Conferences and Community Events

• January 20-22: DLD (Digital, Life, Design) - Munich, Germany

<http://www.dld-conference.com/>

• January 24-26: Open Forum Davos - Davos, Switzerland:

<http://www.openforumdavos.ch/en/home/home.html>

• January 26: USF: The Toll Roads? The Legal and Political Debate Over Net Neutrality - San Francisco, CA:

<http://www.netneutrality2008.org/>

• January 26: Technology in Wartime - Stanford Law School, CA:

<http://technologyinwartime.org/>

• January 28-30: AlwaysOn: OnMedia NYC - New York, NY:

<http://alwayson.goingon.com/>

• January 28-30: DEMO: The Launchpad for Emerging Technology - Palm Desert, CA:

<http://www.demo.com/about/calendar.php>

• January 30: State of the Net Conference - Washington, DC:

<http://www.netcaucus.org/conference/2008/>

• January 30-February 1: Knowledge Rights & Information Sharing in the 21st Century - Orlando, FL:

<http://www.if.ucf.edu/conference.php>

• February 6-8: LIFT 08 - Geneva, Switzerland:

<http://liftconference.com/>

• February 7-8: Making Your Media Matter - Washington, DC:

<http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/resources/publications/mymm>

• February 8-10: 24/7 a DIY Video Summit - Los Angeles, CA:

<http://www.video24-7.org/registration/>

• February 15-17: ShmooCon - Washington, DC:

<http://www.shmoocon.org/>

• February 11-15: Webstock - Wellington, NZ:

<http://www.webstock.org.nz/>

• February 16: Women in Technology Summit - Harvard University, Cambridge, MA:

<http://www.womenintechnologysummit.com/>

• February 18-20: Fastforward '08 - Orlando, FL:

<http://www.fastforward08.com/blogHidden.asp>

• February 22-23: Journalism 3G: The Future of Technology in the Field - A Symposium on Computation + Journalism - Atlanta, GA:

<http://www.computational-journalism.com/symposium/index.php>

• February 22-24: The 14th Annual Rebellious Lawyering Conference - New Haven, CT

<http://islandia.law.yale.edu/reblaw/>

• February 24-26: The Chronicle Technology Forum - Tampa, Florida:

<http://chronicle.com/technologyforum/>

• February 25: SanFran MusicTech Summit - San Francisco, CA:

<http://sanfranmusictech.com/>

• February 26-28: We Media 2008 - Miami, FL:

<http://www.ifocos.org/we-media-miami-2008>

• February 27: 2008 Entertainment & Media Conference at Harvard Business School - Harvard University, MA:

<http://www.studentclubs.hbs.edu/emcl/conf08/default.html>

• February 27-March 1: TED2008 - Technology, Education, and Development - Monterey, CA:

<http://www.ted.com/index.php/pages/view/id/48>

• February 29- March 2: Exploring New Media Worlds - College Station, TX:

<http://comm.tamu.edu/mediaworlds/>

• March 1-2: BIL: Minds Set Free - Monterey, CA:

<http://bilconference.com/>

• March 2: HBS Social Enterprise Conference - Cambridge, MA:

<http://www.socialenterpriseclub.com/conference/index.html>

• March 3-4: BlogTalk - Cork, Ireland:

<http://blogtalk.net>

• March 3-4: Graphing Social Patterns: The Business and Technology of Social Platforms - San Diego, CA:

<http://en.oreilly.com/gspwest2008/public/content/home>

• March 3-6: Drupalcon 2008 - Boston, MA:

<http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/>

• March 3-6: O'Reilly Emerging Tech Conference - San Diego, CA:

<http://en.oreilly.com/et2008/>

• March 4-5: Politics Online Conference 2008 - Washington, DC:

<http://polc.ipdi.org/Agenda/default.aspx>

• March 7-8: Symposium on IP & Entrepreneurship - Berkeley, CA:

<http://www.law.berkeley.edu/institutes/bclt/entrepreneurship/>

• March 7-11: South by Southwest Interactive - Austin, TX:

<http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/>

• March 8: Legal Futures at Stanford - Stanford Law School, CA:

<http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/5685>

• March 12-14: Content Convergence & Integration 2008 - Vancouver, CA:

<http://convergence.confabb.com/conferences/23666-content-convergence-integration-2008>

• March 15: Digital Democracy - Pittsburgh, PA:

<http://www.spj.org/pittsburgh>

• March 15: OKCon: The Annual Open Knowledge Conference - London, UK:

<http://www.okfn.org/okcon/>

• March 17: Mashup Camp 6 - Mountain View, CA:

<http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/335457/>

• March 17-20: Video on the Net Conference - San Jose, CA:

<http://www.videoonthenet.com/2008/sanjose/web/>

• March 18-19: Dow Jone's VentureWire's Web Ventures 2008 - San Francisco, CA:

<http://webventures.dowjones.com/register?s=RWW-WV>

• March 19-20: Under the Radar - Mountain View, CA:

<http://www.undertheradarblog.com/>

• March 19-21: Nonprofit Technology Conference - New Orleans, LA:

<http://www.nten.org/ntc>

• March 20: IP DIALOGUES 2008: Bu Law School and Science Commons at Creative Commons - Boston, MA:

<http://www.sciencecommons.org>

• March 26-28: Tech Policy Summit - Hollywood, CA:

<http://www.techpolicysummit.com/>

• March 26-30: Aspen Ideas Festival - Aspen, CO:

<http://www.aifestival.org/>

• March 27-28: Fordham's Annual Conference on Intellectual Property Law & Policy - New York, NY:

<http://fordhamipconference.com/>

• March 27-28: BERKMAN CONFERENCE: Media Re:public Assessing the State of Participatory Media - Annenberg School for Communication, USC, Los Angeles, CA:

<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/mediarepublicforum/Main_Page>

• March 31: The Future of the Internet: Perspectives Emerging from R&D in Europe - Bled, Slovenia:

<http://www.fi-bled.eu/programme.php>

• March 31-April 1: Freedom to Connect: The NetHeads Come to Washington - Washington, DC:

<http://freedom-to-connect.net/>

• March 31-April 2: International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media - Seattle, WA:

<http://www.icwsm.org/2008/index.shtml>

• April 1-4: Open Repositories 2008 - Southampton, UK:

<http://openrepositories.org/>

• April 2-3: 3rd Surveillance and Society Conference - InVisibilities: The Politics, Practice and Experience of Surveillance in Everyday Life - Sheffield, UK:

<http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/conference.htm#third>

• April 2-4: Topic Maps 2008 - Oslo, Norway:

<http://www.topicmaps.com/tmc/conference.jsp?conf=TM2008>

• April 3-4: The Next Web - Amsterdam, Netherlands:

<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/4146>

• April 3-4: Virtual Worlds 2008 - New York, NY:

<http://www.virtualworlds2008.com/>

• April 7: Social Networking Conference - Oxford, UK:

<http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/microsites/oxis/events/>

• April 10-11: ASIS&T Social Computing Summit - Miami, FL:

<http://www.asis.org/Conferences/SCS08/SCS08.html>

• April 12-16: Capital Conference 2008 - Washington, DC:

<http://capitalconference.naa.org/>

• April 17-18: Politics: Web 2.0: An International Conference - London, UK:

<http://newpolcom.rhul.ac.uk/politics-web-2-0-conference/>

• April 22-23: SMX Social Media Marketing - Westin Long Beach, CA:

<http://searchmarketingexpo.com/social/>

• April 22-25: New Communications Forum 2008 - Sonoma, CA:

<http://newcommforum.com/2008/>

• April 22-25: O'Reilly Web 2.0 Expo - San Francisco, CA:

<http://en.oreilly.com/webexsf2008/public/content/home>

• April 23: Evolve - San Francisco, CA:

<http://mashable.com/evolve/>

• April 23-24: Council of Europe Ad Hoc Committee on e-democracy: Symposium on e-Democracy - Strasbourg, France:

<http://www.coe.int/democracy/>

• April 24: TECH Cocktail- Washington D.C.:

<http://techcocktail.com/home/2008/03/20/announcing-tech-cocktail-dc-2/>

• April 25-27: ROFLcon - Harvard University, Cambridge, MA:

<http://roflcon.org/>

• Dealmaker Forum - Mountain View, CA:

<http://dealmakermedia.com/dealmaker_forum.html>

• April 30-May 3: Journalism That Matters - Silicon Valley, CA:

<http://newshare.typepad.com/jtm2008sv/2007/12/journalism-that.html>

• May 1: OnCopyright 2008 - New York, NY:

<http://www.oncopyright2008.com/>

• May 1-4: Futuresonic08: Urban Festival of Art, Music & Ideas - Manchester, UK:

<http://www.futuresonic.com/>

• May 4-5: Sun Startup Camp- San Francisco, CA:

<http://wiki.startupcamp.org/wiki/AboutStartupCamp>

• May 8: SanFran MusicTech Summit

<http://sanfranmusictech.com/>

• May 8-10: The Philosophy of Computer Games - Potsdam, Germany:

<http://www.gamephilosophy.org/>

• May 8-10: International Conference Glocal 2.0: Blogging: Evolution Treated as Revolution - Skopje, Macedonia:

<http://glocalconference.wordpress.com/>

• May 9: Harvard University Program on Survey Research - New Technologies and Survey Research - Cambridge, MA:

<http://www.iq.harvard.edu/psr/>

• May 12-14: O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference - Burlingame, CA

<http://en.oreilly.com/where2008/public/content/home>

• BERKMAN: May 15-16: The Berkman Center for Internet & Society 10th Anniversary Conference and Gala - Cambridge, MA:

<http://www.berkmanat10.org>

• May 15-17: Center for Information Policy Research: Thinking Critically: Alternative Perspectives and Methods in Information Studies - Milwaukee, WI:

<http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/SOIS/cipr/conference08.html>

• May 18-21: 2008 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy - Oakland, CA:

<http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2008/oakland08.html>

• May 18-21: Digital Government Society 9th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research "Partnerships for Public Innovation" - Montreal, Canada:

<http://www.dgo2008.org/>

• May 20-23: Computers, Freedom, and Privacy 2008 - New Haven, CT:

<http://www.cfp2008.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page>

• May 21-22: Mesh08 - Toronto, Canada:

<http://www.meshconference.com/>

• May 21-22: Communitelligence Executing Social Media Conference & Workshops- Los Angeles, CA

<http://www.communitelligence.com/content/index.cfm?spgid=274>

• May 21-23: Copyright Utopia: Alternative Visions, Methods & Policies - UMUC, Adelphi, MD:

<http://www.umuc.edu/mkting/cip/index2.html>

• May 21-24: Computers and Writing 2008 - Athens, GA:

<http://computersandwriting.org/cw2008>

• May 22-26: ICA 2008 "Communicating Social Impact" - Montreal, Canada:

<http://www.icahdq.org/conferences/2008/2008CFP.pdf>

• May 27-28: NetSquared Conference (N2Y3) - San Jose, CA:

<http://www.netsquared.org/2008/>

• May 28-29: Google I/O - San Francisco, CA:

<https://www.weboom.com/sparks/google_io/forms/>

• May 28-30: Center for Intellectual Property 8th Annual Intellectual Property Symposium - Adelphi, MD:

<http://www.umuc.edu/mkting/cip/index2.shtml>

• June 3: Under the Radar - Mountain View, CA

<http://mashable.com/2008/02/22/june-under-the-radar-submissions-ongoing/>

• June 6-8: NCMR - Free Press' National Conference for Media Reform - Minneapolis, MN:

<http://www.freepress.net/conference/>

• June 9-10: Federated Media Conversational Marketing Summit - New York, NY:

<http://www.federatedmedia.net/events/cmsummit-registration>

• June 13-14: Harvard Program on Networked Governance: Networks in Political Science - Cambridge, MA:

<http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/netgov/html/colloquia_NetworksInPoliticalScience.htm>

• June 13-14: Harvard Law School Petrie-Flom Center: Our Fragmented Healthcare System: Causes and Solutions - Cambridge, MA:

<http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/petrie-flom/>

• June 13-14: 6th annual Chinese Internet Research Conference - Hong Kong University:

<http://jmsc.hku.hk/circ>

• June 14: Google Conference on Scalability - Seattle, WA:

<http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2008/02/this-years-scalability-conference.html>

• June 16-18: Supernova 2008 - San Francisco, CA:

<http://supernova2008.com/>

• June 17 - Beyond Broadcast 2008 - Washington, DC:

<http://www.beyondbroadcast.net/>

• June 18-20: Center for Ethics and Technology: Ethics, Technology and Identity - Hague, Netherlands:

<http://www.ethicsandtechnology.eu/index.php/news/comments/ethics_technology_and_identity/>

• June 23-24: An Event Apart: For People Who Make Websites - Boston, MA:

<http://aneventapart.com/events/2008/boston/>

• June 23-24: Personal Democracy Forum Conference - NYC, NY:

<http://pdf2008.confabb.com/conferences/60420-personal-democracy-forum-2008>

• June 24-27: Cultural Attitudes Towards Technology and Communication - Nimes, France:

<http://www.catacconference.org/>

• June 24-27: International Telecommunications Society Conference 2008 - Montreal, Canada:

<http://www.its2008montreal.org/>

• June 25: Structure 08: Insight on the Future of Infrastructure - San Francisco, CA:

<http://events.gigaom.com/structure/08/>

• June 26-29: Tools for Participation: Collaboration, Deliberation, and Decision Support - Berkley, CA:

<http://www.publicsphereproject.org/events/diac08/>

• June 26-29: Media Giraffe Project summit - Amherst, MA

<http://www.mediagiraffe.org/mgp2008/>

• June 27-28: Global Voices Citizen Media Summit 2008 - Budapest, Hungary:

<http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2008/03/13/announcing-the-global-voices-citizen-media-summit-2008/>

• June 30-July 1: COMMUNIA conference on Public Domain in the Digital Age - Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium:

<http://www.communia-project.eu/conf2008>

• June 30-July 1: European Conference on i-Warfare and Security - Plymouth, UK:

<http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=61>

• July 1-3: Visions of Humanity in Cyberculture, Cyberspace and Science Fiction - Mansfield, UK:

<http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ati/Visions/vhccsf.htm>

• July 3-4: The Next 50 Years: The Future of European Law & Policy

Conference on European Law & Policy in Context <http://www.iel.bham.ac.uk/events/cfp-50-years.shtml>

• July 7-8: Lancaster Sociology Summer Conference - Lancaster, United Kingdom

<http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/events/sociology/summerconference/>

• July 14-15: Ypulse National Mashup Conference- San Francisco, CA:

<http://mashup.ypulse.com/>

• July 15-18: Netroots Nation (Formerly YearlyKos) - Austin, TX:

<http://www.netrootsnation.org/>

• July 18-20: Blogher Conference - San Francisco, CA:

<http://www.blogher.com/blogher_conference/conf/2/general/1>

• July 20- 25: Research Institute for the Science of Socio-Technical Systems - Ann Arbor, Michigan:

<http://www.si.umich.edu/csstinstitute/>

• July 24-26: Scratch@MIT: The First Conference Focused on the Ideas, Applications, and Joys of Scratch - Cambridge, MA:

<http://scratch.mit.edu/conference>

• August 6: State of the Net West Conference - Santa Clara, CA:

<http://www.netcaucus.org/events/2008/sotnwest/>

• August 9-10: Intellectual Property Scholars Conference - Stanford, CA:

<http://madisonian.net/conferences/2008/02/18/ipsc-2008/#more-632>

• August 14-16: New Media Expo - Las Vegas, NV:

<http://www.newmediaexpo.com/>

• August 16: Graduate Student Workshop: Values into Computer and Information System Design - Santa Clara, CA:

<http://www.scu.edu/sts/VID/welcome.cfm>

• September 3-5: ZA-WWW 2008 Conference on World Wide Web Applications - Cape Town, South Africa:

<http://www.zaw3.co.za>

• September 4-5: ICANN Internet Governance & Domain Names: New TLDs, New Services, New Markets - Helsinki, Finland:

<http://www.icann-studienkreis.net/>

• September 4-9: A New Cultural Economy: The Limits of Intellectual Property - Linz, Austria:

<http://www.aec.at/en/festival2008/index.asp>

• September 8-10: Access to Knowledge - Geneva, Switzerland:

<http://www.law.yale.edu/intellectuallife/7106.htm>

• September 8-10: Highway Africa - Grahamstown, South Africa:

<http://www.highwayafrica.com/>

• September 10-12: Inderscience Mobility Conference - Taiwan:

<http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=102>

• September 11-12: DNI Open Source Conference 2008 - Washington, DC:

<http://www.dniopensource.org/>

• September 13: Online News Association Conference - Washington, DC:

<http://www.journalists.org/>

• September 11-13: Oxford eResearch Conference 2008 - Oxford, UK:

<http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/microsites/eresearch08/>

• September 18: Cambridge Community Television Backyard BBQ - Cambridge, MA:

<http://cctvcambridge.org/node/4520>

• September 20: Software Freedom Day:

<http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams>

• September 21-23: London School of Economics 5th Anniversary Conference: Media, Communication & Humanity - London, UK:

<http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/Conference/Default.htm>

• September 22: Cambridge Community Television NeighborMedia Application Deadline:

<http://www.cctvcambridge.org/neighbormedia_application>

• September 22: One Web Day:

< http://onewebday.org/>

• September 24-26: Picnic 08 - Amsterdam, Netherlands:

<http://www.picnicnetwork.org/>

• September 25-27: Mobile Communication and the Ethics of Social Networking - Budapest, Hungary:

<http://www.socialscience.t-mobile.hu/2008/>

• September 26-28: The 36th Research Conference on Communication, Information, and Internet Policy - Arlington, VA:

<http://www.tprcweb.com/>

• September 29-30: 2008EDem2008 - Conference for E-Democracy, Danube University Krems, Austria:

<www.donau-uni.ac.at/edem>

• September 29-October 3: FOSS4G - Cape Town, South Africa:

<http://foss4g2008.org/>

• September 3-4: Tech4Africa - Johannesburg, South Africa:

<http://www.technologyforafrica.org/>

• October 8-9: MindTrek 2008 - Finland:

<http://www.mindtrek.org/>

• October 11-12: Free Culture Conference 2008 - University of California, Berkeley:

<http://conference.freeculture.org/>

• October 14: Open Access Day:

<http://openaccessday.org/>

• October 15-16: Business Innovation Factory Summit -

• October 15-18: Internet Research 9.0 Conference: Rethinking Community, Rethinking Space - Copenhagen, Denmark:

<http://conferences.aoir.org/>

• October 19-21: 2008 Global Forum on Open and Distance Education - Shanghai, China:

<http://www.unescochair.org.cn/forum/>

• October 19-22: State of Play VII - Chicago, IL:

<http://www.nyls.edu/pages/6301.asp>

• October 20-21: COMMUNIA Workshop: Marking the public domain: relinquishment & certification - Amsterdam, Netherlands:

<http://communia-project.eu/ws03>

• October 22-25: Pop!Tech - Camden, Maine:

<http://www.poptech.com/>

• October 23-25: Rebooting the News - Philadelphia, PA:

<http://www.rebootingthenews.org/>

• October 26-29: The Internet: Governance and the Law - Civil Society and the Governance of Multimodal Communication - Montreal, Canada:

<http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2008/01/18/internet-conference-at-mcgill/>

• October 29: The Internet and Copyright: Public Policies Collide - New York, NY:

<http://www.nycbar.org/EventsCalendar/show_event.php?eventid=941>

• October 30-31: CITI's 25th Anniversary International Summit on Media & Communication - New York, NY:

<http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/citi/events/summit2008>

• November 3-4: Defrag Conference 2008 - Denver, CO:

<http://defragcon.com/2008/>

• November 8-10: Digital ID World - Anaheim, CA:

<http://public.cxo.com/conferences/index.html?conferenceID=24>

• November 15: Cybersymposium 14 at Harvard Business School - Allston, MA:

<http://cyberposium.turnstilesystems.com/>

• November 17-18: SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2008 - Baltimore, MD:

<http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/ir08/>

• November 21-22: Futures of Entertainment 3 at MIT - Cambridge, MA:

<http://www.convergenceculture.org/futuresofentertainment/2008/index.html>

• December 2: Giganet Annual Symposium - Hyderabad, India:

<http://tinyurl.com/ynsuuf>

• December 3-5: Blueprinting the Information Valet Economy - Columbia, MO:

<http://www.informationvalet.org/>

• December 3-5: 14th International Conference on Technology Supported Learning & Training - Berlin, German:

<http://www.online-educa.com/>

• December 8-12: Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference - Queensland, Australia:

<http://www.ozchi.org/mediawiki/index.php/OZCHI_2008>