title: Talks and conferences in March 2012
date: 2012-03-02 08:29
tags: mediagoblin, conference, talk, pycon, libreplanet, flourish
author: Christine Lemmer-Webber
slug: talks-in-march-2012
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This month is going to be pretty intense... maybe I should even say
"pretty insane". I'm going to be at three different conferences.
Maybe I'll see you at one?
-
PyCon --
I've been attending PyCon every year since 2008.
As with most years, I'll be on the video crew.
Last year I
gave
a talk on Blender's Python API
(video
here). This year I missed the deadline to give a talk, but I
will be giving a poster session
with Deb Nicholson
on MediaGoblin. (Deb
handles most of our press related stuff, including writing up most
of our blogposts. She does a really great job!)
PyCon is always a fantastic conference, and apparently news of
that has gotten around. This year both the hotel and admission to
PyCon sold out a month in advance. Yow!
-
LibrePlanet --
This year I'll be presenting with Mike Linksvayer about Creative
Commons. I suspect it'll be a fairly wide ranging talk, going
from the 4.0 license
process to bridging Creative Commons and free software.
Unfortunately, I'm attending a wedding on Saturday, so I'll only
be around for Sunday. However I'll be in the Boston area for a
few days afterwards, crashing at Deb Nicholson's place. If you
want to meet up, let me know.
Not sure if somehow MediaGoblin will tie into this whole thing,
but in a sense it's very pertinent to LP2012 since it started
right after LibrePlanet 2011 (which I didn't attend), is a GNU
project, and I started planning it immediately after LibrePlanet
2010 when I finished up my work with the FSF
on Patent Absurdity
(debuted at LP2010; I did the animations for the film as
mentioned
previously.
-
Flourish --
I'll be speaking at Flourish this year on (surprise, surprise)
MediaGoblin. Flourish is a good conference, in Chicago, and
really cheap. In fact, it costs nothing, and if
you register
in advance you can even get a free (as in t-shirts) shirt.
It's a good "tech and culture of free software" type conference.
Wow, that's a lot of conferences! And a wedding! Yesterday my
friend Will commented to
Deb (whose life is pretty much nonstop conferences)
"I don't know how you do it. I do a conference and then I have to
hug myself in a dark room for a month to rejuvenate." Too true. I
think after this month is over I'm going to have to
reconstruct
myself in a bucket for a day or so.