Conferences
This page is an attempt to collect conferences (listed in chronological order) with themes which may make them relevant to persons interested in or affiliated with FreedomBox. It is not meant to be an endorsement of any of the individual conferences, or an indication that anyone affiliated with FreedomBox will necessarily be attending.
Software Freedom Day September 17 2011, everywhere, especially discussing FreedomBox
Personal Data 2.0, April 7, 2011, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Linuxfest Northwest Local Linuxfest on April 30th- May 1st, 2011 in Bellingham, WA, USA (between Seattle and Vancouver)
Internet Identity Workshop #12, May 3-5, 2011, Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA, USA
MakerFaire May 21-22, Bay Area, CA, USA
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 22-25, 2011, The Claremont Resort, Oakland, CA, USA
W3C Workshop on Identity in the Browser, May 24-25, 2011, Mountain View, CA, USA
Federated Social Web Europe 2011, June 3-5, 2011, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Berlin, Germany
Southeast Linuxfest Growing local linuxfest, June 10-12th in Spartanburg, SC, USA
Computers, Freedom & Privacy, "The Future is Now", June 14-16, 2011, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., USA
IndieWebCamp, June 25-26, 2011, Portland, OR, USA
FOSSCON Grassroots GNU/Linuxfest, July 23rd, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, July 25-27, 2011, Waterloo, ON, Canada
OSCON July 25th-29th, Portland, OR, USA
MakerFaire Detroit July 30-31, Detroit, MI, USA
DEFCON August 4-7, Las Vegas, NV, USA
Ohio Linuxfest Sept. 9-11, Columbus, OH, USA
MakerFaire NY Sept 17-18, New York, NY, USA
ContactCon preparatory events in Oct. 12, Yverdon, Switzerland, and Oct. 15-16, Dresden, Germany
ContactCon 2011, "The Evolution Will Be Social", October 20, 2011, Angel Orensanz Foundation, NY, USA
Grace Hopper Celebration Nov. 9-12, Portland, OR, USA
LISA Large Installation Systems Administrators Conference, Dec.4-9th in Boston, MA, USA
Chaos Computer Congress, Dec. 27-30, 2011 in Berliner Congress Center, Berlin, Germany (Specific event page not up yet. Link goes to general event page, lists historic events.)