Jewish High Tech Community

With the soon to arrive city-wide free WiFi in Mountain View and San Francisco and a little further out mesh networking covering all of Silicon Valley this is something we all need to understand better. Our own Phil Burton will moderate the discussion

About the Speakers

Cindy Cohn is the Legal Director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation as well as its General Counsel. She is responsible for overseeing the EFF's overall legal strategy and supervising EFF's 7 staff attorneys. Ms. Cohn first became involved with the EFF in 1995, when the EFF asked her to serve as the lead attorney in Bernstein v. Dept. of Justice, the successful federal court challenge to the U.S. export restrictions on cryptography. Outside the Courts, Ms. Cohn has testified before Congress, been featured in the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle and elsewhere for her work on cyberspace issue. In 2006, Ms. Cohn was named one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America by the National Law Journal for "rushing to the barricades wherever freedom and civil liberties are at stake online."

Chris Messina Independent Open Source Ambassador at Large and co-founder of Citizen Agency.