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A presentation on The Right to Share and The Promise of Open Video.
What
* Roadshow
* Open Content
* Open Access
When Dec 17, 2009 02:30 PM onwards
Date: 17th December, 2009 from 2.30pm onwards
Venue – National Law School, Bangalore
Contact Name Radha
Contact Phone 080-40926283
CIS in association with different institutions across India invites you to join in the Free Culture Roadshow: A presentation on The Right to Share and The Promise of Open Video.
A Brief Abstract of the two discussions and the profile of the speakers are given below:
The Right to Share: What Does Copying Have to Do with Freedom?
The Internet has unleashed the potential to communicate and collaborate like never before, and the result has been an unprecedented flow of culture and information. Millions of individuals are now sharing and creating culture: copying, cutting, remixing, and participating in new and different ways.
Sometimes this activity is transformative. Sometimes it’s straight copying. In either case, there is a clear connection between this sharing of culture and personal freedom.
This talk will explore how various conceptions of “freedom” have shaped the social movements for free software, free culture, and free knowledge, and how this ideology has manifested itself in real action. It will connect theory with practice, exploring the cultural innovations and political changes that have spawned forth from these movements. Lastly, it will make the case that the broad-based availability, accessibility, and abundance of culture is a good thing for our global society.
Speaker Profile:
Elizabeth Stark is a leader in the global free culture movement. She is a Fellow at the Yale Information Society Project and a Lecturer in Computer Science at Yale University. A graduate of Harvard Law School, Stark founded the Harvard Free Culture Group and served on the board of directors of Students for Free Culture. While at Harvard, she was Editor-at-Large of the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, and worked on using new media to promote human rights with the Harvard Advocates for Human Rights. Elizabeth has worked extensively with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and has taught courses in Cyberlaw, Digital Copyright, Technology and Politics, and Electronic Music. She recently produced the inaugural Open Video Conference in NYC, garnering over 8000 viewers across the web. Elizabeth regularly gives talks around the world on free culture, and has collaborated with myriad organizations on promoting shared knowledge and the open web.
Elizabeth Stark
The Revolution Will Be Recorded, Remixed, and Redistributed: The Promise of Open Video
Between news, cinema, television, and documentary film, we find ourselves swimming in a sea of moving images. This has been the story of the 20th century. Yet in this age, the tools for creating and sharing video are becoming widely distributed in the hands of millions of individuals. Desktop video editing software is pervasive; webcams and video-equipped mobile phones abound. Video now belongs to everyone. It is becoming a powerful medium for self-expression, a kind of cultural currency.
How will this phenomenon change the Internet? How will it change society? What questions persist for the architecture of the Internet, and how will public policy address this ultimately political transformation? This talk sets forth a vision of networked video as a truly participatory medium, one that will power the next 10 years of innovation on the web. Dean Jansen and Ben Moskowitz introduce some core technologies for open video, and the obstacles they face on the road to mass adoption.
Speaker Profiles:
Dean Jansen is a Free Culture activist and guerrilla artist based in New York. He attended Harvard University and was a leader in the Harvard Free Culture Group. Dean assisted in teaching media studies and law courses at MIT and Harvard, and has organized numerous academic conferences.
He currently serves as outreach director at the non-profit Participatory Culture Foundation, makers of the Miro internet TV player. His art projects can be viewed at www.notthemessiah.net.
Dean
Ben Moskowitz is general coordinator at the Open Video Alliance, a coalition to democratize the moving image. Ben co-founded the UC Berkeley chapter of Students for Free Culture and taught a seminar on the politics of piracy at Berkeley’s School of Information.
He currently serves on the board of directors of the international organization Students for Free Culture, dedicated to promoting access to knowledge, technological freedom, and participatory culture.
December 16th, 2009
* What: Wikimeetup Bangalore — Dec 2009
* When: Sunday, 20 December, 2009 3:00 PM – 5:30 PM
* Where: The Centre for Internet and Society ( CIS), Bangalore
* Who: Wikipedians from any part of India or the world and anyone who is interested in Wikipedia! Meetup is open to members of all Wikimedia projects and wikipedians from all languages.
Date and Venue
Date: : Sunday, 20-Dec-2009 3:00 PM IST
Venue:
The Centre for Internet and Society
No. D2, 3rd Floor, Sheriff Chambers
14, Cunningham Road, Bangalore,
Karnataka 560052, India
Phone: (+91)-80-4092-6283
(Update – Venue confirmed with CIS for 20-Dec-09 — Tinu Cherian – 10:25, 23 November 2009 (UTC))
[edit] Getting there
Directions to Cunningham road
* From Shivaji Nagar Bus stand , come to Indian Express Bus Stop Junction, and go straight to Cunningham Road.
* From Vidhan Soudha/GPO come directly to Indian Express Bus Stop Junction from there left turn into Cunningham Road.
Directions from Cunningham road to Venue
On Cunningham Road, about half a kilometre from the Indian Express Junction, Center for Internet and Society (CIS) is located behind Wockhardt Hospital (on the same building). This building is right next to Sigma mall.
Register on wikipedia
December 16th, 2009
THE ARTS APPRECIATION SERIES
“No Retakes – the magic and the pitfalls of a stage production”
by Arundhati Raja
Saturday, 5 December, 2009, 6.30 pm
The Bangalore International Centre, as part of its “Arts Appreciation Series” has arranged an illustrated talk, “No Retakes – the magic and the pitfalls of a stage production” by Arundhati Raja on Saturday, 5th December, 2009 at 6.30 p.m. at the Auditorium, Bangalore International Centre, TERI Complex, 4th Main, 2nd Cross, Domlur II Stage, Bangalore – 560 071
“No Retakes – the magic and the pitfalls of a stage production”
Have you seen plays where you didn’t really think it was good but didn’t know quite why? Did you think a production was really good and then found you were the only one who thought so? Did you notice the lighting or the set or the costume? Did you wonder why one actor caught your attention immediately they stepped on stage where none of the others had?
Translating printed dialogue into a dramatic and dynamic piece of theatre on stage is no easy task. When the piece of theatre is based on physical movement and mime, different skills come into play. But when the dialogue is naturalistic, it takes a great deal of work on character interpretation and motivation to be convincing. When you watch a natural and convincing performance, it often seems easy to present but is in fact the opposite.
The interactive presentation seeks to go through the basic elements of stage production, giving you an insight into the intricacies of rehearsal and show. With the Bangalore Habba on very soon, perhaps you’ll be able to watch some of the plays on offer and give a more informed critique.
Arundhati Raja
Arundhati Raja is Artistic Director of Artistes’ Repertory Theatre, an English Language theatre group, founded, with her husband Jagdish, in 1982. And of JAGRITI, a performing arts centre due to be launched mid 2010.
With thirty years experience in the teaching of subjects as varied as science, language arts and drama, she conducts training workshops in drama for groups of all ages and background.
As an actor, she made her debut on the Bangalore stage in 1977 and has since played a wide variety of roles, including the role of Martha in ART’s award winning production of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. In 2005, she premiered the English version of Girish Karnad’s new one-woman play, A Heap of Broken Images performing over thirty shows in Bangalore, Chennai and Delhi.
As director she has designed and directed over forty productions and has participated in a British Council seminar in the UK, on Advanced Theatre Direction in July 1994, being sponsored by the British Council and the Charles Wallace India Trust for the Arts.
In 2006 Arundhati, was festival coordinator for Kannada Rangabhoomi Namaskara. This was a six-day festival in association with the Karnataka Nataka Academy, of six plays by eminent Kannada playwrights in English translation.
Bangalore International Centre
The Bangalore International Centre, founded in 2005, is a premier non-governmental organisation that is being developed as a hub of cultural and intellectual activities in the city. It provides an opportunity and a platform for interaction across professions to collectively foster intellectual activity, cultural enterprise and innovation in development.
In its continuing efforts to promote the arts, the Bangalore International Centre, under the banner of the Arts Appreciation Series, hosts a number of illustrated talks on several aspects of the visual, heritage and performing arts, bringing maestros in the field closer to audiences. In demystifying certain nuances of the arts, the Series endeavours to appeal to both audiences and artistes and foster critical and aesthetic appreciation of the arts.
Entry is free. Attendees must register with the BIC for the performance at 080-25359680.
For further information please contact:
Bangalore International Centre,
TERI Complex,4th Main, 2nd Cross,
Domlur II Stage,
Bangalore – 560 071
Tel: 080-25359680
Email: bic@teri.res.in
Website: www.bicentre.org
November 30th, 2009
For those with an interest in design, user experience and sustainability, we are hosting World Usability Day Bangalore this Saturday, Nov 21 at the Yahoo! Embassy Golf Links campus. This is the 4th World Usability Day in Bangalore and this year’s theme is “Designing for a Sustainable World”.
Speakers at this year’s event will cover various design & sustainability perspectives including on green buildings, sustainability in the digital world, usability and sustainability in product design. The afternoon session will involve design activities and discussions facilitiated by speakers.
- Chitra Vishwanath, Architect, http://www.inika.com/chitra/
- Deepak Menon, India Water Resources Portal, http://www.indiawaterportal.org
- Eric Schaffer, CEO, Human Factors International, http://connect.humanfactors.com/profile/EricSchaffer
- Rakesh Ambati, Artist, Hacktivist and Founder, Braille Without Borders, http://braillewithoutborders.org
- Prof. Amaresh Chakrabarti, Head, Innovation, Design Study and Sustainability Laboratory (IdeasLab) Indian Institute of Science, http://cpdm.iisc.ernet.in/ideaslab/introduction.html
For more information on WUD, please refer to http://www.worldusabilityday.org/
. The event is hosted in hundreds of cities worldwide.
To register for the Saturday event, please add your name to: http://www.upabangalore.in/mwiki/mediawiki-1.15.1/index.php?title=WUD_Bangalore_2009
or email me.
The event is FREE and open to ALL. Please share the event with friends and colleagues who you think might be interested.
November 16th, 2009
REGISTER
For registrations please contact mail @ amoghavarsha.com or +91 9901044344, there are very limited seats, so make sure you register immediately.
An expedition in to the heart of western ghats, the thick evergreen forests which receive the second highest rainfall in India.
Spend 2 days in the thick rainforests of Agumbe. Here’s your chance to photograph some of the most beautiful waterfalls, landscapes, forests, mammals, birds, reptile and amphibians ever seen. Camp at India’s first Rainforest research station the ARRS (Agumbe Rainforest Research Station). Learn how researchers work in the field first hand. Trek through the pristine forests which are home to several rare and endemic species of animals which are to be found no where else on the planet.
To help you understand and photograph the bio-diversity, you’ll be with Wildlife photographer Amoghavarsha and Researcher Gowrishankar, who’ll guide you through photography, natural history and bio-diversity.
Itinerary
Leave Bangalore by 2200hrs on Friday night to reach Agumbe in the morning
Day 1 – Saturday
Reach Agumbe in the morning and have breakfast. Then a short introduction to ARRS, presentation by Gowrishankar and a tour of the basecamp. Relax for a bit, have lunch and then head to famous kundadri hills to photograph in the lovely evening light. Come back have tea and then photo review session and talk by Amoghavarsha. Have dinner and head to a nightrail to photography some really interesting nocturnal animals.
Day 2 – Sunday
Wake up early in the morning, go on a morning trail. Come back have breakfast and head to shoot jogigundi waterfalls. Come back have lunch and rest for a bit. Have tea and head to the famous sunset point.
Leave Agumbe Sunday night to reach Bangalore on monday morning
*The schedule is just a tentative one, it might change depending on weather and other conditions
Expedition features
* In the field tips and discussions by wildlife photographer and naturalist
* Get to see some species of plants and animals seen nowhere else on earth
* Get to see some pristine forest stretches in the western ghats
* Learn how researchers work
Prerequisites
* This expedition is not for beginners in photography, as there’ll be no classes or sessions to teach the basics. so if you want to learn the basics head here
* You’ll have to be ready to trek a few kms everyday
* It’s the rainforest so be ready to face rains
* It’s ofcourse leech infested but you will be provided with leech socks
* The food and accomodation will be basic as its a field station that you’ll be staying at
* Accomodation is in tents right near the field station
* You’ll have to follow the rules and regulations of forest dept and the research station while you are there
* A DSLR would be good to have
* The station has very minimal power as it runs on solar power, so you can have your cameras charged
* The station has infrastructure to store camera, equipment etc carefully
Cost – call for cost
The cost includes
* Food and accomodation
* Local transport to different places
* Guide charges, tracker charges
* A donation to the Research station
* Travel charges to Agumbe and back
This excludes:
* Any extra requirements in the station
* Extra porter/tracker
* Cost of hospitalization etc.
Transport to and from Agumbe
Agumbe is 378kms from Bangalore, with a drive time of 9hrs.
September 3rd, 2009
A couple of images, a few candles, flowers, placard and a few young men and women… that’s what we will have on the evening of 22rd March, 2009 in front of mahatma Gandhi’s statue on M G Road. Amidst the chaos of the busy junction there will be a few voices, reminding themselves, reminding their brothers and sisters about the supreme sacrifice of the revolutionary martyrs.
The evening will be an occasion to salute them and remember the sacrifice they made for us. It will be an opportunity for us to sing their songs, recite their quotes, try to feel their emotions and relate to the dreams that they had for us and for the free India.
Sankalp Volunteers invite you to the* Candle Light Vigil to mark the 78thAnniversary of the Supreme Sacrifice by Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev.
*Please do join us and spend an hour starting 6:00 PM as we get together and celebrate the Shaheed Diwas.
*Date: 22nd March, 2009*
*Time: 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM*
*Venue: In front of Mahatma Gandhi’s Statue, Opp. Jewel De Paragon, M G Road, Bangalore.*
*For assistance call: 9880132850*
*Why celebrate this day?*
When those young revolutionaries gave away their lives without a second thought, they believed that their sacrifice will inspire more young men to happy give everything for the cause of freedom. They believed that once political freedom was achieved the power to decide the fate of the country will be in the hands of our generations to come and that the youth with stand up and work towards strengthening their nation. The revolutionaries believed that we the youth will make use of the opportunities that come with independence to shape us as the Nation we dream of.
Unfortunately, they are being forgotten, their sacrifice is being forgotten and so are those dreams being forgotten which they paid so dearly for. We the Volunteers of Sankalp celebrate the Supreme Sacrifice of the Martyrs on 23rd March to remind ourselves of the responsibility that we bear. On this day as we pay our tributes to those young men, we commit to ourselves and our motherland dedicated effort to work towards improvement and solution instead of playing a blame game, instead of refusing to own the responsibility and aimlessly cribbing about issues.
Our request to you on this day is to highlight the ideas of the revolutionaries on 23rd March and bring the youth of today face to face with the sacrifices and the dreams. Doing so will help rekindle the sleeping conscience and will inspire many of them to work towards positive changes for the greater good in whatever capacity and whatever fields they choose for themselves
March 20th, 2009
DVG’s 122nd Birthday
On Tue,17th Mar
At ADA Rangamandira JC Rd, Bangalore
March 16th, 2009
Title: Bangalore India Twestival 2009
Description: 12 February 2009, 20:00, Opus, #4, 1st Main, Off Palace Cross Road, Chakravathy Layout Palace Road, Vasanth Nagar Bangalore 560052
Date: 2009-02-12
On 12 February 2009 100+ cities around the world will be hosting Twestivals which bring together Twitter communities for an evening of fun and to raise money and awareness for charity: water.
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The Twestival is organized 100% by volunteers in cities around the world and 100% of the money raised from these events will go directly to support charity: water projects.
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Unsafe water and lack of basic sanitation cause 80% of all sickness and disease, and kill more people every year than all forms of violence, including war.
Many communities in developing nations often have a plentiful supply of clean drinking water just below the ground, but no way to get to it.
This is where charity: water and their partner organizations come in. Drilling a well can cost from $4,000 – $12,000 USD and many living on less than $1 a day cannot afford one in their community, even if the money is combined.
Twestival cities might consider setting a goal to raise enough money from their event to fund a well in Ethiopia which costs $4,000 USD.
http://bangalore.twestival.com/
February 11th, 2009
The Bangalore Astronomical Society plans to kickstart it’s new year (and the International Year of Astronomy too (IYA 2009)) with a star party under the skies @ Coorg (koDagu) this January.
While Jan 24th and 25th also happen to be closest to the new moon, Coorg as a place holds value of interest for things well beyond astronomy (For the adventure crazy, nature crazy amongst you).
The routine sky gazing, constellation tracing, deep sky observing apart, we also intend that this session be a productive brainstorming session for us, as to take astronomy to all the bangaloreans, with much spirit and enthusiasm in this year of astronomy, than ever before.
Logistics
* We intend to arrange a Tempo Traveller or a Swaraj Mazda for those amongst us who are looking to travel together, depending on the number of total registrants.
* We expect charges: For transport and stay (mandatory) to account to Rs 1000 + 500 = Rs 1500 approximately. Please note that this is approximate and might vary either way depending upon the final signup count)
* Please feel free to inform your friends, et al
* Please feel free to join our event broadcast list: Click here
* Please sign up first (Click the link below), and subsequently get in touch with us ASAP to render your payments to your closest BAS representative
Savvy? Please sign up asap!
When January 23rd, 2009 10:30 PM through January 25th, 2009 9:15 PM
Location
Guest House Dorms
Bagamandala, Coorg, KA
India
Contact Mobile: 09448451121
Mobile: 09980505003
Email: info@bas.org.in
REGISTER HERE
January 20th, 2009
Invite all humans and their pets to make the difference to our society starting with our own homes to neighbourhoods and far.
We need people who can :
a. ideat
b. take action
c. support
d. have fun
We can discuss on a variety of topics that can be implemented by the group:
Keeping it as simple as the MKG quote – “Be the change that you want to see in others”
if we can organize ourselves and come up with action items and anchors for each, it would be great. We could then meet periodically to share our experiences and take stock.
Cheers
Arvind Singh
WWF Member, Runners Bangalore, Commute Easy, Jambusters, SayNoToBulb, OwnATree
CONFIRM HERE
| Time: |
Sunday, December 14 from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM |
| Host: |
Arvind Singh |
| Contact Phone: |
+91 98457 36575 |
| Location: |
Little Italy (Bangalore, India)
100 Feet Road, Indiranagar
Bangalore, India
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| Directions: |
Little Italy is a famous Restaurant on 100 Feet Road. But again we can choose a location democratically.  And yes, you dont have to pledge any money. |
November 18th, 2008
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