[comp.org.eff.talk] [Time change] USENIX EFF BOF -- Nashville, June 11, 7-9pm

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
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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