{"id":1072,"date":"2012-06-26T13:03:43","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T20:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/?p=1072"},"modified":"2012-06-26T13:03:43","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T20:03:43","slug":"northern-voice-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2012\/06\/northern-voice-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Voice 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year\u2019s North\u00adern Voice<\/a> was held down\u00adtown, and was smal\u00adler than the last couple of years. I like the small con\u00adfer\u00adence per\u00adson\u00adally, it\u2019s easi\u00ader to chat with lots of dif\u00adfer\u00adent people, the lines at regis\u00adtra\u00adtion aren\u2019t as long, and the con\u00adfer\u00adence as a whole feels more per\u00adson\u00adal. This is the strength of North\u00adern Voice for me, it\u2019s a pleas\u00adant con\u00adtrast to large con\u00adfer\u00adences where key\u00adnotes are sold to the spon\u00adsors and there are advert\u00adising ban\u00adners every\u00adwhere. Yes, North\u00adern Voice has spon\u00adsors<\/a> who show up and have a pres\u00adence and maybe even a table, but they are all respect\u00adful of the spir\u00adit of the con\u00adfer\u00adence. For which I, at least, am grateful.<\/p>\n

I spent the first bit of the con\u00adfer\u00adence help\u00ading out on the regis\u00adtra\u00adtion table. A cer\u00adtain amount of hec\u00adtic, but not too bad. I then mod\u00ader\u00adated Martha Rans\u2019<\/a> talk on Copy\u00adright for Cana\u00addians did a good job, I thought, of giv\u00ading inform\u00ada\u00adtion without over\u00adwhelm\u00ading every\u00adone. The Artists Leg\u00adal Out\u00adreach site has more in-depth inform\u00ada\u00adtion, in what they call toolkits<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lunch at the W2<\/span> cafe was great and the big wooden circles in the middle of the atri\u00adum space were full of people chat\u00adting while bal\u00adan\u00adcing plates and glasses. After lunch I sat in on Moose\u00adCamp<\/a> for a while, knit\u00adting and listen\u00ading and relax\u00ading. And singing with Nancy and the ukuleles. I really must get back to singing, it\u2019s been a long time since I sang regularly.<\/p>\n

Anoth\u00ader import\u00adant talk was Daniel Cowen\u2019s<\/a> talk on pri\u00advacy. A lot of the sub\u00adject mat\u00adter was famil\u00adi\u00adar to me from my work at Sun, where I was part of a pri\u00advacy and iden\u00adtity group, but Daniel took it a step fur\u00adther by see\u00ading how much someone without spe\u00adcial\u00adised tools or know\u00adledge could find out about someone online. In four hours they had a wor\u00adry\u00ading amount of inform\u00ada\u00adtion about a woman they code-named \u201cTara\u201d, enough to run any num\u00adber of social engin\u00adeer\u00ading attacks or com\u00adprom\u00adise any \u201csecret ques\u00adtion\u201d sys\u00adtems. People in the ses\u00adsion were genu\u00adinely shocked at just how much inform\u00ada\u00adtion is avail\u00adable online, and how many details, innoc\u00adu\u00adous in them\u00adselves, can be added together.<\/p>\n

Fri\u00adday ended with the wine tast\u00ading<\/a> and party in the atrium.<\/p>\n

Sat\u00adurday dawned bright and early with Blaine Cook\u2019s<\/a> won\u00adder\u00adful key\u00adnote, cel\u00adeb\u00adrat\u00ading diversity in cul\u00adture, life, and tech\u00adno\u00adlogy plat\u00adforms in the face of glob\u00adal\u00adisa\u00adtion and mar\u00adket forces. He tied togeth\u00ader archi\u00adtec\u00adture, rain\u00adforest, and people fight\u00ading to save their cul\u00adture with the dom\u00adin\u00ada\u00adtion by large plat\u00adforms such as Face\u00adbook and Twit\u00adter to encour\u00adage diversity and independence. <\/p>\n

Shane Birley\u2019s<\/a> key\u00adnote was of a dif\u00adfer\u00adent style but had some of the same under\u00adly\u00ading themes, cel\u00adeb\u00adrat\u00ading indi\u00advidu\u00adal voice, chart\u00ading his per\u00adson\u00adal jour\u00adney online, and encour\u00adaging all of us to try out new ways of com\u00admu\u00adnic\u00adat\u00ading and shar\u00ading who we are. All delivered in inim\u00adit\u00adable Shane style, of course!<\/p>\n

All in all, it was a lot of work and I was exhausted by the end of the two days, but it was all worth\u00adwhile. The energy and enthu\u00adsi\u00adasm was obvi\u00adous with all the dis\u00adcus\u00adsions and inter\u00adac\u00adtions and it\u2019s also been great to see all the tweets and blog posts continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year\u2019s North\u00adern Voice was held down\u00adtown, and was smal\u00adler than the last couple of years. I like the small con\u00adfer\u00adence per\u00adson\u00adally, it\u2019s easi\u00ader to chat with lots of dif\u00adfer\u00adent people, the lines at regis\u00adtra\u00adtion aren\u2019t as long, and the con\u00adfer\u00adence as a whole feels more per\u00adson\u00adal. This is the strength of North\u00adern Voice for \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cNorth\u00adern Voice 2012\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[22,96,113],"class_list":["post-1072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conference","category-vancouver","tag-northernvoice","tag-nv12","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1074,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions\/1074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}