[FC-discuss] NYC LOCAL: Thursday 19 April 2007 Internet Society of New York General Meeting

[jays at panix.com]

Personal Remark by Jay Sulzberger:

The next few months in New York City will see a large battle for
the Internet.  The New York City Council and Mayoral Broadband
Advisory Committee, headed by Gale Brewer,

http://www.nycbroadband.blogspot.com

is in process of drawing up rules and regulations and contracts
which will, in large measure, help or hurt our freedom to
collaborate and communicate using our Net.  The Broadband
Advisory Committee is composed of hard working men and women.
But today some committee members do not yet know what the Net is.
I believe that the government of New York City should, before
writing laws and contracts, know what is at stake.  The Telephone
Company and the Cable Company are spending hundreds of millions
of dollars on real lobbyists and false advertising.  We who know
what the Net is, must work to keep our Net free, and to keep our
packets flowing fast, flowing without third party interference.
In the next few months, we have a chance to speak directly, in
public, to the NYC Broadband Advisory Committee.  If we fail in
New York, winning the war will take longer.  Let us act now.  One
place to begin is to join the Internet Society of New York:

http://www.isoc-ny.org

Below is the official notice of the next general meeting of
ISOC-NY.

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


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 Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:29:12 -0400
 From: David Solomonoff <president at isoc-ny.org>
 Organization: Internet Society of New York
 To: announce at isoc-ny.org, Internet Society Discuss <discuss at isoc-ny.org>
 Subject: [Discuss] ISOC-NY Monthly Membership Meeting
 Reply-To: isocnydump at isoc-ny.org, president at isoc-ny.org, discuss at isoc-ny.org

 ISOC-NY Monthly Membership Meeting

 Thursday, April 19, 2006, 7-9pm
 (3rd Thursday of the month)
 All meetings are free and open to the public
 Where: New York University, 5th floor conference room, Pless Hall 82
 Washington Square East

 Pless Hall is across from Washington Square Park, at corner of
 Washington Square East and Washington Place (between Waverly and West
 4th). Entrance is on Washington Place.


 -- 
 David Solomonoff, President
 Internet Society of New York
 president at isoc-ny.org
 isoc-ny.org
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