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Hax is a weekend festival at Skullspace. It is our annual opportunity to celebrate and promote our broad hackerspace community, which includes technologists, musicians, DJs, gamers, crafters, artists and other tinkers. The festival condenses the hackerspace experience into an entire weekend.
We regret that our location, the 2nd floor of 374 Donald is not mobility accessible. There are three flights of stairs up 1.5 stories.
Anti-social featuring electronic music, dancing, frace painting, and gaming. 8pm-4am. Tickets, buy early for a discount.
Saturday afternoon, 10am-5:45pm:
(free event)
Saturday evening:
6pm-11:00pm A free reception after the talks featuring Infyuthsion (chillout and synthwave), kid missive (analog party breaks), and our Anti-social licensed bar.
A previously announced late evening event was cancelled.
Chill and open house day
(free event)
noon-4pm
Exhibits and gaming (workshop/lounge/classroom)
Dinner break, 4pm-6:30pm space will be closed. Potentially there will be a group outing to a pub on foot. To be decided spontantouesly at the space
Movie night with Thor, 6:30pm. Featuring two documentaries until 9pm and possibly one bonus movie. In person in the lounge and online at http://skullspace.fullspeed.tv (put that URL in a media player such as VLC).
We welcome volunteers for the smooth running of gaming, exhibits, operations, and several other roles.
You may appreciate our volunteer form.
All volunteers will recieve free tickets to our Friday May 17 anti-social
You can also reach out to members of the organizing committee directly.
Last minute offers of sponsorship should reach out the members of the organizing committee.
| 11:30am | Ian Trump -- Cyber Privateer or Cyber Pirate |
| 12:45pm | Jim Sutton, VE4SIG -- The Least Boring Presentation on Ham Radio You Will Ever See |
| 2:00pm | Straithe -- Open source community management. By video conference |
| 3:15pm | Shibashis Bal -- double presentation:
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| 5:00pm | Michael Ossmann, founder and CTO of Great Scott Gadgets -- Software defined radio and the law. -- By video conference. |
All talks will be available in the Skullspace classroom. Those held by video conference (Google Meet) will also be available to remote participants.
We also had a YouTube Stream. We have archived it and will post editted versions of videos
Following our talks there was a free reception until 11:00pm with Infyuthsion (chillout and synthwave), kid missive (analog party breaks), and our bar serving drinks. See the anti-social and reception section for additional details.
For reference, see our call for speakers.
Exhibits are available for the public look at and/or play with during our free Saturday and Sunday hours.
Reach out with our volunteer form or email Casey Lewis orbital.saucer@gmail.com if you have something to exhibit.
Check back for additional scheduled table-top gaming sessions with hosts as part of our free Saturday and Sunday daytimes.
Volunteers are welcome to use our volunteer form or to reach out directly to Casey Lewis orbital.saucer@gmail.com .
Our festival features two of our signature "anti-socials". These ticketed events, May 4 and Friday May 17th are electonic music dance-parties plus all manner of geeky gaming (video and tabletop) at the back of our space.
This year, following our Saturday talks we are having a reception, 6:00pm to 11:00pm on Saturday May 18 which is a free community event featuring music artists and a DJ (details below.)
(high res poster)
There is a lot of commercial and free street parking in the neighbourhood.
Our block of Donald and nearby Hargrave steet are metred on
Saturdays daytimes with two hours free.
(pay for two, get four free, or just
enjoy your free two, pay after for two more or move to another block).
Notre Dame west of Hargrave has no metres or Saturday/Sunday time limits.
All street parking is free on Sunday.
The organizing committee consists of
Upcoming meetings, in person and online at https://meet.google.com/xnp-heog-rub
Our festival is largely in-person, but we have two planned talks that will be available remotely via Google Meet at https://meet.google.com/dci-whqg-amy.
We have late added a YouTube stream. It has been archived and we will prepare individual talks for upload
Our anti-social DJs and synth performers are expected to appear live on our Twitch feed. There's a recording of our DJs on May 4.
Our Sunday night movie night hosted by Thor at 6:30pm will be available at http://skullspace.fullspeed.tv , put that URL in a media player like VLC.
We regularly hang out in two places online
About | Schedule | Volunteer | Sponsors | Talks | Exhibits | Gaming | "Anti"-socials and Reception | Parking | Organizer meetings | Remote participation | Archives
