Food for Thought Dinners

Restaurant Map

• Suggestion:
• can't we reserve second tables for the dinners which seem with huge waiting lists - e.g. the Gene Koo, and the David Weinberger ones? Veni Markovski 12:59, 15 May 2008 (EDT)
  • Yes, I just did :-) Power to the blogger -- PHB
  • We've found over the years that these discussions work best when the group is small enough for everyone to easily talk to each other. But there's nothing stopping more dinners from being planned! Anyone can spearhead a new dinner. Talk to a Berkman staffer about finding a local restaurant and getting a table reserved.
    • We can have two groups of 8 having 2 discussions on the same topic in the same restaurant, though. I'm considering doing that with media, which is almost full before even being on the wiki.
• Thanks, guys. See you at the second table :) Veni Markovski 14:41, 15 May 2008 (EDT)
• Perhaps we can do the Oxford desert thing and re-org tables at the desert course.

Food for Tought dinners will take place on May 15th at 8:00 pm after the cocktail reception. The dinners allow conference attendees to engage in informal, themed conversation with other conference participants.We’ve made the reservations—all you have to do is show up and enjoy! Please note that attendees will pay their own dinner costs.

Attendance is limited to eight people per dinner. Please add your name to the dinner you want to attend below. If you decide not to attend a dinner to which you are signed up, please delete yourself from the list. If you have any questions, please email Amar at ashar@cyber.law.harvard.edu.

Restaurant locations and maps are listed with each dinner. For restaurants in Harvard Square, expect approximately a 10 minute walk from the final plenary session in Ames Courtroom on May 15. For restaurants in Porter Square, expect approximately a 15 minute walk from Ames.

Maps for each restaurant are available at the registration table outside Ames.

Improtant wait list/drop off info: When you add yourself to the wait list for a dinner, please to include your contact contact info. If you sign up but decide not to attend a dinner, please contact the first person on the wait list. Thank you!

Gene Koo, Berkman Center Fellow -- Unfinished Nodes: Wild Speculation on the Future of the Internet

• Reservations at Grafton Street MAP: 1230 Massachusetts Ave

1. - Dan Rosenblum 21st Century Digital
2. - Jim Morris
3. - Mike Minor good.net
4. - Troy Ablan good.net
5. - Mark Shea University of Washington and Microsoft Learning
6. - Yunan Yuan
7. - Scott Lozier

• Second Table booked for 8:30 at Grafton st. - please add yourself from wait list

1. - Phill Hallam-Baker pbaker@verisign.com [1]
2. - Veni Markovski, ICANN, Bulgaria
3. - Marc Covitz, New York University
4. - Chris Barr, Yahoo! Inc.
5. - Edoardo Piccolotto - Blog
6. - Andrew Song, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP
7. - Alla Baeva St. John's University
8. - Irina Solyanik

• Waiting list

1. - Jenny Ryan, Cyber-Anthropologist, The Virtual Campfire

Wendy Seltzer, Berkman Center Fellow -- Saving the Open University Network (from Entertainment's Demands for Monitoring)

• Reservations at Temple Bar MAP: 1688 Massachusetts Ave

1. - Leena Kuusniemi
2. - Geoff Goodell
3. - Joey Mornin
4. - Brett Horvath
5. - Mike McGuire
6. - Scott Bradner
7. - j (is 'j' a person? if not, Devon Copley would like j's spot)
8. - Katherine Lonergan

• Wait List

1. - Devon Copley, Noank Media (dcopley -at- noankmedia -dot- com)
2. -Sheree Carter-Galvan, Yale University (sheree.carter-galvan@yale.edu)
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Lewis Hyde, Berkman Center Fellow -- The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World

• Reservations at Henrieta's Table MAP: The Charles Hotel, 1 Bennett St

1. - Jace Cooke
2. - Michelle Syba
3. - Mark Tovey, WorldChanging.com
4. - Howard Silverman
5. - Esther Dyson
6. - Geeta Dayal
7. - Oleksiy Stolyarenko

• Wait List

1. - Yvette Wohn (Berkman Center/Harvard)
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Nick Bramble, Harvard Law School '08 -- Open Access: Problems of Collective Action and Promises of Civic Engagement

• Reservations at Tanjore MAP: 18 Eliot St

1. - Diane Tucker
2. - Pavel Kuznetsov, RAS
3. - Federico Morando, NEXA Center for Internet & Society
4. - Enrico Bertacchini, NEXA Center for Internet & Society
5. - Alzo Slade
6. - Kevin Donovan, Georgetown Students for Free Culture
7. - Chris Kelley, Georgetown Students for Free Culture

• Wait List

Hey wait list, I propose that we start a new table - Mary

1. - Thomas Kriese Omidyar Network
2. - Mark Tovey, WorldChanging
3. - Geeta Dayal, MIT Center for Future Civic Media
4. - Patrick Meier, PhD Candidate & iRevolution
5. - Mary Joyce,DigiActive
6. - Erica George, Berkman / StopBadware.org / activist & organizer in volunteer life

Renee Lloyd, Berkman Center Fellow -- Where Are the Women in Technology?

• Reservations at Z Square MAP: 14 JFK St

1. -Elizabeth Cohen (Atlanta Girls' School)
2. -Carie Burgess, Univ of Washington MA in Digital Media and Microsoft Corporation, Unlimited Potential Group
3. -George Cohen (The Walker School)
4. - Adriana Gil Miner (UW Digital media)
6. - Caroline Nolan (Berkman Center)
7. -Miriam Simun (Berkman Center)
8. - Joyce Searls

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Hal Roberts, Berkman Center -- Mapping Surveillance

• Reservations at Grafton Street MAP: 1230 Massachusetts Ave

1. - R. David Edelman (Oxford Univ.)
2. - Tom Seivert, Nat'l Security Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
3. - Jay Bregman, Founder & CTO, eCourier.co.uk
4. - Ari Melber, The Nation
5. - Theresa Riley, P.O.V.
6. - James Williamson, Cambridge [whichever dinner may have an opening]
7. - Chris Conley, Berkman Center (cconley@cyber.law.harvard.edu)

• Wait List

1. - Mahmood Enayat, Oxford Internet Institute
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David Weinberger, Berkman Fellow -- People for the Ethical Treatment of the Open Net: What can we do to keep our Internet open and free?

Reservations at Daedalus MAP: 45 1/2 Mount Auburn St

1. - Cole Camplese, The Pennsylvania State University
2. - Chris Millet, The Pennsylvania State University
3. - Sam Generoux, Library and Archives Canada
4. - James Williamson, Cambridge [whichever dinner may have an opening]
5. - Cristiana Sappa, NEXA Center for Internet & Society
6. - Janette Mark, Canadian Heritage, Ottawa
7. - Jenny Attiyeh, ThoughtCast

• Wait List

1. - John Moore, Chilmark Research
2. - Doc Searls, Berkman Center
3. - Keith Hopper, Public Interactive
4. - JP Rangaswami, BT Design
5. - Meg Garlinghouse Yahoo!
6. - Grete Pasch
7. - Rodrigo Arias.
8. = Tim Wu, Columbia University
9. - Anna Masera, 011393388250612

Tim Hwang and Greg Price Harvard and MIT Free Culture -- YouTomb: Peeking Behind the Curtain of YouTube Take-Downs -- A bunch of crazy kids just figured out a way to track what, when, and why things are being taken down on YouTube. So what do we now?

• Reservations at Spice MAP: 24 Holyoke StreetPLEASE NOTE: This is the correct dinner location, NOT the location listed in your conference packet!

1. - Chris Marsden
2. - Andrew Sellars, Andy on the Road, Hobnox
3. - Ethan Zuckerman
4. - Dave Witzel, PolicyCommons, Center for Global Development
5. - Mark Tovey, Worldchanging.com
6. - Alex Leavitt, Boston University
7. - Jeff Young, Chronicle.com

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Persephone Miel, Berkman Center Fellow, Media Re:public The Future of the Media and How to Top It

• Reservations at Casablanca 40 Brattle St (8 pm in Persephone's name)

1. - Jeanne Bourgault, Internews Network
2. - Ellen Hume (MAYBE--may have to go home)
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• Waiting List

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