I've given several workshops and skillshares about the ideas behind OpenPGP and how to use gpg and its various frontends to small-to-medium groups (5 to 25 people). I led an effective skillshare on the nature of X.509-based certifications and how they are used in SSL and TLS back in 2003 or 2004. I co-led a surprisingly large (~>50 people? packed room!) discussion about free software and why it should matter to users as well as developers a the Grassroots Media Conference a few years ago with Alfredo Lopez and Laura Quilter. This was a very active discussion, and topics ranged from motivation and policy to moderately technical concerns. I presented a poster with a colleague on a novel acoustic correlation method at ICASSP (the IEEE's International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing) 2001 (though i've recently let my IEEE membership lapse). I've introduced numerous people to the monkeysphere via IRC discussions, and have a strong handle on both: * the necessary details to keep a technical audience engaged * the bigger-picture goals to keep a non-technical audience engaged