Events
Two great events coming up this weekend in Austin, sponsored by EFF-Austin. Friday, join us at NPO Camp - a Barcamp for Nonprofits and Techs. We had one of these several months ago, and it was a real blast! The idea here is to bring the nonprofit and technology communities
Free Speech
David Weinberger interviewed Rick Whitt, a Google lawyer and lobbyist, about the proposed Google-Verizon framework. The original post is here.
Activism
Creative Commons recently offered catalyst grants to help spur awareness and use of Creative Commons. Two grants have been proposed from Austin, one studying the music scene and one promoting the literature scene. You can support either of the projects in the dicusssion part of the page describing the full
Events
EFF-Austin presents WhuffieFest, an evening and encounter with Cory Doctorow. (Why do we call it WhuffieFest? Check here.) When: May 20th, 2010, 7pm-midnight Where: Amelia's RetroVogue and Relics, 2213 South 1st Street, Austin Cost: $10 donation to EFF-Austin, a Texas nonprofit (Why do we call it Whuffiefest? Check
Free Speech
Last week, Lawrence Lessig gave a fantastic presentation on how government policies for broadband, cybersecurity and copyright have been corrupted by special interest lobbying. Lessig does a great job explaining why reclassification caused American broadband to fall so far behind the rest of the developed world. This video is well
Activism
Jon Lebkowsky of EFF-Austin will be covering Fiber Fete in Lafayette, Louisiana via Twitter: http://twitter.com/jonl. Hashtag is #fiberfete.
Free Speech
From the New York Times: Privacy is central to American law. And in 1986, Congress applied that principle to electronic communications by setting limits on law enforcement access to Internet and wireless technologies. It was a laudable law at the time, but cellphones were still oddities, the Internet was mostly
Activism
Google Fiber for Communities Project Nomination of EFF-Austin We at EFF-Austin have submitted our Google Fiber for Communities nomination. Our letter will be included in the City of Austin's official nomination package. We think Austin, as a community and a broadband market, is the perfect place for a
Events
The SXSW Film Festival is screening a documentary about the open Internet and Net Neutrality called Barbershop Punk at the Austin Convention Center on March 15th and 18th. The title refers to Robb Topolski's 2007 investigation of Comcast's network management practices after having trouble sharing public
Activism
The University of Texas' student newspaper, The Daily Texan, covered last night's panel on the 20th anniversary of the Secret Service raid at Steve Jackson Games. “I got a phone call one morning saying, ‘Steve, the office is full of Secret Service agents, and they’re not
Events
NOTE: Live streaming at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/effaustin! March 9, 2010. 7pm-9pm, Independence Brewing. Austin was a hotbed of pioneering Internet activity in the early 1990s, and one event that put us on the Internet map was the March 1, 1990 Secret Service raid at Steve Jackson Games,
Activism
Google just announced that they plan on rolling out a 1Gbps fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) Internet access service in a number of trial locations. To give some perspective, a 1Gbps Internet access service would be over 65 times faster than Time Warner Cable's fastest Road Runner tier available in Austin