I've also been ideating around and planning a conference at the intersection of culture, technology and activism, but I'm not really a fan of the language of 'riot' and 'rupture'. Can you explain the premise a bit more? I'd be interested in collaborating with others to put on a conference that's hands-on, unconference-style, and innovatively done as DIY and free as possible. Donation-based conference in which any profit made goes to the Omni in pursuit of buying the building, in which we crowdfund to pay for flights for some rad speakers/workshop facilitators, and create a system for coordinating couchsurfs, rideshares, bikeshares, etc... in which we collaborate with Food Not Bombs to feed ourselves over the course of the event... In particular - and I am a big fan of HOPE - I'd like to encourage an inclusive model of 'technology' and 'hacking', wherein social and political problems are addressed through the sociocultural application of technology (which always shapes and is shaped by, y'know...) If this is way too different from what you had in mind, I'm confident we could host separate tech/activism conferences. If it sounds aligned, then let's continue the conversation! I'm 90% confident we'll have our permits in place for group assembly by early next year. Cheers, Jenny http://jennyryan.net http://thepyre.org http://thevirtualcampfire.org http://technomadic.tumblr.com `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` "Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." -Laurie Anderson "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it." -Hannah Arendt "To define is to kill. To suggest is to create." -Stéphane Mallarmé ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Gregg Horton <greggahorton(a)gmail.com> wrote: