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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.
Hax 5.0 Beta. A warm-up for our big festival weekend, this is our late night anti-social and dance party in "beta" mode. The lineup may include new performers and/or established performers trying new things out. See the ticket site for the lineup.
This is a ticketed event. Buy early for the best pricing..
May the fourth be with you, this event includes a light sabre performance!
Anti-social featuring electronic music, dancing and gaming. A ticketed event, aprox 8pm-4am. Check back for details and ticket link.
Saturday afternoon, 11am-5:45pm:
(free event)
Saturday evening:
6pm-7:30pm A free reception after the talks featuring pre-recorded music to talk over and our Anti-social licensed bar.
8pm-4am, a third anti-social featuring live synth performances, DJed electronic music, dancing and gaming. A ticketed event, check back for details and ticket link.
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 both of our anti-socials
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 | Mark Jenkins -- Full disk encryption on a file server can be security theatre |
| 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.
See our call for speakers.
Following our talks there will be a free reception until 7:30pm with our bar serving drinks and pre-recorded electronic music at a reasonable volume.
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 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 .
Video game consoles and setups that will be presentOur festival features three of our signature "anti-socials". These ticketed events are electonic music dance-parties with DJs, syths, and other artists. Plus all manner of geeky gaming (video and tabletop) at the back of our space.
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 may also have a YouTube stream with some of our talks, subject to the availability of volunteers and permission from our presentors.
Our anti-social DJs are expected to appear live on our Twitch feed.
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 | Parking | Organizer meetings | Remote participation | Archives