Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: Introducing ORGCon North!

Not at all - we're hopefully going to be sending someone along. Any volunteers to contact the office please! Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents. On 28 February 2013 14:36, Andrew Turvey <andrewrturvey(a)googlemail.com> wrote: People on this list may be interested in this event so hope there's no objection to my cross-posting. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Ruth Coustick - ORG" <ruth(a)openrightsgroup.org> Date: Feb 28, 2013 12:09 PM Subject: Introducing ORGCon North! To: <andrewrturvey(a)googlemail.com> Dear Andrew Turvey, You are invited to ORGCon North 2013, our new digital rights conference! ORGCon North 2013 Headline speaker: John Buckman Saturday 13 April 11.00am – 5.30pm Friends Meeting House 6 Mount Street Manchester M2 5NS Tickets: £11.00; Paying supporters: £6.00 New supporters: Free Book your tickets now! What’s happening? ORG are coming North this year! We are bringing an ORG flavoured digital rights conference to Manchester on Saturday April 13th. The event is packed with exciting speakers, panel debates and workshops. John Buckman, chairman of the board at Electronic Frontier Foundation and founder of the record label Magantune is giving the keynote speech on challenges that ORG will be facing in the coming year. Key ORG issues, such as Section 127 and freedom of speech, the Communications Data Bill, privacy and copyright will all be discussed by experts, see our provisional programme for more details. We'll be running an “unconference track” with room for any attendees, panel guests or ORG staff to give a talk or start a pop-up debate on something you care about. Free tickets are available for ORG supporters who join before April 13th: find out more at the event page and join ORG now. We look forward to seeing you there! Sincerely, Ruth Coustick Member Support Officer Open Rights Group If you like what we do, please join us If you wish to opt out of future emails, you can do so here. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org