= Conferences, Presentations and Workshops = Here's a listing of upcoming workshops and conferences that is on the radar of May First/People Link: * 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. * The [http://anarchistbookfair.net/ Anarchist Bookfair in NYC] is happening Saturday April 11, 2009 * 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. * NYC Grassroots Media Conference - they haven't made a public statement about dates yet, but will be sometime in the Spring of 2009 at Hunter. * [http://www.womenwhotech.com/ Women who tech] Sometime in the Spring of 2009. * [http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_custom.html?custom_page_id=278 New America Media's Ethnic Media Expo and Awards] is the largest event of its type. This year's is in Atlanta. We ''do'' have some contacts among organizers and so maybe it's a good place for your workshop...at least. But the workshop would have to be supplementary to the event since there are no workshops at the event. * [http://www.alliedmediaconference.org/ Allied Media Conference] is scheduled for July 16 - 19. * Unity conference is another one we may want to consider next year (July 2009). 2008 [http://www.2008unity.org/ conference site is online]. * [http://bloggingwhilebrown.blogspot.com/ Blogging while Brown] - missed it in 2008, maybe 2009? * [http://organizerscollaborative.org/ Grassroots Technology conference] is tentatively scheduled for October 2009. = Past Conferences and Presentations = == 2009 == * 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]. == 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.