What is happening with Digital Forensics UK

What is happening with Digital Forensics UK
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For those of you that did not know, which is probably most of the digital forensics community in the UK, as I didn't know, until today 26th February 2009, the Forensic Science Regulator is having a conference in Birmingham on the 31st March 2009 to be held at the International Convention Centre (ICC), Broad Street, Birmingham, B1 2EA. The aim of the conference is for the purpose "As part of the consultation process, the Regulator is to hold a conference for digital forensics practitioners as a group of experts to focus on the standards and to provide opportunities for detailed feedback."

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Disappointingly, the closing date to submit applications to attend was the 23rd February 2009. Regrettably, there is no notification at the Forensic Science Regulator's website and no notification to the established expert bodies in the UK about the conference. Instead, the matter was left to a small, but interesting, digital forensic forum that does not represent, and nor is it the voice of, the digital forensics community as a whole in the UK, to circulate the conference notice but sent to those forum's members only.