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Planning in progress for CFP2010!

Most recent phone calls: September 3, August 27, August 18

Next phone call: September 10 -- Doodle poll here.


Rough schedule

  • August: nail down primary location, begin regular rhythm of planning
  • mid-September: agree on theme; draft plan to Steering Committee and ACM; "save the date, help us with the CFP!" email + social media launch
  • early October: call for participation goes out broadly via email, social media, press?
  • mid-November: program committee selected
  • early December: "early-bird" proposal deadline
  • January 15 (or 31?): early acceptances, final proposal deadline, nail down additional locations
  • March 1: program nearly finalized, responses to all proposals
  • June 3-4: Privacy Law Scholars Conference in Washington DC
  • June 14-17 or June 15-18: showtime in Silicon Valley, California

Goals (draft)

  • "from conference to community": move towards a year-round community, with online hubs and smaller in-person regional workshops/salons complementing the main conference
  • reconnect CFP with hackers and free culture community
  • diversify CFP community and conference -- planning team, audience, presenters, ...
  • build on the high-quality content, engagement with government, and online visibility success of 2009 and continue "rebooting CFP"
Thoughts? Please see the discussion thread on the blog.

Working groups


Program working groups:
  • Computers (technology, security):
  • Freedom (civil liberties, free speech, free culture, intellectual property, ...): Lillie, ...
  • Privacy: Pam, Janice
  • Networks (social and technical): Shireen
  • Society: Ryan, Eli
  • California: Sarah
To complement the program committee, we will also have working groups on various topics. Here's our current thinking:

  • planning
  • fundraising
  • online presence (web site, blog, social media)
  • media, PR, brand and visual identity
  • diversity (including students, accessibility, and international perspectives)
  • government + non-profit liaison





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DorothyGlancy Notes from November 5 Conference Call 0 Nov 8 2009, 5:04 PM EST by DorothyGlancy
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Dorothy, Deborah, Lance, Lillie. Lenny, Katie, Betsy and Jon participated in the call.

Fundraising
Deborah has contacts at Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Tribe.net, Cisco, Twitter and Oracle. Deborah has also begun contacting foundations such as the Rose Foundation. We discussed other appropriate foundations. Lance asked for further information about various levels of corporate funding opportunities.

Program Submissions - early-bird deadline
Earlier submission glitches seem to be resolved. Submissions from planning committee members continue to be encouraged. Reminders should be sent out Lenny said that we now have a good email list of about 2600 live addresses. Katie will be helping get the word out on the Blog. We still need to work on weekly roundup posts for Facebook and Twitter..

Program Committee
Jon said that he anticipates a large program committee - perhaps 20 or more people. His current list in addition to the planning committee members include
- Robin Gross (verbally confirmed)
- Lauren Gelman (verbally confirmed)
- Xiao Su (xiao.su@sjsu.edu) from San Jose State (thanks to SIgurd): networking, security and quality of service issues.
- Stephanie Perrin (needs to be confirmed)

Other suggestions:
- Ryan Calo
- Julian Sanchez of Cato (writes for Reason and The Economist)
- Sami Ben Gharbia of Global Voices Advocacy (suggested by Rebecca Mackinnon)
- Roger Dingledine of Tor or - Austin Heap of Haystack (anonymous proxies for Iran)
- Kevin Poulsen, Ryan Singel, or Kim Zetter of Wired

The group brainstormed about other prospective program committee members - e.g. Chris Hoofnagle, Jim Dempsey and others on the West Coast.

The next planning committee conference call will be week after next - the week of November 16.. But not on Thursday. Jon will send out a poll to see which day/time seems to work best
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JonPincus What to call the Twitter account? 0 Jun 9 2009, 3:34 PM EDT by JonPincus
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We can rename the cfp2009 account, and the most straightforward approach would be to call it cfp2010. It could well be better, though, to have an account for CFP in general, rather than changing the name each year. Thoughts about that?

If so, what do we call it? cfp is, alas, taken.

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