Quoted: The Gathering for Gardner Foundation (G4G) is a non-profit corporation that works to honor the achievements of Martin Gardner by promoting the lucid exposition of new and accessible ideas in recreational mathematics, magic, puzzles, and philosophy.

Through its support of biannual conferences held in honor Martin Gardner, the foundation encourages the work of amateurs and young people by bringing them in contact with professional scholars, world-class expositors and innovative performers in venues that promote the cross-discipline fertilization of ideas.

Web developer/design conference in Vancouver at the end of January.

Quoted: Why Web Directions? Because it focusses on the challenges of building the web — practical and inspiring concepts, technologies and techniques for web designers, developers, product managers, and others whose day to day responsibility is making and managing web sites and applications. (Our executive summary is a single page overview, should you need to convince your boss, friends, or clients.)

Quoted: From Cairo to Shanghai, Los Angeles to Paris, Mexico City to Bangkok, leaders from 46 of the world's greatest cities -- including 35 mayors -- opened the C40 Large Cities Climate Summit with calls to action on the problem.

Quoted: The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.) is the world's leading professional association for the advancement of technology. A nonprofit organization, the IEEE has more than 365,000 members in over 150 countries and is a leading authority on areas ranging from aerospace systems, computers and telecommunications to biomedical engineering, electric power and consumer electronics. The IEEE is widely known for its contributions in the areas of technical publishing, conferences and consensus-based standards activities.

Aaron Tang (user: hahatango) has some great photos of his tri to TED this year. How do I get an invite? That looks awesome!

Quoted: Designverb: Get Inspired! Covering mind-provoking elements in design that captivate, inspire, excite, and rattle our goofy curious minds. Designverb is a blog by Aaron Tang

There will be a Social Enterprise Conference on March 4th at Harvard Business School. This is the conference site.

Quoted: The 2007 Social Enterprise Conference is a forum for sharing ideas to create a better world. We are in an exciting time for social enterprise - each week brings news of multi-billion dollar philanthropic initiatives to solve global problems and new corporate strategies fostering sustainability and social responsibility. Social enterprise offers not only economic resources, but also the strategic and management expertise to ensure that change is long-lasting and large-scale.

This looks like a fun conference. Too bad it comes with a hefty $1295 price tag. That's the early bird price. Yikes.

Quoted: Web 2.0 has many component parts. We'll look at how tagging, community, user-generated content, and other Web 2.0 core fundamentals all work together to deliver a great web site and application. We'll have sessions focusing on VOIP, bit-torrent, location/maps, licensing (CC), identity platforms, and their impact on the Web today.