composer@chem.bu.edu (Jeff Kellem) (05/28/91)
[ Updated, 20 May 1991 -- EFF BOF Time Change ] At the Summer 1991 USENIX Conference, being held in Nashville, TN, from 10-14 June 1991, a Birds Of a Feather (BOF) session on the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will be held. The EFF BOF will be held from 7-9pm on Tuesday, 11 June 1991. Note the time change! It will be located in the Jefferson A room (the same room as the GNU BOF). The EFF BOF will now be held *before* (instead of after) the GNU BOF. Below is a brief description of the BOF. Feel free to pass this information on to others. EFF BOF ======= EFF stands for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, founded in 1990 by Mitch Kapor, John Perry Barlow, John Gilmore, and Steve Wozniak. It exists to help civilize the electronic frontier; to make it truly useful and beneficial not just to a technical elite, but to everyone; and to do this in a way which is in keeping with our society's highest traditions of the free and open flow of information and communication. We work to protect Constitutional rights, such as free speech, free press, and reasonableness of searches and seizures, for users of computers. This BOF will discuss the current status of the EFF and its activities, answer questions, and discuss suggestions. We will give an update of recent EFF activities, an overview of cases the EFF has been involved with and their outcomes, the EFF's missions, current and future projects, etc. John Gilmore, a member of the EFF's Board of Directors, will co-chair the BOF and will talk about some of the work EFF has been doing on privacy technology, also known as encryption, and the threats and promise we see in it. There will be a general question and answer session at the end of the BOF. Jeff Kellem composer@chem.bu.edu +1 617 353 5344