Missed 2008's CES, MacWorld, TED, ETech, Internet Telephony, EComm, VoiceCon, Von.X and SXSW? Here are some gatherings that can freshen up your social capital as we head into summer.

F2C: Freedom to Connect (31 March, 1 April) Silver Spring, Maryland, US. If US telecom policy affects you, this is the place where vendors, customers, regulators, legislators, analysts, financiers, and citizens hash out the future. Perhaps the top communications-meets-politics conferences in the United States.

CTIA Wireless 2008 (1-3 April) Las Vegas. Will we see much on "social going mobile"? 1200 exhibitors reaching out to the walled garden that is the US mobile phone industry.

DataPortability Meetup (6/7 April) Greenwich, Greater London, UK. f2f for the European contingent of DataPortability.org. At least a handful of the Skype ecosystem will be there. Social network portability may be the big customer acquisition strategy of the 2010s, like viral marketing was for the 1990s.

Data Sharing Workshop (18-19 April) San Francisco. Unconference to work on data portability, social network portability, social graph interop, presence/lifestream interop, and digital identity.

Web 2.0 Expo (22-25 April) San Francisco. The huge gathering for online innovators.

Internet Identity Workshop (12-14 May) and Data Sharing Summit (15 May). The heavyweights of digital ID and online identity resolve their online debates and plan how we all log in at the IIW (no wrestling, just lots of whiteboard and coffee). 

Supernova (June 16-18) San Francisco. One of the smartest assemblages of digerati on Earth. A modest telecom focus.

eBay Developers Conference (June 16-18) and eBay Live! (19-21 June) Chicago, USA. An annual gathering of the faithful. Skype had nominal presence last year.

Personal Democracy Forum 2008 (June 23-24) New York. Where f2c is about policy and governance, PDF is about tech in politics and activism. Swing by before the Democratic and Republican party conventions. 

P.S.  Bold Events are ones Skype Journal plans to cover.

P.P.S. Are you at a cool event? One we're not covering? Take pictures and write a guest post for Skype Journal.