A few people have questioned whether our session at FOSDEM really answered the question: can we replace Skype in 2013? While I will stop short of making that commitment here today, I will say one thing: if any technology has the potential to help the free software community to displace Skype, and decentralize real-time communications, it is WebRTC....
If you sometimes find yourself needing an open wireless network in order to check your email from a car, a street corner, or a park, you may have noticed that they're getting harder to find. Stories like the one over the weekend about a bunch of police breaking down an innocent man's door because he happened to leave his network open, as well as ge...
Imagine a future with ubiquitous open Internet. We're working with a coalition of volunteer engineers to build technologies that will let users open their wireless networks without compromising their security or sacrificing bandwidth. And we're working with advocates to help change the way people and businesses think about Internet service.
One of my favorite quotes comes from our beloved talk show host Oprah: "I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadn't been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldn't have been 'lucky.'"
In the world of cloud to mobile, there are very few businesses that 15 or 10 or even 5 years from now will be able to constrain effectively what hardware their employees use to conduct the business.... -- @9min19sec
So, Freedom Box is an effort to use free software pro-privacy tools we already have, and pro-privacy tools we can make easily out of tools we already have, and put them together in ways which allow them to run in the kind of devices that are going to be everywhere, partly plug servers, but partially also dishwashers, and refrigerators, and coffee pots, and all sorts of other things that people are going to spread around the world, and that we can turn into a cloud that makes privacy... -- @7min15secAs always, he gets it.
Preamble to the Republic: Condolence, Wampum, and the Language of Peace by SmithsonianNMAI on YouTube
When the United States was founded in 1789, American Indians had nearly 200 years of experience dealing with Europeans. During those years, Native people offered distinct protocols of diplomacy—ceremonies, forms of address, and material culture—that governed relations with the colonial powers. Benjamin Franklin published the record of treaties where these protocols formed the primary construct of negotiation. The oral traditions surrounding and informing the early protocols continue in living memory through elders and ceremonial cycles of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) longhouses. Their material legacy is found in the record of wampum and wampum belts of archeological, cultural and historical value.
At Preamble to the Republic, three representatives from a distinguished traditional family spoke on the history, culture, and meaning of the Great Law of Peace, the clanmother system, and the symbology of the longhouse leadership culture as represented in wampum and other materials.
A venerated elder of the Mohawk Nation at Akwesasne, Chief Jake Swamp is an internationally recognized spokesperson for the traditions of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) longhouse. Ceremonially released from duties as a chief of the Wolf Clan after nearly forty years, he continues his activism as president of the Tree of Peace Society, a global peace and environment initiative. His wife, Judy Swamp, is a traditional elder of the Mohawk Nation, and his son, Skahendowaneh Swamp, is an installed speaker of the longhouse, educator, and traditional artist.
500 Nations The Story of Indian Americans Part 1 by asariisechunkh on YouTube
500 Nations The Story of Indian Americans Part 2 by asariisechunkh on YouTube
500 Nations The Story of Indian Americans Part 3 by asariisechunkh on YouTube
500 Nations The Story of Indian Americans Part 4 by asariisechunkh on YouTube
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"The truth is, we have a story worth talking about. We have a history worth celebrating. Long before the first Europeans arrived here, there were some 500 nations already in North America. They blanketed the continent from coast to coast, from Central America to the Arctic. There were tens of millions of people here, speaking over 300 languages. Many of them lived in beautiful cities, among the largest and most advanced in the world. In the coming hours, 500 Nations looks back on those ancient cultures, how they lived, and how many survived.... What you're about to see is what happened. It's not all that happened, and it's not always pleasant. We can't change that. We can't turn back the clock. But we can open our eyes and give the first nations of this land the recognition and respect they deserve: their rightful place in the history of the world." -- Kevin Costner
#6. The Indians Weren't Defeated by White Settlers...
#5. Native Culture Wasn't Primitive...
#4. Columbus Didn't Discover America: Vikings vs. Indians...
#3. Everything You Know About Columbus Is a Calculated Lie...
#2. White Settlers Did Not Carve America Out of the Untamed Wilderness...
#1. How Indians Influenced Modern America...Historians think the Iroquois Confederacy had a direct influence on the U.S. Constitution, and the Senate even passed a resolution acknowledging that "the confederation of the original thirteen colonies into one republic was influenced ... by the Iroquois Confederacy, as were many of the democratic principles which were incorporated into the constitution itself."
But as Ben Franklin noted in a letter..."It would be a strange thing if six nations of ignorant savages should be capable of forming a scheme for such a union and be able to execute it in such a manner as that it has subsisted ages and appears insoluble; and yet that a like union should be impracticable for 10 or a dozen English colonies."In 1987, Cornell University held a conference on the link between the Iroquois' government and the U.S. Constitution. It was noted that the Iroquois Great Law of Peace "includes 'freedom of speech, freedom of religion ... separation of power in government and checks and balances."
Join, or die (or plagiarize from the Indians).
They would not know or need more time e.g. to find where to file bugs/wishes in the existing Debian #
