opentech 2008 – the other good conference of the year

Opentech is a cool, grassroots eventand there is going to be a lot of cross over with geeKyoto, Interesting and this. They have just launched their call for participation.

Call for Participation – OpenTech 2008

Saturday 5 July 2008, London, UK

Presented by UKUUG in association with mySociety + Open Rights Group
http://www.ukuug.org/events/opentech2008/

*What is OpenTech 2008?*
A low-cost, one-day grassroots conference with a wide range of
sessions covering digital technology, society and
the environment

*What do we need?*
Proposals from people who want to give a
presentation, run a panel, organise a workshop, or
run a demo of something new and interesting

Publicity – please blog this announcement, write a
newspaper article, forward to mailing lists, and
tell your friends!

*What topics do we hope to cover?*
– Mashups, open data and security
– Future of media distribution
– Low-carbon and low-impact living
– New adventures in hardware hacking
– Politics 2.0
– Long term thinking on big problems and massive opportunities

– If you’ve got an interesting proposal that doesn’t fit into any of
the categories above, please send it in anyway!

*How do I submit a proposal?”
Please use the form on http://www.ukuug.org/events/opentech2008/
The deadline for submissions is midnight on Sunday 30 March 2008

*Can I buy or reserve a ticket to the event?*
Register at http://www.ukuug.org/events/opentech2008/list
and we’ll email you nearer the time with more information

*Any other questions?*

If you have any other questions, or want to make us
an offer we can’t refuse, please visit
http://www.ukuug.org/events/opentech2008/ for more
information and contact details of the event
organisers

OpenTech 2008 organisers (Ben Lamb, Etienne Pollard, Sam Smith)
http://www.ukuug.org/events/opentech2008/

17th May 2008, Conway Hall, London – GeeKyoto’08

The date is set, the venue booked (and a deposit, deposited). Something is going to happen.
Those of you who attended Russell Davies Interesting last year should be on familiar territory here, but for those who do not know:

We have booked Conway Hall, in Central London for a Saturday. The 17th May 2008 to be precise. The doors will open 10am and we will finish around 4.30pm (we have to be out of the hall by 5.00pm). After that, well we will be in a pub later to continue the discussion.

Tickets will go on sale soon, we will release them in a couple of waves. A site with more detailed information will be up soon, here at geekyoto.com.

Oh yes, thats the final agreed upon name, ‘geeKyoto’, Green tech and ideas is a theme but just part of a wider remit.

The day itself, everybody in the main hall, there will be presentations of up to 20 minutes, with a number of shorter 3 minutes ones as well. There will be a lunch break, and an afternoon quick tea break. More details of the structure will be here soon. Also we will start to let you know who we have speaking as well.