We couldn't be happier to have one of our heroes join us down in Austin.
The conference is July 17-20. If you haven't registered yet, now's the time...
We just sent out the email below:
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Lawrence Lessig to Deliver Netroots Nation Keynote
Great news! Netroots Nation is proud to announce Lawrence Lessig as
one of our keynote speakers for this year's conference.
Professor Lessig, who has been called one of the "leading minds in
tech" and open-source democracy by the American Prospect, is the
founder of Creative Commons, and spent years working to make sure that
as the rules of the Internet got written, they were written in a way
that put power in the hands of regular people. He advanced his ideas
through numerous books, articles and blog posts. Respected worldwide,
he is one of the true luminaries of the Internet.
Lessig's work knows no labels. In 2007, he successfully worked with
numerous members of the progressive Netroots, right-of-center blogs
like RedState and others to get CNN, NBC and ABC to liberate their
presidential debate videos so that anyone could post clips on YouTube
legally.
And last year, Lessig announced that his future work would take a new
direction: using technology to empower citizens against government
corruption.
We knew we had to get Professor Lessig to come to Netroots Nation. So we did.
We are thrilled that Professor Lessig will give a keynote presentation
to the Netroots Nation convention about his his non-partisan reform
initiative to fight corruption. We couldn't be more excited to have
such a true technology pioneer join us to address one of the
prevailing political issues of our time.
The conference is July 17-20 in Austin, TX. So if you haven't
registered, now's the time!
See you in Austin!