Some great community-oriented conferences & events

Posted on Jan 3, 2020

https://www.writespeakcode.com/: Write/Speak Code is a conference for women, non-binary, and gender nonconforming technologists to work on their technical writing, speaking, and coding skills.
[https://www.radicalnetworks.org/](Radical Networks): an arts festival + conference celebrating a free and open Internet and promotes artistic, grassroots activist, and experimental work in telecommunications.
[https://hnd.techlearningcollective.com/](Hackers Next Door): going to this conference was actually what spurred me to write this list! HND is a new conference in the infosec space for community organizers, activists, and members of the public to learn from legal primers, know-your-rights trainings, privacy-oriented technical workshops. It is put on by the Tech Learning Collective, which has an ongoing series of classes & workshops.
https://www.afrotectopia.org/about: an annual festival & social institution fostering interdiscplinary innovation at the intersections of art, design, technology, Black culture and activism.
http://bangbangcon.com/: a conference consisting of two days of ten-minute talks that celebrate the joyous, exciting, and surprising moments in computing.
[https://www.recurse.com/localhost](Recurse Center): RC is a really great engineering retreat that also hosts a talk series called Localhost that is open to the public.
[https://sfpc.io/](School for Poetic Computation): SFPC is an artist-run school where students explore the intersections of code, design, hardware and theory. They have regular student showcases and events!
[http://flawlesshacks.com/](Flawless Hacks): A Beyonce-themed hackathon. Say no more.
[https://techzinefair.org/](New York Tech Zine Fair): Tech zines are getting prettttyyyyy amaing these days some of my faves are from [“https://wizardzines.com/](Julia Evans’) and [“htps://shop.bubblesort.io/](Bubblesort Zines<3) and this is a place that celebrates that!