Spring Break East Coast Backpacking Debrief

I’m sitting in my dorm at Dartmouth. My east coast journey has come to an end. Overall, it was a huge success, and even exceeded my expectations. I met up with a lot of cool free culture people and overall just spent lots of time in the company of good friends.

Thank you to:

• *Spencer for letting me crash at Harvard
• *The Berkman Center for Hosting the awesome Gender and Tech mini-conference
• *Sam for letting me crash at Boston College
• *The Free Software Foundation for hosting LibrePlanet
• *Mako and Mika for hosting nightly get-togethers at The Acetarium during LibrePlanet, and for letting me crash Sunday night
• *HelloSilo people, including Seth, Tim, Rachel, Alex, and others, as well as Asheesh for hanging out with me and for being thought-provoking and hilarious.
• *Barry, for letting me crash and showing me a good time in NYC.
• *Free Culture @ NYU, especially Parker and Wesley, for letting me crash your meeting and hang out.
• *Elizabeth Stark for letting me crash your class at Yale.
• *Yale Information Society Project for letting me crash your fellows meeting.
• *The Purple Crayon at Yale for letting me play with you and for putting up with my horrible horrible improvised song
• *Adi Mark and Swati, and all the other awesome people that I met and hung out with at Yale. You guys are intelligent and funny and awesome.

I’m sure there are others that I’ve missed. Let me know and I’ll add you. The success of this trip has been a product of many many deliciously excellent parts which would not have been possible without the generosity and hospitality of so many friends.