The fifth annual conference hosted by the National Independent Venue Association will take place from June 7-10 in Minneapolis.
The fifth annual conference hosted by the National Independent Venue Association will take place from June 7-10 in Minneapolis.
Calendrier Web, regroupant des événements liés au Libre (logiciel, salon, atelier, install party , conférence), annoncés par leurs organisateurs. Voici un récapitulatif de la semaine à venir. Le détail de chacun de ces 63 événements (France: 54, Québec: 7, Internet: 2) est en seconde partie de dépêche.
In the first quarter of the year, I attended the Linguistic Society of America 2026 annual meeting online and admired how linguists are really great at pronouncing people’s names (phonetic transcription is a practical skill!).
I narrated the audiobook for Shakespeare’s Sonnets Abridged Beyond the Point of Usefulness by Zach Weinersmith, featuring sonnets turned into couplets like “When…
As reported in January, the American Philosophical Association (APA) recently began—and halted—an experiment with making one of its three divisional meetings each year a wholly-online conference. The experiment with online meetings was prompted largely by a campaign by Philosophers for Sustainability. The Central Division conference in 2025 was held online. This year, the Pacific Division meeting…
Autism research is a revolving door which Autistic people virtually never get to enter and allistics virtually never bother to exit.
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At the European PKM Summit the past two days, Frank Meeuwsen ran a continuous atelier where people could make their own ‘zines and lino cuts. A welcoming space to make something by hand at an event full of inspiring but abstract conversations and talks. A simple ‘zine folded from an A4 paper provides six small […]
Conferences provide valuable opportunities to academics and can influence disciplinary agendas. But scholars have unequal access to conferences, often owing to where such conferences are held and the availability of funding. As Kritika Maheshwari (Delft University of Technology), Thierry Ngosso (University of St. Gallen), and Brian Berkey (University of Pennsylvania) explain in the this guest…
a blog post that chronicles what I've been up to this month: from attending FOSDEM in Brussels to creating an easy-to-follow self-hosting guide for newbies…
Summary of package management talks from FOSDEM 2026, covering supply chain security, attestations, SBOMs, dependency resolution, and distribution packaging across multiple devrooms.
Nine talks on supply chain security, dependency resolution, and registry economics
When I set out to give accessibility talks, I never thought I'd meet some of the best people ever
New year, different me.
An iconic front end conference I have attended many times. Goodbye, old friend.
Two weeks in November 2022 on the speaking circuit.
An open challenge to conference organizers.
Conferences and the culture of alcohol that they foster.
Conferences that jam accessibility talks together at the end of the day need to stop.
Thoughts, takeaways from ConnectTech 2021.