Hax Festival 3.0

Hax is the SkullSpace community hackerspace weekend festival. Previous editions were in October 2016, and October 2020.

Hax 3.0 will be held Friday April 1, Saturday April 2, and Sunday April 3rd, 2022. This will be a hybrid event, with components in person at Skullspace, 2-374 Donald St. Winnipeg and online here at hax.skull.space.

Saturday April 2, 2022

7pm-10pm -- Synth and DJ performances. In person (limited capacity) and online on our Twitch channel.

We started late

Sunday April 3, 2022

1pm-6pm -- Chill out day -- exhibits and gaming.

Feel free to bring your own exhibit of projects, toys, art, equipment, etc or to run your own video or table-top gaming session (online or in-person).

To add your exhibit or gaming session to the schedule, email mark@parit.ca .

Scheduled exhibits -- Sunday April 3, 2022

• 1pm-6pm -- Commodore VIC-20, low-end home computer from 1980, with the debut of a new game written specifically for this occasion.
  (History video by 8-Bit Guy)
  There will be a competitive high-score chart!
  The developer is available to discuss her code 2pm-4pm.
  In-person only.
   
• 1pm-2pm -- Skullspace version of Hacker Jeopardy.
  We won't be running a formal round as seen previously at fundraiser socials, but one of the developers will be available for demos.
   
• 1pm-6pm -- Looking Glass Portrait with a member working on content in progress
   
• 1pm-6pm -- SpaceMouse, a 6-axis mouse for 3D work and play.
   
• 1pm-6pm -- The Super NT (FPGA based Super Nintendo clone) will be available with a game collection and side-loading enabled.
  If anyone would like to bring in a homebrew game or demo that they've developed for the occassion, we will award a "best in show" title to our favourite.
   

Scheduled gaming sessions

• 1pm-6pm -- Skullspace board game collection, self organize your own play -- in-person
   
• 2pm-4pm -- Casual chess hosted by a 1400 Chess Federation of Canada rated player (low end intermediate level).
  Tournament sized chess sets and mechanical chess clocks from the Soviet Union will be available.
  Host available to play blind (in-person) against less experienced players.
  For online play, ask in the #skullspace channel on the Libera IRC network (web interface) if anyone would like a game.
   
• 4pm-6pm -- Cacao (2-4 players) with a host -- in-person
   
• 4pm-6pm -- Pioneers (Catan clone), 2 round elimination tournament for up to 16 players!
  An online event, laptops at Skullspace will also be available for participation in-person.
  Organized on the #skullspace channel on the Libera irc network, (web interface) and the game server will be hosted on a publicly reachable Skullspace server

Promote

• Re-tweet our tweet announcing the line-up
   
• Invite people to our Facebook events
  • Friday night movie night and a panel
  • Saturday talks
  • Sunday chillout with exhibits and gaming
   
• Our meetup.com events
  • Friday night movie night and a panel
  • Saturday talks
  • Sunday chill out day
   
• Initial Instagram post tagging @skullspacewpg
   
• Distribute our 17x11" poster. Printed copies are available at Skulllspace with a staple-gun and staples.

Sponsor

A crowd fund has covered our honouria costs. Les.net provides internet.

Additional sponsorship is still welcome to cover organizer and operations staffing and to support the hackerspace.

Donate

Small dollar donations in support of Skullspace are welcome by Paypal or Interac e-transfer

Hax 3.0 Festival Archive

Friday April 1, 2022

• New edition to the schedule
  6:45pm -- Panel: How To Re-ignite A Hacerkspace After A Pandemic. In-person and online on YouTube. Moderator Sara Arenson with panelists
  • Siusan Hample
  • Mark Campbell
  • Michael Kozakewich
   
• 7:30pm -- Movie night. In-person and online. Poster
  

Saturday April 2, 2022

11am-5pm -- Presentations. In-person and online on YouTube. We regret that we don't have a URL direclty playable in a media player this time around.

The lineup:

• 11:00am-11:30am -- Mike Major
  3D Printing for Table-top Gaming
  Presentation handout
   
• 11:45am-12:30pm -- Heinrich Harms
  Analyzing Images with Genetic Algorithms
   
• 12:45pm-13:15pm -- Tina Tenbergen
  Arduino Encoder for a Ship Wheel
   
• Ryan Wall -- Gaining New Perspectives Through the Art of Magic (cancelled)
   
• 2:15pm-2:45pm -- Bill Shymanski
  The Oscilloscope and Why You might Want One
   
• 3:00pm-3:45pm -- Sarah LaCroix
  Continuing Education and Development
   
• 4:00pm-5:00pm -- Shibashis Bal
  Double presentation
  Fundamental Gaps in Corporate Practices in IT Compliance and Auditing
  and
  Wildlife Trafficking: What Do We Know? Applying OSINST and Data Analysis