q=node/154
>
> ~!fny
>
>
>
> On 11/1/06, Jack Bates <ms419 at freezone.co.uk> wrote:
> > Jack here, nice to meet you all tonight!
> >
> > I'm taking a special research topics course to develop open source
> > software at SFU with Prof. Rob Cameron. We meet on Fridays at SFU Surrey
> > for open source presentations and discussion.
> >
> > Prof. Cameron is founding a company to develop his high speed SIMD XML
> > processing research under open source licenses. He's collaborating with
> > patent lawyers at IBM and the FSF, so he's interested in open source
> > ventures.
> >
> > Prof. Cameron is also starting COSTAR, an open source lab at SFU:
> > http://costar.sfu.ca/
> >
> > Finally, Prof. Cameron worked on the BC Public Interest Research Group
> > constitution when it was written in the 70s? 80s? So a sympathetic
> > activist.
> >
> > Would be really rad if Scott, David, and folks who can make it could
> > give a presentation sometime this semester. Perhaps we could show the
> > FreeGeek video, talk about experiences at FreeGeek, talk about legal
> > issues related to organizing technology in public interest, etc.
> >
> > If you could make it to SFU (Surrey Central SkyTrain station) 3:30 one
> > Friday in November, I'll let Prof. Cameron know. Is the Momentum article
> > online? Perhaps we could link to it in the announcement/abstract of the
> > presentation?
> >
> > Best wishes everyone! Jack
> >
> >
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