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- 1 Aug 06, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald
- 2 July 23, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald
- 3 July 16, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald
- 4 July 9, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald
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- 14 April 30, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald
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- 19 March 26, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald
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- 22 March 5, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald
- 23 February 26, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald
- 24 February 19, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald
- 25 February 12, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald
- 26 February 5, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald
- 27 January 29, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Dolan
- 28 January 22, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald
- 29 January 15, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald
- 30 January 8, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald
- 31 January 1, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald
Aug 06, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald
- Justin is leaving soon!
- Saturday, Kings Head, 8pm is his going away party
- Booking a table
- DefCon
- /The/ hacker conference
- A bunch of SkullSpace members went this year
- Not just information security - lots of general hacking stuff
- Lockpicking
- Defeating tamper-protection things (seals on evidence bags, etc.)
- Maintaining privacy and anonymity, freedom of press, etc.
- Enormous conference
- Many people submit talks, so the quality of talks is usually very good
- T Shirts
- There are some Accuvant, SkullSpace, and DefCon t-shirts on the table
- The SkullSpace t-shirts are $20, the Accuvant and DefCon t-shirts are free
- SkullCamp
- We're camping out near St. Malo at a huge piece of land that Ian owns
- Paintball target range
- Geocaching / riddles / crypto / etc
- It's $40 per person
- We want about 50 people to come, and we only have 7 people signed up
- Send email
July 23, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald
Members present: Ian, Ben, Jay, Brittany, Ric, Phoul, Stefan, Colin, Justin, Courtney, Thor, Richard, Robert, Kevin
3D printer
- weekend print failed
- work being done after meeting
Member inclusion
- project box (Arduino)
- larger projects (b-sides, camping, etc)
B-Sides
- got plenty of presentation submissions, accepted ones announced soon
DefCon
- 7ish members going
SkullCamp
- advertising coming soon
- 3rd weekend in August (Sat & Sun)
- room for 50 people
- fund-raiser and fun
- activities
- geocaching
- paintball
- booze
- movie night
- breakfast provided
Anti-Social
- tickets here soon (for sale after DefCon)
- help with social prizes appreciated
- looking for some sound system stuff and setup
- DJs
Shopping
- no volunteers
- could get a delivery service?
10 Gb LAN
- lots of stuff was downloaded
- games were played
Fringe Fest
July 16, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald
Signed minutes are at http://qon.ca/sksp/minutes/2013-07-16.txt
Members present: Jeremy, Jay, Stef, Grump, Ric, Phoul, Alex, Brittany, Rylaan, Ben, Richard, Courtney, Justin, Ron, Ian, Clinton
- New people!
- Brendan
- Jacob
- Sean
- Robert
- Justin's movie night
- Friday!
- People are ordering pizza
- Starting at 8pm
- Watching "The Holy Mountain"
- Justin hopes that someone will take it over
- DEFCON
- 2 weeks!
- Once in a lifetime experience, every year but next year is cancelled.
- 15,000 hacker-types (infosec, telecom, hobbyists, government, etc)
- Giant rave wrapped in a hacker conference (privacy, infosec, etc)
- Lots of parties (EFF, Mozilla, etc)
- Talk to Ian or Ron if you need convincing :)
- Ron, Ian, Brittany, Richard, Colin, Sean are going
- BSides Winnipeg
- Free food for some meals
- Two days long
- Lots of cool talks already
- You should submit! Checkout bsideswpg.ca/cfp.html
- GET INFO
- Skullcamp
- August 17th and 18th
- Capped at 50 attendees
- Using Ian's property - it's an awesome, huge farm
- No RVs, campers, fifth-wheels - tents only.
- Some cool events planned - more will be talked about when it's ready
- GET DIRECTIONS
- Antisocial
- Attendee and backer tickets
- Prizes like video games and Magic! cards
- GET DATE also geocaching?
- LES.NET Hackaton
- Hackathon at LES.NET, starting at noon (130 Portage)
- LES.NET has a 10Gb pipe now!
- Plug directly in and see who can generate the most traffic
July 9, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald
Signed minutes are at http://qon.ca/sksp/minutes/2013-07-09.txt
- 3D Printer
- Ben and Stef will have a date picked for next meeting to offer training to people
- Cameras
- The landlord wants more camera coverage
- Colin is going to follow up and implement
- Jeremy is doing the books
- Will not have a financial update for another month or so
- Coffee maker
- Ron brought in a single-cup coffee maker
- It's not set up - feel free to set it up
- Grumpy donated some K-Cups (?) to get us started
- Will act as another revenue stream for Skullspace
- Les.net hackathon
- Bringing in a 10Gb link - download as much as yo can in X hours, winner gets a prize
- Skullcamp
- Aug 17th and 18th
- First meeting is after the Skullspace meeting - more details next week
- Talk to Richard for more information
- Antisocial
- September 13th
- We still need a DJ
- We're planning for a hacker-jeapordy-style event (a la DefCon)
- Talk to Brittany for more information
- BSides Winnipeg
- Our Call for Presentations has been extended to the 22nd of July
- We have a preference for local speakers
- Your talk doesn't have to be "ready to present" to be submitted - just give us a vague idea and be ready when the conference rolls around
- BSides Winnipeg is a free Winnipeg information security conference put on by some Skullspace members
- Talk to Ron, Alex, or Mak for more information
- Our Call for Presentations has been extended to the 22nd of July
- Cyber Defence Challenge
- Next big event is on November the 15th, right next to BSides Winnipeg
- September and October will be meetings with teachers to talk about what students learn, the tech behind the competitions, and more
- Justin's last movie night
- July 19th
- Showing "The Holy Mountain" (yes, featuring The Temple of a Thousand Testicles)
July 2, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald
- $400 payment paid to Hydro
- Monthly $180 for hydro estimate
- Call for papers B-Sides Winnipeg has been extended
- reach out to team if interested
- Marnie is down for people to meet PeopleFirst
- IT recruitment
- Process:
- candidate focused
- probably won't cost anything
- free the second time if it does not work out
- peoplecorporation.com
- she wil hopefully join Skullspace as a member/recruiter
- occasional short emails advertising jobs
- Chris and Brittany offering a tour of the stadium
- possible tour of Human Rights Museum
- Chris will talk about the bomber stadium infastructure at b-sides
- Venue is booked for social
- Sir John Franklin venue
- September 13th
- 2 Floors (talks and games on one, dancing on another)
- looking for DJs (Jay will take care of it) (possibly Jason Kahn)
- Ian will be getting tickets (ready in ~2 weeks)
- support tickets(not coming but want to help) and event tickets
- ~$1600 for event
- projects for social prizes would be appreciated
- internet may be provided by Colin (French)
- may bring arcade machines if return trip is planned
- Colin will evaluate the infastructure
- possible dessert table (call for desserts)
- graphic designer will make ads
- Makerfair Brandon
- in Brandon
- July 26-28
- conflicts with defcon
- Colin (French) has room for 3-4
- Colin will post to discuss with details
- Les.net 10Gb pipeline party
- July 27
- find your huge downloads
- stress test his system
- Camp-a-thon
- August 16-18
- strike force will be coming up with events
- Infastructure Update
- nothing broken lately
- camera webpage needs configuration
- door needs some fixing
- rear door will get strike and panic bar
- Financial Books
- Jeremy is doing books
- Lots of new people here today
June 25, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald
Members present: Ian, Marcel, Siu, Ben, Mike, Richard, Jay, Dave, Brittany
Magic the Gathering - 20 people (good turn out despite not being the only MTG tournament at the time) - good fundraising - in the future, needs more promotion - quarterly/bi-annual tournaments? - next in Fall?
Camping weekend - food, booze, explosives - venue secured - 3rd weekend in August (16th-18th?) - not exclusive to members (perhaps fee for non members?)
Social - Sept 13th? - $895/night - bar tenders, coffee, pop, ice - $200 down - venue options - John Franklin - dance floor and quieter area (with games?) - 228 ppl - Deer Lodge Community Center - only loud dancing area - liquer license - $100 for liquer license - membership list - just the board? - board member has to apply - cook book food to help with selling the cookbook? - benefit tickets vs attendance tickets - grand opening was at King's Head
July 20th hackathon - Les.net - downloading contest - generate the most traffic possible
CDC - Sept. 9th - Sisler event for students and teachers - Oct. 25th - Winnipeg Tech for student and teachers - looking for 15-20 min security talks - Nov. 15 - next CDC event - looking for CTF challenges - Kerry and Ian doing a roadtrip to promote CDC, BSides, SkullSpace - could use help
BSides - Nov. 16-17 - noon-7pm - King's Head
Electrical - servers - $45 - drink machine - $30? - fridge + freezer - $30 - AC - keep at/above 25C when present - turn up to 30C when no one here - open window at night to cool space - keep drapes closed during the day - light drapes at back would be good - Ian is taking pics of the meter regularly, will submit the readings every month
Recon - hardware stuff, software stuff, hacking stuff, pwning dns tables - Richard can give details on the talks - FPGA hardware fuzzing device - 3 for the space to use
DefCon - no official plans
Awesome Day in Canada this Thursday (June 27) - old market square - starting 1pm - 6:30pm
Sports oriented video dance party/social this weekend, community center at Confusion Corner - run by IHDN - Northern Communications Initiative - wssn.ca - Winnipeg Sun
June 18, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald
Members present: Ian, Thor, Richard, Ric, Courtney, Brittany, Jeremy, Phoul, Siu, David, Scottie, Awesome Mike
Social - no quotes yet, should have by next week - Ness: cheap, space for 250, have to get some stuff together ourselves - looking for volunteers
June Hackathon - it was great - some new people - was not recorded - stuff from sharkfest will be up
Magic Tournament - someone needs to take over from Brittany - Meako might be voluntold
Electrical consumption - servers cost almost double the drink machine - Ian will call in the reading next month to avoid estimates
Camping trip - location booked - strike force needs to meet
Grants (bingo?) - need to be for non-recurring costs - might not be happening anymore
Booster Juice Vouchers - $5 - Winnipeg Square and U of W only
Finances - Ian posted current situation details to discuss - NEED TO RECRUIT! - fund-raising is important, but short term fix - 44 members, target is 58 full-equivalents
Awesome Day (Awesome Foundation) - June 27 - Canada awesome day - snacks and previous recipients talking
June 11, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald
Meeting notes taken by Alex, and will be posted soon! :)
June 4, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald
Meeting cancelled, due to unavoidable absences of multiple directors.
May 28, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald
Signed minutes are at http://qon.ca/sksp/minutes/2013-05-28.txt
Members present: Brittany, Siu, Ian, Ron, Phoul, Grumpy, Richard, Alex Courtney, Walltiger, Ben, Clinton, CStanners
- We got a surround sound system! Don't mess with it please
- Skull-o-tron is here!
- This coming Friday is work-from-SkullSpace day!
May 21, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald
Signed minutes are at http://qon.ca/sksp/minutes/2013-05-21.txt
Members present: Marcel, Courtney, David, Ben, Stef, Jim, Jay, Mak, Brittany, Justin, Jeremy, Ayecee, Ron, Thor, AMichael, Phoul, Jason West, Ian, Alex, Twitch, Meako
- Electrical improvements
- We need plates in a few places, and a few other things
- We're basically done!
- Fire code updates to the space
- Hardware for panic bar is here, but not installed yet
- Working on figuring out what needs to be done for the front door
- Last Hackathon
- Approximately $200-$300 in donations
- Talks went well, many people showed up
- We recorded the talks and are slowly putting them online at http://vimeo.org/skullspace
- Keycon
- A science fiction convention at the Radisson that happened last weekend
- Nothing skullspacey happened
- BaseLAN
- Lots of people showed up
- Gave out lots of flyers
- Sold two shirts
- Lots of people knew about us ("My friend has been telling me about it")
- Sisler High students
- Sisler High wants to work out a membership agreement with us so they can have students use the space
- 3D printer
- We know how much power it uses now!
- Skullotron
- Still MIA!
- Dave & Nate are in charge of picking it up.
- Ian purchased a new sound receiver
- Justin is going to set everything up
- Please don't mess it up
- CDC
- November 15th is the next big event
- We're doing a mobile challenge
- If you feel like coming up with a challenge (a virtual machine to secure or a forensics challenge), contact Alex!
- Defcon Quals and CTF stuff
- We're competing!
- We're still working on the CTF training stuff. It's coming, talk to Mak or Ron.
May 14, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald
Signed minutes are at http://qon.ca/sksp/minutes/2013-05-14.txt
Members present: Adrian, Stef, Jay, Ron, Ben, David, Phoul, Grumpy, Marcel, Thor, AMichael, Alex, CStanners, Courtney, Justin, Jeremy, Clinton, Brittany, Ric, Ian
- Redbull Flugtag
- We design something that can fly into the water, and if Redbull likes it, they will sponsor the building of it
- We have a kit, so we can participate!
- Talk to Jay or Ron if you want to participate
- CDC
- Huge success, lots and lots of support from SkullSpace
- The students had a great time
- No serious technical issues
- Finances
- Our monthly organizational loss has been reduced by a third
- The high visibility of the CDC will hopefully boost membership
- Octopi Managed Services will be renting a desk during the summer for $100 a month
- 22 months before we are in the red
- Big expenses
- $245 for door unlocking software
- $280 for 400 new SkullSpace pamphlets from Kwik Kopy
- $310 to reimburse Nate for more drinks
- Electrical
- Bingo fundraiser is being moved forward by Siu
- We have some other things we need
- If you want to get some stuff, get costs to Siu or Ian
- Skull-o-Tron
- It's at RRC
- Nate is following up on Wednesday
- 3D printer
- The 3D printer prints!
- A more complicated print either warps without the fan, or lifts off the bed with, so we need to insulate the bed so it warms up more
- Going to work out how much things cost and start getting people trained
- Costs to purchase filament about $0.06 per gram
- Considering about a 200-300% markup for filament so we can grow our stock
- Keeping failed prints so that we can possibly melt them down to filament
- Arrested Development Marathon
- It comes out May 26th
- We are all going to convene the following day and watch it together
- Shopping list on the wiki: tinyurl.com/SkSp-shopping-list.
- If you have a vehicle or it's convenient, check out the list and pick up some stuff on your next shopping trip - you will be reimbursed
- Costco memberships are $55 a year for non-profits
- Winnipeg PC User's Group
- Wants to use the space for meetings
- We have told them they can
- Less-used Languages Hackathon
- John Bate from the U of M will be introducing
- Mak, Alex, and Jay are talking
- Free pizza will be provided, but *please* consider a donation if you want pizza
- BaseLan
- We have not heard from the member that was supposed to represent SkullSpace there
- Thor will be trying to get in touch and will be representing if nothing else
May 07, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald
Grumpy, Phoul, Thor, Justin, Courtney, Jay, Colin, Dave?, Twitch, Ric, Brittany, Jeremy, Ron, Rylaan, Ben, Micheal, Zewwy
- No financial report
- New internet connection - IPv6 + ~20mb/s symmetrical
- Work from SkullSpace day - First Friday of every month
- Ron was not excellent to Grumpy
- CDC @ RRC this Saturday
- Toilets - fix it or let directors know
- Epic poem by Adrian Stoness should go on bathroom wall
- Adrian will read his poem next week during the meeting
- C-Dawg says only emergency poops at the space
- Shopping list
- Google spread sheet
- populate if stuff is needed
- buy if you can
- Google spread sheet
- Hackathon - unusual/esoteric programming languages
- Speakers
- John Bates
- Jay
- Mak
- pizza
- Speakers
- 3D printer - no update
- Parts store - no update
- IT Recruiter - try to find one to pay us to post listings
- Member Skills on the wiki
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
- Justin hired Clinton to do the bathrooms once a month
- 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!
- 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