Meeting notes

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

Mar 11th, 2014 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

Members present: Cian, Brittany, Courtney, Nate, Jay, Alex, Colin, AMichael, Zoe, Stef, Ben, Alex, Brian, Robert K, Edwin, Sean

• Agenda and minutes
  • Ideally, the board sends the minutes out on Saturday/Sunday
  • They were late last week
  • Aside: once minutes are posted, they become "official" and cannot be changed, so delays are expected

• Reading of minutes postponed until the end of the meeting

• Protelec automatic door unlocking
  • No update yet
  • Action item: Colin C will talk to the landlord and Colin Stanners about this forward and provide an update in the future

• Fire extinguishers
  • Alex volunteered to buy two small ones and bankroll them
  • Show of hands was taken to pay Alex back, majority said "yes"
  • Stef suggested we find out what we require to pass an inspection and buy those instead
  • Action item: Alex to buy extinguishers

• Wiki updates
  • Many pages are out-of-date and a lot of them are ugly
  • SkullSpace has changed a lot and the wiki has not kept up
  • Brittany is looking for some people to help with this
  • AMichael stated that he is organizing a strike force to handle this issue

• Electrical upgrades and server hosting
  • The circuit is approaching overload
  • The quote is $250 to effectively double our capacity
  • Possible solutions
    • Negate the need by getting rid of non-critical servers (VM sever, mailing list, DNS)
    • Fund the upgrade through crowdfunding
    • SkullSpace can pay for it if the membership agrees
  • Rich from Voi offered additional Internet service dedicated to the servers
  • Find out the interest level for people who have machines in the rack?
  • Member comment: "if we upgrade the power, it's not a free-for-all, the power still costs us"
  • Action item: the board will discuss with the server owners and gauge crowdfunding interest

• Donation tracking
  • Proposal: obtain cash boxes that allow deposit but require a key for withdrawal
  • Jeremy volunteered to donate a plexiglass box that he owns
  • How many lockboxes are required?
    • Donations
    • Drinks
    • Snacks
    • 3D printer
  • Lockboxes with non-unique keys are acceptable
    • Stef was asked about the 3D printer box - he indicated that he did not require access to it
    • No other boxes need to be opened by members that are not on the board

• Reading of the minutes
  • Discussed the AGM
  • Discussed the general and student member audits
  • Discussed the splitting of the calendars into community
  • Covered the meetup, and that everybody can create events (not just Brittany)
  • Discussed the CODE event
  • The membership in attendance was not asked to approve the read minutes

• Meme cookbook
  • If anybody is interested in resurrecting the meme cookbook, talk to Nate
  • Needs a lot of work, but Nate is confident we could publish it and sell it someday
  • Ideas
    • Asking Wil Wheton or Penny Arcade to write a foreword
    • Organize with them for the proceeds to go to charity
  • Brian proposed that we simply start working on it as a blog, and then we'll put it all together
  • AMichael suggested that this will be positively affected by the wiki cleanup

• Recurring community events
  • Nate proposed that we have a rotating list of events to mention during meetings to keep members informed

• International Tabletop Day
  • ITD is an event organized by the folks that run the "Tabletop" web series
  • This year's day is April 5th
  • SkullSpace is hosting a get-together for International Tabletop Day
  • Talk to Nate for more information

• User groups and using the space
  • The PHP user group was here, and it went very well
  • The Android user group wants to have their meetings here as well
  • If you want to book the space, email admin@lists.skullspace.ca or talk to Colin Childs

• Yuri's Night
  • April 12th at the Museum of Man of Nature
  • Drinking in the museum (including the planetarium!)
  • Action item: Brittany will follow up with Jay about getting a table or having some other kind of SkullSpace presence

• Brewery tour
  • Jeremy has a contact at the Half Pints brewery, and might be able to organize a tour
  • By show of hands, many people were interested in doing that
  • Jeremy will email the mailing list to gauge interest

• New members
  • Jordan Justice became a full member today

• Adjournment

Mar 4th, 2014 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

• Introductions

• Reading of minutes
  • AGM last week
    • New board elected
      • Alex Weber
      • Ben Bergman - Financials
      • Brittany Postnikoff
      • Colin Childs
      • Courtney Lofchick
    • Events from last year discussed

• Audits
  • Student membership audits
  • General membership audit
  • What is a membership audit?
    • Making sure we have financials backed up for every member
    • Making sure we have forms and the like
    • In short, due dilligence

• Calendars
  • Colin split the calendar into two calendars
    • One for community events
    • One for SkullSpace events
  • Kevin V. wrote a calendar webapp
    • API integration with Meetup?
    • API integration with Google Calendar?

• Meetup
  • Lots of people ask Brittany to add events
  • Anybody can add events if they are subscribed as a SkullSpace member (???) (5:28)

• CODE
  • People from Meetup showed up
  • People scrummed
  • Not much happened at the space
  • Pizza, ideas, and then people went home
  • Mark Jenkins put in a lot of work
    • when-ei.ca

• External community emails (8:35)
  • Once per week, generate a digest of some kind?
  • Forward with the meeting reminder?
  • Bring up during the meeting

• Adjournment

Feb 25, 2014 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

Members present: Alex, Mark, Michael, Kevin, Jason, Courtney, Nate, Ian, Cian, Brittany, Edwin, Jay, Sean, Thor, Dave, Ric, Colin, Jeremy, Nishan, Stefan

Annual General Meeting 2014

• Year in review
  • Alex presented with some pictures throughout the year
  • Events
    • CTFs, user groups, social, cryptoparties, Comic Con, hack-a-thons,

movie nights, Peg Jam, Freeze Frame, CDC, game nights

• • Financial update
    • A proper one will be coming, but summary is we are stable
  • The future
    • Fire safety
    • Occupancy permit

• Bylaw changes
  • Late dues
    • Intent is to remove some process and make it smoother for the board
  • Minutes being read
    • Intent is to ensure minutes are taken and agreed upon by members
    • Could be implemented as a policy if the bylaw is voted down

• Board nominees
  • Cian, Brittany, Courtney, Alex, Colin, Sue, and Kenny

• Vote results
  • New board: Ben, Colin, Courtney, Brittany, Alex
  • Both bylaws passed

Feb 18, 2014 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

Members present: Courtney, Brittany, Ben, Stefan, Ric, Thor, Brian, Edwin, Sean, Colin, Ian, AMichael, Adrian, Alex, Marcel, Troy, Kevin, Rob

• Nominations closed today
  • 8 people running
  • Last minute nominations allowed, but earlier the better

• Door is almost ready to open when fire alarm goes off
  • Last part is getting building panel connected, which is locked
  • Fire alarm might not even work
    • No battery and no phone line - landlord should bring in alarm company
  • Remote access needs to be tested

• LES.net upgraded our phone line
  • Calls now last more than 30 minutes!
  • No MTS landline needed anymore

• Coinfest last weekend
  • First Bitcoin ATM in Winnipeg!

• David - heritage/community museums
  • Looking for interested members to help create interactive electronic exhibits
    • Push button activated sounds for guessing game
    • Electric fire glow
    • Lit routes on map
    • Fibre optic lights modified to be activated by motion sensor or push button
    • And more!
  • Many small contracts available

• Raspberry Pi users group this weekend

• Booking the space is awkward right now
  • Suggestion made for a webpage for applying to use the space

• Wiki needs updating
  • Brittany will be working on this, contact her if you are interested in helping out

• Switch inside for when we are open
  • Notification on website/IRC/Twitter?
  • Light in the window?

• Next hackathon - Manitoba retro computing
  • Winnipeg was the BBS capital of Canada at one time
  • Some speakers already contacted, more being contacted
    • Les
    • Bill Reed
    • Michael Gelespie

Feb 11, 2014 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

Members present: Ian, Mark, Marcel, AMichael, Brian, Colin C., Courtney, Alex, Kevin, Thor, Stefan, Troy, Rob, Cian, Edwin, Ben, Zewwy, Colin S., Dave, Ric

• You have less than a week to nominate yourself for the board
  • Email admin and Nathan

• Crypto currency day last weekend - success
  • Slides will be posted on discuss

• Crypto party last weekend - success
  • People can learn about privacy protecting technology and do key signing
  • Everyone should come to the next one

• Door hardware - no news

• CDC Feb 20
  • 3rd year
  • 10 high school teams
  • No more volunteers needed
  • Virtual env. for students to secure
  • Feel free to come by and hang out

• Sci-fi skirmish day coming up - info on discuss

• AGM Feb 25
  • Email coming to paid-up members with voting codes
    • Make sure you are paid up by the 15th!

• Big hydro bill
  • Likely due to air conditioning for the summer
  • Will check if the bill is est. or act.
  • Will look into going on a budget

• Things that annoy Ian
  • Booking the space and not showing up
    • Please email pics of the space to admin so we can use it to show off to potential renters

• Dedicated IPv6 network being installed by Voi
  • CDC storage servers will be installed here on that network, Octopi donating blade server for VMs
  • Early stages, nothing bought yet, still discussing

• MTS Future First providing stuff like shirts and scholarships, sponsoring CDC
  • Talk to Cian if you are interested

• By-law amendments
  • Can be policy instead of by-law - vote against by-law if this is your choice

• PHP users group tomorrow

Feb 4, 2014 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

Members present: Phoul, Sean, Alex, Thor, Ian, Cian, Stefan, Jeremy, Ben, A. Michael, Adrian, Edwin

• AGM - 25 Feb.
  • Elect new board
  • Vote on two by-law amendments
    • Membership dropped if no payments for 3 months
      • Nominate yourself by Feb 17 ??pm
        • admin@skullspace.ca
    • Read minutes
  • Voting
    • You will get a token by email
    • Bring token to do your vote
    • OR give token to a proxy to vote on your behalf

• Door & occupancy permit stuff
  • Getting fire extinguishers
  • Front door quote was really expensive - ~$2000
  • Colin Stanners will be fixing door himself next week
  • New drink machine process
    • If a drink is out, feel free to buy drinks at Giant Tiger, put receipt with name in cash box

• CryptoParty
  • OTR & Tor - Phoul
  • Security from ISP perspective - Theo

• Crypto currency day - Sat. at noon
  • Dogecoin "samples"
  • Crypto stuff regarding block chain

• Big Hydro bill
  • Need to check if that is a reading or an estimate (might be overage from summer)
  • Keep some drinks in the fridge, only use drink machine for events

• Beefs
  • If you schedule an event on the calendar, show up
    • Game day and movie night had people show up when no one was hear

• CDC Feb. 20
  • If you are interested in helping kids fix sketchy networks, contate Nathan

• Thanks to Dave for sorting out the electronics bench
  • There was a mediocre round of applause

• Sunday RPG day
  • D&D style, combining many different games
    • Bring any game rules you have to make the system more robust
  • More info coming to mailing list soon

Jan 21, 2014 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

Members present: Ben, Countney, Stefan, Michael, Alex, Thor, Phoul, Brittany, Marcel, Brian, Edwin, Ian, Rob, Jared, Sean, Aemilianus, Cian

• International Table Top Day
  • Beginning of April
  • Nate is taking charge

• CDC
  • This Saturday, Linux experts presenting Linux Security Part 2 with Jared and Theo
  • Preperation for CDC high schooler event Feb. 20

• Hackathon
  • Ghost in the Shellcode - 20th place
    • Pretty impressive, considering we were a small team doing it part time
  • Jim's Unity talk at the last hackathon
    • Went well, Jim is willing to do more Unity talks in the future

• The Annual General Meeting cometh - Feb 25th
  • Need signage for what is being voted on (ie. board and by-laws) 21 days prior to AGM
  • Board vote
    • Everyone that is interested in running for the board should nominate themselves
    • If you want to nominate someone, email admin@
    • You may nominate yourself the day of the election, but it is prefered that you do it sooner so your name can be on the ballots
  • Tabling of bylaw amendments / special resolutions
    • If you haven't paid your dues and haven't made special arrangements, your membership will automatically lapse (currently we need a vote by the board)
    • Probation period for new members, not just two week delay (other spaces have this)
      • Should this impact privelages, ie. voting?
      • Should they be required to be at a minimum number of events? (eg. 3 regular meetings and 3 other events)
      • Should members need to be vouched for by n number of full members by the end of their probation period in order to be a full member?
        • Execution could be complicated
        • Could be combined with complaints
        • Ian's perspectives (food for thought, perhaps need more discussion at a future meeting)
          • Is it in our best interest to make it harder to become a member?
          • Are we looking for people to improve our cash flow?
          • Are we looking to be just sustainable? More than sustainable? Should there be a membership cap? We are the most expensive technology group (other than AssentWorks) in the city
    • If there are any other proposed special resolutions, email the list

• Fundraising
  • Bowling night?
    • All you can eat pizza/popcorn/soft drinks - $25/person ($20 without pizza)
  • Minigolf night?
  • Doodle coming for choosing date
    • Saturday is likely cheapest

• Programming for Beginners course
  • Jan 27, for 6 weeks
  • lectures and assignments
  • Will be a very dense, professional course
  • $60
  • In SkullSpace classroom

• Canadian Open Data Experience Hackathon (http://www.canadianopendataexperience.com/)
  • Should we participate?

Jan 14th, 2014 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

Members present: Brittany, Ian, Nate, Thor, Brittany, Courtney, Brian, AMichael, Ben, Jeremy, Phoul, Edwin. Sean, Ric, Colin, Alex, Stef

• Financial update
  • We're stable
  • One social or other event per year covers unexpected expenses pretty easily

• Our "Meetup" account
  • We have 80 people, lots of people that aren't members
  • If you want non-members to come, post your event on the Meetup

• Minutes
  • A request was made to send an email when meeting minutes are published
  • Minutes should also be uneditable by the general public

• Hackathon!
  • Ghost in the Shellcode CTF
  • Unity talk

• Cleaning
  • The cleaner charges $100 for 3-4 hours of cleaning
  • Ian has been paying for it
  • Quick vote was taken: overwhelming "yes" for SkullSpace to foot the bill

• CDC
  • 1/3 forensics, 1/3 presentations, 1/3 securing servers
  • February 20th is the big event
  • If you want to help out with the event, talk to Ian

• Fire alarm/door locks integration
  • No news

• AGM
  • The next Annual General Meeting is on the of February 25th
  • Please consider running for the board
  • Please consider any bylaws you would like to be modified
  • More information to follow

• Comic Con
  • Pop Culture Expo is coming up
  • Last weekend in March (?)

Jan 7th, 2014 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

Members Present: Ric, Thor, Jarred, Ian, Jeremy, Sean, Courtney, Alex, Nate, Jay, Brian, Stefan, Colin 2, Cian, Michael

• Game Day
  • The place was left a mess
  • Please clean up after yourselves and please date you food

• Missing Gloves
  • If you find them they belong to Dave Stewart

• AGM
  • Will be Feb 25

• Cleaner
  • Will be coming in Jan 13

• Hackathon
  • Jan 18
  • Jim is giving a talk on Unity

• Network Changes
  • See discuss

• Meetings
  • This Saturday, 9:30-11:30 a server security talk for the CDC
  • The PHP user group is going to start meeting at the space
  • Game day is every second Sunday

• Door
  • Ian will talk to Bob

Dec 10th, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

• RuCTFE
  • Attack/Defend Capture-the-Flag challenge
  • Starts at 4am on Saturday
  • Talk to Phoul for more information
  • http://ructf.org/e/2013/

• Routers
  • Our router collection has been distributed to various good homes
  • If you need help with your new router, Sean Cody offered his skills to the group

• CDC
  • We had Red Team training last weekend and it went well!
  • We're looking forward to the event

• Coderetreat
  • We are hosting Coderetreat at SkullSpace this weekend!
  • Some members are meeting up on Thursday to prepare for the event

• New IP address range
  • SkullSpace is migrating to a new IP address range
  • If you have a server, talk to Colin about moving it

• Board game day
  • We have a board game day on Sunday!
  • It went well, lots of people came out

• SkullSpace's Anniversary
  • December 7th marks SkullSpace's third anniversary

• Financial update
  • We will have a financial update prepared for next meeting
  • We will discuss plans for renovating the space

• 6 week course in (blank)
  • Mark's partner will be teaching a course for a nominal fee
  • Reply to the mailing list post to vote for the course you want

Dec 3rd, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

• Annual cleaning
  • Monday, January 13th, we will have a cleaner come in

• Minecraft server
  • We have a semi-official Minecraft server!
  • Talk to Mak or Dave Curry for details

• Bitcoin endowment
  • We were liquidating
  • We have a 5GH/s mining operaton
  • We took all of the Bitcoin we still had and split the secret key in a 2-of-3 scheme
  • If you want to donate Bitcoin to SkullSpace, ask Ian, Alex, or Mark for the address

• Men's washroom
  • The bolts on the toilet came loose
  • Ian will talk to the landlord about getting a plumber in

• Game day
  • Sunday, December 8th
  • Everyone is welcome

• Code Retreat
  • SkullSpace will be hosting Coderetreat!
  • Saturday, December 14th from 9-5 in the classroom

• CDC
  • Planning for 20 teams
  • This weekend, Red Team training from 9:30am to 11:30am on Saturday
  • The actual event is February 20th, 2014

• Computers for Schools
  • We have a new member who works for Computers for Schools
  • Instead of throwing out PCs, email discuss@ first!

Nov 26th, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

Members present: Ian, Jason, Phoul, Mark, Twitch, Marcel, Brian, Brittany, Ben, Michael, Ric, Colin, Thor, Stef

• CDC bud spud and steak tomorrow, 27th
  • $25 at the door

• 30th Linux sec. session with Alex
  • peek at CDC challenges

• Residence perm. update
  • Colin will call emergency system folks

• SkSp BTC
  • holding all future BTC

• Annual purge coming up
  • table of doom coming back
  • last call for Cisco routers

• Welcome to the board Brittany!

Nov 19th, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

Members present: Awesome Michael, Sean, Stefan, Thor, Jeremy, Ron, Phoul, Jason, Courtney, Brian, Marcel, Colin, Jared?, Mak, Katie

• BSidesWpg last weekend
  • Park Theater next year?
  • videos going up shortly
  • overall, was awesome and will be more awesome next year

• Ron leaving for the Google
  • going away party Friday - King's Head
  • successor? Mak? Brittany?
    • board vote, may ask membership for input
  • will email announce

• CDC Bud spud and steak fundraiser next week, 27th, King's Head

November 12th, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

Minutes are absent.

Nov 5th, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

• BSides Winnipeg
  • Not this weekend, but next weekend

• C4
  • Next to AssentWorks on the Second Floor
  • signage was very out-of-sight
  • Lots of people that have heard of us

• No more rogue DHCP server

Oct 29th, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

• C4
  • We're going to spend $50 to pay for our five "50% off" tickets, so we can send five more volunteers at no cost
  • Set up is this Thursday from 10am-5pm and 5pm-midnight

• BSides Winnipeg
  • We're totally sold out
  • Nothing really new
  • The CTF was announced

• CDC
  • Linux workshop will be after BSides Winnipeg

• Emergency exit
  • The fire escape now has a "panic bar"
  • Be careful not to lock yourself out!

• Getting up to code
  • We need to have a release on the front door
  • We need to clean up some wiring messes
  • We're close!

• Ron's going away party
  • November 22nd
  • The King's Head

October 22, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

Ron, Rylaan, Brian, Aemil, Edwin, Siu, Daniel, AMichael, Nishan, Thor, Ric, Stef, Marcel

• C4
  • The first of November
  • We need labor in exchange for the table

• BSides
  • A month away
  • The CTF is becoming awesome
  • At 7, the doors open to the public so come party if you don't have a ticket

• CDC
  • Bud Spud and Steak fundraiser
  • Wednesday, November 27th, 2013 from 4pm to 7pm
  • 2nd floor, King's Head, 120 King Street
  • $25
  • info@cyberdefencechallenge.ca

• SkullSpace user guide
  • Ian and Siu have put together a first go at a SkullSpace user guide
  • Please mark up your copy and return to Ian if you find problems or have suggestions

• 3D printer
  • It broke while Ric was using it
  • Thor cut new glass to replace the broken bed, and it's working again
  • Please get people to show you how to use it, if you plan to use it.

• Ron's going away party
  • Ron got a job at Google!
  • 22nd of November, King's Head

• Siu ordered business cards
  • They should be here before Comic Con

Oct 15th, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

Members present: Ron, Nathan, Dave, Ben, Alex, Phoul, A. Mike, Jason, Ian, Thor, Stefan, Jay

• 1 year in new space
  • wall building party

• C4
  • need display stuff - the more blinky the better
  • about membership
  • need brochures and/or cards

• SkullSpace web stuff has been moved to SkullSpace and GitHub
  • ask if you want access
  • forum coming

• CDC
  • lots of stuff going on

• BSides coming up
  • tickets sold out
  • CTF will be available for those without tickets... probably

• What to do when people are drinking behind the building
  • Downtown Biz, Cadets, 311

• 3D printer works, finicky
  • if you haven't been to 3D printer night recently, work with someone who has

• Lost Bitcoins retrieved!

Oct 8, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

Members present: Ron, Ian, Daniel, Courtney, Thor, Sean, Kenny, Ben, Adrian, Brian, Ric, Chris, Stef, Alex, AMichael, Colin, Dave

• Comic Con
  • November 1st - 3rd
  • We have a table, but we need to provide labour in exchange
  • Setting up October 31st ???

• Occupancy permit
  • Getting locks on the fire escape door
  • Disconnect on the front door
  • If we get an occupancy permit, we *might* get to have a liquor permit too!
  • Ideally we could have liquor sales at CTF meetups and/or hackathons

• Cisco equipment
  • We had a sudden outbreak of Cisco 1800s, 1700s, and 800s from the WSD1
  • 800's have the full feature set of IOS

• Octopi employees
  • Russ and Daniel
  • They're doing their practicums with Octopi and using SkullSpace as office spa

• CDC
  • Doing presentations for schools and training things
  • We're doing >18 teams next time

• Parking in the back lane
  • Don't do it anymore!
  • It's going to likely turn in to a loading zone

• BSidesWpg
  • It's coming up

• Strikeforce Blade
  • As we go forward and get more members, we'll need to put our surplus money to
  • Considering replacing the servers we have with a blade enclosure

Oct 1, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

Members present: Jay, Courtney, Ron, Phoul, Sean, DrWest, Marcel, Mak, Katie, AMichael, Brian, Thor, Dave, CStanners, Stef

• C4
  • We have a booth
  • We get a booth in exchange for labour
  • We need cool projects to put on the table

• Ron is retiring as a director
  • He got a job at Google!
  • Mak will be taking over until the next election

• Cryptoparty
  • We had a bunch of people RSVP and a few of them actually showed up
  • Did some key signing, got to meet some new people

Sept 24, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

Meeting was cancelled.

Reason: Lack of board members to chair the meeting

Sept 17, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

Members present: Brittany, Ron, Ed, DrWest, Stef, Ian, Grumpy, Aemil, AMichael, Thor, Ben, Adrian, Phoul, Jeremy, Sean

• Social
  • Things went well
  • Manager was really happy
  • We're missing the 50-foot quad-plug cable
  • We made about $3300 dollars gross, not including alcohol expenses
  • Hacker Jeopardy
    • The software kind of worked
    • It was an adventure
  • Money for the social is earmarked for improvements to the space
  • We have lots of left over stuff that's gone to the space
  • Remaining alcohol needs to be/will be returned

• Getting up to code
  • Some little electrical work
  • Testing the fire stuff
  • Panic bar

• BSides Winnipeg
  • We sold all our tickets! (~120 people)

• Thursday is Talk Like a Pirate Day!

• Cryptoparty
  • Starts at 7, goes til whenever
  • Alex and Phoul will be teaching privacy/secure communication tools: GnuPG, Tor, and OTR
  • It will be lots of hands-on, let's-actually-get-this-stuff-working time
  • There might be food
  • RSVP to cryptoparty@skullspace.ca

• CDC
  • Call for volunteers will be happening soonish
  • Talk to Ian or Alex if you're interested in making high school kids cry

Sept 10, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

Members present: Brittany, CStanners, Dave, Robert, Stef, Colin, Alex Ian, Ben, Courtney, Mak, AMichael, Brad, Thor

• Social
  • Only a few days! (Friday this week)
  • Sold about half our tickets and a lot of people that want to buy at the door
  • If you can come at about 5pm on Friday to help, that would be great
  • We've broken even already
  • We've got a few DJs
  • We've got Hacker Jeopardy
  • Get in contact with Brittany to help coordinate

• Canadian Cyber-Defence Challenge
  • February 2014
  • More information will follow on discuss

Sept 3, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

• Anti-social
  • You can get tickets from Brittany!
  • ~80 tickets sold already
  • We have actual liquor!
    • Half Pints order is in the works
    • A few bottles of Jagermeister
  • We have *legal* DJs!
  • We will have a GameCube and other things!
  • Hacker Jeopardy
  • We need more prizes

• BSides Winnipeg
  • We have sold over 75 "general admission" tickets
  • Over 90 attendees registered
  • We have less than 25 tickets left!

• Comic Con
  • We're going to try and get a table
  • We need projects to show off at the booth to make us look cool

• CDC
  • Executive meeting on September 4th
  • Technical meeting on September 9th
  • If you're interested in building virtual machines with vulnerabilities or putting together fun cryptography and forensics challenges for high-school students, talk to Alex, Ian, or Phoul

• Bitcoin Mining
  • We've made $150 already
  • We're generating about $300 every 5 weeks

Aug 27, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

Members present: Molly, Ron, Rob, Courtney, Jay, Brian, Thor, Marcel, Nishan, Adrian, Colin S, Phoul, Mark, Ian, Brittany, Ric, Awesome Michael, Sui, Dave

• Events
  • Anti-Social
    • Social tickets available $10 - ask Brittary
      • BitCoin accepted
    • Looking for social prizes
      • Bar fridge being donated
    • Volunteers needed
    • Pizza proposed - other ideas?
  • BSides
    • Buy tickets online or from one of the organizers

• Meetings
  • Alternate meetings out like our pre-space days
  • Project nights (eg. work or project Euler together)
  • Ingress/geocaching after meeting
  • Show and tell

Aug 20, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

Member's present: Arthur, Ron, Walltiger, Stef, Ian, Grump, Alex, Jay, Ric, Jason, Sean, CStanners, Rocky, AMichael, Adrian, Jeremy, Richard, Brittany, Thor

• SkullCamp
  • It went well
  • Lots of people bailed at the last minute
  • There was a CTF
  • We had a bunch of glowsticks
  • We set off fireworks
  • DRANK ALL THE BOOZE

• Anti-social
  • September 13th
  • Focusing on games and trivia, rather than dancing
  • There will be prizes!
    • Recording time at a studio
    • Things from Wilderness supply
    • Photo shoots
  • Talk to Brittany if you want tickets
  • Tickets are $10
  • Drinks are $4
  • We need about 6 volunteers
  • If you can help source some prizes, talk to Brittany

• BSides Winnipeg
  • Mid-November
  • $20 for a ticket and that gets you a drink and a meal
  • The speaker lineup has been posted! http://bsideswpg.ca/schedule.html

• Jay's Birthday
  • Solid Gold on Friday night!
  • Everyone from SkullSpace is invited

Aug 13, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

Meeting notes are missing.

Reason: catastrophic failure of secretary's computer shortly after minutes were recorded.

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 30, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

Meeting was cancelled.

Reason: A large majority of the directors (and a number of members) were in Las Vegas for DefCon and BSidesLV

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 you 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

• 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

Minutes are absent.

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

• Hackathon - unusual/esoteric programming languages
  • Speakers
    • John Bates
    • Jay
    • Mak
  • pizza

• 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!

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