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Women, Technology and Networks in Eastern Europe
Exhibition, performances, meetings
10 May - 22 June 2008
Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien Berlin, Germany
Opening: 9 May, from 19.00
The exhibition project HACK.Fem.EAST seeks to present experimental and artistic practices of artists and activists working in digital networks in Eastern Europe. Main topics are media, art and hacking. Main protagonists are women [...]

..will take place at San Francisco’s Ft. Mason Center. September 25 thru 28, 2008.
Critical Perspectives on Sexuality and Pornography in Science and Social Fiction
Taking up where the successful conference in autumn 2007 left off, this year’s Arse Elektronika stands under the motto “future” — and the ways in which the present sees itself reflected in [...]

17/02/2008 INTERNET MON AMOUR @ CENTRE POMPIDOU
1ère séance : Faut-il avoir peur du Web 2.0 ?
Invité : Geert Lovink, théoricien des médias, critique d’art et activiste
Qu’est qu’on risque sur Internet?
Pour inaugurer ce rendez-vous, les rencontres ont invité un témoin privilégié de l’évolution des nouveaux médias, Geert Lovink, activiste, critique d’art et co-fondateur de la liste [...]

Du 28 février au 2 mars 2008 à Cologne (Allemagne).
Au programme : conférences, concerts, installations.
The particiants of LAC2008 will experience four days crammed full with presentations of new developments in Linux audio software and how this is used by artists and scientists in concrete projects around the world.
The Soundlab of the Academy is delighted to [...]

Kyle Machulis, aka qDot n’est plus à présenter. Il est devenu, “par accident”, le grand expert du sexe dans les jeux vidéo et dirige l’IGDA Sex In Games Special Interest Group, (un groupe de recherche sur l’usage des technologies introduisant le sexe dans les univers interactifs) et maintient également le MMOrgy Project qui informe des [...]

Le programme du 24ème congrès du Chaos Computer Club, 24C3, qui se déroule 27 au 30 décembre 2007 à Berlin / Allemagne est enfin en ligne.
Nous vous recommandons vivement la visite des conférences suivantes (qui seront certainement accessibles en streaming) :

LadyAda : “Design Noir” - l’ingénieure a concu et construit deux dispositifs qui visent à [...]

The 2008 Open Web Conference is looking for speakers.
The Vancouver PHP User Group is proud to announce the Vancouver Open Web Conference coming in April 2008. With this year’s conference we have decided to broaden the focus from ‘just PHP’ to encompass what we call the ‘Open Web’, perhaps best defined by Brendan Eich as [...]

In this workshop, we aim to convene researchers in the areas of Security, Data Privacy and Artificial Intelligence. We seek to collect the most recent advances in artificial intelligence techniques (i.e. neural networks, fuzzy systems, multi-agent systems, genetic algorithms, image analysis, clustering, etc), which are applied to the protection of [...]

FOSS.IN is a technical event focusing on development of, and contribution to, Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Participants explore the latest developments in FOSS, and interact with each other to discover new ways to develop and contribute to FOSS.
This event, now in it’s seventh year, attracts thousands of participants each year from across India, [...]

This is an invitation to anti-capitalist activists to join the TechMeet 2007, which will take place in distributed events during the period of October 10th untill October 31st, 2007.
How to find more information?
You can find update informations at the site http://techmeet.org, sending emails to techmeet @techmeet.org, techmeet @ listas.sarava.org or sign in for the announcement [...]

December 27th to 30th, 2007, Berlin, Germany

The 24th Chaos Communication Congress (24C3) is the annual four-day conference organized by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) in Berlin, Germany. First held in 1984, it since has established itself as “the European Hacker Conference”. Lectures and workshops on a multitude of topics attract a diverse audience of thousands [...]

October 22-23 2007
Computer History Museum
Mountain View, California
Our goal is to create an open space forum for women in tech to come together to
1. Exchanging skills and learning from women from diverse fields of technology.
2. Discussing topics about women and technology.
3. Connecting the diverse range of women in technology, computing, entrepreneurship, funding, hardware, open source, nonprofit [...]

The Linux Expo of Southern California is proud to announce their second Women in Open Source Conference. The conference will be held on February 8th, 2008 in conjunction with the 6th Annual So Cal Linux Expo.
Continuing our efforts to encourage women of all ages to be a part of the free and open source [...]

Le SSTIC est une conférence francophone sur le thème de la sécurité de l’information, ce qui comprend à la fois les vecteurs d’information (comme les systèmes informatiques ou les réseaux) et l’information elle-même (cryptographie ou guerre de l’information). Il se déroulera à Rennes du 30 Mai au 1er Juin 2007. Le SSTIC rassemble les personnes [...]

The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2007 is the seventh in a series of conferences designed to bring the research and career interests of women in computing to the forefront. Presenters are leaders in their respective fields, representing industrial, academic and government communities. Leading researchers present their current work, while special sessions focus [...]