10 September 2005, global, Software Freedom International
Software Freedom Day is a global grassroots effort to promote the use of Free and Open Source Software. There is a long list of planned activities in many European countries
http://maitri.ubuntu.com/softwarefreedomday/wiki/index.php/Team_pages#...

12-13 September 2005, Strasbourg, France
CoE Pan-European Forum on Human Rights in the Information Society
http://www.coe.int/T/E/human_rights/media/

13 September 2005, Montreux, Switzerland
Strategies for International Privacy Protection: Issues, Actors, and Future cooperation, event on data retention and biometrics, organised by EDRi and a number of other NGOs defending digital rights.
http://www.edri.org/panels

14-16 September 2005, Montreux, Switzerland
27th World Conference of Data Protection Commissioners
http://www.privacyconference2005.org

19-30 September 2005, Geneva, Switzerland
3rd meeting of the Preparatory Committee for the World Summit on the Information Society (PrepCom-3)
http://www.wsis.org civil society perspectives
http://www.worldsummit2005.org

21-23 September 2005, French Riviera, World E-ID .
The three day conference World e-ID (previously named 'eGovernment & SmartCard International Meeting') is organised by the main pan-european e-government association eForum and deals with the future application of DNA and other biometrics for identification usages, both politically and technically. High-level representatives from the national governments and from the European Commission will present an inventory of current initiatives and speak about their visions of the future. .
http://www.strategiestm.com/conferences/we-id/05/program.htm

1 October 2005, deadline Call for Papers 22C3
The 22nd German Chaos Communication Conference is inviting submissions from potential speakers, either in German or English. The conference will take place in Berlin from 27 to 31 December 2005.
http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/cfp.html

5 October 2005, Paris, France, RFID
Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID): Applications and Public Policy Considerations. Conference convened by the Committee for Information, Computer and Communications Policy (ICCP) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

25 October 2005, Vienna, Austria
28 October 2005, Bielefeld and Prague, Germany and Czech Republic
29 October 2005, Zurich, Switzerland
Presentations of the Big Brother Awards International ceremony schedule
http://www.bigbrotherawards.org/

1-2 December 2005, London, UK, Patenting Lives
Conference in the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute. The call for papers closes on 26 August 2005 and invites abstracts on topics such as Access to Knowledge, Consumer Aspects, Public Interest, Public Goods, Public Domain and Human Rights.
http://www.patentinglives.org/conference.htm