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  From: Jonah Bossewitch <jonah@ccnmtl.columbia.edu>
  To  : <cpc@emoglen.law.columbia.edu>
  Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 19:52:23 -0400

Re: California, here I come

Well, for me, the biggest question is how this might dovetail with any of 
Prof. Moglen's other plans for community building across his interest areas.

In other words, while our class has developed a good rapport, I imagine we 
would have much in common with many of Prof. Moglen's other students and 
classes. Depending upon his endorsement, we might want to coordinate this 
effort with any other plans he might have to build a community of alumni 
(probably open to the world, if anyone is interested in joining) interested 
in these topics.  Personally, I will miss the "On the Radar" postings and 
will probably want to continue to track his classes in the future. It seems 
odd that we would splinter off our own class from some of his other classes, 
when we are probably having similar conversations. Then again, he may have 
plenty of good reasons for keeping each class separate and distinct.

The burden and expense of building and maintaining these kinds of 
communities is probably significantly lower than many imagine.

On the low end, there are always yahoo groups and/or google groups, which 
are free and provide some decent starting points. Aside from all the free 
blogs and social networking tools that also facilitate this kind of 
communication, there are a few content management systems that make it easy 
to set up this kind of a community, with a bit more room to grow in terms of 
tools (wikis, blogs, and forums, file sharing, etc).  There are even some 
ISPs that make these tools available for free, in the hope that you might 
want to buy in to support, expanded storage and features, etc.  Off the top 
of my head, I can think of http://www.openmute.org (free Xoops hosting) and
http://www.objectis.org/ (free plone hosting), but I am sure there are 
plenty more like this.

If anybody is interested in working on this project please contact me and we 
can move it forward.

Jonah

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alexander Rosemberg" <ar2308@columbia.edu>
To: <cpc@emoglen.law.columbia.edu>
Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2005 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: California, here I come


>
> I would have to agree. I don't know if we should burden Prof. Moglen with 
> maintaining it, but its certainly a good idea. Especially if any of us 
> plan to be in the field.
>
> good idea,
>
> Alex
>
>
> On Apr 30, 2005, at 3:51 PM, Jonah Bossewitch wrote:
>
>>
>> State Bill to Limit RFID
>>
>> http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,67382,00.html
>>
>> Seriously, I wonder what factors go into California politicians (and 
>> their constituents) leading the way in this legislation.  Some obvious 
>> factors come to mind, but none that would preclude a state like New York 
>> from keeping pace.
>>
>> Considering how active this list has remained even after classes have 
>> ended, I wonder if we should consider spinning this list off into more 
>> permanent community.
>>
>> /Jonah
>>
>>
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alexander Rosemberg" <ar2308@columbia.edu>
To: <cpc@emoglen.law.columbia.edu>
Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2005 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: California, here I come


>
> I would have to agree. I don't know if we should burden Prof. Moglen with 
> maintaining it, but its certainly a good idea. Especially if any of us 
> plan to be in the field.
>
> good idea,
>
> Alex
>
>
> On Apr 30, 2005, at 3:51 PM, Jonah Bossewitch wrote:
>
>>
>> State Bill to Limit RFID
>>
>> http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,67382,00.html
>>
>> Seriously, I wonder what factors go into California politicians (and 
>> their constituents) leading the way in this legislation.  Some obvious 
>> factors come to mind, but none that would preclude a state like New York 
>> from keeping pace.
>>
>> Considering how active this list has remained even after classes have 
>> ended, I wonder if we should consider spinning this list off into more 
>> permanent community.
>>
>> /Jonah
>>
>>
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>>
> Alexander Rosemberg-Holcblat
> LL.M. Candidate, Columbia University School of Law. '05
> ar2308@columbia.edu/ 212-853-0526
>
>
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