2012 Conference

Talk Videos Talk Slides Talk Details Schedule Posters Site

We held our 2012 conference, also our first, on March 10th, 2012. It was entitled Politics: share, remix, reboot.

Videos

Processing the videos of the conference is taking a bit of time, unfortunately, but Erik has been toiling away. Thankfully, his efforts have been successful and four of the talks are currently available:

Copyright Battle Tactics by Michael Anderson

Stranger Danger by Conor Sherman

Kopimism by Lauren Pespisa

Campaign to Win by James O’Keefe

We also posted the HighDef version of the Campaign to Win talk as a torrent.

Talk Slides

A number of speakers gave permission for us to post the slides of their talks (pdf):

Talk Details

Here are the details about the talks:

David House, a researcher at MIT who helped set up the Bradley Manning Support Network, gave a a talk entitled Going toe-to-toe with the state: navigating the challenges of a digital activist.

Writer and publisher Cecilia Tan, Shane Bugbee and composer Matthew Davidson gave a talk entitled Tales from the Net: Making a living at being creative panel.

Michael Anderson gave a talk called Fight Ridiculous With Ridiculous: The Guerrilla Tactics of Fair Use.

Also, Conor Sherman gave a talk on maintaining your security on the internet called Stranger Danger: Don’t Click that Link Even If They Offer Puppies and Candy.

Zacqary Adam Green of the NY Pirate Party showed Your Face is a Saxophone, an open-source CC0 animated series.

We had a number of talks by Pirate Party members, including:

  • Exploring Kopimism by Lauren Pespisa
  • Patents Upending by Erik Zoltan
  • Fair Use for Activists by Chris Walsh
  • How to Run for Office by James O’Keefe

Shauna Gordon-McKeon, organizer for the Boston Sunlight Foundation, was scheduled to give a talk called Bringing sunlight to government data. Unfortunately, this talk was cancelled.

Schedule

The schedule was originally posted as:

Time Event
9:00am-9:45am Breakfast & Opening Session – Are you a Pirate?
9:45am-10:00am Fair Use for Activists (Chris Walsh)
10:00am-11:00am How to Run for Office (James O’Keefe)
11:00am-11:30am Stranger Danger: Don’t Click that Link Even If They Offer Puppies and Candy (Conor Sherman)
11:30am-noon Kopimism (Lauren Pespisa)
noon-1:00pm Lunch & Building the Pirate Party Discussion
1:00pm-2:00pm Fight Ridiculous With Ridiculous: The Guerrilla Tactics of Fair Use (Michael Anderson)
2:00pm-3:00pm Bringing sunlight to government data (Shauna Gordon-McKeon) Cancelled
3:00pm-4:00pm Going toe-to-toe with the state: navigating the challenges of a digital activist (David House)
4:00pm-4:30pm Patents Upending (Erik Zoltan)
4:30pm-5:00pm Your Face is a Saxophone Showing (Zacqary Adam Green)
5:00pm-6:00pm Tales from the Net: Making a living at being creative (Cecilia Tan, Shane Bugbee and Matthew Davidson)
6pm+ We’ll find some place for dinner for those who want to go

Conference posters

We posted the following pdf posters: with logo and without (pdf).

Site

The 2012 Conference was held at the Democracy Center at 45 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA 02138.

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