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We held our 2012 conference, also our first, on March 10th, 2012. It was entitled Politics: share, remix, reboot.
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.
A number of speakers gave permission for us to post the slides of their talks (pdf):
- Kopimism by Lauren Pespisa
- Stranger Danger by Conor Sherman
- Patents Upending by Erik Zoltan
- Campaign to Win by James O’Keefe
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.
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 | |
| 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 |
We posted the following pdf posters: with logo and without (pdf).
The 2012 Conference was held at the Democracy Center at 45 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA 02138.