Due to Lewis Black’s performance on Wednesday, March 28 — the previously scheduled date for March’s CopyNight meetup — we’re moving the event to the following day. (A lot of us are Lewis Black fans.)

We’ll still be at Tim and Terry’s at 7 pm, it’ll just be a day later. Be sure to join us on Thursday, March 29 for an enjoyable evening.

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Hope you had a good Spring Break! There are three events this week you may be interested in.

Florida Free Culture meeting

Tomorrow, March 19th, Florida Free Culture will be showing a video of a talk by Eben Moglen, a lawyer at the Free Software Foundation, about free software. It’s a very eloquent statement about software and society, so we hope we’ll see you there.

Where: Turlington room 1315
When: Monday, March 19, 6:30pm

AlaCloud.net meeting

There will be an AlaCloud.net meeting at the Civic Meeting Center on
March 20th at 6pm. Come by if you’re interested in community wireless networks!

CMC: 1021 W. University Ave.

GatorLUG meetingprogramming contest, but there will be many others just hanging out. Come by if you’re interested in free and open source software.

Virtually Cuban: 2409 SW 13th St.

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Nelson Pavlosky sued a multi-billion dollar corporation and one of the largest manufacturers of electronic voting machines - and won! He also founded an international student organization, FreeCulture.org, dedicated to intellectual property policy reform and grassroots creativity. Come hear about how he created an important legal precedent protecting freedom of speech on the Internet and spawned a movement!

Nelson will be speaking on Monday, March 5 at 6:30 pm in Turlington room 1315. Free and open to all!

If you’re that sort of person, you can RSVP on the Facebook event.

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CopyNight Gainesville is tonight!

Wednesday, Jan. 24, 7 pm
Tim and Terry’s, 1417 NW 1st Ave. (the purple house behind the Target Copy on University Ave.)

CopyNight is a social meetup for people interested in copyright reform. We meet once a month in cities around the world. Here in Gainesville, we meet on the 4th Wednesday at Tim and Terry’s.

CopyNight is a way to build strong social ties among the various communities who all have a stake in copyright law that works in the public interest. We invite students, professors, creative artists, technologists, librarians,
businesspeople, lawyers, and everyone else. We meet over drinks to chat about recent events and the challenges that face us.

CopyNight is free to attend is open to all ages. A word to the wise for those driving to Tim and Terry’s: allow extra time to find a parking spot. There will not be one nearby, and you will have to walk a few blocks.

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Today, we installed “Open Art” in the gallery in the Reitz Union. It looks really good! With Vyki’s matte-making talent and Cain’s lighting-design skills, and the sharp eye and elbow grease of everyone else, it all came together.

The exhibit opens tomorrow, Monday, Feb. 19, and runs through March 2. The reception is Thursday, Feb. 22 at 7 pm; refreshments will be served. The exhibit will also stay open late for Gator Nights on Friday, Feb. 23, until 9:30 pm.

Thanks to the artists, the gallery, and everyone’s help for making this come together.

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Here are the slides from the open access panel on Feb. 15:

• Gavin Baker
• Stephanie Haas
• Ashley Wills

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It’s taken us a while to get this posted, but on Jan. 22, our adviser, Jordan Wiens, published an article in Networking Computing titled “Mirage and the USPTO: Patently Ridiculous.”

Can you patent a hack? The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office seems to think so. Mirage Networks has been granted patent No. 7,124,197 for its description of techniques such as ARP poisoning to control access to protected network devices.

But ARP poisoning, which lets one host intercept traffic intended for another, isn’t a new idea. In fact, it predates Mirage’s patent application (filed in 2002) by at least five years

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