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PeopleSoft

August 29, 2008 – 12:12 am

The students, faculty, and staff at Cornell university declare that

BECAUSE the central storage of personal data tracking all peoples affiliated with Cornell is a sensitive task requiring care and forethought,
BECAUSE any proprietary, black-box arrangement leaves Cornell helpless to properly manage its data,
BECAUSE  licensing commercial products entails a substantial, long-term expense,
BECAUSE  business deals with large-scale donors reeks of corruption and conflicting interests,
BECAUSE the user interface was designed by and for career bureaucrats,
BECAUSE it breaks down when it’s needed the most,
BECAUSE better-designed alternatives are blocked from gathering public course data,
AND BECAUSE we hate those goddamn four-digit course names,

we urge the university to cease its use of PeopleSoft software immediately and devote budget to developing with other universities a free-software alternative that suits the needs of Cornell.

There will be a forum for all interested parties at 7:30 PM on Tuesday, September 2 at 305 Cornell St.

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Laptop Liberation: Free Software, Open Source, and One Laptop Per Child

November 17, 2007 – 1:58 pm

Yesterday marked Code Review’s first official event!

Generously co-sponsored by the Cornell University Program Board, we brought free software activist Benjamin “Mako” Hill to talk about One Laptop Per Child, (The laptops, incidentally, are currently available Give One Get One.)

Our humble room in Rockefeller was filled to capacity with curious students, faculty, and community members, and I can’t think of a better way to start out this organization.

Here’s audio from the talk (31mb MP3). Slides, notes, and maybe even video will follow.

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Hello world!

November 17, 2007 – 5:03 am

Welcome to Code Review. This is our first post.

Hey, any ideas for the new site?

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