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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 tinkerers. 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.
All Hax festival events are expected to be free, public events.
Movie night with Thor, 6:30pm.
Saturday daytime, 10am-5:45pm:
Saturday evening: 6pm-11:00pm:
A free, dry reception after the talks featuring pre-baked DJ sets curated by DJ BettyRumbles, our full complement of video game systems, and table-top gaming.
Chill open house day
1pm-3pm -- Music jam. (classroom) Bring your instruments! Hosted by Mark Campbell
3pm-5pm -- Super Smash Bros event, details TBA
1pm-5pm -- Chill Exhibits and gaming (workshop/lounge)
We welcome volunteers for the smooth running of gaming, exhibits, operations, and several other roles.
Reach out to the festival chair Mark Jenkins mark@parit.ca or other organizing committee members and channels.
We welcome cash and in-kind sponsorship of our community event. Reach out to the festival chair Mark Jenkins mark@parit.ca to sponsor this or a future year.
Top tiers above gold are by negotiation and come with exclusivity.
Each gold sponsor is acknowledged by:
Silver and broze sponsors will be included in all digital communications and will share a slide on our between-talks carousel
Doors at 10am. Talk schedule subject to change.
| 10:15am | Mark Jenkins -- Bitcoin hardware wallet tricks for the no-coiner |
| 11:30am | Alex Weber VA4ALW -- Introduction to amateur radio |
| 12:45pm | Siusan Hample -- An old lady's guide to PC gaming on a budget |
| 1:30pm | A catered lunch TBA |
| 2:15pm | Aaron -- Freely Developing for Retro: Gameboy Game Creation with GB Studio |
| 3:30pm | Dave -- The new Skullspace sound and light systems |
| 4:45pm | David Berman -- Controlling Reykjavík's Street Lights |
Our call for presentations is archived.
Following talks there will be a dry evening reception
All talks will be in-person. Recordings of some may be available after.
We welcome the submission of exhibits to provide a chill experience for the public in our lounge and workshop. These are a nice break from the talks.
What have you been working on? Come and show us during our Saturday and Sunday daytime hours. Spontaneous exhibits are welcome, but reaching out allows us to include your exhibit in our event marketing and to potentially offer an honourarium.
Many formats are acceptable. Scheduled vs all day. Attended vs unattended. In-progress, actively being worked on, or perfectly done. On a trifold like your old school science fair projects or simply a pile of wires on a desk with an explainer.
In the absence of sufficient new exhibits we'll have our retro video game consoles on display, in some cases with home brew games. The games will for sure be out during our Saturday evening reception.
Also welcome in our chill zone, small hands-on workshops and organized gaming sessions (table-top/board/card and video games).
| Saturday 2:30-4:30pm | Board game Subway Squeeze with Sara |
| Sunday 3pm | Super Smash Bros event, details TBA |
| TBA | Chess |
| TBA | Magic The Gathering -- commander format |
Games are the ultimate form of chill. Our workshop and lounge is the festival chill zone. Everyone should get introduced to new games sometimes. We're looking for folks to host organized gaming sessions, particularly table-top/board/card games. Reach out.
| Saturday 3:30pm-4:45pm | Hands on with music trackers -- Aaron |
Reach out if you would like to put on a small, hands on workshop during our festival in our chill workshop and lounge areas. Spontaneous offerings are welcome day-of, but letting us know in advance allows us to share the word.
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. There are additional close spots on streets that run north from Notre Dame west of Princess/Donald..
All street parking is free on Sunday.
Potentially there will be Winnipeg Jets Playoff games on some of these three days with street parties downtown. Even when visiting games are scheduled, there will be a viewing party in the arena. Stay tuned to the playoff schedule.
The organizing committee consists of
There is a dedicated #hax channel on our Discord. The #skullspace channel is on the libera.chat IRC network.
Feel free to come by our weekly Tuesday night open house at 6pm. If the building door is locked call 204-480-4092
On select nights we'll have organizer committee meetings and activities:
Our festival is largely in-person. Unfortunately, no remote talks by video conference are planned this year. Some talks may be recorded and posted later.
Thor's Friday night movie night will have the usual stream URL
We regularly hang out in two places online
About | Schedule | Volunteer | Sponsors | Talks | Exhibits | Gaming | Workshops | Parking | Organizer meetings | Remote participation | Archives