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This page documents upcoming conferences and our goals + commitments for them.
== May ==
* May 12, [http://mitwebmakinginstructorconf.eventbrite.com/ WebMaking Instructor Community Conference], Cambridge, MA
** Style: Unconference?
** Theme: Webmaking and bottom-up teaching
** Our goal: Explain the Boston Python Workshop strategy and learn what others are up to in this space
** Status: Wondering if we can attend
* May 7-12: [http://uds.ubuntu.com/ Ubuntu Developer Summit], Oakland, CA
** ?
== June ==
* Saturday June 2, [http://mitwebmakinginstructorconf.eventbrite.com/ WebMaking Instructor Community Conference], San Francisco, CA
** See above Boston edition (:
* June 26-29, [http://opensourcebridge.org/ Open Source Bridge], Portland, Oregon
** Status: Karen will be attending
== July ==
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** Style: Week-long Debian fest
** Theme: Debian
** Our goal: Represent OpenHatch and discuss community organizing among Debian participants
** Status: Planning (but not committed) to attend and speak (Asheesh)
** Style: Weekend unconference
** Theme: Community organizing, mostly in open source but also largely in commercial web forums around a brand (e.g. Zappos)
** Goal: Represent the OpenHatch Way in FLOSS organizing
▲** URL: http://www.communityleadershipsummit.com/
** Status: Interested in attending (Asheesh)
▲** Goal: Represent the OpenHatch Way in FLOSS organizing, and hear from other active FLOSS communities
* Wikimania 2012: Tue 7/10 and Wed 7/11 Hackathon
* Wikimania 2012: Main conference
* Mon 7/16 - Fri 7/20: [http://www.oscon.com/oscon2012 OSCON], Portland, OR
** Style: Week-long corporate megaconf
** Theme: Open source in absolutely any fashion
** Goal: Represent OpenHatch to, and hang out with, the wide variety of exciting speakers at OSCON (and attendees too)
** Status: Karen and Asheesh's "Open source project growth as a user experience problem" talk accepted!
== October ==
* October 3-6: Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2012, Baltimore, MD
** Theme: Women in tech, with a sizable open source track
** Karen is part of a proposed panel on women in FOSS w. Pam Selle; iirc Deb had a proposal as well?
** I honestly can't tell from [http://gracehopper.org/2012/ GHC's website] whether or not male-identified people are allowed to attend...
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