hswerdfe,

The conference was prominately announced in the free gis community. If you are interested in free GIS I would suggest you join the freegis mailing list at freegis.org to keep on top of stuff.

I read the article; note one way the author suggests that players protest:

Open your own McDonald's kiosk... Loudly proclaim how terrible your food is and how it's made from substandard ingredients... Make sure you preface each such statement with "In my opinion," to avoid libel charges.

Can someone clarify this: would those libel charges be part of the game? Surely McPuke's can't sue a real person because of comments made in a gaming environment!?!