NYC LOCAL: Thursday 30 August 2007 Dinner with Andy Oram

Andy Oram and a ragtag crew of incorrigibles^W^W^W^Wremarkable
group of distinguished hackers, authors, organizers, and cranks
will sit down at 7:00 pm on Thursday 30 August 2007 in the
Mercantile Grill at 126 Pearl Street, on the Island of the
Manahattoes.

http://www.mercantilegrill.com

This meeting will not be informal. Andy will lead a discussion
of Vi or Emacs^W^W^WGPL vs BSD^W^W^WLisp vs Perl^W^W^WXKCD vs
Roswell, Texas. We intend to settle the question, under the Rule
of the Medes and the Persians. This meeting will thus be the
first of two.

ad payment: The Mercantile Grill is a mercantile grill, and all
who enter abide by the Mercantile Grill Rule: you eat, you pay:

http://www.mercantilegrill.com/Dinner_1.htm

Andy Oram is an editor of the book Beautiful Code. The book is
beautiful. It is worth looking at some excerpts:

http://safari.oreilly.com/9780596510046

For further information about this dinner and about Andy Oram:

http://nten.org/events/meetup/2007/0...-oreilly-media
http://praxagora.com/andyo/professional/article.html
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/36

Jay Sulzberger <secretary@lxny.org>
Corresponding Secretary LXNY
LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization.
http://www.lxny.org



PS. Here is a blurb from Andy Oram:

<blockquote>

Discussion will be kicked off by topics such as:

* Why do people contribute free content, and what can society or
businesses do to increase participation and quality?

* In an age where many people can't afford books or don't want to read
them, how do people learn technical skills?

* What characteristics distinguish the arts in digital media from
twentieth-century and pre-twentieth-century media?

* How can writers earn a living from content in an age of free
redistribution?

* How will new stages of high-bandwidth networking be funded (can
advertising carry the cost?)

Biography:

Andy Oram is an editor at O'Reilly Media, a highly respected
book publisher and technology information provider. An employee
of the company since 1992, Andy specializes in free software
projects and software engineering. His work for O'Reilly
includes the first books ever released by a U.S. publisher on
Linux, the 2001 title Peer-to-Peer, and the recent best-seller
Beautiful Code.

Andy is also a member of Computer Professionals for Social
Responsibility and writes frequently on policy issues and
trends related to the Internet and to technical innovation and
its effects on society. Copyrights, trademarks, and patents,
business aspects of open source, and telecom issues are among
the topics covered in his articles at:

http://praxagora.com/andyo/professional/article.html

He is currently doing research on free, online, technical
documention, along with experiments in new tools, as described
at:

http://praxagora.com/community_documentation/

An article he wrote about art on the Internet, titled
"Characteristics of new media in the Internet age," is
maintained as a wiki at:

http://commons.oreilly.com/wiki/inde...s_of_new_media

</blockquote>