Conferences, Presentations and Workshops

Here's a listing of upcoming workshops and conferences that are on the radar of May First/People Link:

2014

A star (*) means a priority event (we are organizing it)

First quarter 2014

• Leadership Committee meeting*
• APC gathering on DDOS and legal threats*
• ​NDSS Symposium 2014, San Diego, February 23-26

Second quarter

• ​Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTEN), DC, March 13
• Mexican Conferederation of Cooperatives for Social Emancipation: Summer 2014, workshop on free internet and free software
• NYC Anarchist Bookfair
• ​PyCon, Montreal, April 9-17

Third quarter

• ​Allied Media Conference + People's Movement Assembly on Privacy with MAGNet, Detroit, June 19-22*
• ​Netroots Nation, Detroit, July 17-20
• AdaCamp: women in tech, invite only
• Left Forum
• Moving Beyond Capitalism (Center for Global Justice) - 3 hrs from Mexico - July 29
• Roots and Remedies (Praxis)
• Black Movement mass convergence (July 2014)

Fourth Quarter

• Membership meeting*

Timing unknown

• technical free software gathering in mexico
• ​IETF, various

2013

Fourth Quarter

• ​US Human Rights Network Fri Dec 6, 2013 to Sun Dec 8, 2013*
• WSF IC meeting, Casablanca, December 14-15
• 4th Annual Symposium on Computing for Development, Cape Town, December 6-7
• Conference on Corruption, New School (NYC), November 21-22
• ICANN 48, Buenos Aires, November 17-25
• ​PCOND, Montreal, November 15-17
• ​HackMeeting Mexico City - Oct/Nov
• ​Web Summit, London, October 30-31
• Digital Media Conference, Boston, October 26
• ​Online News Association 2013, Atlanta, October 17-19
• 5º Encuentro de la Red Internacional de Periodistas con Visión de Género y de la Red Nacional de Periodistas (México). CIMAC. Mérida Yucatán -11 y 12 de octubre de 2013

• ​Circumvention Tech Summit Berlin, September 29
• ​Día Nacional del Maíz, Iniciativa de la Campaña Sin Maíz No Hay País - 29 de septiembre de 2013 - #6985
• ​Roots and Remedies, San Antonio TX July 26-28 - #7189
• ​Allied Media Conference, Detroit, MI June 20-23 - #6885
• ​Netroots Nation San Jose, CA, June 20-23 - #6900
• ​Left Forum New York City, June 7-9, 2013 - #6884
• Personal Democracy Forum - annual event in NYC, happening June 6-7 (same time as Left Forum) Seems like we should know about this. It is pricey - ala Netroots, and the about us page shows some ties to Clinton and the US State department. Perhaps all the more reason to check out what's being discussed. There is a panel about "our friend" Aaron, which is interesting.
• ​Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre - 11 de mayo de 2013. Ciudad de México.
• ​2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTEN) Minneapolis, MN, April 11-13, 2013
• ​NYC Anarchist Bookfair NYC April 6-7, 2013
• ​National Conference for Media Reform Denver on April 5–7, 2013
• ​Freedom To Connect - March 4, 2013 (we're too late this year, putting it down so we remember next year) - #7004

Past Conferences and Presentations

2012

• WSF Free Palestine, November 2012, Porto Alegre, Brazil
• Software Libre, October 2012, Mexico City
• AMC, July 2012, Detroit
• Rio+20, June 2012, Brazil
• ​Netroots Nation 2012
• Left Forum, March 2012, NYC

2011

• ​Midwest Rising, St. Louis, August 12 - 15, 2011.
• ​Open Video Conference, New York Law School, September 10-11, 2011. working proposal text
• May First/People Link Membership Meeting, New York City, September 17, 2011.
• WSF IC Meeting, Diyarbakir, Turkey, September 17 - 19, 2011.
• ​10th Annual Organizer's Conference for the US Campaign to End the Occupation, D.C., September 16 - 19, 2011.
• ​Mobility Shifts An International Future of Learning Summit, October 10 - 16, 2011, NYC. working proposal text
• ​Social Forum on Solidarity Economies, Montreal, October 17-20, 2011.
• ​Equity Summit Detroit, November 8 - 11, 2011.
• WSF IC Meeting, Bangladesh, November 23-25, 2011.
• Durban - COP17 / IMC Africa, November/December 2011
• ​World Social Forum in Dakar and ​IMC Africa - Early February 2011. Mallory, Jamie, Ross, Joseph and Amy
• ​Cochamba + 1, Montreal, April 15 - 17 Full Report
• ​Left Forum, NYC, March 18 - 20 - Read the summary
• ​Free Press Conference, Boston, April 8 - 10
• World Social Forum, IC meeting, Paris, May - ​Report from the Communications Commission
• ​Allied Media Conference, Detroit, June 23 - 26

2010

• ​Expanded Social Forum of Uniperiferia, Online/Brazil: February 3 - 4, 2010 video conference panel. We did not attend
• ​Free Culture 20X0, DC: February 13th and 14th, 2010. Missed this one.
• ​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.
• ​Left Forum, NYC: March 19 - 21, 2010. We presented and were there in force.
• ​Transparency Camp On March 27-28 in Washington, DC. No attendence this year.
• ​Non-profit Technology Conference in Atlanta, Georgia: April 8 - 10, 2010. Did not attend.
• Anarchist Book Fair April 17 - 19.
• ​Drupal Con, San Francisco: April 19 - 21, 2010. Did not attend
• ​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.
• ​US Social Forum: June 22 - 26, 2010. Yes. We were there.
• ​Debian Conf in NY August 1 - 7. We attended.
• ​World Eduction Forum - Palestine, Oct 28 - 31, 2010 - WEF Technology Report
• ​COP 16 - Cancun Mexico, November 29 - Dec 10, 2010 - We sent Nat and Carlos

2009

• ​The Organizing 2.0 conference in NYC: December 5, 2009 Organizing Technology for a Movement. We're doing a Social Forum workshop
• ​Dev Summit 2009 is happening November 18 - 20.
• LA IMC 10th Anniversary: November 14, 2009 Shared Experiences in Technology
• ​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)
• ​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.
• ​New America Media's Ethnic Media Expo and Awards: we missed it :(.
• ​Open Video Alliance had their first conference June 19 - 20. We attended but did not present.
• ​Allied Media Conference happend on July 16 - 19: Mallory, Mark and Josue represented with a workshop.
• The world social forum took place in ​Belem, Brazil. Because it is expensive to get there, the foro organizers planned an ​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 ​results of our workshop and the ​photos.
• The ​US Solidarity Economy Network, Co-convened with Universidad de los Andes (Venezuela), is March 19 - 22. See #1736. We missed it :(.
• The ​Anarchist Bookfair in NYC is happening Saturday April 11, 2009. We missed this one this year as well :(.
• The ​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!
• ​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.
• ​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 ​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 ​available for reference.

• The ​LabourTech2008 Canada conference is happening November 7 - 9, 208 in Toronto. See ticket #1378. Also missed this one in 2008.
• Aspiration is organizing a ​Developers Summit November 17 - 19. The ​list of sessions is available. Josue represented MFPL!
• The ​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 - ​check out the results!.
• dkg, Josue, and Alfredo attended ​the Critical Resistance 10 conference on prisons in Oakland, CA on September 26 - 28, 2008. We ran the Internet rights workshop (see discussion).
• ​DebConf 8 was held in Mar del Plata, Argentina from August 10th to August 16th, 2008. We didn't make it.
• ​Techmeet happened in Rio September 5 - 7. We didn't attend.
• The ​Last Hope - the hacker conference sponsored by ​2600 Magazine - happened July 18 - 20, 2008 in New York City. We attended but didn't present.
• ​Grassroots Technology conference was held June 28 in Boston. See ticket #852 for discussion about our participation.
• The annual ​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. our proposal for the AMC is available. The ​results of our workshop are also available.
• ​18th Annual Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference May 20-23, 2008. Maybe next year - we didn't make in 2008.
• ​Ross has been discussing the ​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 ​NCMR. Josue represented on a panel Sunday morning with 300 people!
• We missed the ​Labor notes conference (April 11 - 13). I'm adding it to the list after reading about it in ​Portside so that next year it's on our radar.
• We presented at the ​NYC Anarchist Book Fair April 12, 2008. See ticket #590 and workshop plans.
• 2008-02-22, We led and facilitated a discussion at ​Bluestockings in NYC.
• ​NYC Grassroots Media Conference is coming up on Sunday, March 2, 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.