Techno-Activism 3rd Monday: Portland's First!
Event Information
Description
What is it?
This is the first Techno-Activism 3rd Monday event for Portland, Oregon! Read more about techno-activism 3rd mondays.
Who should come?
Anyone interested in techno-activism. We invite coders, geeks, artists, and anyone else. No technical experience required.
Who's hosting?
The Privly Foundation will organize this and future TA3M Portland events. Puppet Labs is generously providing space. For this first event, refreshments will be provided by Gliph.
Event Description
We'll be chatting with James Vasile. James directs the Open Internet Tools Project, which supports development of anti-censorship and anti-surveillance tools. He is a partner at Open Tech Strategies, which advises organizations and businesses as they navigate the open-source world. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Software Freedom Law Center, where he acts as a strategic advisor on a range of free software efforts.
James has helped boot up a number of free software organizations, including the FreedomBox Foundation, Open Source Matters, and the Software Freedom Conservancy. His FreedomBox work has been recognized by an Innovation Award at Contact Summit 2011, as well as an Ashoka ChangeMaker’s award for Citizen’s Media.
You can learn more about James at JamesVasile.com. He tweets as @jamesvasile and blogs at HackerVisions.org.
Organizer The Privly Foundation
Organizer of Techno-Activism 3rd Monday: Portland's First!
The founding purpose of the Privly Foundation is to empower the Privly community to participate in and contribute to privacy software projects by fostering awareness of privacy issues and building a community of mutual support around Privly development. The Privly Foundation was founded following a successful crowdfunding round in 2012.
Privly is an open source community project for taking back control of personal information. Privly makes it impossible for others to control your data. By installing our browser extension, you are able to keep your content, well, your content. For those who don’t have the extension installed, they see a simple link that sends them to your post, photo, video, etc. For those who do have the extension installed, they are able to see your post on the page as it was intended.
