Talks

Occasionally, I give talks on software, cryptography, privacy, housing, zoning, and such. Here are some of my presentation slides.

• Let's Talk About Housing. (Mar. 14, 2024). Housing talk given to Arlington's Diversity Task Group.
• Housing Policy and Today's Housing Crisis. (Feb. 4, 2023) (src)
• Arlington's ADU Bylaw. Given during an ADU panel discussion organized by Winchester MA's planning board. (Oct. 19, 2022)
• Zoning Demystified Examples. Slide deck presented during a panel titled Zoning Demystified. The slides show recognizable buildings in Arlington, MA and compare them with current zoning Codes. (Apr. 4, 2022)
• Preserving the Character of our Communities vs Paying the Rent. Housing talk given at the CME. (Aug. 22, 2020) (src)
• How Town Meeting Works. Presentation given at the fall meeting of precincts 1, 3, and 5. Thompson School, Arlington, MA. (Oct. 28, 2019)
• Arlington's Paper Wall. Short talk given at The State of Zoning for Multifamily Housing in Greater Boston. Medford, MA (Jul 25, 2019)
• Town Meeting and Local Government. Run local workshop, Worcester, MA. (Feb. 24, 2018)
• Town Meeting Panel. Local Government Workshop, Milford, MA. (Nov 18, 2017)
• Fighting Surveillance in your Neighborhood. PirateCon 2017. (Apr 29, 2017)
• What you can do as a town meeting member. Run local workshop at Holyoke Public Library. (Apr 25, 2017)
• Encryption, Privacy, and Technology. Mass College of Art. (Apr 4, 2017)
• What you can do as a town meeting member. (Nov 12, 2016) (src)
• Mailvelope. Cryptoparty at Somerville Public Library (Jul 16, 2016)
• Affordable Housing. Aaron James Campaign policy unveiling (Jun 26, 2016)
• Drug law reform. Aaron James campaign kickoff (May 8, 2016)
• The Surveillance State and what to do about it. Boston Anarchist Book Fair. (Nov. 21, 2015) (src)
• Privacy Workshop. MF/PL membership conference. (Nov. 6, 2015)
• Encryption and GnuPG, with Zak Rogoff. FSF 30th anniversary conference. (Oct. 3, 2015) (src)
• The Massachusetts Pirate Party: Navigating the Seas of Surveillance. Left Forum, NYC. (May 31, 2015)
• GnuPG and Tor. Together Boston Cryptoparty (May 16, 2015)
• Network surveillance and GnuPG. Cryptoparty for Boston College Internet and Law Society (Apr. 9, 2015)
• GnuPG. Cryptoparty at Worcester Public Library (Mar. 22, 2015)
• Running Cryptoparties on Free Software. Lightning talk given at Libre Planet (Mar. 21, 2015)
• GnuPG and Tor. Cryptoparty at Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (Feb. 14, 2015)
• Somebody hacked my Wordpress :( Boston Security Meetup (Feb. 12, 2015)
• Packet Sniffing. Boston Linux Users Group (Feb. 4, 2015)
• GnuPG. Somerville Public Library (Jan. 10, 2015)
• Net Neutrality & Copyright. Umass Boston (Oct 29, 2014)
• Network Surveillance. Software Freedom Day 2014 (Sep. 20, 2014)
• The Pirate Party: Hacking Politics. Lightning talk at Hope X (July 18, 2014)
• Tails talk from Crypoparty at General Assembly Boston (May 18, 2014)
• College, Technology, and Working in Tech. UMass Boston Computer Science Department (May 13, 2014)
• GnuPG cryptoparty workshop for IWW (April 21, 2014)
• Tech Activism talk from LibrePlanet 2014 (Mar 23, 2014)
• GnuPG slides from Cryptoparty at Northeastern University Law School (Feb 9, 2014)
• Tor and GnuPG slides from Lowell Makes Cryptoparty (Nov. 23, 2013) (src)
• Secure Email and Web Browsing with Tor and GnuPG. Digital Media Conference (Oct. 26, 2013)
• GnuPG. Cryptoparty (Sep. 24, 2013)
• Protecting Your Privacy in the Digital Age. Software Freedom Day (Sep. 21, 2013)
• Tor. Cryptoparty (Feb. 23, 2013)