Hackathon 4
- Date: Saturday, March 19, 2011 (corresponding with the Global Hackerspace Challenge
- Time: 12:00 (noon) - 20:00 (8pm)
- Location: LES.net - 130 Portage Avenue East at the old Nutty Club building (big red door by the #130, use the doorbell, listen for the click)
Summary
March 19 marks the fourth SkullSpace Hack-a-thon, and is looking to be our biggest yet! It will run from noon - 8pm at LES.net's office, and feature a few talks/projects throughout the day. Everybody is welcome to come down, participate in talks, or do their own thing. The point is to get together, meet new people, and have some fun!
The event is completely free, but we'll be happily accepting donations. If you can afford $5, $10, $20, or more, you can help support the cause! We take cash, cheque (made out to SkullSpace Winnipeg Inc), and paypal.
Projects
Having set projects will be an experiment that I'm hoping will work well for us. The idea is that we have a few projects going on during the day, led by somebody who can answer questions and get people started. The "leader" won't necessarily be working on their project, but they're the person to talk to if you need help/advice.
We strongly believe in learning and teaching, so no matter what your knowledge level is, feel free to get involved!
| Leader | Name of project | Description | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Andrew | Launchpad | Launchpad is a low power, low cost, programmable device made by Texas Instruments. It's a great way to get into embedded development! Andrew is also doing a talk on Launchpads, see below for talk times. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mak | Nmap Scripting | Writing scripts for the Nmap Security Scanner tool. This includes reverse engineering protocols, learning how software works, and finding security vulnerabilities. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Martin | Arduino | Embedded, programmable, and highly sophisticated devices. Martin will also be doing an introductory talk about Arduinoes (see below for talk times) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ron | BreachDB | An online site to archive and track data breaches. This will be written in Ruby and MySQL. It uses an aggressive caching mechanism due to the speed of queries, and manages a huge amount of data. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (open) | Quadrocopter | Les has a Quadrocopter that's controlled by iPhone software. We're hoping to look at the protocol it uses and see if we can control it ourselves! | }
Other miscellaneous projects that won't be "officially" led (unless somebody wants to): Possible projects
TalksWe're hosting a few talks during the day. These will be short and informal (except for Mark's, which will be interactive and breaks new ground). If anybody is interested in doing talks for April's hack-a-thon, please let me know (info @ skullspace.ca) as early as possible and we'll add you to the list! For this month, these talks are very basic. We're hoping to ramp up and do some more "advanced" talks in later months!
Talks for next hack-a-thon (or that will be given if a speaker can't make it):
What we needIf you have any of this, or can borrow it, please let us know! info @ lists.skullspace.ca Some things, like food, we may have to get everybody to kick in some money unless we find somebody who's willing to sponsor.
Donations and new membersPart of our goal is to raise donations for getting our own physical space. Anybody who wants to bring a cash or cheque is welcome to! We'll record how much you donated and add it to our startup cash. The other part of our goal is to get the word out to more people. Bring friends, co-workers, and anybody who might be interested. They don't have to come all day, just long enough to get some free stickers! |
