Meeting notes

2012 minutes are at Meeting_notes\2012; 2011 minutes are at Meeting_notes\2011; 2010 minutes are at Meeting_notes\2010

April 30, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

Members present: Thor, Jeremy, Ric, Justin, Phoul, Ian, Brian, Stefan, Colin, Courtney, Ron, Ben

• Parts store
  • nothing new

• Printer
  • working, needs fine tuning and pricing

• Electrical
  • new contractor, waiting for quote

• CCDC
  • Volunteers needed for May 11
  • May 1 - basic Win admin training
  • May 4 - walkthrough/test run

New record shortest meeting - 3 min!

April 23, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

Signed minutes are at http://qon.ca/sksp/minutes/2013-04-23.txt

Members present: Ben, Phoul, Clinton, Alex, Thor, Stefan, Jeremy, Justin, AMichael Siu, Adrian, Ric, Nate, Matt, Mark Jenkins, Marcelle, Ian, CStanners, Courtney, Grumpy

• Capture-the-Flag
  • Participated in PlaidCTF 2013 as team Night Danger
  • 24th place of 300 scoring teams (900 teams total)
  • Had a lot of people come out to help

• 3D Printer
  • Still working on it
  • Nothing's broken
  • Optimistically, we will be printing in a few days

• Solarbotics, Seedfun and Sparkfun
  • Approved us as resellers
  • Minimum $250 dollar order for Sparkfun
  • If we put our orders together we can get a discount

• Parts Store
  • There will be a seperate donation box
  • If you start paying for things, we can 'bootstrap' the store and start getting more stuff in

• Kreytor
  • Crowd-funding and curating site for research, books, and other media
  • Talk to Ric for more information

• Bingo
  • Ian's getting a quote for electrical stuff
  • Need a financial statement
  • We need the information to make an application

• Electrical
  • We have a guy coming in to give us another quote
  • Don't unplug the black cord on the right wall of the kitchen

• CDC
  • 28th of April is the final test
  • 11th of May is the big event at RRC
    • We need people to staff this
    • In excess of 50 kids
  • Moving the rehearsal to the 4th of May

• Cleaning
  • We need to clean more
  • We hired Clinton to do the bathrooms
  • CStanners has a shelf to put the cleaning stuff in the bathroom, for ease of use

• Community First
  • This weekend, they are running an electronic music production workshop
  • Social Enterprise on Main Street
  • school.musicfirst@gmail.com to register

• Next hackathon
  • Less-popular languages hackathon
  • Lots of talks lined up already
    • Haskell
    • Forth
    • Clojure

• Next next hackathon
  • Mark Jenkins is doing a talk and demo on the VM server

• Marketing hackathons
  • Apparently, lots of people don't know they can just *come to a hackathon*
  • We need to do a better job of advertising the hackathons
  • We need to approach new people in the space when we see them, otherwise people run
  • We should start advertising hackathons as "Hackathon X and Open House"

April 16, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

Signed minutes are at: http://qon.ca/sksp/minutes/2013-04-16.txt

Members present: AMichael, Justin, CStanners, Jeremy, Adrian, Shawn Twitch, Phoul, Grumpy, Ric, Siu, Clinton, Brittany, Dave, Ian, Meako Ron, DrWest, Stef

• 3D printer
  • It's assembled!
  • An Allen key was not included
  • Otherwise everything is done

• Electrical
  • Late this week or early next week they will be getting back to us
  • Between Lyon Brown's commitment and Siu's donation, the freezer/fridge wiring will be fixed up

• Remote unlocking for the door
  • Colin is fixing

• Bingo fundraiser
  • 4 months lead itme
  • Need at least 10 volunteers - we have 4 already
  • September time frame

• Cleaning
  • Dirty dishes!
  • Pile of pizza boxes!

• Hackathon and CTF and Bakesale
  • Justin is posting the Hackathon schedule for tonight
  • Justin talking about AutoCAD and EAGLE
  • Ben is talking about making PCBs
  • Robert Elms is talking about their new equipment
    • Stef might talk about 3D printer
  • Capture the flag!
    • Friday til 4 til Sunday til 4
  • Bakesale!
    • Bring in stuff!
    • Pay what you think it's worth

• Next months Hackathon
  • Weird programming languages talks
  • Clojure
  • J
  • Forth
  • Haskell

• Tool tracking system
  • Ben started working on this
  • It's on the SkullSpace GitHub account, so everyone can contribute

• BaseLAN
  • We have the option of a table all three days
  • Talk to Shawn if you want to work the table

• $36 for a table at RRC

• Magic! The Gathering
  • A friend of Brittany's is doing judging training
  • We will likely end up with the gear to run events here

• CDC
  • Next big event is the 28th, Sunday. The final beta
  • Rehearsal is the 5th, Sunday.
  • Saturday the 11th is the big event at RRC - we need people to handle 55 students

April 9, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

Signed minutes are available at: http://qon.ca/sksp/minutes/2013-04-09.txt

Member's present: Alex, Shawn, Phoul, Ric, CStanners, Jeremy, Justin, Thor, Jim, Courtney, Courtney, Grumpy, Marcel, Ben, Meako, Jay, Ron, AMichael

• Yuri's Night
  • Apr 12th
  • Ticket's available online - $12
  • Tickets are almost sold out!
  • We have a table - can some people stand behind it a bit?

• April 20th Hackathon
  • Plaid CTF - Friday at 4pm, 48-hours long
  • Back-sale - bring food of some kind or cook something
  • Rapid prototyping talks
    • Justin - EAGLE and AutoCAD
    • Ben - How to construct circuit boards

• 3D printer
  • Supposed to be coming soon
  • Ben has been talking to the filament guy, lots available

• First Aid
  • Nate is used to getting free training for community groups
  • Contact Jay for information
  • Shawn is talking to some folks that might do pro bono instruction

• Pop-Culture Expo
  • Second day went really well
  • Mostly people came play with the uJoypad
  • Computer Science teacher came by and was interested in the CDC stuff

• BaseLAN
  • Sold out, waiting list of 50 people - 300 people confirmed
  • BaseLAN runs for 54 hours straight
  • Confirmed that we have a table

• CDC
  • This weekend - Saturday, the 13th of April
  • One more test - the 28th of April
  • 11th of May is the big day

• Rotary Career Symposium
  • Ian is speaking at it
  • Going to plug SkullSpace _a lot_

• Next Hackathon - May 18th
  • A bunch of talks about interesting programming languages
    • Alex will do Haskell
    • Jay will do Clojure
    • Mak will do Common/Emacs Lisp or Forth or something
  • If you know any interesting languages, do a talk!

April 2, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

Signed minutes are available at: http://qon.ca/sksp/minutes/2013-04-02.txt

Members present: Not available (forgot to take tally)

• Yuri's Night
  • We're allowed to bring in LED throwies
  • Borrowing the uJoypad, NES-chuck, etc
  • If you want to put together some kind of puzzle for participants to do, talk to Nate or Alex

• Pop Culture Expo
  • CStanners is organizing our table/showing
  • Free table (we think, Colin will confirm)
  • We need volunteers
  • Saturday Sunday, 10am - 6pm

• First Aid
  • Nate is looking for a way to get it for free, for Skullspace

• BaseLAN
  • May 18, 19t, 20
  • Free table all weekend, all we have to do is promote BaseLAN
  • Talk to Shawn
  • World qualifiers for Starcraft 2

• 3D printer
  • Ben knows a guy that's selling cheap filament
  • If you want to donate some money, we can get some color variety

• April 20th Hackathon
  • Rapid prototyping talks
  • Submit talks!

March 26, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

Signed minutes are at http://qon.ca/sksp/minutes/2013-03-26.txt

Members present: Not available (forgot to take tally)

• Director availability
  • Ron is gone this week and next
  • Ian is taking off at some point too
  • We are still having meetings

• Stuff for the space
  • Low on some things, Alex will take care of
    • Doorstop
    • V8
    • Peanut butter
    • Brown paper towels
    • Dispenser
  • Nate
    • Liquid soap

• 3D printer has shipped
  • Will be here in 6-10 days

• SkullSpace flag
  • Ian talked to the landlord, and it's a no-go
  • We can still put something up in a window

• Banking troubles
  • We descended upon them and got everything sorted
  • All of the directors are in the system
  • Ian got the PADs

• SkullSpace Challenge 2.0: Meatspace Edition
  • A challenge that involves going around the city
  • A mix of geocaching and CTF - hiding USB sticks, etc
  • Talk to Nate or Alex

• Emacs Conference
  • London, Saturday, 9:30am (4:30am here)
  • Nate and Mak are going to be streaming it at the space

• CDC
  • ComputerWorld 2013 Honors Laureate award
  • Red River confirmed as the location for final event instead of Louis Riel center
  • 12 teams of 8 kids from all over
  • CEOs/CTOs representing fictional companies, infrastructure built around that
  • May 11th

• Skullotron
  • Tomorrow, 3pm-5pm, moving the Skullotron
  • Only Nate and Dave, need more people

• Tables
  • Red River tables cost $50
  • Brittany is going to see about getting us on CKUW

March 19, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

Signed minutes are at http://qon.ca/sksp/minutes/2013-03-19.txt

Members present: Adrian, Aemilianus, Alex, Ben, Brian, CStanners, Courtney, Ian, Jason West, Jeremy, Jim, Justin, Meako, Phoul, Ron, Sean, Stef, Thor, Walltiger,

• Friday at noon, kitchen will be fixed - let in a guy from Amos
• CDC
  • 28th Sunday
    • Room available for 3 teams
  • 13 Saturday
    • 3 teams are coming in
  • Sisler went to Cyber Patriot
  • Former Premier asked how the team prepared, they said they prepped at SkullSpace. Good PR!
  • 11th of May, Saturday
    • Big challenge! No more beta!
    • Hosted at Red River
    • We need volunteers

• New table of doom
  • Stuff that hasn't been labelled will go there
  • Stuff won't be thrown out, but srsly - label your stuff please

• Ron is gone this week, Courtney is gone next week, Ian is gone at some point too
  • We will still have a meeting

• Having problems with the bank
  • We can't tell what happens when new PADs are filled out
  • The board is going to "descend upon" them on Friday to get everything sorted out

• Custom embroidery
  • Patches with Sksp logo
  • $3.50 for stich-on
  • $4.50 for iron-on
  • Talk to Sean

• Table at UW
  • Tables at U of W
  • They're free!
  • Jim is going to register us for one.

• April Hackathon
  • Hardware Freedom Day
  • The copyright/oss lawyer cannot come on Saturday

• Secret Handshake
  • Third anniversary today!
  • Starting at the Kings Head

• Yuri's Night
  • April 12th
  • Tickets sell out really fast
  • Tickets are available through Ticketmaster
  • Talk to Jay

March 12, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

Signed minutes are at http://qon.ca/sksp/minutes/2013-03-12.txt

Members present: Brittany, Thor, Ron, Brian, Jay, Courtney, Jim, Meako, Ian, Ben, Jason West, Aemilianus, Colin Stanners, Phoul, Adrian, Marcel

• Ben is going to do a survey about the electronics lab to make it better

• Stuff for the space (delegated to Alex)
  • Drinks are primary concern
    • Delegated to Brittany
  • Chocolate (?)
  • Garbage bags
  • $50 a year for Costco membership, something to talk about

• CDC
  • Went very well
  • Next dates - dates that were sent out are wrong
  • We're taking a 3-week hiatus
  • May 11th (Saturday) is the big day
  • Looking at hosting it at RRC
  • Call for targets
    • Must be a VM image that works with VMware
    • Has baked-in vulnerabilities
    • Some kind of Easter egg
    • Best if it has some kind of story behind it
    • Talk to Alex if you'd like to help out

• If you're leaving stuff here, label it

• BSides Winnipeg
  • bsideswpg.ca
  • We have a sponsorship package
    • If you know IT companies with too much money
    • Seccuris et al has committed already

• 3D printer
  • It's going to be shipping this week or next week

• Tables at the college
  • No progress yet, because elections
  • In a couple of weeks we'll know more
  • Would be free at U of W
    • Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday would be best
    • Delegated to Jim

• Code Camp
  • Conference at RRC
  • We might have the opportunity for table - talk to Andrew Orr

• Western Canada Information Security Conference (WCISC)
  • Asked if we wanted to do a table ($350)
  • Not our target market
  • High profile, we would be seen by lots of vendors

• Skull-o-Tron retrival
  • Not done yet
  • No date for return yet
  • 3-4 people to move it

• Yuri's Night
  • April 12th, 2013 (?)
  • Would like 2 more people
  • Brittany, Ben (tentatively), Justin are volunteering
  • Talk to Jay about volunteering
  • We would like to have a collaborative puzzle

• Hackathon is this Saturday!
  • GO to the hackathon
  • Go club will be teaching people how to play Go

• People who volunteered to pay extra
  • If you haven't started paying yet, please start
  • Courtney will be breaking knees

March 5, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

[secretary's note: I did not record the members present. This was an oversight. Will not happen again.]

• New directors
  • Ron (President)
  • Ian (finances except member stuff, external liasing)
  • Ben (electronics workspace and generally making the space better)
  • A lex (taking notes [secretary's note: woot])
  • Courtney (membership, knee-breaker)

• Varioland
  • 28th (day before Good Friday)
  • Video game rave
  • Somewhere off of Henry.
  • starts at 10pm and ends at 6am.
  • Savant is playing.
  • Tickets are approximately $35.
  • Contact: Phoul

• Freeze Frame
  • Going well, lots of kids playing with NESchuck, Skullotron.
  • We need volunteers on Thursday.
  • No kidnapping children.
  • Contact: Nate

• CDC
  • This Saturday, 15 kids from Sisler are coming to demo again.
  • Networking/infrastructure stuff is worked out.
  • MTS gave us $18k of stuff.
  • Chris Kluka provided blades, SAN space, lots of memory/CPU.
  • May the 10th is the real CDC event.
    • Thursday is setup day.
    • Need everybody and friends @ Louis Riel Arts and Technology Center.
  • We could use help on Saturday.
  • Last night governance met, problem: we're not an org, but we have a ton of assets. Going to incorporate CDC group.
  • Contact: Ian

• March 16th Hackathon
  • Go Club will be here
  • Paper Airplane contest.
  • Dan Gange and some intellectual property lawyer and maybe a guy from the copyright bureau is going to come in and tell us Open Source sucks because you can't make money off of it.
  • Next regular hackathon is on April 20th.

• BSides Winnipeg
  • November 16th to 17th at the Kingshead Pub
  • Asked for speakers? Free drinks, etc. The event will be very big.
  • We need sponsors. Dash9, Tenable, Mozilla might sponsor.
  • We will need volunteers for teardown, we will ask for volunteers closer to the date, details forthcoming.

• Kitchen electrical fixup
  • Sonoma Electrical won the bid
  • Cost is about $275.
  • Will get us two GFI outlets, outlets will be moved, won't risk dying (from that particular outlet) anymore.
  • Contact: Ian

• Don't leave the skillet power thing plugged in, risk of electric shock and DIAF.

• Grants
  • AssentWorks got ~$467k for some kind of anti-child-pornography initiative [secretary's note: not sure of the name of the grant they received].
  • Mike Legary and Brittany will write up a grant application for the Western Diversification grant.
  • [secretary's note: I believe Courtney is taking point on this]

• Defcon plans
  • More talking will be had. Plan now is to rent a Winnebago and drive it to Vegas.
  • Week long journey to incorporate BSides and Defcon.
  • We are now Defcon group 204.
  • Contact: Ian

• Meme cookbook
  • Nate suggested we do it as a charity thing
    • Donate most of our profits to a charity.
    • Better chance getting rights for images
    • Might get free work from artists/illustrators/publishers/etc
  • Contact: Nate

• Yuri's Night.
  • Sciencey dance party at the April 20th at the Planetarium
  • We were invited to exhibit something. It's a party, so we need a cool hands-on electronics exhibit.
  • Contact: Jay

• Publicity / member counts
  • Brittany suggested renting table at RRC in the atrium, 11am to 1pm.
  • Jim was going to talk to U of W. it's about $50 for a table.
  • Mak delegated to talk to Jon-- about similar thing at U of M.

• Code camp
  • We have a presence there (and even had a track).
  • If we want to get enough people together (4 or 5 people), we can do a Skullspace track again.
  • Contact: Jay or Andrew

• 3D printer
  • no indication it's not a scam, but payment was made. It should be shipping soon.
  • Contact: Ron

February 26, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

Members present: Courtney, Justin, Stef, Rylaan, Ben, Mak, Ron, Nate, Jeremy, Jason, Meako, Jim, Chris, Thor, Amelianus, Alex, A Michael, Grumpy, Phoul,, Jay, Ian, Andrew, Ric, Jenkins, Colin 0, Dmitijs, Britney, Kenny, Jeff, Siu

SkullSpace

• is 2 years and 3 months old!
• we have around a dozen student members
• we moved
• we held PegJam
• ordered a 3D printer
• had the meme dinner
• made Skullbrew (Rylaan drank most of it)
• 8 CTF challenges

Need to

• talk to the Yellow Dog
• finish the cook book
• fix the other arcade machine

Events

• Colin to do a presentation on installing security cameras
• Skullchat
  • community outreach
  • Base Lan
  • B-sides
  • Comic Con
  • Code camp
  • Keycon
  • Freeze frame
  • BJD
  • CIPS
• Skull Shield
  • Operation Sleepy Weasel
  • Talk to Nate or Ian if you're interested

Other

• Siu and Ian are creating a user guide to SkSp
• we have been focussing on opportunities and meetings rather than problems!

Finances

• most of our income is membership
  • second is donations
• we spent more on renos than on rent
• Assent Works will not be paying us the rent they owe us
• We are losing money each month
• 55 full members will make us even

Election results

• Ron
• Courtney
• Ian
• Ben
• Alex

February 19, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

Members present: Courtney, Ron, Jay, Colin 2, Jason, Justin, Ian, Aemilianus, Nate, Grumpy, Mak, Dave, A. Michael, Ric, Thor, Britney, Chris K, Colin 0, Mark J

3D Printer

• has been ordered
• to be shipped March 4
• talk to Ben if you want to order filament

Elections

• 8 people running
• Rylaan
• Ron
• Jim
• Ian
• Alex
• Ben
• Courtney
• Chris

Events

• Crypto Night on the 20th
• Technapalooza on the 21st
• Game dev night on the 23d
• CDC on the 24th
  • talk to Nate if you are interested in getting a training seminar to talk to schools and community groups
• AGM on the 25th
• Freeze Frame is the week of March 4th
  • need volunteers
• Go tournament on March 16th
• B sides on Nov 17th

February 12, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

Members present: Ron, Grumpy, Mak, Ben, Alex, Stefan, Meako, Thor, Jason, Jay, Kenny, Britney, Jim, Ian, Rich, Colin 2, A Michael, Courtney

Cyber Defnse Challenge

• Feb 14th 10am-2pm
• at RRC on Princess
• lots of media will be there (dress nice!)
• Ian is giving the closing remarks

Technapalooza

• Jay and Nate are volunteering
• 400 people will be there

Red Team Meeting

• Feb 24th at SkSp
• 10am-5pm
• 11 students from Sisler HS
  • they placed 4th out of 100 in the Cyber Patriot Games

Cryptonight

• Feb 24th

CTF

• Friday at noon until Sunday at noon

Electrical

• waiting for the 3rd quote
• need a fundraiser to pay for it

Other

• brochures are finished
• need floor plans
• fees are due in 3 days!

February 5, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

Members present: Ron, Mak, David, Jason, Meako, Grumpy, Ian,Justin, Stef, Jim, Courtney, A Mike, Colin 2, Thor, Aemilianus, Britney, Siu

Tour

• Kevin brought in a few new members

Technapalooza

• at Mcphillips casino
• we have a table
• Nate, Ian, Jay are volunteers

Cyber Defense

• Feb 14
• at RRC on Princess

Cryptoparty

• You're doing it wrong
• Ron, Mak, Phoul and Alex giving talks
• Feb 20

Game Dev Night

• Feb 23

Hackathon

• Feb 16
• Go lessons

3d Printer

• Medel Bot $1490 shipped
• its big and fast!
• in beta but any changes are free

Plants

• anyone interested in starting up again?
• talk to Siu

January 29, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Dolan

3D printer (stef and ben present)

• We have raised $1000
• Ultimaker is $1600, best option, most expensive (no filiment)
• Will probably be able to raise that.
• Ben and Stef have formed a strike force, will have decision by next week

CIPS Meeting

• Lots of people asked about student memberships.

First Fridays

LeagionCon

February 14th Free Cyber Security Training

• Train the Trainer

Crypto Talks

• Colin, Mak, Alex, Ron will be doing talks.

Game Dev

• Four people showed up, one who was not a Sksp member

Go Workshop

• March 16

CTF

• Louis Riel weekend, not all going to be here for the weekend.

Ham Radio Course

Last Meeting in February

• Annual General Meeting
• Election
• Bylaw changing

January 22, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

Cancelled

January 15, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

Members present: Courtney, A Michael, Colin 0, Colin 2, Jay, Marcel, Grumpy, Ron, Thor, Ian, Justin, Jeremy, Jim, Ric, Amelianus, Siu

Doors/Key fobs Should be finished next week

• Do not unplug the box in the bathroom!

Bathroom

• toilet out of order
  • float and flipper are broken
• Ian will bring the parts
• Jim will fix it

Fire safety

• We are going to have a pretend fire inspection
• do no obstruct the exits
• don't store stuff where people may trip and fall
• Justin needs to make a plan that shows the exits
• need fire extinguishers

Other

• items will be disposed of in 15 days
• we have 47 members
  • if we get 50 we will be self sustaining
  • 55 will cover electrical too
• Linux user group wants to use our space

Jan 22

• meeting cancelled
• CIPS is coming
  • they are bringing food
• need volunteers for cyber defense

January 8, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

Members present: Adrian, Chris, Stef, Dave, Ian, Jim, Courtney, Justin, Ron, Alex. Grumpy, Jay, Thor, Jason, Dave, Siu, Colin 0, Ben, Colin 2, Adam

Hydro

• still no bill
• need cheque
• ABCO quoted 600 for dedicated circuit for drink machine and circuit on pole
• getting a second quote
• use as little power as possible
• turn off lights when you leave
• Dave2 is bringing in a power meter

Pegjam

• 40 people attended
• we are getting money from them

Cryptoparty

• 14 people

Virology Lab tour

• end of Feb or beginning of March

Recycling

• need volunteers to take it home

SkSp guidebook

• by Ian and Siu
• to be circulated upon its completion

January 1, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

Cancelled