= Conferences, Presentations and Workshops = Here's a listing of upcoming workshops and conferences that is on the radar of May First/People Link: * [http://freedom-to-connect.net/ Freedom To Connect] - March 4, 2013 (we're too late this year, putting it down so we remember next year) * [http://www.flisol.info/FLISOL2013/Mexico/DF/PrimeroDeMayo-EnlacePopular Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre] - 27 o 28 de abril de 2013 * [http://conference.freepress.net/ncmr-home National Conference for Media Reform] Denver on April 5–7, 2013 * [http://www.nten.org/ 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference] (NTEN) Minneapolis, MN, April 11-13, 2013 * [http://www.leftforum.org/ Left Forum] New York City, June 7-9, 2013 [[TicketQuery(keywords=~leftforum-2013,status=new|assigned|closed,format=table,col=id|resolution|summary|owner|reporter)]] * [http://alliedmedia.org/ Allied Media Conference], Detroit, MI June 20 - 23 [[TicketQuery(keywords=~amc-2013,status=new|assigned|closed,format=table,col=id|resolution|summary|owner|reporter)]] * [http://www.netrootsnation.org/ Netroots Nation] San Jose, CA, June 20 - 23 [[TicketQuery(keywords=~netrootsnation-2013,status=new|assigned|closed,format=table,col=id|resolution|summary|owner|reporter)]] * [http://www.sinmaiznohaypais.org/ Día Nacional del Maíz, Iniciativa de la Campaña Sin Maíz No Hay País] - 29 de septiembre de 2013 * 5º Encuentro de la Red Internacional de Periodistas con Visión de Género y de la Red Nacional de Periodistas (México). Organizado por CIMAC en Mérida Yucatán -11 y 12 de octubre de 2013 * [http://hackmitin.espora.org/ HackMeeting Mexico City] - Oct/Nov 2013 = Past Conferences and Presentations = == 2012 == * Rio+20, May 2012, Brazil * [http://www.netrootsnation.org/ Netroots Nation] 2012 * AMC, May 2012, Detroit * Left Forum, March 2012, NYC * Software Libre, October 2012, Mexico City == 2011 == * [http://convergence2011.org Midwest Rising], St. Louis, August 12 - 15, 2011. * [http://openvideoconference.org/ Open Video Conference], New York Law School, September 10-11, 2011. [wiki:OVC-Proposal-2011 working proposal text] * [https://mayfirst.org/membership-meeting May First/People Link Membership Meeting], New York City, September 17, 2011. * WSF IC Meeting, Diyarbakir, Turkey, September 17 - 19, 2011. * [http://www.endtheoccupation.org/section.php?id=377 10th Annual Organizer's Conference] for the US Campaign to End the Occupation, D.C., September 16 - 19, 2011. * [http://mobilityshifts.org/ Mobility Shifts] An International Future of Learning Summit, October 10 - 16, 2011, NYC. [wiki:mobilityshifts-proposal-2011 working proposal text] * [http://www.fiess2011.org/en/ Social Forum on Solidarity Economies], Montreal, October 17-20, 2011. * [http://equitysummit2011.org Equity Summit] Detroit, November 8 - 11, 2011. * WSF IC Meeting, Bangladesh, November 23-25, 2011. * Durban - COP17 / IMC Africa, November/December 2011 * [http://fsm2011.org/en World Social Forum in Dakar] and [http://imc-africa.mayfirst.org IMC Africa] - Early February 2011. Mallory, Jamie, Ross, Joseph and Amy * [http://www.alternatives.ca/en/agenda/cochabamba-1-climate-justice-and-ecological-alternatives-conference Cochamba + 1], Montreal, April 15 - 17 [wiki:cocha1-report Full Report] * [http://leftforum.org Left Forum], NYC, March 18 - 20 - [https://mayfirst.org/lowdown/april-2011/revolution-just-might-be-televised Read the summary] * [http://conference.freepress.net/ Free Press Conference], Boston, April 8 - 10 * World Social Forum, IC meeting, Paris, May - [http://openfsm.net/projects/communication-commission/comcom-meeting-parisreportinput-4 Report from the Communications Commission] * [http://alliedmedia.org/ Allied Media Conference], Detroit, June 23 - 26 == 2010 == * [http://www.uniperiferia.org.br Expanded Social Forum of Uniperiferia], Online/Brazil: February 3 - 4, 2010 video conference panel. We did not attend * [http://conference.freeculture.org/ Free Culture 20X0], DC: February 13th and 14th, 2010. Missed this one. * [http://brechtforum.org/events/grassroots-fundraising-conference-2010 Grassroots Fundraising Conference], Brecht Forum NYC, February 19 - 20, 2010 * Radical Reference Tech Session at Brecht Forum Monday, February 22. We presented with Rad Ref! * SXSW Interactive in Austin, Texas: March 12 - 16, 2010. Did not attend. * [http://leftforum.org Left Forum], NYC: March 19 - 21, 2010. We presented and were there in force. * [http://transparencycamp.org Transparency Camp] On March 27-28 in Washington, DC. No attendence this year. * [http://www.nten.org/ntc Non-profit Technology Conference in Atlanta, Georgia: April 8 - 10, 2010]. Did not attend. * Anarchist Book Fair April 17 - 19. * [http://sf2010.drupal.org/ Drupal Con], San Francisco: April 19 - 21, 2010. Did not attend * [http://cmpccc.org/ Climate Change Conference in Cochabamba]: April 21, 2010. We sent three reps and helped develop the video streaming technology. * 2010 Labor Notes conference, April 23-25 in Detroit, Michigan. Did not attend. * [http://www.ussf2010.org/ US Social Forum]: June 22 - 26, 2010. Yes. We were there. * [http://debconf10.debconf.org/ Debian Conf in NY August 1 - 7]. We attended. * [http://wef-palestine.org/ World Eduction Forum] - Palestine, Oct 28 - 31, 2010 - [wiki:wef-report WEF Technology Report] * [http://cc2010.mx COP 16] - Cancun Mexico, November 29 - Dec 10, 2010 - We sent Nat and Carlos == 2009 == * [http://organizing20.org The Organizing 2.0 conference] in NYC: December 5, 2009 Organizing Technology for a Movement. We're doing a Social Forum workshop * [http://aspirationtech.org/events/devsummit09 Dev Summit 2009] is happening November 18 - 20. * LA IMC 10th Anniversary: November 14, 2009 Shared Experiences in Technology * [http://organizerscollaborative.org/ Grassroots Technology conference] is scheduled for October 16 and 17 2009. * USSF Organizing Committee meeting and NPC meeting in Atlanta: October 23 (OC) 24 - 25 (NPC) * [http://www.nycgrassrootsmedia.org NYC Grassroots Media Conference] happened on May 30, 2009 at Hunter. We attended and did the Internet Rights workshop and a workshop on terms of service for commercial service providers. * [http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_custom.html?custom_page_id=278 New America Media's Ethnic Media Expo and Awards]: we missed it :(. * [http://openvideoalliance.org/ Open Video Alliance] had their first conference June 19 - 20. We attended but did not present. * [http://www.alliedmediaconference.org/ Allied Media Conference] happend on July 16 - 19: Mallory, Mark and Josue represented with a workshop. * The world social forum took place in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belém Belem, Brazil]. Because it is expensive to get there, the foro organizers planned an [http://openfsm.net/projects/club-belemexpanded/project-home Belem expanded project] to allow for events in other locations to take place at the same time. May First/People Link participated (Mallory went in person). See the [http://fsm2009.mayfirst.org results of our workshop] and the [https://fsm2009.mayfirst.org/photos photos]. * The [http://www.populareconomics.org/ussen/?q=node/99 US Solidarity Economy Network], Co-convened with Universidad de los Andes (Venezuela), is March 19 - 22. See #1736. We missed it :(. * The [http://anarchistbookfair.net/ Anarchist Bookfair in NYC] is happening Saturday April 11, 2009. We missed this one this year as well :(. * The [http://leftforum.org/ Left Forum] is scheduled for April 17 - 19. They are MFPL members! And the deadline for submissions is February 28. See #1737. We attended with two workshops! * [http://www.womenwhotech.com/ Women who tech] is scheduled for May 12, 2009. We attended, but did not present. == 2008 == * LaborTech (in San Francisco) was the weekend of December 5-7. MFPL was not officially represented, but Eric from member organization Open Flows attended. * [http://networked-politics.info/ Networked Politics] held a seminar in Berkeley on December 5 - 7. Jamie represented MFPL on the opening panel and during the seminar. * We were invited by our latest member, the [http://www.anarchist-studies.org/ Institute for Anarchist Studies], to attend their Renewing the Anarchist Studies (RAT) workshop in November 7-9, 2008, in Montpelier, Vermont. Unfortunately, we couldn't make it. There does not appear to be current web site information about the conference, but previous conference info is [http://www.homemadejam.org/renew/ available] for reference. * The [http://www.labourtech.ca/ LabourTech2008 Canada conference] is happening November 7 - 9, 208 in Toronto. See ticket #1378. Also missed this one in 2008. * Aspiration is organizing a [http://aspirationtech.org/event/upcoming_events Developers Summit] November 17 - 19. The [http://devsummit08.aspirationtech.org/index.php?title=Sessions_List list of sessions is available]. Josue represented MFPL! * The [http://www.forosocialamericas.org/ Forum of the Americas] is scheduled for October 7 - 12, 2008. We did the Internet rights workshop - for the first time in two languages and two locations - [http://fsa.mayfirst.org check out the results!]. * dkg, Josue, and Alfredo attended [http://www.criticalresistance.org/article.php?list=type&type=36 the Critical Resistance 10 conference on prisons in Oakland, CA on September 26 - 28, 2008]. We ran the Internet rights workshop (see [ticket:1167 discussion]). * [http://debconf8.debconf.org/ DebConf 8] was held in Mar del Plata, Argentina from August 10th to August 16th, 2008. We didn't make it. * [http://techmeet.org Techmeet] happened in Rio September 5 - 7. We didn't attend. * The [http://www.hope.net Last Hope] - the hacker conference sponsored by [http://2600.com 2600 Magazine] - happened July 18 - 20, 2008 in New York City. We attended but didn't present. * [http://organizerscollaborative.org/ Grassroots Technology conference] was held June 28 in Boston. See ticket #852 for discussion about our participation. * The annual [http://alliedmediaconference.org/ Allied Media Conference], in Detroit, took place on June 22-24, 2008. It was a critically important gathering of progressive media activists and we were there! See ticket #743. [wiki:internet_rights_amc_2008 our proposal for the AMC] is available. The [http://current.workingdirectory.net/posts/2008/internet-parts-one-and-two/ results of our workshop] are also available. * [http://cfp2008.org/ 18th Annual Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference] May 20-23, 2008. Maybe next year - we didn't make in 2008. * [http://ross.mayfirst.org Ross] has been discussing the [http://www.sunysb.edu/workingclass/ How Class Works conference] on June 5-7, 2008 at SUNY Sunnybrook. Didn't go in 2008. * The National Conference for Media Reform is happening in Minneapolis June 6-8 [http://www.freepress.net/conference NCMR]. Josue represented on a panel Sunday morning with 300 people! * We missed the [http://labornotes.org/ Labor notes] conference (April 11 - 13). I'm adding it to the list after reading about it in [http://lists.portside.org/cgi-bin/listserv/wa?A2=ind0804b&L=PORTSIDE&P=21311 Portside] so that next year it's on our radar. * We presented at the [http://www.anarchistbookfair.net/ NYC Anarchist Book Fair] April 12, 2008. See ticket #590 and [wiki:nyc_anarchist_book_fair_2008 workshop plans]. * 2008-02-22, We led and facilitated a discussion at [http://bluestockings.org Bluestockings] in NYC. * [http://nycgrassrootsmedia.org NYC Grassroots Media Conference] is coming up on Sunday, March 2, 2008. [wiki:internet_rights_gmc_2008 our proposal for the GMC] is available. * Left Forum at Cooper Union - March 14-16 (possible sharing table with Charles Lenchner). Unfortunately we missed this one.