[Melbourne-pm] REMINDER OSDClub meeting THIS Thursday

[Jacinta Richardson]

Jacinta Richardson wrote:
> We invite you to join us for the next OSDClub meeting:
> 
> 	When:    6:30pm, Thursday 6th April, 2005
> 	Where:   Room 56-5-88, RMIT Building 56
> 		 Corner of Queensbury & Lygon streets.
> 
> 	More details: http://www.osdc.com.au/osdclub/
> 		
> Our featured talks will be:

> 	Doing cool things with open source javascript libraries
> 	-------------------------------------------------------
> 	This talk is an introduction to some of the cross-browser javascript
> 	libraries out there that make it easier to make interactive and dynamic
> 	web pages. We'll have a look at the various helper functions for dealing
> 	with the DOM, objects, arrays and the things you commonly want to do.
> 	We'll look at some of the standard objects available such as calendars,
> 	tree-view lists and sliders. We'll also have a look at the Event
> 	handling and Ajax functions provided.
> 
> 	The libraries covered will be: prototype, scriptaculous and yahoo's YUI.
> 
> 	Copylefting the DMCA: DRM and the version 3 of the GPL
> 	------------------------------------------------------
> 	This talk examines the DRM-related clauses that have been proposed for
> 	inclusion in version 3 of the GNU General Public License. It considers
> 	the effects of the language in the FSF's first draft, as well as the
> 	directions in which that language might move for the final version. I
> 	then analyse the effects that a strengthened GPL could conceivably have
> 	on the development of DRM systems, and the strategic considerations
> 	involved for the Free Software Foundation, the broader open source
> 	software community, DRM developers, major copyright holders, and even
> 	governments.
> 
> 	(more: http://www.osdc.com.au/osdclub/200604/copylefting.html)
> 
> 
> Talk Proposals
> ==============
> 
> We invite you to offer talk proposals for future meetings.  To be involved, send
> your talk topic to clubadmin at osdc.com.au  Presentations can make use of a
> particular programming language to illustrate examples, but should be accessible
> to programmers from a range of backgrounds.


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