Sorry for not live-blogging the conference! We were too busy doing activist things and enjoying ourselves to write. I would like to say that despite the variation in attendance, from 60-70 people on Friday night to a handful left by Sunday morning, we were able to accomplish most of what we had hoped to accomplish with the conference.

It was awesome to see the sheer number of chapter representatives at the summit on Friday night. There were at least 14 schools represented there, more if you count alumns, and people came from as far away as California, Florida, and Canada. It would not have been possible to put together such a broad group of student activists as recently as two years ago… I don’t think that many students were aware of the issues before we were founded, and I hope that we’ve helped to raise the visibility of problems with copyright etc. among our peers as we set out to do. Lawrence Lessig was inspirational as always, producing a few new converts with his reality distortion field, while Peter Decherney gave a talk that I think was extremely accessible and relevant to the “man on the street”. Even I received some compliments on my Lessig-inspired presentation, and one of my profs told me that he might be interested in having me teach his students how to do slideshow talks. All the credit goes to Lessig himself, who showed us the way towards presentations free of boring Powerpoint bullet points.

More posts about the fallout from the summit will arrive soon, but until then I will leave you with some pictures (so that all the people who didn’t come can see what they missed)! See Friday and Saturday on my Flickr.

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