Upcomig Events: SouthEast [GNU]LinuxFest (North Carolina) & PorcFest (New Hampshire)

We're going to be participating in two upcoming events and I'd like to peak peoples interest in them. The one is a typical [GNU]Linux event in the south east United States: The SouthEast [GNU]/Linux Fest. The other is a really fun week long festival of liberty-minded activists called PorcFest held annually in northern New Hampshire.

PorcFest is a very different kinda of event than we're use to attending. It attracts a large crowd of liberty-oriented people of which most know little to nothing about free software. Despite that this group tends to be very open to the ideas of the free software community and there are already a number of free software advocates within this group. Some very technical people at that. For example one of the leading people in the BitCoin world gets involved at this event. There are around 20,000 participants in the larger Free State Project and about 2000 attending this event (PorcFest). For those who don't know the Free State Project itself is a project to attract 20,000 liberty-minded activists to New Hampshire.

Seth King from the Daily Anarchist for example did an excellent presentation on free software last year. It was geared toward this less technical liberty-oriented crowd and the talk was titled: Free Software is for Freedom Lovers:

https://dailyanarchist.com/2015/02/13/free-software-is-for-freedom-lovers/

While he won't be doing a presentation on free software this year we're hoping to take over where he left off. If anybody else is attending PorcFest and interested in helping we could certainly use it! The talk will be on encryption and use of GPG in particular. We'll be working with Adam Leibson (previously employed @ ThinkPenguin and now interning at the Free Software Foundation) on this and hopefully a few other free software advocates (whoever we can attract).

We'll be using the great resources created and made available by the Free Software Foundation: The Email Self-Defense Guide

https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/

PorcFest is going on June 21–28, 2015 at Roger’s Campground, Lancaster, NH. You don't have to attend the entire week, but you'll probably want to if you can. The event is a lot of fun! With parties, camping, bond fires, political and technical talks (BitCoin is huge a the event), vending (think free markets), and more.

The SouthEast [GNU]LinuxFest is being held June 12-14, 2015 at the Sheraton Charlotte Airport Hotel, Charlotte, NC. We'll have a table at the event. Bob will not be giving a talk on LibreCMC or anything else at this event- or the other for that matter. Sorry. You can though get the video online though of one of the talks he gave on LibreCMC at the NorthWest [GNU]LinuxFest event. I think I posted a link on the forums once before anyway if anybody wants to go back and watch it.