I'm planning to come to Cambridge on Saturday for the 
Esperanto Luncheon at the Royal East. It will be a chance to strategize with people in advance of the upcoming jarkuveno. Feel free to drop by, if you're in the area (even if you don't speak Esperanto ... yet).
We had another successful Amherst Esperanto meeting last night at Barts. We read chapters 3 and 4 of Gerda Malaperis. We also discussed beginning a campaign to put up flyers and posters to advertise the group in town. It's wonderful to have enthusiastic people join in and help out!
I was interested to see this guide to blogging anonymously by the EFF. I don't blog anonymously and, being at a University, I haven't believed I would be threatened for writing about what happens here. At the same time, I'm careful about what I write -- I think everyone ought to assume that whatever they write could ultimately be traced back to them anyway. Being public about it, just enforces that for me in my own mind. Still, it was nice to see that, as a government employee, my writing serves the public interest. (Well, to the extent that I talk about work). Cool.
Alisa pointed out that our local library is setting up free wireless. It's probably already working at the main branch and will be available at North Amherst in just a few weeks. I've always been disappointed that I couldn't get the university interested in doing a community wireless project -- it's stupid that I can't use the wireless network at Hampshire or Smith and people who come here can't use the UMass wireless networking. Stooopid! Instead of building a "learning commons", we should have made all of Amherst a learning commons. Rather than trying to bring people into a particular place, we should be externalizing the services and helping people get their work done wherever they want to be. The learning commons idea is cool too, but I still can't help seeing it as a missed opportunity.
StevenBrewer