[Noisebridge-discuss] Hackers, HackerSpaces, Rights, and the Law [ Was Re:Interaction with the police ]

Andy Isaacson adi at hexapodia.org
Tue Nov 3 23:51:36 UTC 2009


On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 03:10:33PM -0800, Danny O'Brien wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Andy Isaacson <adi at hexapodia.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Danny O'Brien <danny at spesh.com> wrote:
> >> Sounds like there are a lot of questions kicking around about
> >> disclosure, subpoenas, right of entry, etc, as it applies in
> >> particular to coders and hackers. Would folk be interested in a NB
> >> talk where EFF lawyers could walk through some of these issues?
> >
> > Danny,
> >
> > Sounds like a great plan. ??Are you willing to handle scheduling on the
> > EFF end of things? ??From Noisebridge's end of things, a Monday, Thursday
> > or Saturday in November would work well; accounting for a reasonable
> > lead time for publicity that gives us the 16, 21, 23, 28, or 30th of
> > November. ??(November 19 is already scheduled.) ??Weekdays we'd shoot for
> > 7PM or 8PM, weekends something in the 2PM-5PM slot.
> 
> Sure, we were originally looking at the 19th but let's see what other
> dates work.

The 19th has a built-in audience, but it's a bit orthogonal to the
target for the talk I'd like to see:

https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Five_Minutes_of_Fame
http://5mof.net/

benefits to the 19th:
 - lots of visibility
 - presentation infrastructure already setup

Downsides to the 19th:
 - audience already buzzed by the 5MOF format
 - large audience that may or may not be interested in a long-format
   talk on "legal issues for hackerspaces"
 - large audience can decrease participation and feedback possibilities
   that I'd like to foster

We've been near or at capacity for the last couple 5mof events.

-andy



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