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Fwd: Athens "Innovating Privacy" event by the Greek Free and Open Source Society, invitation

  • Subject: Fwd: Athens "Innovating Privacy" event by the Greek Free and Open Source Society, invitation
  • From: "Theodoros G. Karounos" <karounos [ at ] eellak [ dot ] gr>
  • Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 21:16:56 +0200
Comments and proposals for these events we are planning?


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Aral Balkan <aral [ at ] ind [ dot ] ie>
Date: Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 7:08 PM
Subject: Re: Athens "Innovating Privacy" event by the Greek Free and
Open Source Society, invitation
To: Panagiotis Stathopoulos <panagiotis [ dot ] stathopoulos [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com>
Cc: Jo Porter <jo [ at ] indiephone [ dot ] eu>, "Θόδωρος Γ. Καρούνος"
<t [ dot ] karounos [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com>, info [ at ] ellak [ dot ] gr


Hi Panagiotis, et. al.,

Sounds great — and privacy as innovation is exactly the right approach
(we held a panel by the same name at the Internet Governance Forum
this year and the movement continues in Denmark at
http://privacyasinnovation.wordpress.com).

I’d love to the keynote (it would probably be best as an opening
keynote) and to organise a hackathon using Pulse (as I’m not sure
whether Heartbeat/Waystone will be public by then).

Jo can help with dates. Also, we usually do ask for an honorarium to
compensate Ind.ie for my time away — Jo, given they’re non-profit,
please send them our non-profit rates.)

Looking forward to this — thanks again for thinking of us.

Take care,
Aral
—
Aral Balkan
Ind.ie

On Nov 26, 2014, at 2:48 PM, Panagiotis Stathopoulos
<panagiotis [ dot ] stathopoulos [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com> wrote:

Dear Aral,
I am writing as a member of the Greek Free/Open Source Software
community and the Greek Free/Open Source Software society
(www.ellak.gr).
As I have written previously ELLAK is in the process of organizing an
Open, free entrance two day workshop, in Athens, with the cooperation
of InnovaAthens, the Innovation Hub of the Municipality of Athens
(http://www.innovathens.gr/).  CC on the email are also, Mr. Karounos,
the president  of the society and ELLAK secretariat  info [ at ] ellak [ dot ] gr,
which will be responsible for the organization of the event, I am
making the initial connection hereJ
The (provisional) title of the event is “Innovating Privacy”, and will
focus around the areas of Privacy, Security, Free/Open Source
technologies and the possibilities these areas offer for innovation.
It will aim to bring greater visibility to these issues, the problems
that users are facing and the opportunities they arise.
The first day of the event will be aimed at developers, designers,
entrepreneurs, public sector and private sector organization, and the
general public.
Based on your extensive experience on the areas, that are very much
closely related to the event, we would like to invite you, to have a
45 minutes keynote talk, aiming at highlighting privacy problems and
innovation opportunities in order to solve these problems.
The FOSS community is quite vibrant in Athens, both in developers and
community terms and we are expecting that there will be quite
significant attendance, feedback and visibility after the event.
In the second day of the event a hackathon/workshop will take place.
This will be targeted towards seasoned developers,  and we expect to
be a great opportunity to present a Free Software project. Mature,
high impact projects, that need contributors are preferable (I suppose
Pulse, FOSS Swift version Phoenix or anything from
https://github.com/aralwill do:) )
We would like to invite you as the main event speaker and
hackathon/workshop organizer.
We can work out the specific date together, the best time is in
February for us, but please define two alternative candidate dates
that suit you, in order to check with the availability of the event
hall, other organizers etc. Travel expenses, hotel etc are covered by
the organisers, please state any further requirements you might have,
please take into account that the event is organized by non profit
public organisationsJ

Looking forward to hear from you,
All the best,
Panagiotis

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