Web Technology

Web Association Meeting: Special interest Tables

Submitted by Amin Varghai on Thu, 03/24/2005 - 10:19.
09/13/2005 - 10:30

Members will get the opportunity to discuss topics of special interest to them in a round table discussion over lunch.

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Web Association Meeting: Moving Business Processes Online

Submitted by Amin Varghai on Thu, 03/24/2005 - 10:13.
06/14/2005 - 10:30

Swagelok will share the story of its successful, but extremely challenging, move of core business preactives into an online environment.

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Web Association Meeting: Intranets and Portals

Submitted by Amin Varghai on Thu, 03/24/2005 - 09:57.
04/12/2005 - 10:30

Intranets and Portals
– What are they? How do they work? How are Intranets and Portals used
in day to day activities across different industries and environments?

Location

Windows on the River
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03.22.05 REALNEO@REI orientation

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Mon, 03/21/2005 - 13:48.
03/22/2005 - 13:00

Each Tuesday from 2:00 - 4:00 PM REI holds REALNEO planning and orientation sessions. These sessions are free and open to anyone interested in this initiative - and excellent time to work with volunteers on your Community Of Interest Links - feel free to come anytime between 2 and 4, and stick around after for the weekly Tuesday@REI meetings, from 4:00 - 5:45 PM.

Location

Peter B Lewis Bldg room 123
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04.08.05 - 04.10.05: Notacon - Exploring Community through Technology

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Sun, 03/20/2005 - 23:28.
04/08/2005 - 08:00

Exploring Community through Technology - Notacon is the second iteration of a yearly technology, arts and music event held in Cleveland, Ohio.
This year's focus is on how technology and community intermingle. The event itself hosts
speakers, events, games, live music and a whole lot more.

Location

Holiday Inn City Center Lakeshore

03.22.05 Web Association: Building a Creative Online Environment

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Wed, 03/16/2005 - 20:47.
03/22/2005 - 10:30

Building a Creative Online Environment:
Collaboration, Innovation and Education

March 22, 2005 at
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Register Now!

Location

Windows On The River

03.16.05 NOTES: NEOSA's Search Engine Optimization Panel Discussion

Submitted by John Soellner on Wed, 03/16/2005 - 10:57.

"Searching for Success" - Leslie Carruthers of The Search Guru and moderator stresses the importance of application of the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques being discussed. The topics included both pay per click and organic ranking of all major spidering search engines.

Evaluating the Web Association's Registration Process in Real Time

Submitted by John Soellner on Mon, 03/14/2005 - 13:03.
03/29/2005 - 17:30

Local design and usability experts and attendees analyze and test a web site such as the Web Association's Meeting registration process. $15 non-members registration. 

Location

6300 Wilson Mills Road; Progressive Insurance Mayfield Village
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notacon - Exploring Community through Technology

Submitted by John Soellner on Sat, 03/12/2005 - 13:00.
04/08/2005 - 07:30

Notacon is the second iteration of a yearly technology, arts and music event held at the Cleveland Holiday Inn.

Location

1111 LAKESIDE AVENUE; Holiday Inn Select Cleveland - City Center Lakeshore

First Monday: The social structure of free and open source software development

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Sun, 03/06/2005 - 16:20.

The social structure of free and open source software development - by Kevin Crowston and James Howison - Abstract: Metaphors, such as the Cathedral and Bazaar, used to describe the organization of FLOSS projects typically place them in sharp contrast to proprietary development by emphasizing FLOSS's distinctive social and communications structures. But what do we really know about the communication patterns of FLOSS projects? How generalizable are the projects that have been studied? Is there consistency across FLOSS projects? Questioning the assumption of distinctiveness is important because practitioner-advocates from within the FLOSS community rely on features of social structure to describe and account for some of the advantages of FLOSS production.

First Monday: analysis of the mainstream media representation of hackers, hacking, hacktivism, and cyberterrorism

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Sun, 03/06/2005 - 16:12.

The media's portrayal of hacking, hackers, and hacktivism
before and after September 11
- The intensified
national debate on the security of cyberspace after September 11,
2001 negatively influenced online political activism, which is now
forced to defend itself against being labeled as a form of
cyberterrorism. Many of these socially or politically progressive
activities remain unknown to the public, or if reported, they are
presented in a negative light in the mass media. These conclusions
are based on a analysis of of hackers, hacking, hacktivism, and
cyberterrorism in five major U.S. newspapers over a one-year
period.

03.15.05 REALNEO@REI open source dialogue and inclusion

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Sun, 03/06/2005 - 14:15.
03/15/2005 - 13:00

REALNEO is a free open source social network established to
support dialogue and inclusion among all people interested in Northeast Ohio, at all levels. Visitors are
welcome to create an account and add content. Volunteers developing these social networking capabilities host this
oriantation on how to use these virtual tools for collaboration -
please join us all at the Peter B. Lewis building as we focus on
collaboration

Location

Peter B. Lewis Building, Room 123

03.03.05 NOTES Telework in the future of NEO

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Thu, 03/03/2005 - 08:47.

Ed Morrison opens the session explaining how his research has identified
telework as an important process and lifestyle shift that will have an impact
on our economy here, as it has impact world-wide. He shows several recent
expert based articles showing how the business world, government and academe
have gravitated around aspects of this issue.

"How times have changed...it will be interesting to see how we all get along."

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Tue, 03/01/2005 - 00:14.

There is an absolutely fascinating editorial in the 02/28/05 NYTimes about the President of Harvard University, Lawrence Summers, who "is fighting to keep his job, after suggesting that
women might be intrinsically disadvantaged in studying science." The editorial concludes: "In the Information Age, we are all at Harvard - and everywhere else -
for life, and it will be interesting to see how we all get along." Read on and consider how times have changes, and how well are we in NEO going to get along?

How the birthplace of aviation lost that competitive advantage

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Thu, 02/24/2005 - 03:06.

I happened to catch the NOVA program "A Daring Flight" onÂ
Louis Blériot developing the first airplane to cross the English Channel, which in fact revolutionized the airplane industry at its beginning. Lessons Louis learned from Dayton's Wilbur Wright made this possible, and over the years following his Wright "schooling" Louis gained nearly every flight record in existence, with a plane that exceeded the Wright Brothers' accomplishments, becoming the most popular airplane in the world at that time. Understanding that transformation in time, place and industry offers many lessons for NEO now, in our transition.

Broad coalition supports Community Internet NEO needs - Central Ohio Legislator opposes

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Thu, 02/24/2005 - 00:08.

Case's Weatherhead School of Management Center for Regional Economic Issues (REI) and other community leaders support an initiative to distribute used computers and ease access to free or low cost Internet access for area residents in financial hardship. The first community being supported through this vision is East Cleveland, where REI drives ECHO - "Extending Community Home Online" - as part of an East Cleveland 2010 community redevelopment initiative. This effort is not in social service for the poor of East Cleveland but a critical initiative for economic development for this entire NEO region.

OpenCourses makes MIT education free for all

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Tue, 02/22/2005 - 01:29.

Everyone knows MIT is a remarkable university - now you can learn how, exceptionally. Through their OpenCourseWare site you can access their free, open publication of MIT Course

Materials. They invite you to view all

the courses

available at this time... for example, from their Brain and Cognitive Sciences offerings:

Happy Birthday Drupal

Submitted by Ted Takacs on Thu, 01/20/2005 - 13:44.

Happy birthday Drupal

Dries - January 15, 2005 - 06:25

Exactly
four years ago, on January 15th 2001, I released Drupal 1.0.0. The
following snippet is taken directly from the original announcement:

NOTES: 01.18.05 REALNEO@REI Planning Meeting

Submitted by Ted Takacs on Thu, 01/20/2005 - 13:23.

I. REALNEO Status

A. Drafting of Legal
Agreements

1. Bill Vasu has JD from
Marshall in Intellectual Property and he would be willing to help with framing
of legal agreements, etc.

01.18.05 REALNEO@REI - Dialogue and Inclusion for Open Source Economic Development

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Tue, 01/18/2005 - 00:25.
01/18/2005 - 13:00

Each Tuesday from 2:00 - 4:00 PM REI is holding REALNEO planning and orientation sessions for open dialogue and inclusion supportig the Open Source Economic Development framework for North East Ohio. These sessions are open to everyone - feel free to come anytime between 2 and 4, and stick around after for the weekly Tuesday@REI meetings, from 4:00 - 5:45 PM.

Location

Peter B. Lewis Building, Room 105

01.11.05 REALNEO@REI - Dialogue and Inclusion for Open Source Economic Developemnt

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Mon, 01/10/2005 - 01:21.
01/11/2005 - 13:00

Each Tuesday from 2:00 - 4:00 PM REI is holding REALNEO planning and orientation sessions for open dialogue and inclusion supportig the Open Source Economic Development framework for North East Ohio. These sessions are open to everyone - feel free to come anytime between 2 and 4, and stick around after for the weekly Tuesday@REI meetings, from 4:00 - 5:45 PM.

Location

Peter B. Lewis Building, Room 120

Project Censored Exposed - University research on Independent Journalism and censored news

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Mon, 01/10/2005 - 00:49.

Sonoma State University hosts a media research group called "Project Censored", with the mission to educate people about the role of independent journalism in a democratic society and to tell The News That Didn't Make the News and why. Project Censored "tracks the news published in independent journals
and newsletters. From these, Project Censored compiles an annual list of 25
news stories of social significance that have been overlooked, under-reported
or self-censored by the country’s major national news media".
Project Censored is part of the open source knowledge building community that includes independent journalism, and REALNEO, that is transforming society world-wide, for the better. Read on for links to Sonoma State University's list of top 25 censored news stories of last year, as we work for an inclusive 2005.

Fortune IT predictions for '05 are right on for REALNEO and TOPSOIL

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Sat, 01/08/2005 - 18:52.

Fortune IT columnist Kirkpatrick predicts for 2005 exactly what is the foundation upon which REALNEO is aleady built, with TOPSOIL... highlights:

  • More "bottom-up" transference of power—much more - long-term consequences will be vast, especially in the developing world. Technology is suddenly giving people who've had no voice at all a surprisingly powerful one. I'm not sure that I'd want to be a dictator these days.
  • This power shift is revolutionizing the software industry. Open-source software is a "bottom-up"; technology that is gaining acceptance among business clients and even consumers. We now know that big companies aren't the only ones that can create top-quality software.
  • Consumers who discover that Firefox is a great product are now more comfortable with the concept of open-source software in general.

Here are Fortune's complete IT predictions, worth knowing:

At City Club 01.07.05: Sherrod Brown for "Fair" Trade - and Gov in '06?!

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Sat, 01/08/2005 - 17:11.

Congressman Sherrod Brown was the speaker at the first Cleveland City Club Friday Forum of 2005, on January 7, where he presented insight from his recently published book on American free trade policy, Myths of Free Trade: Why American Trade Policy Has Failed, and shared personal perspectives on life in Washington, Ohio, and around the world. Appreciative attendees enjoyed the company of an insightful speaker, empowering statesman, and refreshing intellectual – and we may well have been the first to learn Brown is seriously considering a run for Ohio Governor in 2006. Where else but the City Club may we the people of Cleveland get up close and personal to explore the most important issues in the world, with the most insightful people in the world.

Why eGov? To assist individual artists

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Fri, 01/07/2005 - 19:30.

City of Phoenix offers support for local artists via ICE - Information Community Effectiveness. The following eNews from City Hall highlights "a new pilot grants program designed to assist individual artists living in Phoenix and working in all artistic disciplines." The focus is quite basic and low-level and low-cost - one could say negligible, in the big picture... $10,000 total... yet for individual artists this is a sign the city cares about their development and success. As NEO's Community Partnership for the Arts is now planning how to allocate $100,000s of dollars to artists, it is worth thinking so small with some of that money, to spread the wealth like in Phoenix...