see also software page

INTERNATIONAL ORGS

http://hackerspaces.org

http://wikileaks.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Computer_Club (see also conferences)

CONFERENCES:

http://www.defcon.org/

http://thenexthope.org/

http://codebits.eu/

http://toorcon.org/

http://events.ccc.de/

http://www.makerfaire.com/

LOCAL ORGS:

LA Bar Camp: http://www.barcamp.org/BarCampLA-8Planning

PUBLICATIONS

http://www.2600.com/

http://makezine.com/

OTHER LOCAL HACKERSPACES:

Null Space: http://032.la/

23b: http://shop.23b.org/