September 10th, 2008, 3 Comments »
Via Upcoming, I read about the SkyTrain Security unconference being organized by Karen Fung. From the very informative About page:
Between now and the unconference, we would like this website to host conversations on this topic. Part of it is just even learning about what questions to ask, and which questions are most important in making changes, big or small, to the existing system.
What comes out of the unconference will be brought forward to a future meeting with SkyTrain and TransLink. That’s about as much as we know right now, as the team is still working on the finer details, but we will keep you all updated on the blog.
They’re in the planning stages. I like Roland’s idea of running the unconference in a SkyTrain car as it moves around Vancouver.
I wouldn’t rank SkyTrain security as a bearing issue in need of my attention, but I’m happy that others are thinking about it in an open and relatively transparent way.
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September 5th, 2007, 4 Comments »
I’ve had a few browser tabs open in over the weekend. They’re topics that don’t necessarily merit a complete post, but I wanted to mention them:
- She’s Geeky is an unconference that “will provide an agenda-free and friendly environment for women who not only care about building technology that is useful for people, but who also want to encourage more women to get involved.” Sounds like a great event. I wouldn’t have positioned this with the ‘geeky’ moniker. I know plenty of women who would be interested in and could contribute this unconference, but would prefer not to self-identify this way.
- October 15th is Blog Action Day, when “bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind - the environment.” Hopefully they send me an email to remind me–I’m a very forgetful blogger. Oddly, when I registered my participation, they only asked how many RSS subscribers I had, not how many readers. Obviously plenty of site visitors don’t visit the front page, but my RSS subscribers are only a subset of the daily readers of this site.
- John discovered a new alternative to cremation or burial: “Resomation is an environmentally responsible, non-burn, water based process which sympathetically returns the body to its constituent elements.” Weird, but strangely appealing.
- I didn’t realize how shockingly negligent the American government has been regarding lead poisoning among its population. Has the Canadian government done any better?
- I must find an anonymizing tool which will serve up my IP address as Canadian, so that I can watch Hockey Night in Canada from abroad. Because of licensing issues, the CBC restricts the games to Canadian Internet users.
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June 15th, 2007, 1 Comment »
If all goes well, I’m going to be in Vancouver for this year’s BarCamp on August 17 and 18. I was an organizer last year, but this year I’ll just be a lowly attendee.
In any case, I wanted to plug the event and encourage all of you local software companies to pony up the mere CAN $500 it takes to become a sponsor. That’s like, what, less than a copy of Windows Vista Premiumtastic? Plus, you can make some fun collateral like we did last year.
UPDATE: You can sign up for BarCamp Vancouver on the wiki, and there’s the inevitable Faceborg group and event.
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