








|
We'd like to thank our sponsors:
|
|
Linux
- The Operating System of
the 21st Century
TM
Next Meeting:
Wednesday Feb. 3rd, 2010, 7PM-9PM
Speaker: David Weekly
Location: Symantec (formerly Veritas), Mountain View
Topic: Infrastructure Memes: How Spreadable Concepts Can Create and Empower Communities
|
SVLUG meetings are first Wednesdays of each month at 7PM-9PM!
|
| Date |
Location |
Speaker |
| Feb. 3, 2010 |
Symantec
(formerly Veritas), Mountain View |
David Weekly
Topic: Infrastructure Memes: How Spreadable
Concepts Can Create and Empower Communities
|
|
The Internet enables ideas about how communities can self-organize to
spread rapidly and globally, along with the infrastructure required to
power a group, enabling "freely franchiseable" models like LUGs,
BarCamps, DevHouses, hackerspaces, etc. In this sense, the
infrastructure for the community is communicated as an idea virus, or
meme - a sort of cultural "grey goo". Maintaining a sufficient
consistency of the idea such that global community "identity" is
coherent is a challenge, leading to discussions of Community Marks and
other novel forms of trademark. Models vary wildly in this level of
control, from the Catholic Church through TEDx and all the way through
those who self-label as "anarchists". These models often lead to
friction with existing, slower-moving establishments such as
governments, to whom these forms of organization are alien and
subversive. Examples and mild historical perspective will be provided;
the talk hopes to at the least to stir discussion about effective ways
to spread positive community concepts.
|
MORE ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
David Weekly (1,
2) is the founder and
chairman of PBworks, an innovative
host for business collaboration. He was graduated as a President Scholar
from Stanford U. in 2000 with a BS in Computer Science, and has worked for
such institutions as Harvard Physics, MIT Lincoln Labs, Stanford
Graphics, atWeb, Legato, and There.com. David wrote the first
layman-level description of MP3 in early 1997, reverse-engineered
the Napster protocol in an evening, and was a finalist in the ACM
International Programming Competition. David lives in a Hillsborough
mansion with five others and throws periodic all-night hackathons called
SuperHappyDevHouse, there.
He is also a Founding Director of
Hacker Dojo, a Mountain
View-based non-profit community center for coders and thinkers.
|
Earlier meetings and more details are available on our
previous meetings page.
Possible future meetings, yet to be scheduled, are listed on our
TBA page.
Feedback to SVLUG webmasters.
|