14-16 February 2005, Geneva, Switzerland
WSIS Working Group on Internet Governance meeting
http://www.wgig.org
http://www.worldsummit2005.org

17-25 February 2005, Geneva, Switzerland
WSIS PrepCom 2
http://www.wsis.org
http://www.worldsummit2005.org

17-18 March 2005, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
First European Creative Commons meeting
http://www.creativecapital.nl

31 March 2005, deadline call for papers on DRM
Special session on Digital Rights Management during the 31st Euromicro conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA) 2005 in Porto, Portugal. This special session is open to discuss technical, legal and business issues with DRM and the social aspects regarding users understanding and fair use. Papers should be around 6-8 pages (not exceeding 6000 words) and include an abstract.
http://www.idt.mdh.se/euromicro-2005/

6-8 April 2005, Belfast, Ireland, BILETA 2005
Over-Commoditised; Over-Centralised; Over-Observed: the New Digital Legal World?
http://www.law.qub.ac.uk/bileta2005/callforpapers.html

12 April 2005, Deadline funding applications
Civil rights organisations and initiatives are invited to send funding applications to the German foundation 'Bridge - Bürgerrechte in der digitalen Gesellschaft'. A total of 15.000 euro is available for applications that promote civil rights in the digitised society.
http://www.stiftung-bridge.de

12-15 April 2005, Seattle, USA, CFP 2005
The program committee of the annual Computer, Freedom, Privacy Conference is accepting proposals for conference sessions and speakers for CFP2005. The deadline for submissions is 31 December 2004. The conference will be held in the Westin Hotel in Seattle, Washington.
http://www.cfp2005.org

14-16 Aprile 2005, Padova, Italy, FLOSS 2005
http://www.floss2005.org/

6-11 June 2005, Benevento (Naples), Italy
Digital Communities 2005
http://www.ssc.msu.edu/~espace/DC2005.html

11-15 July 2005, Genova, Italy, OSS 2005
http://oss2005.case.unibz.it/index.html

28-31 July 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands
What The Hack, major open air hacker / internet lifestyle event
http://www.whatthehack.org/

8-9 September 2005, Brussels, Belgium
EuroSOCAP Workshop on confidentiality and privacy in healthcare. 3 year programme to develop new ethical standards for privacy and patient access to (electronical) files, started on 31 january 2003.
http://www.eurosocap.org