Well, it's not really a workshop-oriented subject; it's a historical one. There might be opportunities for exhibits of one kind or another, though; that's a good suggestion.

About COC, every typographic conference I've been to has had pretty clear expectations, but I have to break the news to you that communities outside of the software-development field are not nearly as "Code-of-X" obsessed. Perhaps because they don't think code magically fixes things....