Events

I am playing a role in planning an emerging media technologies workshop schedule for the annual Alliance for Community Media Conference, held in Boston on July 6-8, 2006.

The ACM is a organization of public, educational and municipal television stations that, right now, are the only way for private citizens get their locally produced, community oriented media on cable television for free or very low cost. Its a resource that is on the chopping block as big media companies attempt to re-write the way they pay franchise fees to cities and towns for doing business within their borders. For a full description of what access television is, read the wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_access

The conference deals with all issues of access television from video production to administration, we are working on just a narrow slice of the conference. The focus of our specific workshop track is to provide information and starting points for access television stations to make the jump from distributing video on cable TV to circulating their same local content across the internet. The description of the "Emerging Media Track" is still in its conceptual stages but basically will address alternate means of distributing local electronic content including blogging/vlogging, RSS, self-serviced software and sites, commercial sites, live webcasting, video on demand, etc, etc. We are talking to you Drupal people about this because your open source CMS is choice number one for small non-profits like our ACM members to leap to as they consider lots of these options.

The annual SXSW Interactive Festival takes place March 12-14, 2006 in my hometown, Austin, Texas. To answer many questions about this event, visit the SXSW Interactive Festival's FAQs. The Interactive Festival is described as:

Connecting Digital Creatives

An incubator of new, cutting-edge technologies, the SXSW Interactive Festival is ground zero for the world's most creative web developers, designers, bloggers, wireless innovators and new media entrepreneurs. Stay ahead of the curve by attending this annual gathering of the brightest minds in emerging technology.

Also scheduled March 12-14 on the top floor of the Austin Convention Center is the Interactive/Film (iF!) Trade Show + Exhibition, the hub of daytime activities. In addition to more than 125 booths, this space is home to many special events and activities. There will be more than 80 regional and national companies exhibiting and as of 2/25/06 free passes are available! If you live in the Central Texas area and don't plan on buying a $300 iF! pass for all the iF! programs but want to check out the boths and companies exhibiting, this is the way to go!

Free iF! Pass to the SXSW Interactive/Film Trade Show + Exhibition ($50 value).

Hello,

It seems from this thread (http://drupal.org/node/40509) that there won't be any official Drupal event in FOSDEM 2006 (http://www.fosdem.org/2006) this week-end. Too bad.

Will some of you be attending? If yes, will you be wearing a Drupal t-shirt? ;-)

Vincent

Drupal Cebit 2006

Hi there... I'm a french web designer living in Paris and I will go to the Cebit 2006 march 8-11.

Do you know is there is any Drupal booth or event at the Cebit 2006 ??

Also is there any french speaking people (France, Quebec, Suisse, Belgique) who plan to go to the Cebit 2006 and perhaps interested by an informal french user group meeting ????

Is there a calendar somewhere which lists upcoming Drupal related events (like OSCMS and FOSDEM), so that I can have a clue as to what event is approaching, when it is, where it is, etc., for planning purposes?