Creativity and Innovation
Of Boolean Logic, BBSes, Berkeley, and Burning Man: Early ‘90s startup culture in the East Bay Our speaker this month will be Maggie Duval. Maggie is a technology, web, marketing, strategy and development consultant, educator and event producer whose work supports holistic, personalized approaches to learning. She is an expert
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Our speaker this month will be Wendy Nather. Wendy Nather is Principal Security Strategist at Duo Security. She was previously the Research Director at the Retail ISAC, as well as Research Director of the Information Security Practice at independent analyst firm 451 Research. Wendy led IT security for the EMEA
Activism
If you have visited http://www.disruptj20.org/, there’s something you should know. The Department of Justice has a warrant out for your name, IP address, home address, email address, and telephone number. Not only that--the DOJ wants to know what software you have on your computer. They
Activism
Hey everyone, EFF-Austin is promoting a couple panels at SXSW. Public voting is a major component in determining what gets accepted. If you would like to see panels on Native American VR activism and cyborg pride at next year's conference, please take a moment to vote and
Free Speech
During last week’s day of action for net neutrality, I called, petitioned, and emailed my representatives. Then I switched my profile picture to a ninja cat on a unicorn with lasers for eyes. The picture above is terribly cliched. But that could be a good thing, in context. It
Events
Our speaker this month is Tom Brown. Tom Brown is an open source software developer interested in digital identity, and he often attends Internet Identity Workshop and more recently IndiewebCamps. Tom has added open standards related to identity to several popular software projects. He can be found online as herestomwiththeweather.
Events
EFF-Austin is proud to present for our next monthly meetup a live taping of Future Fossils, Michael Garfield's wonderfully heady podcast that explores futurist topics at the intersection of science, art, and philosophy! Michael will be leading a panel of four subject area experts in a stream-
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Starting with this meetup we are going to begin a tradition of going out for drinks after the conclusion of our speaker's talk. We will be at Firehouse Hostel and Lounge (605 Brazos Street) from 9PM-10PM. Come join us! --------- Our speaker this month will be Anne Boysen.
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EFF-Austin friend Jake Dunagan is having a talk at Thirteen23 next Tuesday evening. He will discussing how before new futures can be made thinkable, they must first be made feel-able. We hope to see you there. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jake-dunagan-the-future-as-a-cognitive-
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EFF-Austin will be present for the latest meetup of the CTX World Future Society. Their speaker will be Mike Ignatowski and he will be discussing The Evolution of Cooperation. The description of evolution as "survival of the fittest" says more about the social attitudes of 19th century
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Our speaker this month will be Robert Matney. Robert Matney is Co-Owner and COO of Polycot Associates, a web development agency and is a co-founder and Technology Director of Whirligig Productions. Robert is also Technology Director for Hidden Room Theatre and a Board Trustee for Austin Shakespeare, a
Creativity and Innovation
EFF-Austin supporter Tal Leeds is presenting his latest New Media theatrical project this Saturday night at 11:30pm at ColdTowne Theater. A choose-your-own adventure play voted on by the audience featuring an arduino-controlled robot on the stage! We encourage all of our followers with an interest