This two-day conference, held September 11-12, explored a wide-range of open source issues and best practices for the Intelligence Community (IC) and its partners. Topics included the evolving role of open source in homeland security; conducting counterintelligence in the world of open source; and managing the balance between privacy, civil liberties and national security with open source. Participants from the IC and the broader open source community of interest, including academia, think tanks, private industry, federal, state, local and tribal entities, international partners, and the media were in attendance. The conference attracted attention from several news organizations, to include the following: