Conference Calendar

The agenda for the Liberal Democrats' spring conference has just been published. You can read the announcement on Lib Dem Voice. I maintain a Google Calendar called LDCONF in which I put our conference events, for my own purposes. But, I also make that calendar publicly available.

You can see it below, or at http://s.coop/1c87r or,

you can the events to your Outlook, Apple iCal, or smartphone calendar by downloading the file at http://s.coop/ldconf2012 or,

you can subscribe to the calendar (and get future updates in your calendar) at
http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/eiloart.com_ov92vs7r372538okh8ibq1uefs%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic

I've taken a different approach to fringe, which is to add each time slot as a single calendar item, and put details of the events into the calendar item notes. If I find the time, I might split these out, but I'm not sure that won't just make a complete mess of calendar displays!

Blood, Drugs and Violence - at Lib Dem conference.

The Lib Dem conference agenda for Autumn 2011 includes policy motions on Science Not Stigma: Ending the Blood Ban (p39), Protecting Individuals and Communities from Drug Harms (p24), and Tackling Violence against Women (p30). Full texts of these motions and others, are found in the agenda (pdf).

If you're going, and you have an electronic diary, then you may find this iCalendar file useful: LDconf-09-2011.ics The information here is taken from the very nice new pocket diary, but please let me know in the comments below if you see any errors.

You won't see Labour or the Tories debating these issues. Neither party makes policy at conference. Labour don't even publish their conference agenda!

Edited to add: I've also posted copies of the conference agenda and the conference directory, to which I've added electronic Tables of Contents. Note that they'll only be available here for 30 days. The Tables of Contents make it much easier to use the electronic versions of the papers. Don't forget to also consult the "Conference Extra" papers, with late amendments and editions, available from http://www.libdems.org.uk/autumn_conference_papers.aspx You'll also find full policy documents and consultation papers there.