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Student activists, smartypants, hackers Microsoft Office 2010 and more gather this weekend in New York to answer many free culture questions, but one that burns above all: Can universities evolve past Microsoft Office?
“One simple breakthrough would be to liberate students from the plague of proprietary Microsoft Office document formats,” said Kevin Driscoll, graduate student at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication who also sits on the Students for Free Culture’s board of directors.
“Many of us feel locked into a single software package Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 simply because our professors and colleagues use features like ‘Track Changes’ that only work correctly on the latest versions of Office,” he explained in an e-mail chat with Wired.com. “As more teams adopt superior alternatives like the recently open-sourced Etherpad, I expect .docx hegemony will die on the vine.”
Expect this computing conundrum and more to be dissected at Students for Free Culture’s 2011 Conference, which takes place Feb. 19-20 at New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Keynote addresses from the creators of open-source social networking software Diaspora will discuss how to move beyond Facebook’s proprietary stranglehold, while legal scholar Susan P. Crawford, ex-member of what Wired called President Obama’s Geek Squad, discusses net neutrality and other internetworked topics. They’ll be joined by remix culture champs, fashion copyfighters, open education advocates and further free-thinkers.
If you think this has nothing to do with you and yours, here’s a word: Egypt.
“Students worldwide have their eyes on uprisings microsoft office 2007 product key in Tunisia, Egypt, and elsewhere, which demonstrate the instability of privately-owned platforms for public discourse,” Driscoll said. “On the other, they reveal the ingenuity and flexibility of popular movements to adapt to changing technological circumstances. Expect the pursuit of this ideal to accelerate in 2011, as student activists begin to develop with new communication networks that circumvent entrenched media-telecom conglomerates.”
It’s not going to be easy for free culture vultures to pull it off. But this particular free-culture coalition started when a handful of Swarthmore scrubs published leaked Diebold documents online, and won a copyright infringement suit in court as a chaser. It takes a digital village of upstarts to form a next-gen internet epoch.
“It’s hard not to draw an analogy to Microsoft Office 2007 Professional Wikileaks,” said Yale University student Adi Kamdar, who also sits on Students for Free Culture’s board of directors. “We feel it’s important to discuss how free cultural issues really manifest themselves in current events.”
The first ever “Budweiser Roast of Kevin Harvick” is scheduled to air nationally on SPEED at 9 p.m. EST this Saturday, Feb. 19. The made-for-TV comedy event was taped in front of a live studio audience at the Hilton Daytona Beach Resort and was produced by the Elevation Group.
The show, featuring a panel of celebrity guests Microsoft Windows 7 that each took a turn at “roasting” the guest of honor, Kevin Harvick, was directed by Emmy Award winner Dennis Rosenblatt. The program is scheduled to broadcast for one hour. Headlining the one-hour program are two-time Sprint Cup Series champion Tony Stewart, Elliott Sadler, Kevin’s wife DeLana Harvick, nationally known comedians Jeremy Hotz, Earthquake, Jon Reep and other NASCAR personalities.
The program is part of Budweiser’s overall office 2010 professional plus marketing platform and reinforces the brand’s “Grab Some Buds” tagline.
“The ‘Budweiser Roast of Kevin Harvick’ is a great way for us to activate our relationship with Kevin in a new and exciting way,” said Brad Brown, senior director, sports marketing, Anheuser-Busch. “The show seemed to play well live, and we are looking forward to the broadcast of the event on Microsoft Office 2007 SPEED Saturday night.”