Current events

June 10, 2006 - New York Nonprofit Boot Camp

Craigslist Foundation [1] will be hosting the first New York City Nonprofit Boot Camp on Saturday June 10, 2006 at the NYU Stern School of Business, an all day event from 9 am to 9 pm. The registration fee of $50 includes all meals and a closing reception. For more details on this event and to register, visit www.craigslistfoundation.org/index.php?page=NY

Craigslist Foundation has organized several very successful Boot Camps in San Francisco, and the first New York City Boot Camp promises to be a remarkable gathering of people and organizations who are involved in a nonprofit networked information economy.

August 19, 2006 - San Francisco Bay Area Nonprofit Boot Camp

Craigslist Foundation is also organizing the Third Annual San Francisco Bay Area Boot Camp to be held at the University of California, Berkeley on Saturday, August 19, 2006. For more information on the Berkeley event, which will have almoost three times the number of participants as in New York and twice as many thematic tracks, visit http://www.craigslistfoundation.org/index.php?page=Bayarea

May 13-26, 2006 - UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

The Fifth Session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues is taking place at UN Headquarters in New York. There is active interest in the development of an online forum in support of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and the Second International Decade on the World's Indigenous People. See organizational domains for a preliminary outline of a framework for such an online forum. For more information on the Permanent forum, visit www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii

April 14, 2006 - Launch of The Wealth of Networks

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM 540 W. 21st St. Please join Yale Professor Yochai Benkler for the launch of his new book, "The Wealth of Networks". The book explains how a new form of distributed collaboration is transforming the world economy, heralded by innovations such as:

1) Open Source software like Linux and Apache that have surpassed commercial software made by huge corporations
2) A free, collaboratively authored encyclopedia called Wikipedia that rivals Encyclopedia Britannica, and
3) Volunteer research projects like NASA Clicks that are as accurate as the work of paid scientists. 

Benkler does not see these projects as isolated examples, but rather as exemplars of an emerging mode of economic production. His book shows why labor done outside the constraints of free markets and giant corporations can still have a huge impact on the economy and social relations. He argues that a "third mode of production" offers the promise of a more free society, but only if we make the right collective decisions.

The evening starts at 6pm with wine, cheese, and 
informal conversation. At 7pm Jonah Peretti, Eyebeam's
Director of R&D, will introduce Benkler and give
a quick tour of important and emerging open source
and collaborative projects. 
Then at 7:15pm, Benkler will give a brief talk 
presenting the core ideas of his new book. 

The Wealth of Networks will be available for purchase 
in the Eyebeam bookstore the night of the event 
and can also be pre-ordered on Amazon: 
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300110561/103-6520487-9511867?v=glance&n=283155 

This event is open to the public free of charge.

(pulled from the Eyebeam website)