Fen Labalme: Organizations
I am (or have been) involved with (in alphabetical order):
- 2idi Corporation
- Co-founder, VP, CTO, COB and technical architect
- Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)
- Active in a few of the special interest groups:
- Broadcatch Technologies
- Founded in 1993 to build personalized, privacy protected infomediary agents. Broadcatch plans to use the OpenPrivacy platform to enable a secure anonymous marketplace.
- Burning Man
- A visitor to the early Baker Beach affairs, I believe (and have some proof) that I was the first person to be naked in main camp at Black Rock.
- Canter Technology
- The Media Bar
- CoMedia Consulting
- Founded in 1994 to pay the bills. CoMedia specializes in providing educational and inter-networking related services, especially for the purposes of enhancing free information flow and education.
- Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR)
- Member since 1983
- The Creativity Cafe
- and V.A.R.I.O.U.S.
- Cypherpunks
- Cypherpunks write code.
Two good examples: PGP, and anonymous remailers- De Laveaga Golf Course (in Santa Cruz)
- I helped clear the Oak off the lot and put up the first holes.
- Also, I own hole #7 (first to deuce it in a tournament)
- DIAC - Directions and Implications in Advanced Computing
- Scribe of the 1992 conference in Berkeley, CA
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
- Join the Blue Ribbon Anti-Censorship Campaign
- EFF member #190.
- Engage America
- To infuse progressive values throughout public policy in America by connecting progressive organizations, their members and other citizens with each other and to ballot initiatives, campaigns and legislative action.
- The Exploratorium
- I helped them with the installation of their first T1
- The Foresight Institute
- Their goal is to guide emerging technologies to improve the human condition with a focus upon nanotechnology and upon systems that will enhance knowledge exchange and critical discussion, thus improving public and private policy decisions.
- General Magic
- Ahead of their time by years in the PDA market, introducing the MagicLink in 1991, General Magic had solved some of the problems (with Telescript) that java is just beginning to come up against. But they wouldn't release their code to the Internet, as AT&T and Motorola wanted to own the wired and wireless networks, respectively. They also developed Portico (used by OnStar) and magicTalk.
- George Coates Performance Works.
- Besides maintaining their network access and security since 1995, I played a part (the Instrumentalist of Data) in the 1994 production The Nowhere Band.
- GNU (GNU's Not UNIX)
- and GNU/Linux
- The Hackers Conference
- ...which grew out of the book by Steven Levy. I organize the Post-Hackers Hike BOF:
- The Human Awareness Institute (HAI)
- Producers of Love, Intimacy and Sexuality and Couples workshops
- I also administer the HAI web site as a member of the Internet Team.
- Identity Commons
- To create the world's premier electronic system for individuals and organizations to interact commercially, socially and personally, while providing every entity with control of its information, identity, and relationships consistent with healthy communities.
- Insight, Strategy and Logic (ISL)
- A high-end web-development consulting firm that produces excellent work. I helped them with Solaris system administration, Cisco router and WatchGuard firewall configuration, and installation of their Linux file/CVS server.
- laff.net
- I designed their jokes database using only open source tools (Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl) in 1998
- the League for Programming Freedom (LPF)
- an organization that opposes software patents and user interface copyrights
- Lumeria Inc.
- While VP Technology at Lumeria, I wrote BookmarkCity (acquired by Linkify), created the SuperProfile project, and authored an Infomediary Whitepaper.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- MIT Club of Northern California (MITCNC)
- You can email me at fen@alum.mit.edu
- The Media Lab
- Back when it was still the Architecture Machine Group I created arguably the first personalized news service and wrote my thesis on NewsPeek, A Knowledge-Based Open Access News and Information Retrieval System.
- Metaview
- Co-founded with Blair Newman makers of SmarTV
OpenPrivacy.org
- An open source, cryptographically secure, transparent to the user, distributed platform for creating, maintaining, and selectively sharing profile information
- The Oregon Country Fair
- Pictures from a few of my visits to the Fair
- Rainbow Family
- organizers (and I use that word loosely) of the Rainbow Gatherings
- The Road Sage
- I am Elaine's photographer and built and host her website
- The San Francisco Sex Information Hotline
- I took the training and manned the phones in 1989
- Songline Studios, a division of O'Reilly
- Creators of Web Review, the online soap Ferndale, and The Movie Critic.
- The Little Garden (TLG) - an online bandwidth collective
- My full-time Internet provider from 1993 to 1997
- World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
- A member since 1996 and a contributor to the Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) project
- The Web PIM
- Site definition and hosting
- The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link (WELL)
- Where I hosted the Peace Conference from 1986 to 1999 and co-created the Environment conference.
Other interests include activism, frisbee (ultimate & golf), the Grateful Dead and sex.
