Meeting notes
2012 minutes are at Meeting_notes\2012; 2011 minutes are at Meeting_notes\2011; 2010 minutes are at Meeting_notes\2010
Contents
- 1 April 9, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald
- 2 April 2, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald
- 3 March 26, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald
- 4 March 19, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald
- 5 March 12, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald
- 6 March 5, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald
- 7 February 26, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald
- 8 February 19, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald
- 9 February 12, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald
- 10 February 5, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald
- 11 January 29, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Dolan
- 12 January 22, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald
- 13 January 15, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald
- 14 January 8, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald
- 15 January 1, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald
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!
- A bunch of talks about interesting programming languages
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
- Low on some things, Alex will take care of
- 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
- 28th Sunday
- 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
- Drinks are primary concern
- 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
- Nate suggested we do it as a charity thing
- 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