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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.
All aspects of the festival are no-cost events. The Thursday night mixer is free or by donation, but we ask for RSVP
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.
7:30pm-11:30pm -- Movie night with Thor
Saturday daytime, 10am-6:45pm:
Following talks there will be a group walk to a pub or licensed mini-reception at the space. (details TBA).
11am-3:30pm -- Chill open house day
3pm -- Skullspace Smash Series -- Biweekly Super Smash Bros tournament
We welcome volunteers for the smooth running of gaming, exhibits, operations, and several other roles.
Reach out to the festival chair Michael K or other organizing committee members and channels.
Doors at 9:30am, first talk at 10:00am
| 10:00am | I contacted Brazil by radio and set a new record -- Mark Jenkins |
| 11:15am | Biohacking with Michael K |
| 12:30pm | Punk game design (tabletop) -- Michael N |
| 1:15pm | A catered lunch TBA |
| 2:15pm | Citizen science and astronomy -- Scott |
| 3:30pm | TBA Your talk here |
| 4:45pm | purple noise: how to train your intern -- Kiki |
| 6:00pm | AI versus I -- Shab |
There will be a catered lunch break between morning and afternoon talks at 1:15pm
Following talks there will be a group walk to a pub or licensed mini-reception at the space. (details TBA).
All talks will be in-person. Recordings of some may be available after.
We need one more speaker, see our final call for presentations.
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.
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.
Also welcome in our chill zone, small hands-on workshops and organized gaming sessions (table-top/board/card and video games).
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.
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.
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 at this time. We will update this section if a remote talk is scheduled. 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
A consolidated history of talks from all years.
About | Schedule | Volunteer | Sponsors | Talks | Exhibits | Gaming | Workshops | Parking | Organizer meetings | Remote participation | Archives