Social Tech Brewing Co. |
Thursday, January 26, 2006 |
DUDE, IS THAT YOUR SPYWARE IN MY NEW CD?Just a quick reminder to RSVP for the Social Tech Brewing event next week! The event is next Thursday, 6:30PM, at the Centre for Social Innovation on Spadina north of Queen. You can RSVP at Upcoming.org (http://upcoming.org/event/51961). On Feburary 2nd, Social Tech Brewing is pleased to have an opportunity to bring you an incredible line-up of voices for freedom and fair use. These "copyfighters" are in the trenches working to help protect the rights of Canadians and to defend our public domain. As corporate lobbyists and big money recording interests scramble to get their buddies into power on Monday, Social Tech Brewing Co. brings you the vanguard of the grassroots copyright/copyleft activism movement in Canada! Sharing their stories, experiences, and ideas with us on Feburary 2nd will be: Ren Bucholz Damien Fox Neil Leyton (FULL BIOS ARE BELOW) *********************************** As always, our format will be fast and fun and will provide ample time for questions, answers, followed by drinks and conversation at a nearby bar. Please take a moment to either RSVP to phillip@communtiybandwidth.ca or to indicate your attendance on our event page at Upcoming.org (http://upcoming.org/event/51961). I look forward to seeing you there! Phillip on behalf of the Social Tech Brewing coordinators *********************************** BIOGRAPHIES Ren Bucholz Ren Bucholz is based in Toronto, Ontario, where he works on international policy for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (http://www.eff.org). His primary focus is on Canada and South America, but he often finds himself in other places as well. He moonlights as the webmaster for OnlineRights.ca (www.onlinerights.ca), a grassroots activism initiative sponsored by EFF and CIPPIC (www.cippic.ca). Before EFF, Ren managed a noncommercial radio station and worked for one of the first Internet broadcasters. He has also helped start a political action committee (http://www.ipaction.org) that works on many of EFF's issues and a monthly social night for copyfighters (www.copynight.org). Ren majored in journalism at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he graduated with honors. Damien Fox Damien completed undergraduate studies in International Relations, a Master's degree in Political Theory, and an LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School. Currently, he is the Copyright Outreach Coordinator for the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic in Ottawa, focusing on open-source copyright issues and starting the Canadian Software Innovation Alliance. He is also a cofounder of Wireless Nomad, a user-owned, 100% open-source ISP providing high-speed Internet with free public WiFi to homes and businesses, and the organizer of the Toronto Wi-Fi Meetup Group, a wireless technology user and developer group that meets monthly. Previously, he worked in Canada, Japan and the Philippines as a crew leader with a geophysical exploration company, worked at the University of Toronto fundraising department, and served as an intern with the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco. Neil Leyton Leyton has spoken at conferences in Toronto (U of T Law School's Sound Bytes, Sound Rights), London (MusicTank), Helsinki (Arcada CC Workshop), and Berlin (Popkomm) exposing the inequities of the music business and pointing the way to a friendlier music industry with a much brighter future. Fading Ways Music will have released its 50th music title by the end of 2006 and its fan-based street teams support Creative Commons throughout Fading Ways' distributed territories. His new album "The Betrayal of the Self", recorded in Stockholm last October, will be released in May.
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