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

April 30, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

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

  • Parts store
    • nothing new
  • Printer
    • working, needs fine tuning and pricing
  • Electrical
    • new contractor, waiting for quote
  • CCDC
    • Volunteers needed for May 11
    • May 1 - basic Win admin training
    • May 4 - walkthrough/test run

New record shortest meeting - 3 min!

April 23, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

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

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

  • Capture-the-Flag
    • Participated in PlaidCTF 2013 as team Night Danger
    • 24th place of 300 scoring teams (900 teams total)
    • Had a lot of people come out to help
  • 3D Printer
    • Still working on it
    • Nothing's broken
    • Optimistically, we will be printing in a few days
  • Solarbotics, Seedfun and Sparkfun
    • Approved us as resellers
    • Minimum $250 dollar order for Sparkfun
    • If we put our orders together we can get a discount
  • Parts Store
    • There will be a seperate donation box
    • If you start paying for things, we can 'bootstrap' the store and start getting more stuff in
  • Kreytor
    • Crowd-funding and curating site for research, books, and other media
    • Talk to Ric for more information
  • Bingo
    • Ian's getting a quote for electrical stuff
    • Need a financial statement
    • We need the information to make an application
  • Electrical
    • We have a guy coming in to give us another quote
    • Don't unplug the black cord on the right wall of the kitchen
  • CDC
    • 28th of April is the final test
    • 11th of May is the big event at RRC
      • We need people to staff this
      • In excess of 50 kids
    • Moving the rehearsal to the 4th of May
  • Cleaning
    • We need to clean more
    • We hired Clinton to do the bathrooms
    • CStanners has a shelf to put the cleaning stuff in the bathroom, for ease of use
  • Community First
    • This weekend, they are running an electronic music production workshop
    • Social Enterprise on Main Street
    • school.musicfirst@gmail.com to register
  • Next hackathon
    • Less-popular languages hackathon
    • Lots of talks lined up already
      • Haskell
      • Forth
      • Clojure
  • Next next hackathon
    • Mark Jenkins is doing a talk and demo on the VM server
  • Marketing hackathons
    • Apparently, lots of people don't know they can just *come to a hackathon*
    • We need to do a better job of advertising the hackathons
    • We need to approach new people in the space when we see them, otherwise people run
    • We should start advertising hackathons as "Hackathon X and Open House"

April 16, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

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

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

  • 3D printer
    • It's assembled!
    • An Allen key was not included
    • Otherwise everything is done
  • Electrical
    • Late this week or early next week they will be getting back to us
    • Between Lyon Brown's commitment and Siu's donation, the freezer/fridge wiring will be fixed up
  • Remote unlocking for the door
    • Colin is fixing
  • Bingo fundraiser
    • 4 months lead itme
    • Need at least 10 volunteers - we have 4 already
    • September time frame
  • Cleaning
    • Dirty dishes!
    • Pile of pizza boxes!
  • Hackathon and CTF and Bakesale
    • Justin is posting the Hackathon schedule for tonight
    • Justin talking about AutoCAD and EAGLE
    • Ben is talking about making PCBs
    • Robert Elms is talking about their new equipment
      • Stef might talk about 3D printer
    • Capture the flag!
      • Friday til 4 til Sunday til 4
    • Bakesale!
      • Bring in stuff!
      • Pay what you think it's worth
  • Next months Hackathon
    • Weird programming languages talks
    • Clojure
    • J
    • Forth
    • Haskell
  • Tool tracking system
    • Ben started working on this
    • It's on the SkullSpace GitHub account, so everyone can contribute
  • BaseLAN
    • We have the option of a table all three days
    • Talk to Shawn if you want to work the table
  • $36 for a table at RRC
  • Magic! The Gathering
    • A friend of Brittany's is doing judging training
    • We will likely end up with the gear to run events here
  • CDC
    • Next big event is the 28th, Sunday. The final beta
    • Rehearsal is the 5th, Sunday.
    • Saturday the 11th is the big event at RRC - we need people to handle 55 students

April 9, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

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

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

  • Yuri's Night
    • Apr 12th
    • Ticket's available online - $12
    • Tickets are almost sold out!
    • We have a table - can some people stand behind it a bit?
  • April 20th Hackathon
    • Plaid CTF - Friday at 4pm, 48-hours long
    • Back-sale - bring food of some kind or cook something
    • Rapid prototyping talks
      • Justin - EAGLE and AutoCAD
      • Ben - How to construct circuit boards
  • 3D printer
    • Supposed to be coming soon
    • Ben has been talking to the filament guy, lots available
  • First Aid
    • Nate is used to getting free training for community groups
    • Contact Jay for information
    • Shawn is talking to some folks that might do pro bono instruction
  • Pop-Culture Expo
    • Second day went really well
    • Mostly people came play with the uJoypad
    • Computer Science teacher came by and was interested in the CDC stuff
  • BaseLAN
    • Sold out, waiting list of 50 people - 300 people confirmed
    • BaseLAN runs for 54 hours straight
    • Confirmed that we have a table
  • CDC
    • This weekend - Saturday, the 13th of April
    • One more test - the 28th of April
    • 11th of May is the big day
  • Rotary Career Symposium
    • Ian is speaking at it
    • Going to plug SkullSpace _a lot_
  • Next Hackathon - May 18th
    • A bunch of talks about interesting programming languages
      • Alex will do Haskell
      • Jay will do Clojure
      • Mak will do Common/Emacs Lisp or Forth or something
    • If you know any interesting languages, do a talk!

April 2, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

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

Members present: Not available (forgot to take tally)

  • Yuri's Night
    • We're allowed to bring in LED throwies
    • Borrowing the uJoypad, NES-chuck, etc
    • If you want to put together some kind of puzzle for participants to do, talk to Nate or Alex
  • Pop Culture Expo
    • CStanners is organizing our table/showing
    • Free table (we think, Colin will confirm)
    • We need volunteers
    • Saturday Sunday, 10am - 6pm
  • First Aid
    • Nate is looking for a way to get it for free, for Skullspace
  • BaseLAN
    • May 18, 19t, 20
    • Free table all weekend, all we have to do is promote BaseLAN
    • Talk to Shawn
    • World qualifiers for Starcraft 2
  • 3D printer
    • Ben knows a guy that's selling cheap filament
    • If you want to donate some money, we can get some color variety
  • April 20th Hackathon
    • Rapid prototyping talks
    • Submit talks!

March 26, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

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

Members present: Not available (forgot to take tally)

  • Director availability
    • Ron is gone this week and next
    • Ian is taking off at some point too
    • We are still having meetings
  • Stuff for the space
    • Low on some things, Alex will take care of
      • Doorstop
      • V8
      • Peanut butter
      • Brown paper towels
      • Dispenser
    • Nate
      • Liquid soap
  • 3D printer has shipped
    • Will be here in 6-10 days
  • SkullSpace flag
    • Ian talked to the landlord, and it's a no-go
    • We can still put something up in a window
  • Banking troubles
    • We descended upon them and got everything sorted
    • All of the directors are in the system
    • Ian got the PADs
  • SkullSpace Challenge 2.0: Meatspace Edition
    • A challenge that involves going around the city
    • A mix of geocaching and CTF - hiding USB sticks, etc
    • Talk to Nate or Alex
  • Emacs Conference
    • London, Saturday, 9:30am (4:30am here)
    • Nate and Mak are going to be streaming it at the space
  • CDC
    • ComputerWorld 2013 Honors Laureate award
    • Red River confirmed as the location for final event instead of Louis Riel center
    • 12 teams of 8 kids from all over
    • CEOs/CTOs representing fictional companies, infrastructure built around that
    • May 11th
  • Skullotron
    • Tomorrow, 3pm-5pm, moving the Skullotron
    • Only Nate and Dave, need more people
  • Tables
    • Red River tables cost $50
    • Brittany is going to see about getting us on CKUW

March 19, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

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

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

  • Friday at noon, kitchen will be fixed - let in a guy from Amos
  • CDC
    • 28th Sunday
      • Room available for 3 teams
    • 13 Saturday
      • 3 teams are coming in
    • Sisler went to Cyber Patriot
    • Former Premier asked how the team prepared, they said they prepped at SkullSpace. Good PR!
    • 11th of May, Saturday
      • Big challenge! No more beta!
      • Hosted at Red River
      • We need volunteers
  • New table of doom
    • Stuff that hasn't been labelled will go there
    • Stuff won't be thrown out, but srsly - label your stuff please
  • Ron is gone this week, Courtney is gone next week, Ian is gone at some point too
    • We will still have a meeting
  • Having problems with the bank
    • We can't tell what happens when new PADs are filled out
    • The board is going to "descend upon" them on Friday to get everything sorted out
  • Custom embroidery
    • Patches with Sksp logo
    • $3.50 for stich-on
    • $4.50 for iron-on
    • Talk to Sean
  • Table at UW
    • Tables at U of W
    • They're free!
    • Jim is going to register us for one.
  • April Hackathon
    • Hardware Freedom Day
    • The copyright/oss lawyer cannot come on Saturday
  • Secret Handshake
    • Third anniversary today!
    • Starting at the Kings Head
  • Yuri's Night
    • April 12th
    • Tickets sell out really fast
    • Tickets are available through Ticketmaster
    • Talk to Jay

March 12, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

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

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

  • Ben is going to do a survey about the electronics lab to make it better
  • Stuff for the space (delegated to Alex)
    • Drinks are primary concern
      • Delegated to Brittany
    • Chocolate (?)
    • Garbage bags
    • $50 a year for Costco membership, something to talk about
  • CDC
    • Went very well
    • Next dates - dates that were sent out are wrong
    • We're taking a 3-week hiatus
    • May 11th (Saturday) is the big day
    • Looking at hosting it at RRC
    • Call for targets
      • Must be a VM image that works with VMware
      • Has baked-in vulnerabilities
      • Some kind of Easter egg
      • Best if it has some kind of story behind it
      • Talk to Alex if you'd like to help out
  • If you're leaving stuff here, label it
  • BSides Winnipeg
    • bsideswpg.ca
    • We have a sponsorship package
      • If you know IT companies with too much money
      • Seccuris et al has committed already
  • 3D printer
    • It's going to be shipping this week or next week
  • Tables at the college
    • No progress yet, because elections
    • In a couple of weeks we'll know more
    • Would be free at U of W
      • Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday would be best
      • Delegated to Jim
  • Code Camp
    • Conference at RRC
    • We might have the opportunity for table - talk to Andrew Orr
  • Western Canada Information Security Conference (WCISC)
    • Asked if we wanted to do a table ($350)
    • Not our target market
    • High profile, we would be seen by lots of vendors
  • Skull-o-Tron retrival
    • Not done yet
    • No date for return yet
    • 3-4 people to move it
  • Yuri's Night
    • April 12th, 2013 (?)
    • Would like 2 more people
    • Brittany, Ben (tentatively), Justin are volunteering
    • Talk to Jay about volunteering
    • We would like to have a collaborative puzzle
  • Hackathon is this Saturday!
    • GO to the hackathon
    • Go club will be teaching people how to play Go
  • People who volunteered to pay extra
    • If you haven't started paying yet, please start
    • Courtney will be breaking knees

March 5, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

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

  • New directors
    • Ron (President)
    • Ian (finances except member stuff, external liasing)
    • Ben (electronics workspace and generally making the space better)
    • A lex (taking notes [secretary's note: woot])
    • Courtney (membership, knee-breaker)
  • Varioland
    • 28th (day before Good Friday)
    • Video game rave
    • Somewhere off of Henry.
    • starts at 10pm and ends at 6am.
    • Savant is playing.
    • Tickets are approximately $35.
    • Contact: Phoul
  • Freeze Frame
    • Going well, lots of kids playing with NESchuck, Skullotron.
    • We need volunteers on Thursday.
    • No kidnapping children.
    • Contact: Nate
  • CDC
    • This Saturday, 15 kids from Sisler are coming to demo again.
    • Networking/infrastructure stuff is worked out.
    • MTS gave us $18k of stuff.
    • Chris Kluka provided blades, SAN space, lots of memory/CPU.
    • May the 10th is the real CDC event.
      • Thursday is setup day.
      • Need everybody and friends @ Louis Riel Arts and Technology Center.
    • We could use help on Saturday.
    • Last night governance met, problem: we're not an org, but we have a ton of assets. Going to incorporate CDC group.
    • Contact: Ian
  • March 16th Hackathon
    • Go Club will be here
    • Paper Airplane contest.
    • Dan Gange and some intellectual property lawyer and maybe a guy from the copyright bureau is going to come in and tell us Open Source sucks because you can't make money off of it.
    • Next regular hackathon is on April 20th.
  • BSides Winnipeg
    • November 16th to 17th at the Kingshead Pub
    • Asked for speakers? Free drinks, etc. The event will be very big.
    • We need sponsors. Dash9, Tenable, Mozilla might sponsor.
    • We will need volunteers for teardown, we will ask for volunteers closer to the date, details forthcoming.
  • Kitchen electrical fixup
    • Sonoma Electrical won the bid
    • Cost is about $275.
    • Will get us two GFI outlets, outlets will be moved, won't risk dying (from that particular outlet) anymore.
    • Contact: Ian
  • Don't leave the skillet power thing plugged in, risk of electric shock and DIAF.
  • Grants
    • AssentWorks got ~$467k for some kind of anti-child-pornography initiative [secretary's note: not sure of the name of the grant they received].
    • Mike Legary and Brittany will write up a grant application for the Western Diversification grant.
    • [secretary's note: I believe Courtney is taking point on this]
  • Defcon plans
    • More talking will be had. Plan now is to rent a Winnebago and drive it to Vegas.
    • Week long journey to incorporate BSides and Defcon.
    • We are now Defcon group 204.
    • Contact: Ian
  • Meme cookbook
    • Nate suggested we do it as a charity thing
      • Donate most of our profits to a charity.
      • Better chance getting rights for images
      • Might get free work from artists/illustrators/publishers/etc
    • Contact: Nate
  • Yuri's Night.
    • Sciencey dance party at the April 20th at the Planetarium
    • We were invited to exhibit something. It's a party, so we need a cool hands-on electronics exhibit.
    • Contact: Jay
  • Publicity / member counts
    • Brittany suggested renting table at RRC in the atrium, 11am to 1pm.
    • Jim was going to talk to U of W. it's about $50 for a table.
    • Mak delegated to talk to Jon-- about similar thing at U of M.
  • Code camp
    • We have a presence there (and even had a track).
    • If we want to get enough people together (4 or 5 people), we can do a Skullspace track again.
    • Contact: Jay or Andrew
  • 3D printer
    • no indication it's not a scam, but payment was made. It should be shipping soon.
    • Contact: Ron

February 26, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

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

SkullSpace

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

Need to

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

Events

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

Other

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

Finances

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

Election results

  • Ron
  • Courtney
  • Ian
  • Ben
  • Alex


February 19, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

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

3D Printer

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


Elections

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

Events

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

February 12, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

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

Cyber Defnse Challenge

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

Technapalooza

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

Red Team Meeting

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

Cryptonight

  • Feb 24th

CTF

  • Friday at noon until Sunday at noon

Electrical

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

Other

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

February 5, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

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

Tour

  • Kevin brought in a few new members

Technapalooza

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

Cyber Defense

  • Feb 14
  • at RRC on Princess

Cryptoparty

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

Game Dev Night

  • Feb 23

Hackathon

  • Feb 16
  • Go lessons

3d Printer

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

Plants

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

January 29, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Dolan

3D printer (stef and ben present)

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

CIPS Meeting

  • Lots of people asked about student memberships.

First Fridays

LeagionCon

February 14th Free Cyber Security Training

  • Train the Trainer

Crypto Talks

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

Game Dev

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

Go Workshop

  • March 16

CTF

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

Ham Radio Course

Last Meeting in February

  • Annual General Meeting
  • Election
  • Bylaw changing

January 22, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

Cancelled

January 15, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

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

Doors/Key fobs Should be finished next week

  • Do not unplug the box in the bathroom!

Bathroom

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

Fire safety

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

Other

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

Jan 22

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

January 8, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

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

Hydro

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

Pegjam

  • 40 people attended
  • we are getting money from them

Cryptoparty

  • 14 people

Virology Lab tour

  • end of Feb or beginning of March

Recycling

  • need volunteers to take it home

SkSp guidebook

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

January 1, 2013 - 18:00 @ 374 Donald

Cancelled