2013 Conference

Videos | Schedule | Speakers | Registration

PirateCon 2013, our 2nd annual conference, took place on June 29th at the Community Church of Boston at 565 Boylston St in Boston.

Talk Videos

Maurice Morales put up the videos he took of a number of the talks. We will post more as they become available.

Opening the Gates: How To Challenge Our Nation’s Two-Party Monopoly – Keynote by David House

Crowdfunding – Peter Dilworth, Jordyn Bonds and Eli Feghali

Captain James talks about our journey forward

Open Government, Part 1 – Michael Morisy, Shauna Gordon-McKeon, Steve Buckley and Barry Rafkind

Open Government, Part 2 – Michael Morisy, Shauna Gordon-McKeon, Steve Buckley and Barry Rafkind

Don’t Agonize, Organize! – Evan Greer, Véronique Vermorel, Gregg Housh

How We Will Prevent The Surveillance Dystopia – End note by Alex Marthews
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Version 2

Schedule

Time Talk/Panel Speakers
10am Opening the Gates: How To Challenge Our Nation’s Two-Party Monopoly David House
11am Open Government Michael Morisy, Shauna Gordon-McKeon, Steve Buckley and Barry Rafkind
noon Government Power in 2020 Kendra Moyer, Gregg Housh, Alex Marthews, Rich Aucoin
1pm Lunch
2pm Crowdfunding Peter Dilworth, Jordyn Bonds and Eli Feghali
3pm Lightning talks Various
4pm Don’t Agonize, Organize! Evan Greer, Véronique Vermorel, Gregg Housh
5pm How We Will Prevent The Surveillance Dystopia Alex Marthews

Speakers

David House, digital activist and founding member of the Bradley Manning Support Network

Kendra Moyer of Occupy Boston & Pirate Party,

Gregg Housh, Internet Activist associated with Anonymous

Alex Marthews, Campaign for Digital Fourth Amendment Rights

Rich Aucoin, Massachusetts Branch of People against the NDAA

Peter Dilworth, Wobbleworks

Jordyn Bonds

Eli Feghali

Michael Morisy, founder of MuckRock

Shauna Gordon-McKeon, organizer of the Open Government Boston group

Steve Buckley, US Transparency

Barry Rafkind

Evan Greer, Fight for the Future

Véronique Vermorel, French Parliamentary Candidate

Registration

Registration was $10. Please register on-line. There will be free wifi at the conference.

Spread the Word

We provided a poster and flyer that people could use to spread the word about the conference.

Talk Slides

We will post slide decks for the talks as they become available.

Videos

We will post videos of the talks after the conference.

2012

March Conference: Politics: share, remix, reboot

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