A number of DH sites are planning to go dark tomorrow in support of resistance to SOPA, and in solidarity with other sites like the wikipedia that are planning the same thing. The attached email from Stéfan Sinclair to the exec. of two of them explains why and how.
This is short notice, but I'd like to propose that DM do the same thing tomorrow. And encourage as many of you as possible to do the same thing to your own sites. While SOPA is 'an American mess', it proposes extending itself to sites 'aimed' at America too--giving it considerable international scope.
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Dear all,
It's a bit last minute, but I wonder if there any strong sentiments about having our association website go dark tomorrow. Personally, I'm not quite as keen as I might have been if the proposed legislation hadn't received some significant blows more recently, but as many have pointed out, it would be foolish to relax. Does the ACH want to join ranks with sites like Wikipedia tomorrow?
This is ostensibly an American mess, but of course we would be deeply affected; see Michael Geist's post on the topic: http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6244/125/
Technically, there are several possibilities, one of which would be to put an Apache directive to return a temporary 503 error response, which I could take care of if there support.
Stéfan
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Stéfan Sinclair, Associate Professor of Digital Humanities at McGill Office 341, Languages, Literatures & Cultures 688 Sherbrooke St. W Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 3R1 Tel. 514-398-4984 http://stefansinclair.name/ Twitter: @sgsinclair
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Totally in favor. I'll probably take down my own homepage tomorrow--not that anyone much will notice.
Peter Baker
On 1/17/12 11:37 AM, O'Donnell, Dan wrote:
A number of DH sites are planning to go dark tomorrow in support of resistance to SOPA, and in solidarity with other sites like the wikipedia that are planning the same thing. The attached email from Stéfan Sinclair to the exec. of two of them explains why and how.
This is short notice, but I'd like to propose that DM do the same thing tomorrow. And encourage as many of you as possible to do the same thing to your own sites. While SOPA is 'an American mess', it proposes extending itself to sites 'aimed' at America too--giving it considerable international scope.
Sent from my Samsung Captivate(tm) on Rogers
Dear all,
It's a bit last minute, but I wonder if there any strong sentiments about having our association website go dark tomorrow. Personally, I'm not quite as keen as I might have been if the proposed legislation hadn't received some significant blows more recently, but as many have pointed out, it would be foolish to relax. Does the ACH want to join ranks with sites like Wikipedia tomorrow?
This is ostensibly an American mess, but of course we would be deeply affected; see Michael Geist's post on the topic: http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6244/125/
Technically, there are several possibilities, one of which would be to put an Apache directive to return a temporary 503 error response, which I could take care of if there support.
Stéfan
--
Stéfan Sinclair, Associate Professor of Digital Humanities at McGill Office 341, Languages, Literatures& Cultures 688 Sherbrooke St. W Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 3R1 Tel. 514-398-4984 http://stefansinclair.name/ Twitter: @sgsinclair
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DM-l and DM Board Owing to the limited time to decide this, I've gone ahead and blacked out the digital medievalist website (stealing the page from the ACH who have got it from elsewhere). Usually I wouldn't take such unilateral action without discussing it with the DM Board first, but it was either a question of doing it or not.
Usually I'm against non-political organizations like DM participating in such actions, but I agree that the initially proposed legislation would potentially be detrimental to DM's mission. I hope that our participation in this doesn't cause too many problems for others.
I'll restore the website early tomorrow.
James Cummings, Director of Digital Medievalist
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 16:49, Peter Baker psb6m@virginia.edu wrote:
Totally in favor. I'll probably take down my own homepage tomorrow--not that anyone much will notice.
Peter Baker
On 1/17/12 11:37 AM, O'Donnell, Dan wrote:
A number of DH sites are planning to go dark tomorrow in support of resistance to SOPA, and in solidarity with other sites like the wikipedia that are planning the same thing. The attached email from Stéfan Sinclair to the exec. of two of them explains why and how.
This is short notice, but I'd like to propose that DM do the same thing tomorrow. And encourage as many of you as possible to do the same thing to your own sites. While SOPA is 'an American mess', it proposes extending itself to sites 'aimed' at America too--giving it considerable international scope.
Sent from my Samsung Captivate(tm) on Rogers
Dear all,
It's a bit last minute, but I wonder if there any strong sentiments about having our association website go dark tomorrow. Personally, I'm not quite as keen as I might have been if the proposed legislation hadn't received some significant blows more recently, but as many have pointed out, it would be foolish to relax. Does the ACH want to join ranks with sites like Wikipedia tomorrow?
This is ostensibly an American mess, but of course we would be deeply affected; see Michael Geist's post on the topic: http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6244/125/
Technically, there are several possibilities, one of which would be to put an Apache directive to return a temporary 503 error response, which I could take care of if there support.
Stéfan
--
Stéfan Sinclair, Associate Professor of Digital Humanities at McGill Office 341, Languages, Literatures& Cultures
688 Sherbrooke St. W Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 3R1 Tel. 514-398-4984 http://stefansinclair.name/ Twitter: @sgsinclair
Exec mailing list Exec@lists.sdh-semi.org http://lists.sdh-semi.org/mailman/listinfo/exec
Digital Medievalist -- http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ Journal: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/ Journal Editors: editors _AT_ digitalmedievalist.org News: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/news/ Wiki: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/wiki/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/digitalmedieval Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gidI320313760 Discussion list: dm-l@uleth.ca Change list options: http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l
Digital Medievalist -- http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ Journal: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/ Journal Editors: editors _AT_ digitalmedievalist.org News: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/news/ Wiki: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/wiki/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/digitalmedieval Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gidI320313760 Discussion list: dm-l@uleth.ca Change list options: http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l
Thanks, James.
Dot
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 4:02 AM, James Cummings James.Cummings@digitalmedievalist.org wrote:
DM-l and DM Board Owing to the limited time to decide this, I've gone ahead and blacked out the digital medievalist website (stealing the page from the ACH who have got it from elsewhere). Usually I wouldn't take such unilateral action without discussing it with the DM Board first, but it was either a question of doing it or not.
Usually I'm against non-political organizations like DM participating in such actions, but I agree that the initially proposed legislation would potentially be detrimental to DM's mission. I hope that our participation in this doesn't cause too many problems for others.
I'll restore the website early tomorrow.
James Cummings, Director of Digital Medievalist
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 16:49, Peter Baker psb6m@virginia.edu wrote:
Totally in favor. I'll probably take down my own homepage tomorrow--not that anyone much will notice.
Peter Baker
On 1/17/12 11:37 AM, O'Donnell, Dan wrote:
A number of DH sites are planning to go dark tomorrow in support of resistance to SOPA, and in solidarity with other sites like the wikipedia that are planning the same thing. The attached email from Stéfan Sinclair to the exec. of two of them explains why and how.
This is short notice, but I'd like to propose that DM do the same thing tomorrow. And encourage as many of you as possible to do the same thing to your own sites. While SOPA is 'an American mess', it proposes extending itself to sites 'aimed' at America too--giving it considerable international scope.
Sent from my Samsung Captivate(tm) on Rogers
Dear all,
It's a bit last minute, but I wonder if there any strong sentiments about having our association website go dark tomorrow. Personally, I'm not quite as keen as I might have been if the proposed legislation hadn't received some significant blows more recently, but as many have pointed out, it would be foolish to relax. Does the ACH want to join ranks with sites like Wikipedia tomorrow?
This is ostensibly an American mess, but of course we would be deeply affected; see Michael Geist's post on the topic: http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6244/125/
Technically, there are several possibilities, one of which would be to put an Apache directive to return a temporary 503 error response, which I could take care of if there support.
Stéfan
--
Stéfan Sinclair, Associate Professor of Digital Humanities at McGill Office 341, Languages, Literatures& Cultures
688 Sherbrooke St. W Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 3R1 Tel. 514-398-4984 http://stefansinclair.name/ Twitter: @sgsinclair
Exec mailing list Exec@lists.sdh-semi.org http://lists.sdh-semi.org/mailman/listinfo/exec
Digital Medievalist -- http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ Journal: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/ Journal Editors: editors _AT_ digitalmedievalist.org News: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/news/ Wiki: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/wiki/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/digitalmedieval Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gidI320313760 Discussion list: dm-l@uleth.ca Change list options: http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l
Digital Medievalist -- http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ Journal: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/ Journal Editors: editors _AT_ digitalmedievalist.org News: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/news/ Wiki: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/wiki/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/digitalmedieval Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gidI320313760 Discussion list: dm-l@uleth.ca Change list options: http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l
Digital Medievalist -- http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ Journal: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/ Journal Editors: editors _AT_ digitalmedievalist.org News: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/news/ Wiki: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/wiki/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/digitalmedieval Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gidI320313760 Discussion list: dm-l@uleth.ca Change list options: http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l
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