Grassroots Use of Technology 2006

7th Annual Organizers' Collaborative
Grassroots Use of Technology Conference

Saturday, June 17, 2006 -- 8:15am to 5:15pm

U of Massachusetts, Boston
Wheatley Hall - Snowden Auditorium

** 185 attendees confirmed. Online and Phone Registration are closed, except you may still use the button at left to register for the dinner! Please email conf2006@oc-tech.org if you want to pay at the door for the conference. **

OC's 7th annual conference has the theme "Making Technology Relevant to Nonprofit and Social Change Groups." We aim to present tools that make the sometimes challenging tasks associated with nonprofits and organizing much easier to accomplish, so that our groups and movements can better achieve their goals.

As always, the Grassroots Use of Technology conference is one of the only events that brings technology and endusers together, allowing us to learn from each other.

AGENDA OVERVIEW

Breakfast and Registration will begin at 8:15am. The conference will not actually start until 9:15 when we will have our Keynote Presentation.

There will be three workshop sessions, and each session will have 5 or 6 concurrent presentations. Workshops will be identified by technical level; the program is designed to be accessible to beginners while offering options for tech experts.

Full schedule of the day.

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

"Organizing an Online Response to Hurricane Katrina: How we did it" -- Terra Friedrichs, Christy Barbee, and Chris Williams, ReliefDatabase.org

CONFIRMED WORKSHOPS

MAPS, DIRECTIONS, LODGING

The Umass Boston Campus is on the waterfront just 3 miles south of downtown Boston. It is accessible via the JFK stop, Red Line and by Rt. 93.

Full directions and hotel information.

HOW TO REGISTER

Prices:
  Registration is $60 Regular
  Limited Income $30
  $10 Discount for OC Members

Registration Policy
You may receive a refund of your full registration fee, minus a $5 admin charge, if you cancel before June 10. After that date we will not provide refunds.

Click to register.

ABOUT THE SUPPORTERS' DINNER TO BENEFIT THE 50/50 PROGRAM

After the conference we are holding a dinner to raise funds for the 50/50 program, a new project to provide 50 modern computers, complete with software, training, and support, to 50 community groups this fall. The dinner will take place just one mile from Umass at the South Kitchen & Wine Bar.

Transportation will be provided gratis to the dinner for conference attendees. The cost of the dinner is $55 and just six tickets are left as of 5/14/05. The dinner will be a 3-course, formal fundraiser. Vegetarian options are available. Tickets are discounted by $5 if you attended the conference.

Dinner sponsorships are available.

More details and dinner reservations.

Aerial View of UMass Boston

Special Offer for 2006

If you become a new member of OC as part of your conference registration, you will be eligible to receive a free book compliments of O'Reilly.

Supporters' Dinner

June 17, 6:30pm

The post-conference event this year is a sit-down dinner at the South Kitchen & Wine Bar. The dinner is a benefit for OC's Organizational Divide Initiative 50/50 program - a project to provide 50 computers to 50 local nonprofits in the fall of 2006.

Some of the Groups Attending as of 5/25/06

Action Without Borders/Idealist.org
Alliance for Democracy
Asian CDC
Benton Harbor African American Arts
Barnstable County Human Services
Boston Mainstreets
Care2.com
Central Square Theater
Citizen Speak
Community Software Lab
Computer Care and Learning
Computers4Kids
Connecticut Citizen Action Group
Connecticut Policy and Economic Council
ConNYPUG
Database Collaborative
Database Designs
Empower Peace
Evolve Strategies
Families for Depression Awareness
Freedom House, Inc.
Generations Incorporated
Gtr. New Bedford Comm. Computing Center
Harbinger Partners
Health Care for All
HOME, Inc.
Interra Project
Kintera, Inc.
Lelievre Information Services
MA Jobs with Justice Coalition
Madison Park Development Corporation
Mass COSH
May First Technology Collective
Moses Brown School
New England SERVE
NE Foundation for the Arts
Old Bedford Village Development Corp
Onward Via
Oxfam America - Internet Manager
PicNet, Inc.
Project Think Different
Putnam Community Action
Peace through Interamerican Community Action
ReliefDatabase.org
Rural Action
SCI Dorchester - One Fields Corner
Seventh Day Baptist Community Dev
Shawmut Education, Inc.
Tech for All
TriCAP/ Cyber Cafe Malden
Trinity College Trinfo. Cafe
Union Web Services
United Teen Equality Center
United Way of CT
Urban League of Eastern Mass
Wilderness Technology Alliance
yes4yes
YMCA Boston
Young Entrepreneurs Society (YES)