Upcoming Events and Digital Media Roundup

BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
October 14, 2009 // Upcoming events and digital media

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[1] [10/16-10/17] Ruby on Rails Workshop for Women (http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/genderandtech/ruby-on-rails-workshop-for-women/)

[2] [TUESDAY 10/20/09] Berkman Center Luncheon Series: "Mapping Main Street: Experiments in Estrangement at the Intersection of Social Science, Art, Design, Public Media and the Digital Humanities" with Jesse Shapins and James Burns (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2009/10/mappingmainstreet)

[10/16-10/17] RUBY ON RAILS WORKSHOP FOR WOMEN
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10/16-10/17/09, Harvard University, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School
Free and Open to the Public. Registration required: http://womenonrailsworkshop.wufoo.com/forms/register-for-the-ruby-on-rails-workshop-for-women/

The Berkman Center at Harvard University in coordination with the Center for Research on Computation and Society is putting together a Ruby on Rails workshop for women on October 16th and 17th.

We are seeking to create an attitude-free, newbie-safe and mama- friendly tech event to encourage women to join the Ruby on Rails community. This is an inclusive event meant to promote mixed gender collaboration.

Women are a minority in most technical communities, but in open source communities the numbers are even smaller — by a factor of about ten or more. Moving forward, we would like to encourage our newly empowered programmers to meet monthly and use their skills towards open source projects in a welcoming, collaborative environment.

For more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/genderandtech/ruby-on-rails-workshop-for-women/

[TUESDAY 10/20/09] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on MAPPING MAIN STREET
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10/20/09, 12:30 PM ET, Berkman Center Conference Room @ 23 Everett St., Cambridge, MA
RSVP is required for those attending in person (rsvp@cyber.harvard.edu).
This event will be webcast live.

Topic: Mapping Main Street: Experiments in Estrangement at the Intersection of Social Science, Art, Design, Public Media and the Digital Humanities

Guest: Jesse Shapins, Harvard Graduate School of Design and the School of Arts and Sciences, and James Burns, Department of Economics at Harvard University

Mapping Main Street is a collaborative documentary media project that creates a new map of the country through a dynamic visualization of stories, data, photos and videos recorded on actual Main Streets. The goal is to document all of the more than 10,000 streets named Main in the United States. Launched in August on NPR's Weekend Edition and partially funded by the Berkman Center Harvard Graduate Student Awards, the project is a co-production by Harvard PhD students Jesse Shapins and James Burns with public media artists Kara Oehler and Ann Heppermann.

With this luncheon talk, the creators of Mapping Main Street hope to gain specific feedback on how to further develop the project as an interdisciplinary research initiative between between the social sciences, art, design, public media and digital humanities.

This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2009/10/mappingmainstreet

OTHER EVENTS OF NOTE
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[1] 10/15: The Economics of Information Security (http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/berkmanevents/2009/10/09/the-economics-of-information-security-1015/)

[2] 10/15: Patent Cross Licensing // UC Berkeley (http://www.law.berkeley.edu/institutes/bclt/pcl/about.html)

[3] 10/17: PublicMediaCamp // Washington, DC (http://www.npr.org/blogs/inside/2009/08/publicmediacamp_strengthening.html)

[4] 10/19-23: Open Access Week (http://www.openaccessweek.org/)

[5] 10/21: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Elegant Design Out of Junk and Spare Parts // MIT (http://web.mit.edu/tac/upcoming/index.html#boy)

[6] 10/23: Social Networks: Friends or Foes? // UC Berkeley (http://www.law.berkeley.edu/institutes/bclt/socialnetworking/about.html)

[7] 10/24: Tech Futures at the Boston Book Festival (http://www.bostonbookfest.org/index.php/bookfest/blog/tech_futures_at_the_boston_book_festival/)

[8] 10/24: Media Literacy Conference // MIT (http://ezregister.com/events/536/)

[9] 11/12-14: The Internet as Playground and Factory Conference // New School (http://digitallabor.org/)

DIGITAL MEDIA: Watch and Listen
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Did you miss this week's luncheon talk? Catch up with Berkman videos, podcasts, pictures, and dig in to our archive at http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive.

-Communication and Human Development: The Freedom Connection with AMARTYA SEN, MICHAEL SPENCE, YOCHAI BENKLER, CLOTILDE FONSECA, and MIKE BEST: http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/events/2009/09/idrc/idrcpanel and also on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uuanAaV5Y0&feature=player_profilepage

-BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES with THE LAW LAB: Cloud Law, Finance 3.0, and Digital Institutions (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheons/2009/10/lawlab)

-RADIO BERKMAN 133: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Inbox with VIKTOR MAYER SCHONBERGER and DAVID WEINBERGER (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/podcasts/radioberkman133)

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