Want to hang out with spooks in DC for a couple of days in September? Well, now’s your chance: the office of the Director of National Intelligence is holidng its second annual open source conference from September 11-12. It’s free to attend if you register here. The purpose:
The two-day conference will explore a wide range of open source issues and open source best practices for the Intelligence Community and its partners. We invite participants from the broader open source community of interest including academia, think tanks, private industry, federal, state, local and tribal entities, international partners, and the media to attend.
Although this year’s agenda hasn’t been published yet (we’re promised that it will be available shortly), you can get a taste of its likely shape from the details of last year’s shindig, available here. Among last year’s subjects for session panels: “Social Sciences and the Human Terrain”; “Managing the Information Tsunami”; “Libraries of the Future”; and “Outreach to State, Local, and Tribal Partners”.
