2014 Agenda
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Aspiration events are first and foremost convened to strengthen the ties and social networks of technology practitioners in the non-profit/non-governmental sectors.
The #npdev session list is co-developed with participants, facilitators, and partners in the time leading up to and during the Festival. We strongly encourage you to join in the fun at this unique and interactive gathering!
The agenda is designed and facilitated using Aspiration's unique participatory model, in an environment where powerpoint slides are discouraged and dialog and collaboration drive the learning.
Our philosophy centers around getting participants into small-group discussions where they can discuss topics they are passionate about and get answers to their questions and curiosities. Sessions at Aspirations have particular traits; we de-emphasize presentations and lecture, and instead focus on "break-out" sessions that are self-organized whenever possible.
Monday November 17
Introduction
- Notes from Introduction - Willow Brugh
Spectrogram
Monday Breakout Session I
- Warrant Canaries - Cooper Quintin, Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Online Tools talk for folks with yearly budgets under $1000 - Ben Sheldon
- Resource creation, learning guide, how-to manifesto - Dirk Slater, Fabriders
- Tor Q&A - Griffin, Tor
- Claiming and protecting your organization's online identity - Ruth Miller, Aspiration
- School of open & open Web education programs - Jane Park
- Website developer collaboration - Sabiha and William
- Tools for occupy-style online practices - Evan
- Wireless mesh networks in Somaliland - Dan
- Financial market awareness in creating tools social change - Bryan
Monday Breakout Session II
- Accessibility in language - Nasma
- Defending against Denial of Service attacks - Ross
- Small Drupal and talking web development principles and sustainability - Jack Aponte, Palante Tech
- Best practices and tools for asymmetrical collaboration - Steve Wright
- Data on marginalized communities - Dirk Slater, FabRiders
- Expressing ideas visually - Willow
- Collecting money online and offline for your efforts - Ryan
- Tour of the inside of the internet - Adam
- Cookies and privacy badger to respect privacy - Cooper
- Stories, fears, and needs in secure email - Elijah
4:00pm - Group Photo
5:00pm - Happy Hour at Radio
Tuesday November 18
9:00am - Opening Circle
Tuesday Breakout Session I
- Checklist for Funders - James
- Measuring real-time impact in your work - Anh
- Technology Capacity Building - Dirk Slater and Misty Avila
- Digital Security Best Practices - James
- Open Source Advocacy - Ryan
- Civi CRM = Privacy - Dave
- Java Script Framework - Evan
Speedgeeking
- Creative Commons: The List, Jane Park and Elliot Harmon
- Glocal Motion,
- CiviCRM
- Peace Geeks, renee
- Fluxx
- PeerLibrary.org, Rachel
- Mobile apps for youth empwerment, Thomas Gelder
- Open Whisper Systems
- Soapbox Engage
- Agile Alerting
- Vozmob
- Fundamentals of Using Technology, Dirk Slater
- Satori, Griffin
- Open ITP
Tuesday Breakout Session II
- City Planning 101 - Ruth Miller, Aspiration
- Platforms that host user-uploaded content with CC-licences - Jane Park, Creative Commons
- Get off Google Docs, get on Open - Ross
- Information Architecture - Sarah Reilly and Josh Warren-White, Design Action Collective
- Crowdfunding. Is it a thing? - Renee
- Technology Infrastructure - Deborah
- Help build a CiviCRM Ecosystem - Dave G
- How to build advocacy and policy for net neutrality - Dave S
- How to become a software developer - Lena and Rabble
- Accessible technologies - Anh, Benetech
- Crypto 102 for developers - Griffin, Tor
- Overcoming the fear in talking about digital threats and risks - Ali
Wednesday November 19
Breakout Session I
- Applying lessons from traditional advocacy to online organization - Ivan
- How to consult ethically to nonprofits - Jonah
- Regular expression magic - Bill Buddington
- Collaborative project design approach - Jo Ellen
- Tech and theory of change - Evan
- Salesforce and nonprofit starter pack - Ryan
- Secure and encrypted messaging systems - Ross
- Quiet leadership - Arthur
Breakout Session II
- Maplight technology, data, webtools - Sarang
- What EFF is up to -Corynn
- Stress-busters and ergonomics - Bruce
- User-centered design in open source projects - Lisa
- Vozmob, working in vulnerable immigrant communitites - Meagan
- Get the vote out - Ryan
- Diversity in technology & white privilege - Ivan
- How can we work better together? - Steve Wright
- Technology solutions in the prison industrial complex - Cooper
- Humanitarian Open Street Map - Skyler
Breakout Session III
- Coaching to build capacity - Jonah Sheridan & Lisa Jervis
- Let's encrypt: Learn about what new tech projects EFF is working on -Cooper Quintin, Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Open Street Map - Schuyler
- Technology & Data in service to gender politics - Beatrice Martini
- Teaching materials share out for data visualization and storytelling - Amanda Hickman
- Impact of open data - Evan
- Product strategy - Ryan
- Deployment in 2015 and beyond - Ted Young
- Online advocacy: what we learn from hate groups - Sarah
- Mobile and open source - Roshani
- Why plenarys and panels suck - Dirk Slater, Fabriders
- Communications Strategy - Javier Kordi, Aspiration
- Looking at brewery data - Brian