Yea- your point seem reasonable and are well taken.
June 16 - June 20 there is an event going on in northern New Hampshire called
Somalia Fest you might be interested in. It's about civil rights, direct
democracy and participation in government, reform of copyright and patent
law, free sharing of knowledge ("open" content), information privacy,
transparency, freedom of information, anti-corruption and Internet
neutrality.
There is another event called Porcfest, and Somalia Fest (happening June 16 -
June 20) is sort of an offshoot of that, but run by a different group of
people. It's run back to back with Porcfest which is going on June 21–25,
2017 at the same camp ground (motel on site and hotels nearby). The later
event attracts about 2,000 people and many will be attending both Somalia
Fest and Porcfest.
Anyway- it's an event I'm helping to promote. Porcfest has also had free
software GPG encryption tutorials run by Adam (who interned for the Free
Software Foundation), myself, and possibly Bob and some others. A great free
software presentation was done by Seth King a few years ago on why Free
Software is for Freedom Lovers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fu2Uvybgbk.
We also regularly attend Porcfest and have a booth at the event in Agora
Valley.
https://www.somaliafest.com/
http://www.porcfest.org/
