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==ISOC-NY Event==
 
==ISOC-NY Event==
'''ISOC-NY Event – Mar 25: Jinyang Li – Censorship Circumvention via Kaleidoscope'''
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'''ISOC-NY Event – Apr 10: Jinyang Li – Censorship Circumvention via Kaleidoscope'''
  
*'''What''': Jinyang Li Censorship Circumvention via Kaleidoscope
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*'''What''': ISOC-NY Event: dot nyc How are we doing?
*'''Where''': Rm. 1029, Warren Weaver Hall NYU, 250 Mercer St NYC
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*'''Where''': Warren Weaver Hall NYU Rm102, 250 Mercer St, NY 10012
*'''When''': Thursday Mar 25, 7:00pm,
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*'''When''': Saturday Apr 10 2010; 1pm-4.30pm (1700-2030 UTC)
 
*'''Who''': Public Welcome. Admission Free.
 
*'''Who''': Public Welcome. Admission Free.
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*'''Webcast''': http://livestream.com/isocny
 
*'''Sponsor''': ISOC-NY
 
*'''Sponsor''': ISOC-NY
  
Jinyang Li has developed censorship circumvention software called Kaleidoscope that uses social networks to
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The Internet Society – New York Chapter (ISOC-NY) has for some years been following the .nyc and ICANN process on behalf of the NYC community and will, on Saturday April 10 2010, host a symposium “dot nyc – How are we doing?” at NYU. Vendors Eric Brunner-Williams of CORE Internet Council of Registrars and Antony Van Couvering of Minds + Machines will reveal details of their proposals to the City, after which there will be a discussion “What’s it for?” about possible applications – civic, community, commercial, and “outside the box” – for a local top level domain.
spread the word about anonymous proxies via a trusted social network.
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This is part of her ongoing research into "exploiting the real world social relationships among users to improve the security and reliability of open distributed systems."
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* We are hoping to permit remote participation via Skype and telephone
  
The software has two components, a Firefox plugin for the notifications, and a backend that creates the proxy server.
 
  
Her personal site:
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==ISOC-NY Planning Meeting==
http://www.news.cs.nyu.edu/~jinyang/
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Kaleidoscope download and dox:
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Our next planning meeting will be on Thurs April 22nd 2010 in rm412 at Warren Weaver Hall
http://www.kspro.org/
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She's written a paper about this:
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http://www.news.cs.nyu.edu/~jinyang/pub/kalei_iptps08.pdf
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==2010 planning meetings ==
 
==2010 planning meetings ==

Revision as of 00:27, 6 April 2010

ISOC-NY holds frequent public meetings at NYU. Sign on to the announce list to stay informed.

  • All meetings are open to the public
  • Meetings are wheelchair accessible.
  • Meetings are free

ISOC-NY Event

ISOC-NY Event – Apr 10: Jinyang Li – Censorship Circumvention via Kaleidoscope

  • What: ISOC-NY Event: dot nyc – How are we doing?
  • Where: Warren Weaver Hall NYU Rm102, 250 Mercer St, NY 10012
  • When: Saturday Apr 10 2010; 1pm-4.30pm (1700-2030 UTC)
  • Who: Public Welcome. Admission Free.
  • Webcast: http://livestream.com/isocny
  • Sponsor: ISOC-NY

The Internet Society – New York Chapter (ISOC-NY) has for some years been following the .nyc and ICANN process on behalf of the NYC community and will, on Saturday April 10 2010, host a symposium “dot nyc – How are we doing?” at NYU. Vendors Eric Brunner-Williams of CORE Internet Council of Registrars and Antony Van Couvering of Minds + Machines will reveal details of their proposals to the City, after which there will be a discussion “What’s it for?” about possible applications – civic, community, commercial, and “outside the box” – for a local top level domain.

  • We are hoping to permit remote participation via Skype and telephone


ISOC-NY Planning Meeting

Our next planning meeting will be on Thurs April 22nd 2010 in rm412 at Warren Weaver Hall

2010 planning meetings

ISOC-NY will be holding planning meetings on the following dates in early 2010:

  • Feb 25 Mar 2
  • Apr 1
  • Apr 29

Being the last Thursday of each month except March, when we get put back a week. All at 6.30pm in Rm. 412.

  • What: ISOC-NY Members meeting
  • When: (As above) 6.30pm-8.00pm
  • Where: Room 412, Warren Weaver Hall, 251 Mercer Street NYC (SW corner of West 4th) (See note below)


  • Note: Use the entrance on the west side since construction blocks the Mercer Street entrance. Must bring ID.



Past meetings

  • Webcasts of earlier ISOC-NY events can be found here
  • Previous minutes are here.