[Foundation-l] Wikinews: IOTM Jan 2006 - Danny O'Brien of the Electronic Frontier Foundation

Sun Jan 22 19:18:57 UTC 2006

Hi!

Wikinews will be hosting a second Interview of the Month 
(http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/Interview_of_the_month),  2000 
UTC on 23 January 2006, Danny O'Brien 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_O%27Brien) of the Electronic 
Frontier Foundation 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation) will be 
interviewed live in IRC (irc://irc.freenode.net/wikinews), and you are 
invited to attend and be a part of the action.

Danny O'Brien is the "Coordinator of Activism" at the EFF, which he came 
to from a technology journalism career. He helped found the Open Rights 
Group, amongst other digital and online rights activisms.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a U.S. ngo, with staff  also in 
Canada and the United Kingdom, focused on free speech rights in a 
digital world. Focused on defending those rights as they are related to 
technology, and educating the press, public, and policymakers about the 
issues, EFF has taken a number of actions which put the spotlight on the 
project recently: Sony BMG's CD protection issue, cracking the US 
government's programme to have laser printers put tracking information 
on every document they print, and publishing the Legal Guide for 
Bloggers. They're also in the advocacy and lobby industry, and are 
closely watching Broadcast Flag legislation in the US capitol which is 
scheduled for debate on 24 January.

The Wikinews Interview of the Month is a program to give citizen 
journalists the opportunity to be involved in interviews with news 
makers. Research and questions are developed by everyone who wishes to 
take part both before the interview (for this interview, you can get 
involved at 
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/Interview_of_the_month/January_2006_EFF) 
and during the interview. As the interview progresses, questions may be 
passed to the moderators who will try to squeeze in as many questions as 
possible.

Wikinews is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation, and is produced in 19 
languages.

Amgine