Just finished my talk at the Hope conference about the national Dutch open standards / opensource policyplan. Hope stands for Hackers On Planet Earth and has been a bi-annual event since 1994. HOPE features presentations on a range of (IT) security related topics but also hosts all kinds of techno-creative workshops and lectures on the social relevance of technology. For a full listing see the conference site. Video's of the talks will become available in the future.
Because the mid-town Manhattan hotel just across from Penn station in New York may be demolished next year it is unclear if there will be (a) hope after this one. Because of this, and a certain facination with morbid themes, the conference organisers are calling this 'The Last Hope', refering both to their conference and the state of (digital) civil liberties in the US.
Cnet has the first coverage on the event.
My slides are here in ODF and PDF. For more background links and video see the 24C3 page (Dec 2007 talk in Berlin) and my blogpost about LinuxTag (May 2008 Berlin).
