So now that I’m not completely buried with the meta for all these events since they pretty much happened in that exact order, one week after the other I’ve been innandated with networking, organizing, planning, drilling, screenprinting, photo handling/uploading and a sleu of other verbs. Rather than make a detailed post about each event, I thought I’d do a ‘lightning round’ it, so to speak.
Read on for the juicy bits, otherwise have a breadcrab!
- Toorcon9
- Wildfires
- MobileCamp LA
- BarCamp LA 4
- Lunch 2.0
- Barcamp San Diego 2
This was my first toorcon! First things first, I hacked my way in. (.. to another conference.). I got in as press. I ran into some familiar faces - people that I’d seen at defcon the last 2 years. I bought a bumpkey set, partied with the ninja networks guys and had an otherwise awesome time. I learned how to pick my way out of handcuffs, I learned how to swap out internal hard drive components to rescue data, and I learned how to hop, skip and jump over vlans to pwn cisco voip hardware. Here are some photo highlights.
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This event was actually pretty neat. I didn’t think Nokia was the type of company to actually get as granular as per-city barcampy type events, but I guess I had them pegged wrong. The event was a ton of fun - think of barcamp, but only for mobile phones and devices. I guess they had expected more people because the In-n-out truck that came to cater the food (this was AWESOME by the way) had food for ~200. They had a bucket full of roughly 40 devices to hand out as prizes and such, but since only about 40 people showed up there were only a small handful of people who left emptyhanded. I scored a nokia N800 for being a ‘celebrity judge’ during half baked. I learned what a QR code was, and subsequently used it during defcamp :) Peep photos.
This was … huge. The crowd was double the size of what was expected. For the first time in (socal?)BarCamp history, the keg was floated. We were amazed. I was requisitioned to setup wireless, but due to some helpful souls that kept “helping me”, it took nearly 4 hours to get everything up and running. Once it was up, things were well. Also Richard Stallman showed up and gave a talk about free software, performing the worlds first foobarmitzvah. Code from GPG was sang. There was much glory. I met some amazing people, including a very awesome young lady named Sloane who shares my passion for connecting the LA and SD tech communities. I hope to work with her in the future to establish a wide channel of communications and camaraderie between the now-two communities. I got to meet Sean Bonner finally, after we were running circles around eachother in the community, and I spent some time hanging out with some defcon people who were there, and apparently registered EMTs. They put my medkit to shame :( .. peep photo highlights!
So far there have been two of these (in the time that it took me to actually WRITE this post). They happen monthly, towards the end of the month at companies that would like a little exposure, and for the tech community to grow and fellow geeks to meet and make new friends, business acquaintances and the like. Here are a few pictures!
BarcampSD this time was awesome! We got a 20% higher turnout, I ran a contest called ‘DefCamp: A little slice of defcon at barcamp’ which also went over very very well. I didn’t take many photos because I was doing to many things administratively to play papparazzi this time around, but here are a few of the shots I got:
