History

The CAP2011 conference follows a tradition laid down by the:

Communicating Astronomy with the Public conference held in Cape Town, South Africa in March 2010 preceded by a Communicating Astronomy 101 Course/School 2010 held at the same venue.
Communicating Astronomy with the Public conference held in Athens, Greece in October 2007
Communicating Astronomy with the Public conference held in Garching near Munich, Germany in June 2005
Communicating Astronomy to the Public conference held at the US National Academy of Sciences in early October, 2003, sponsored by the US National Research Council and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, with support from NSF and NASA
The Communicating Astronomy conference that took place at IAC in Tenerife in 2002
The ORIWORKS workshop held at STScI in Baltimore, USA in October 2003: http://www.stsci.edu/stsci/meetings/oriworks/