[kwlug-disc] Cory Doctorow tickets!

[Paul Nijjar]

Cory has posted about his talk to Boing Boing: 

https://boingboing.net/2017/11/28/formerly-berlin-ontario.html

If you are on Facebook/Twitter you could use the Share/Tweet links at
the bottom of that post to spread the word. This is a good post
because it has both events on one page. 

If you are morally opposed to tweeting that post here is an existing
tweet you could retweet: 

https://twitter.com/WaterlooMath/status/935248131255685122


Somebody has posted the link on Reddit at /r/uwaterloo: 

https://redd.it/7gbd0a

That could use some upvotes. In addition if somebody could post to
/r/kitchener and /r/waterloo that would be great. 

- Paul (who has no idea how to effectively promote events in this
  dystopic future)


On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 05:44:27PM -0500, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:
> 
> So it seems that Doctorow tickets are not going as briskly as the
> organizers hoped. The last I heard they had given away about 150 of
> the 400 tickets. So if you have contemplated abstaining so other people
> could attend, you should just come out. (However, only get tickets if
> you actually plan to attend. No-shows don't help anything at all.)
> 
> Could you help spread the word about these events on your social
> medias, with your friends, and in your other user groups? I feel
> confident that lots of people in this region would be delighted to see
> Doctorow speak if they knew he was coming, but I worry that people
> don't know that he is coming. It will be embarrassing if we cannot
> pack a 400 seat theatre to see him.
> 
> - Paul
> 
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 10:13:41PM -0500, Paul Nijjar wrote:
> > Hey ho, 
> > 
> > So it looks as if there are tickets available for both the evening
> > event (which will be a lecture) and the afternoon event at the KPL
> > (which is mostly a book signing). Tickets are free, but please get a
> > ticket only if you will come. No-shows are a pain to deal with, and
> > the organizers want to have a full house.
> > 
> > Here is the ticket link for the full talk: 
> > 
> > https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/cory-doctorow-tickets-39834896247
> > 
> > The talk is now open to the public, so you do not need to be a UW
> > member to attend (and you may let others know as well). 
> > 
> > Here is the link for the KPL talk (which links to Eventbrite): 
> > 
> > http://www.kpl.org/85-queen-afternoon-cory-doctorow-ticketed-event
> > 
> > Also: there might be some people needed to help volunteer at the event
> > (registering ticket holders, getting a queue of people without tickets
> > so that they can attend if there is space, etc). Is anybody available
> > Monday evening to help with this? I do not know for certain that they
> > need help but it is plausible. Having a laptop or tablet that you can
> > use for registrations would be helpful. 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Here is the abstract for Doctorow's talk:
> > 
> > ------------------------------------------
> > Dead canary in the coalmine: we just lost the web in the war on general
> > purpose computing
> > 
> > This is the decade in which the unstoppable temptation to solve your
> > problems by breaking everyone else's computers really starts to chomp on
> > our collective butts. The World Wide Web Consortium just gave in to
> > Netflix's demand to break every browser in the world in order to make it
> > incrementally harder to pirate TV shows, while this year at a summit in
> > Ottawa, the Australians demanded that all the world's crypto be
> > sabotaged to make it incrementally easier to conduct mass surveillance.
> > 
> > The general purpose nature of computers, capable of running any program
> > that anyone can conceive of, is an iron law of nature, not a fetish of
> > mulish nerds who refuse to acknowledge the importance of catching bad
> > guys or watching TV in the proscribed manner.
> > 
> > The technical nature of this problem, the complexity of its contours,
> > and the awful fallout from ill-conceived "solutions" make for a toxic
> > brew. Any time you have a  problem that is boring, complicated and
> > important, you have big trouble (this is the origin of the climate
> > change crisis!).
> > 
> > Computer scientists and technical people have a solemn, urgent duty to
> > drag their less-informed peers into this debate, before it's too late.
> > After all, a car is computer you put your body into, and so is a campus
> > building, a skyscraper, and a Bombardier CS300. A pacemaker is a
> > computer you put in your body, and so is a cochlear implant and an
> > implanted defibrillator. A phone is a computer before whose cameras you
> > parade naked, while speaking your most sensitive secrets and living out
> > your most private moments.
> > 
> > If we don't get computers right, everything else will go terribly,
> > horribly wrong.
> > ------------------------------------------
> > 
> > 
> > I have not publicized the talk on kwlug.org but I might do so later
> > this week. The people at UW want to get their own posters up for the
> > event too.
> > 
> > 
> > 
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