From jamesgabemartin at gmail.com Mon Sep 8 17:39:21 2025 From: jamesgabemartin at gmail.com (Gabe Martin) Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2025 16:39:21 -0500 Subject: [Themaintainers] Maintainers Network in Portland, Oregon Message-ID: Hi all, I recently moved from Fayetteville, AR to Portland, OR and I'm trying to connect with like-minded people, organizations, and companies in the area. I was curious if The Maintainers or anyone in your network has any presence in Portland. I would love to find community with folks who are passionate about creating an economy devoted to maintenance and care. Thanks in advance! -Gabe Martin -- Gabe Martin *706.590.0317* jamesgabemartin at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From youngm54001 at gmail.com Tue Sep 9 04:01:30 2025 From: youngm54001 at gmail.com (mark young) Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2025 10:01:30 +0200 Subject: [Themaintainers] Talk: Harry Halpin "Immaterial Constitution: The Post-Snowden Maintenance of the Internet", Maintenance & Philosophy SIG, Thursday Sept 11 2025 1800-1915 UTC+1 Message-ID: Dear All, We?re pleased to announce the next session of the SPT maintenance and philosophy of technology special interest group on Thursday 11th September (18-1915 UTC +1). In this session, we?re excited to welcome Harry Halpin who?ll be sharing his research on the maintenance and repair of internet standards in the wake of the Snowden revelations in 2013. Halpin's talk combines a detailed analysis of the mechanics and evolution of internet protocols while at the same time shedding light on the political dimensions of the processes by which complex technological systems are guided and sustained through time. If you'd like a link to the talk, please email me at mark at markthomasyoung.net Best, Mark *"Immaterial Constitution: The Post-Snowden Maintenance of the Internet"* Harry Halpin (Nym Technologies & Vrije Universiteit Brussel) September 11th 2025 (1800-1915 UTC+1) *Abstract:* The question of whether rights can be enforced by code underlies the maintenance of Internet protocols by the IETF in the wake of the Snowden revelations of NSA mass surveillance. Arguments over the expectations of users for access and privacy between the respective inventors of the Web and the Internet laid the ground for a new conception of rights, net rights, founded upon the extended mind thesis. A number of legislative initiatives started to form a ?Magna Carta? for the Web to enforce these nascent net rights such as the right to private communication, but these efforts uniformly failed. Yet the repair and maintenance of the technical standards of the Internet itself by the IETF produced a new kind of immanent constitution for the Internet based upon the use of cryptography to defend these rights. A philosophical analysis of the role of engineering standards bodies in mediating public demands may very well hold lessons for the translation of politics into technical tasks of maintenance and repair in the face of crisis. (In order to avoid confusion regarding the timing of the talk - the following table clarifies when the talk begins in different locations) Amsterdam 7:00pm London 6:00pm Toronto (New York) 1:00pm San Francisco 10:00am Mark Thomas Young Postdoctoral Fellow University of Oslo https://uio.academia.edu/MarkThomasYoung -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: