[kwlug-disc] Cory Doctorow tickets!

Wed Nov 29 16:27:19 EST 2017

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http://sn.jonkman.ca/notice/1629789

- --Bob, who didn't know anybody actually reads Reddit


On 2017-11-29 02:27 PM, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:
> 
> Cory has posted about his talk to Boing Boing:
> 
> https://boingboing.net/2017/11/28/formerly-berlin-ontario.html
> 
> If you are on Facebook/Twitter you could use the Share/Tweet links
> at the bottom of that post to spread the word. This is a good post 
> because it has both events on one page.
> 
> If you are morally opposed to tweeting that post here is an
> existing tweet you could retweet:
> 
> https://twitter.com/WaterlooMath/status/935248131255685122
> 
> 
> Somebody has posted the link on Reddit at /r/uwaterloo:
> 
> https://redd.it/7gbd0a
> 
> That could use some upvotes. In addition if somebody could post to 
> /r/kitchener and /r/waterloo that would be great.
> 
> - Paul (who has no idea how to effectively promote events in this 
> dystopic future)
> 
> 
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 05:44:27PM -0500, Paul Nijjar via
> kwlug-disc wrote:
>> 
>> So it seems that Doctorow tickets are not going as briskly as
>> the organizers hoped. The last I heard they had given away about
>> 150 of the 400 tickets. So if you have contemplated abstaining so
>> other people could attend, you should just come out. (However,
>> only get tickets if you actually plan to attend. No-shows don't
>> help anything at all.)
>> 
>> Could you help spread the word about these events on your social 
>> medias, with your friends, and in your other user groups? I feel 
>> confident that lots of people in this region would be delighted
>> to see Doctorow speak if they knew he was coming, but I worry
>> that people don't know that he is coming. It will be embarrassing
>> if we cannot pack a 400 seat theatre to see him.
>> 
>> - Paul
>> 
>> On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 10:13:41PM -0500, Paul Nijjar wrote:
>>> Hey ho,
>>> 
>>> So it looks as if there are tickets available for both the
>>> evening event (which will be a lecture) and the afternoon event
>>> at the KPL (which is mostly a book signing). Tickets are free,
>>> but please get a ticket only if you will come. No-shows are a
>>> pain to deal with, and the organizers want to have a full
>>> house.
>>> 
>>> Here is the ticket link for the full talk:
>>> 
>>> https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/cory-doctorow-tickets-39834896247
>>> 
>>> The talk is now open to the public, so you do not need to be a
>>> UW member to attend (and you may let others know as well).
>>> 
>>> Here is the link for the KPL talk (which links to Eventbrite):
>>> 
>>> 
>>> http://www.kpl.org/85-queen-afternoon-cory-doctorow-ticketed-event
>>>
>>>
>>> 
Also: there might be some people needed to help volunteer at the event
>>> (registering ticket holders, getting a queue of people without
>>> tickets so that they can attend if there is space, etc). Is
>>> anybody available Monday evening to help with this? I do not
>>> know for certain that they need help but it is plausible.
>>> Having a laptop or tablet that you can use for registrations
>>> would be helpful.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Here is the abstract for Doctorow's talk:
>>> 
>>> ------------------------------------------ Dead canary in the
>>> coalmine: we just lost the web in the war on general purpose
>>> computing
>>> 
>>> This is the decade in which the unstoppable temptation to solve
>>> your problems by breaking everyone else's computers really
>>> starts to chomp on our collective butts. The World Wide Web
>>> Consortium just gave in to Netflix's demand to break every
>>> browser in the world in order to make it incrementally harder
>>> to pirate TV shows, while this year at a summit in Ottawa, the
>>> Australians demanded that all the world's crypto be sabotaged
>>> to make it incrementally easier to conduct mass surveillance.
>>> 
>>> The general purpose nature of computers, capable of running any
>>> program that anyone can conceive of, is an iron law of nature,
>>> not a fetish of mulish nerds who refuse to acknowledge the
>>> importance of catching bad guys or watching TV in the
>>> proscribed manner.
>>> 
>>> The technical nature of this problem, the complexity of its
>>> contours, and the awful fallout from ill-conceived "solutions"
>>> make for a toxic brew. Any time you have a  problem that is
>>> boring, complicated and important, you have big trouble (this
>>> is the origin of the climate change crisis!).
>>> 
>>> Computer scientists and technical people have a solemn, urgent
>>> duty to drag their less-informed peers into this debate, before
>>> it's too late. After all, a car is computer you put your body
>>> into, and so is a campus building, a skyscraper, and a
>>> Bombardier CS300. A pacemaker is a computer you put in your
>>> body, and so is a cochlear implant and an implanted
>>> defibrillator. A phone is a computer before whose cameras you 
>>> parade naked, while speaking your most sensitive secrets and
>>> living out your most private moments.
>>> 
>>> If we don't get computers right, everything else will go
>>> terribly, horribly wrong. 
>>> ------------------------------------------
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I have not publicized the talk on kwlug.org but I might do so
>>> later this week. The people at UW want to get their own posters
>>> up for the event too.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- http://pnijjar.freeshell.org
>> 
>> -- http://pnijjar.freeshell.org
>> 
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