Category: New York City

The Urban Divers

TheUrbanDivers

A very interesting looking organization..

From the site:
Founded in 1998, The Urban Divers is a registered non-profit grassroots environmental organization of volunteer scientific divers, waterway stewards and monitors committed in the active participation for the restoration, conservation, protection and education of our rivers, oceans, and marine wildlife, with a special focus on the restoration of NY/NJ Harbor Estuary.

Great Art/Technology/Media Space/Gallery

Location One | Manifesto

From the site:
MANIFESTO :: Our Artistic Mission

Location One: Catalyst for Content and Convergence
This is our credo:

1. First, the Internet will be about content,
not just serve as a conduit for it. The nature of the technology changes content%u2014not just access and distribution%u2014with implications across the full range of artistic expression and subject matter.

2. Second, Location One is about convergence.
We are bringing together creativity along the two standards that have governed the history of human expression: the axis of expressive discipline and the axis of available technology.

3. Third, Location One is a catalyst.
We select talent, stimulate interaction, supply resources, and provide real and virtual forums. We enable things both cool and consequential to happen. New media transform artistic expression. Conventional barriers of time and distance are erased. With them depart a myriad of social, political and cultural distinctions. Access, distribution, participation become universal (and affordable).

4. Creative alternatives proliferate.

NYLXS

New York GNU Linux Scene – Home to everything Free Software GNU and Linux in NYC and the NY Metro Area

From the site:
NYLXS – Informally known as the New York GNU Linux Scene is an organization dedicated to providing resources to the New York Linux Community. It’s about developing Free Software leadership. Bound to no specific local NYC or NY Metro Area organization, it’s members support the NY Linux and Free Software Scene with manpower, technology, money and time. It’s goal is to enable NYC Area Linux users, Free Software users, and the NY population in general through their lugs, schools, businesses, and government agencies.

NYLXS helps with installfeasts, lectures, tutorials, mailing lists, scheduling of events, political lobbying, educational support to public schools and libraries, training, publicity, and more.

Our membership is doers, not watchers. If you are a doer, then join us, and make a difference for the future.