A draft of the ACTA treaty has been leaked just as government representatives of the world begin secret negotiations in Korea today. This treaty originates in the USA, and is being negotiated with many countries including New Zealand.

Boingboing have some analysis of the leaked draft::

* That ISPs have to proactively police copyright on user-contributed material. This means that it will be impossible to run a service like Flickr or YouTube or Blogger, since hiring enough lawyers to ensure that the mountain of material uploaded every second isn't infringing will exceed any hope of profitability.

* That ISPs have to cut off the Internet access of accused copyright infringers or face liability. This means that your entire family could be denied to the internet -- and hence to civic participation, health information, education, communications, and their means of earning a living -- if one member is accused of copyright infringement, without access to a trial or counsel.

* That the whole world must adopt US-style "notice-and-takedown" rules that require ISPs to remove any material that is accused -- again, without evidence or trial -- of infringing copyright. This has proved a disaster in the US and other countries, where it provides an easy means of censoring material, just by accusing it of infringing copyright.

Wellington Flickr group now has 1000 members

The group was also winners of "best contribution to the internet by a wellingtonian".

here are some photos posted *today* in this excellent group:

Major New Zealand manuscript collection now online - New Zealand Culture Discussions Online - LivelySource: www.nzlive.comThe launch last week of Sir Donald McLean’s papers has concluded a busy few weeks for the National Library, which also joined Flickr’s Commons project and released (in partnership with organisations ...

I had a great time at the Wellingtonista awards on Thursday night.

While i didn't win, i loved the loud cheer for my blog in the reading of the finalists :-) thanks folks. And thanks to those who voted for me.

The winner, of "Best contribution to the internet by a Wellingtonian" was the Wellington Flickr Group. The three admins (me, Brett and Sue) posed for this photo:

Also - a video summary:

farm1.static.flickr.comSource: farm1.static.flickr....bravery

fuck, I say FUCK gravity, originally uploaded by solidstate_

it's the law.

at last month's Wellington Perl Mongers I did a short presentation on Opportunities for networking with geeks in Wellington... for the slide, i used a flickr set - this worked remarkably well. It adapted to screen (projector) resolution and played just as I expected.

The delivery of OLPCs is well underway, and see this crazy stamp from Uruguay

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dcmetroblogger/2700903137/

What's this? the javascript flickr "badge" on brenda's blog? the author of flickrrippr isn't using flickrrippr?

Well now - i just haven't got the whole of flickrrippr working in Drupal 6 yet. the basics are there (and in drupal CVS) but not ready for production yet.

despite the "badge", i still prefer to live with javascript off.

report on the wellington girl geek coffee is up on the google opensource blog
http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/05/may-girl-geek-coffee-in-welly.html

The existing flickr plugin didn't work in php5
so i re-wrote it to use PhpFlickr.

YMMV.

Nobody photos their own pizza like taniwha - Wellington Flickr gathering, 17 Feb. 2007, originally uploaded by PhillipC

:-)

next sunday, the 14th, i'm off to linux.conf.au
That's a whole weeks conference on linux.

It's in Sydney this year. I'm leaping on a plane, with 2 awesome ladies, penny, and a random sysadmin person who doesn't have a blog.

after the conference i'm staying the extra weekend in sydney, as well as the monday, which is Wellington anniversary..

Check my photo stream on flickr during the week..

I'll also try and blog a bit about the things i see, do, and learn over there.

To any and all my clients who may be reading this... i don't have a shiny new laptop, so i can't be working while in Sydney.. send your outrage to my boss ;-)

this came from flickr - but here's a useful list of upcoming welly-town things.

lights in the botanic gardens - tomorrow 7th Jan
Thundercat boats at Lyall Bay 20 -21 January
Soft as Stone Sculpture
One Love Event at Hataitai Velodrome 6 February
Chalk the Walk at Wellington Waterfront Promenade 17 February
Cuba St Carnival 23-24 February
Newtown Festival Fair Day 4 March
Gay & Lesbian Fair at Newtown 10 March
NZ Offshore Power Boats on Wellington Waterfront 10 March

next sunday, the 14th, i'm off to linux.conf.auThat's a whole weeks conference on linux.It's in Sydney this year. I'm leaping on a plane, with 2 awesome ladies, penny, and a random sysadmin person who doesn't have a blog.after the conference i'm staying the extra weekend in sydney, as well as the monday, which is Wellington anniversary.. Check my photo stream on flickr during the week..

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