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LightningTalks

2012-08-13T06:14:29Z

Tfine:

[[Category:Events]]
[[Image:Lightning.jpg]]

== Overview ==

HacDC Lightning Talks sessions feature 12 speakers, each talking for 5 minutes. Topics can be anything of interest to the speaker. Speakers submit their ideas for approval, and 12 topics are chosen for a given session. Rejected topics may be resubmitted for any future session. To submit a talk topic proposal, please [mailto:katie@hacdc.org e-mail Katie] a title and brief description (if not self explanatory).

Why would you want to do a lightning talk?
* To show off a project
* Let people know what you're into
* Get feedback on an idea
* Practice talking about a particular topic
* Practice public speaking in a nonthreatening way
* Find project contributors/volunteers/members

'''LOCATION''':

* Normally held at: HacDC @ St. Stephen's Church
** 1525 Newton St NW (corner of 16th St NW)
** Look for a red door facing the parking lot. Take the green line metro to Columbia Heights.
** [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=1525%20newton%20st%20nw%2C%20dc google map]

NOW ACCEPTING TALK PROPOSALS. EMAIL [[User:Katie]] WITH YOUR TALK TITLE AND CONCEPT.

== Upcoming Lightning Talks ==

=== Lightning Talks VI: November 3, 2012 ===

The next round of HacDC Lightning Talks will take place starting at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, November 3, 2012, in the auditorium at Saint Stephen and the Incarnation Episcopal Church. Interested in presenting? [mailto:katie@hacdc.org E-mail Katie].

[http://www.meetup.com/hac-dc/events/73602492/ Meetup event]

== Past Lightning Talks ==

=== Lightning Talks V: June 9, 2012 ===

The most recent HacDC Lightning Talks took place at 3:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 9, 2012, in the dining room at Saint Stephen and the Incarnation Episcopal Church. We invited folks from other DC/MD/VA-area hackerspaces—specifically, Baltimore Node, Harford Hackerspace, Unallocated Space, Southern Maryland Hackerspace, Nova Labs, 757 Labs, Apple Space, FredHack, hack.rva, North Street Labs, Roastella Labs, and Reverse Space—to come check out our space that afternoon and join our lightning talks.

The lineup:
* Building a Software Sound Synthesizer in 5 Minutes, by Brock
* Language Learning in the Digital Age, by Todd Anderson
* Robotic Ocean Sampler, by Andrew Harris
** ''[http://www.algalita.org/uploads/Riosetal2010.pdf Quantitation of persistent organic pollutants adsorbed on plastic debris from the Northern Paciﬁc Gyre’s ‘‘eastern garbage patch’’]'', a paper from the Journal of Environmental Monitoring
** the [http://www.algalita.org/ Algalita Marine Research Institute] provides information on plastics in the oceans
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpUyIjDV-As Youtube video of Prototype Robotic Ocean Sampler test in the Chesapeake Bay]
* Cycling the C&O Canal, by Nick B.
* Ham Radio, by Lee Ciereszko
* The Day That Took SOPA Down, by Jeremy Pesner
* Open Source Hardware for CNC, by Alden Hart
* Are We Living in the Cyberpunk Dystopia?, by Todd Fine

=== HacDC Lightning Talks IV: June 19, 2010 ===

[[File:Lightning_talks_dcweek.jpg|200px|thumb||Lightning Talks IV at DCWeek]]

These talks were presented as part of Digital Capital Week's Digital Garage mini-conference at the Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church.

* Speakers:
** Sysadmins: Have smartphone, will travel (Betsy Nichols and Andrei Tchijov) [[Media:HaveSmartphoneWillTravel.pdf]]
** AI: Perceptions and Misconceptions (Bradford Barr) [[Media:Ai_perceptions_and_misconceptions.pdf]]
** Writ Large: scaling a Cartesian robot (Dan Barlow) [http://wiki.hacdc.org/images/4/4a/WL2.svg SVG]
** Fast Creativity: Using the DNA of Improvisational Comedy to Foster Ideas Fast (Shawn Westfall)
** While you sleep: Making Art with your mind (and a little code) (Jack Whitsitt)
** Intro to HacDC (Daniel Packer)
** DIY cyborg implants (Jeremy Ruhland)

* For Digital Capital Week, HacDC Lightning Talks were held at:
** Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church
** 900 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington DC
** [http://maps.google.com/maps/place?cid=18145717886991467512&q=Mount+Vernon+United+Methodist+Church,+dc&hl=en&cd=2&ei=Go3sS_3LKY2MzATutMzIDQ&sig2=xr7FM6yAn6kZSAxRamehnw&dtab=0&sll=38.899236,-76.945499&sspn=0.014848,0.193422&ie=UTF8&ll=38.986367,-77.127457&spn=0,0&z=12&iwloc=B google map]

Digital Capital Week links:
* [http://schedule.digitalcapitalweek.org/event/f48b97a40a264029aff31d8e4b83e091 Digital Capital Week event website]
* [http://digitalgarage.eventbrite.com/ Digital Capital Week Digital Garage conference registration]

=== HacDC Lightning Talks III: February 23, 2010 ===

What an amazing Lightning Talks. The talks were well attended and the setup was better than ever with a great sound system setup and an actual camera crew. We had fantastic presentations spanning tech, science, art, music and even comedy.

* Speakers:
** The Word Clock (Alden Hart)
** Digital Capital Week ([http://www.twitter.com/corbett3000 Peter Corbett])
** Equipping and Empowering the Faithful (Rev. Fred Williams)
** Machine self replication for fun and profit (R. Mark Adams, PhD)
** Computer Graphics Ain't Basket Weaving (but Close!) (Jim Mallos)
** The Strap-On SharkFin (Justin Shaw)
** [http://www.pcworld.com/article/156206/should_public_libraries_be_welcoming_homes_for_ingenuity.html Should Libraries be Homes for Human Ingenuity?] (Phil Shapiro)
** Chicken (Benjamin Hartley)
** The USB Scroll Wheel of DOOM! (Elliot Williams)
** Creating a Kit is not Quick ([[User:NikolasCo|Nikolas Coukouma]])
** Musical actors for performance in SuperCollider (James Harkins)
** [http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dg87dwbr_403f6xcpkfz The Cure for Cancer: Medicine as Engineering] (Darius Roberts)
** BrainQuartz (Jack Whitsitt)

* Cancelled:
** Low Power Design Techniques, system/board level (William Gibb)

=== HacDC Lightning Talks II: November 17, 2009 ===

[[File:LightningTalks2.jpg|200px|thumb||Lightning Talks II at St. Stephens]]

Top notch talks made this a night to remember and we managed to improve upon the first talks in several ways including more comfortable seating arrangements, video recording (will be posted here eventually), and smoother transitions between speakers with mini Q&A sessions. The cookies were tasty (if I must say so myself), and about a dozen attendees enjoyed drinks and mingling after the talks at a [http://www.commonwealthgastropub.com/ nearby pub].

* Speakers:
** The future of space-based lidar (Brian)
** Rapid Open Source Hardware Prototyping (Riley)
** Intro to DSP (Omer)
** sudo make me a website (Daniel)
** Best food near HacDC (Timball)
** Taking high-res photos with cheap point-and-shoots (Jim)
** Simple devices, complex sounds (Elliot)
** Developing Firefox Extensions (looking at Greasemonkey as an example) (Nikolas)
** XMPP - It's more than just IM (Arc)
** [https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0ATrxjmEFHezCZGZ4ZHZmdnJfMTJmaHh4ZDlkNg&hl=en Eating Tag Soup] (Kevin)
** "Pwn" your neighbor: Enhanced WEP/WPA brute force cracking using GPU hardware acceleration (Andy)
*** Reference material: [http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=2724] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA] [http://revision3.com/hak5/GPU-Brute-Force-MD5-and-Ophcrack] [http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net/tables.php] [http://forums.remote-exploit.org/bt4beta-howtos/23208-aircrack-ng-cuda-wpa-2-psk-hacking-backtrack-4beta.html]
** [http://www.flickr.com/photos/missioncontrol/sets/72157622697994313/ Five Foods to Try in Japan] ([[User:Katie]])
** Bonus talk: Dis-assembly of windows notepad using IDA Free (Jason)
*** [http://www.hex-rays.com/idapro/idadownfreeware.htm IDA Free]
*** [http://www.immunityinc.com/products-immdbg.shtml Immunity - an alternative to IDA Free suggested by Riley]

=== HacDC Lightning Talks I: October 1st, 2009 ===

[[File:LightningTalks1.jpg|200px|thumb||The first Lightning Talks at St. Stephens in the old HacDC space]]

We packed the house with smiling hackers at the first monthly HacDC Lightning Talks! The talks were awesome and so were the cookies! Thanks to everyone who participated and made this a success. Next month will be even better organized with more space, better arrangement, more advance scheduling, and video recording.

* Speakers:
** Unearthing an 8-bit Dungeon (Jason)
** Kōdō, the Japanese Way of Incense (Katie)
** Cross-Platform Multiple Compiler Build System (Eryc)
** The Solenoid Beat: towards a mechanical drum machine w/ MIDI controller (Michael)
** I CAN HAZ LOLSPEAK?: Examining LOLspeak through linguistics. (Ederlyn)
** After the End of the World: Lessons We Can Learn from the Black Death (Benjamin)
** A few minutes about cache coherency (Andrew)
** Miniaturizing your projects - Techniques for using tiny little QFN surface mount components at home (Alden)
** The Last Gasp of the Time Capsule (Luke)
** Building a Sailboat in Five Days (Andrew J)
** The Evolution of Death (Daniel)

* Cancelled/Postponed:
** Daimoku (Rodney
** Remembrancer (Alberto)
** Using PGP web of trust to authenticate users??? (Derek)
** A 5 Minute Discourse On The Exploration Of Mercury And The [http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/mer_flyby3.html MESSENGER Flyby] Discoveries (Indy)

== Other Hackerspace Lightning Talks ==

* [http://5mof.net/ Noisebridge Five Minutes of Fame] ([https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Five_Minutes_of_Fame old site])
* [http://metalab.at/wiki/Kurzvortraege_2008-11-15 Lightning Talks at MetaLab, Vienna (2008-11-15)]
* [http://www.interlockroc.org/2010/01/13/lightning-talks-at-rochester-hackerspace/ Lightning Talks at Interlock Rochester (2010-01-12)]

Regular Member Meeting 2011 03 08

2011-03-08T23:49:22Z

Tfine: /* Director Reports */

'''Note:''' This page serves as the 2011-03-08 Member Meeting's agenda (before the meeting) and minutes (after the meeting).

== Time and Location ==
March 8, 2011

Meeting called to order at _____ by ______.

Members Present:
Others Present:

[[Quorum]] met?

== Approval of Previous Meeting's Minutes ==

[[Regular Member Meeting 2011 02 08]]

== Director Reports ==

=== President's Report ===

=== Vice President's Report ===

=== Treasurer's Report ===

BBT at End of February: $5,183.83

Paypal at End of February: $665.86

Liquid Assets: $5849.69 (6699.69 with security deposit of 850.00)

Previous Month: $6,459.35

Total: -$609.66

Expenses:

02/28/2011 Debit INTUIT *QB ONLINE 02-26 800-286-6800 CA 1703 BB&T CHECK CARD RECURRING PYMT $10.55

02/23/2011 Check 1027 CHECK #1027 View $2,526.00

02/16/2011 Debit SFPP STATE FARM RO 27 XXXXXXXXXXX4321 ACH DEBIT $68.58

02/02/2011 POS LINODE.COM 02-02 609-593-7103 NJ 1703 BB&T CHECK CARD PURCHASE $37.45

=== Secretary's Report ===

=== Director-at-Large Reports ===

== Member Reports ==

== Old Business ==

== New Business ==

=== New Members ===

== Adjournment ==

Adjourned at _____.

[[Category:Meeting_Agendas]]
[[Category:Meeting_Minutes]]

Regular Member Meeting 2011 03 08

2011-03-08T23:48:32Z

Tfine: /* Treasurer's Report */

'''Note:''' This page serves as the 2011-03-08 Member Meeting's agenda (before the meeting) and minutes (after the meeting).

== Time and Location ==
March 8, 2011

Meeting called to order at _____ by ______.

Members Present:
Others Present:

[[Quorum]] met?

== Approval of Previous Meeting's Minutes ==

[[Regular Member Meeting 2011 02 08]]

== Director Reports ==

=== President's Report ===

=== Vice President's Report ===

=== Treasurer's Report ===

BBT at End of February: $5,183.83

Paypal at End of February: $665.86

Liquid Assets: $5849.69

Previous Month: $6,459.35

Total: -$609.66

Expenses:

02/28/2011 Debit INTUIT *QB ONLINE 02-26 800-286-6800 CA 1703 BB&T CHECK CARD RECURRING PYMT $10.55

02/23/2011 Check 1027 CHECK #1027 View $2,526.00

02/16/2011 Debit SFPP STATE FARM RO 27 XXXXXXXXXXX4321 ACH DEBIT $68.58

02/02/2011 POS LINODE.COM 02-02 609-593-7103 NJ 1703 BB&T CHECK CARD PURCHASE $37.45

=== Secretary's Report ===

=== Director-at-Large Reports ===

== Member Reports ==

== Old Business ==

== New Business ==

=== New Members ===

== Adjournment ==

Adjourned at _____.

[[Category:Meeting_Agendas]]
[[Category:Meeting_Minutes]]

Annual Meeting 2011

2011-02-23T22:57:56Z

Tfine: /* Treasurer's Report */

'''Note:''' This page serves as the 2011 Annual Meeting's agenda (before the meeting) and minutes (after the meeting).

= Purpose =

From the HacDC Bylaws, Article III, Section 2:
:At the annual meeting, the voting members shall elect the Board of Directors, review and vote on the standing rules and policies of the corporation, receive reports on the activities of the corporation, approve the budget and determine the direction of corporation in the coming year.

= Time and Location =

Meeting called to order at ___ by ___

Members Present:

Others:

[[Quorum]] established?

= Officer Reports =

== President's Report ==

== Vice President's Report ==

== Treasurer's Report ==

ASSETS

Current Assets

Bank Accounts

BBT Checking 2,726.07

Total Bank Accounts $2,726.07

Other Current Assets

Paypal 3,733.28

Undeposited Funds 0.00

Total Other Current Assets $3,733.28

Total Current Assets $6,459.35

Other Assets

Rent Security Deposits 850.00

Total Other Assets $850.00

TOTAL ASSETS $7,309.35

LIABILITIES AND EQUITY

Liabilities

Total Liabilities

Equity

Opening Balance Equity (April 2010, Beginning of Quickbooks) 9,023.84

Retained Earnings -1,304.64

Net Income -409.85

Total Equity $7,309.35

TOTAL LIABILITIES AND EQUITY $7,309.35

BUDGET:

2526.00 RENT

$68.58 ST. FARM INSURANCE

$37.45 LINODE

$10.55 QUICKBOOKS

$2642.58

-~2000

=642.58 STRUCTURAL DEFICIT

== Secretary's Report ==

== At-Large Directors' Reports ==

= Member Reports =

= New Business =

== Board of Directors Elections ==

=== President ===

=== Vice-President ===

=== Treasurer ===

=== Secretary ===

=== At-Large Directors ===

=== Induction of New Members ===

= Finances =

= Adjournment =

Meeting adjourned at ___

[[Category:Meeting_Agendas]]
[[Category:Meeting_Minutes]]

Annual Meeting 2011

2011-02-23T22:49:18Z

Tfine: /* Treasurer's Report */

'''Note:''' This page serves as the 2011 Annual Meeting's agenda (before the meeting) and minutes (after the meeting).

= Purpose =

From the HacDC Bylaws, Article III, Section 2:
:At the annual meeting, the voting members shall elect the Board of Directors, review and vote on the standing rules and policies of the corporation, receive reports on the activities of the corporation, approve the budget and determine the direction of corporation in the coming year.

= Time and Location =

Meeting called to order at ___ by ___

Members Present:

Others:

[[Quorum]] established?

= Officer Reports =

== President's Report ==

== Vice President's Report ==

== Treasurer's Report ==

ASSETS

Current Assets

Bank Accounts

BBT Checking 2,726.07

Total Bank Accounts $2,726.07

Other Current Assets

Paypal 3,733.28

Undeposited Funds 0.00

Total Other Current Assets $3,733.28

Total Current Assets $6,459.35

Other Assets

Rent Security Deposits 850.00

Total Other Assets $850.00

TOTAL ASSETS $7,309.35

LIABILITIES AND EQUITY

Liabilities

Total Liabilities

Equity

Opening Balance Equity (April 2010, Beginning of Quickbooks) 9,023.84

Retained Earnings -1,304.64

Net Income -409.85

Total Equity $7,309.35

TOTAL LIABILITIES AND EQUITY $7,309.35

== Secretary's Report ==

== At-Large Directors' Reports ==

= Member Reports =

= New Business =

== Board of Directors Elections ==

=== President ===

=== Vice-President ===

=== Treasurer ===

=== Secretary ===

=== At-Large Directors ===

=== Induction of New Members ===

= Finances =

= Adjournment =

Meeting adjourned at ___

[[Category:Meeting_Agendas]]
[[Category:Meeting_Minutes]]

Networking Strategic Simulation

2011-02-10T17:01:49Z

Tfine: /* Setup */

'''This page is a draft of the HacDC simulation plan, and it is open for editing by all.''' [[User:Tfine|Tfine]] 16:56, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

== Overview ==

As internet becomes ubiquitous in commerce and social communications, governments permitting varying levels of political freedom have facilitated, or at least tolerated, growing consumer access to TCP/IP internet, an amazingly flexible technology with significant barriers for comprehensive monitoring and control. While almost all governments have some existing level of content regulation and filtering, recently a number of governments have attempted, during political crisis when the amount of objectionable material could overwhelm monitoring or when the total balance of all communications in a particular location or at a certain moment could be seen as negative in facilitating anti-regime political activity, to impose severe, general restrictions on an existing internet and mobile communication infrastructure. In Egypt, in January 2011, the government successfully shut down internet access for several days by forcing ISPs to withdraw more than 3500 Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routes. In June 2009, internet access in Iran was significant disrupted, and major restrictions were placed on a variety of forms of telephone communications.

These developments, illustrating the prospect of future government communications restrictions in crisis, raise two significant interconnected questions.

First, do contemporary governments have the practical ability to restrict communications in crisis and prevent effective political organization through electronic methods? With the substantial menu of technical communications systems -- radio; packet internet; mobile and landline phones; cable and satellite internet; alternative mesh networking systems; and the vast array of archaic code and cell-structure communications systems -- it might be surprisingly difficult for a government, without extremely high levels of coercion, to control communications at all. In light of recent experience, we now have growing empirical evidence of the technical solutions that anti-government organizers have adopted in crisis, and, with greater technical focus, communications and security experts might be able to determine (and anticipate) effective communications strategies in such a restricted environment.

Second, can restrictive regulation of the internet ever outweigh the political -- and economic -- costs that would accompany? Different levels and types of restriction of communications certainly impose different costs. These costs can become significant in terms of building anger at the government with lesser politicized cohorts and in affecting the military's perceptions of the legitimacy of the government and their survivability. Effective communications may also alter the military's evaluation, at both the enlisted and officer level, of the specific political claims of the regime. If restrictive solutions (long-term and short-term) seem to fail empirically and in simulation, governments may decide that they are better off monitoring internet communications in crisis. At a result of the interrelationship between the technical and political factors, we cannot evaluate them in isolation.

== Outline ==

We propose the creation of a strategic simulation of a scenario involving attempts by anti-government elements to establish communications in the wake of communications disruptions instigated by a government. Prompted by a crisis event, a government would restrict communications on either a local or national level, and anti-government elements (assuming the existence of a wide array of motivated civilian actors) would attempt to reestablish communications and attack the government's legitimacy or communicate some political message.

The scenario could potentially begin with some significant disruption of residential/business internet and/or a restriction of phone communications. As attempts to reestablish communications -- both public propaganda and leadership communication -- by anti-government actors continue, there would be a feedback "game" relationship between the government restrictions and anti-government attempts to seek alternative communication strategies.

== Setup ==

* An appropriate scenario would be written by event organizers. The details and the necessary degree of specification required would be discussed at a series of planning meetings in the coming weeks.

* Two physically separated teams, representing a government (as a unitary executive) and a broad mass of anti-government elements, would be staffed by appropriate technical experts. If outside interest is substantial, it might be possible for non-team members to contribute ideas through segregated chatrooms that the decision-making team members could observe.

* Evaluators would be 5-7 experts in cellular/telephone communications, radio communications, encryption and internet security, civil-military relations, and civil unrest/revolution.

* Timed turns conclude with a written paragraph of "instructions" followed by an evaluator review that establishes a current score along with a written description of scenario development. At the beginning of each round, teams can discuss the scenario with the evaluators.

* The game score is determined by some formula that combines the political and technical developments. A starting, basic model, which will be elaborated in planning discussions, would be a composite of the score of degree of effective communications by anti-government actors and an assessed level of government coercion.

Communication + Coercion = Anti-Government Success

If communications remain high despite a fairly high level of attempted coercion, anti-government political organization succeeds. It might also be assumed that both high levels of anti-civilian coercion and effective communication, independently, weaken the political executive's ability to control the military. Hence, extremely high levels of (attempted) coercion alone (in some political environments) might be enough to trigger a military coup.

== Questions ==

* Should we assume the United States? An advanced European country? A lesser-developed country analogous to Egypt? A specific scenario with a political backstory? We have developed [[Network Strategic Simulation/Proposed Scenarion|one]] that involves riots after a sudden financial crisis, but we should discuss this further. Does specificity of the scenario distract from the technological questions (and open the game to political nitpicking), or would it give the simulation more coherence and weight?

* What experts would be most appropriate to staff such a simulation?

* Does this simulation encourage the development of novel alternative networking technologies? Should this be a goal of a successful simulation? Is it reasonable to assume this would be the result of such a scenario? How would the imaginary timeframe of the game impact this?

Networking Strategic Simulation

2011-02-10T17:01:11Z

Tfine: /* Setup */

'''This page is a draft of the HacDC simulation plan, and it is open for editing by all.''' [[User:Tfine|Tfine]] 16:56, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

== Overview ==

As internet becomes ubiquitous in commerce and social communications, governments permitting varying levels of political freedom have facilitated, or at least tolerated, growing consumer access to TCP/IP internet, an amazingly flexible technology with significant barriers for comprehensive monitoring and control. While almost all governments have some existing level of content regulation and filtering, recently a number of governments have attempted, during political crisis when the amount of objectionable material could overwhelm monitoring or when the total balance of all communications in a particular location or at a certain moment could be seen as negative in facilitating anti-regime political activity, to impose severe, general restrictions on an existing internet and mobile communication infrastructure. In Egypt, in January 2011, the government successfully shut down internet access for several days by forcing ISPs to withdraw more than 3500 Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routes. In June 2009, internet access in Iran was significant disrupted, and major restrictions were placed on a variety of forms of telephone communications.

These developments, illustrating the prospect of future government communications restrictions in crisis, raise two significant interconnected questions.

First, do contemporary governments have the practical ability to restrict communications in crisis and prevent effective political organization through electronic methods? With the substantial menu of technical communications systems -- radio; packet internet; mobile and landline phones; cable and satellite internet; alternative mesh networking systems; and the vast array of archaic code and cell-structure communications systems -- it might be surprisingly difficult for a government, without extremely high levels of coercion, to control communications at all. In light of recent experience, we now have growing empirical evidence of the technical solutions that anti-government organizers have adopted in crisis, and, with greater technical focus, communications and security experts might be able to determine (and anticipate) effective communications strategies in such a restricted environment.

Second, can restrictive regulation of the internet ever outweigh the political -- and economic -- costs that would accompany? Different levels and types of restriction of communications certainly impose different costs. These costs can become significant in terms of building anger at the government with lesser politicized cohorts and in affecting the military's perceptions of the legitimacy of the government and their survivability. Effective communications may also alter the military's evaluation, at both the enlisted and officer level, of the specific political claims of the regime. If restrictive solutions (long-term and short-term) seem to fail empirically and in simulation, governments may decide that they are better off monitoring internet communications in crisis. At a result of the interrelationship between the technical and political factors, we cannot evaluate them in isolation.

== Outline ==

We propose the creation of a strategic simulation of a scenario involving attempts by anti-government elements to establish communications in the wake of communications disruptions instigated by a government. Prompted by a crisis event, a government would restrict communications on either a local or national level, and anti-government elements (assuming the existence of a wide array of motivated civilian actors) would attempt to reestablish communications and attack the government's legitimacy or communicate some political message.

The scenario could potentially begin with some significant disruption of residential/business internet and/or a restriction of phone communications. As attempts to reestablish communications -- both public propaganda and leadership communication -- by anti-government actors continue, there would be a feedback "game" relationship between the government restrictions and anti-government attempts to seek alternative communication strategies.

== Setup ==

* An appropriate scenario would be written by event organizers. The details and the necessary degree of specification required would be discussed at a series of planning meetings in the coming weeks.

* Two physically separated teams, representing a government (as a unitary executive) and a broad mass of anti-government elements, would be staffed by appropriate technical experts. If outside interest is substantial, it might be possible for non-team members to contribute ideas through segregated chatrooms that the decision-making team members could observe.

* Evaluators would be 5-7 experts in cellular/telephone communications, radio communications, encryption and internet security, civil-military relations, and civil unrest/revolution.

* Timed turns conclude with a written paragraph of "instructions" followed by an evaluator review that establishes a current score along with a written description of scenario development. At the beginning of each round, teams can discuss the scenario with the evaluators.

* The game score is determined by some formula that combines the political and technical developments. A starting, basic model, which will be elaborated in planning discussions, would be a composite of the score of degree of effective communications by anti-government actors and an assessed level of government coercion.

Communication + Coercion = Anti-Government Success

If communications remain high despite a fairly high level of attempted coercion, anti-government political organization succeeds. It might also be assumed that both high levels of anti-civilian coercion and effective communication weaken the political executive's ability to control the military. Hence, extremely high levels of (attempted) coercion alone (in some political environments) might be enough to trigger a military coup.

== Questions ==

* Should we assume the United States? An advanced European country? A lesser-developed country analogous to Egypt? A specific scenario with a political backstory? We have developed [[Network Strategic Simulation/Proposed Scenarion|one]] that involves riots after a sudden financial crisis, but we should discuss this further. Does specificity of the scenario distract from the technological questions (and open the game to political nitpicking), or would it give the simulation more coherence and weight?

* What experts would be most appropriate to staff such a simulation?

* Does this simulation encourage the development of novel alternative networking technologies? Should this be a goal of a successful simulation? Is it reasonable to assume this would be the result of such a scenario? How would the imaginary timeframe of the game impact this?

Networking Strategic Simulation

2011-02-10T16:56:41Z

Tfine:

'''This page is a draft of the HacDC simulation plan, and it is open for editing by all.''' [[User:Tfine|Tfine]] 16:56, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

== Overview ==

As internet becomes ubiquitous in commerce and social communications, governments permitting varying levels of political freedom have facilitated, or at least tolerated, growing consumer access to TCP/IP internet, an amazingly flexible technology with significant barriers for comprehensive monitoring and control. While almost all governments have some existing level of content regulation and filtering, recently a number of governments have attempted, during political crisis when the amount of objectionable material could overwhelm monitoring or when the total balance of all communications in a particular location or at a certain moment could be seen as negative in facilitating anti-regime political activity, to impose severe, general restrictions on an existing internet and mobile communication infrastructure. In Egypt, in January 2011, the government successfully shut down internet access for several days by forcing ISPs to withdraw more than 3500 Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routes. In June 2009, internet access in Iran was significant disrupted, and major restrictions were placed on a variety of forms of telephone communications.

These developments, illustrating the prospect of future government communications restrictions in crisis, raise two significant interconnected questions.

First, do contemporary governments have the practical ability to restrict communications in crisis and prevent effective political organization through electronic methods? With the substantial menu of technical communications systems -- radio; packet internet; mobile and landline phones; cable and satellite internet; alternative mesh networking systems; and the vast array of archaic code and cell-structure communications systems -- it might be surprisingly difficult for a government, without extremely high levels of coercion, to control communications at all. In light of recent experience, we now have growing empirical evidence of the technical solutions that anti-government organizers have adopted in crisis, and, with greater technical focus, communications and security experts might be able to determine (and anticipate) effective communications strategies in such a restricted environment.

Second, can restrictive regulation of the internet ever outweigh the political -- and economic -- costs that would accompany? Different levels and types of restriction of communications certainly impose different costs. These costs can become significant in terms of building anger at the government with lesser politicized cohorts and in affecting the military's perceptions of the legitimacy of the government and their survivability. Effective communications may also alter the military's evaluation, at both the enlisted and officer level, of the specific political claims of the regime. If restrictive solutions (long-term and short-term) seem to fail empirically and in simulation, governments may decide that they are better off monitoring internet communications in crisis. At a result of the interrelationship between the technical and political factors, we cannot evaluate them in isolation.

== Outline ==

We propose the creation of a strategic simulation of a scenario involving attempts by anti-government elements to establish communications in the wake of communications disruptions instigated by a government. Prompted by a crisis event, a government would restrict communications on either a local or national level, and anti-government elements (assuming the existence of a wide array of motivated civilian actors) would attempt to reestablish communications and attack the government's legitimacy or communicate some political message.

The scenario could potentially begin with some significant disruption of residential/business internet and/or a restriction of phone communications. As attempts to reestablish communications -- both public propaganda and leadership communication -- by anti-government actors continue, there would be a feedback "game" relationship between the government restrictions and anti-government attempts to seek alternative communication strategies.

== Setup ==

* An appropriate scenario would be written by event organizers. The details and the necessary degree of specification required would be discussed at a series of planning meetings in the coming weeks.

* Two physically separated teams, representing a government (as a unitary executive) and a broad mass of anti-government elements, would be staffed by appropriate technical experts. If outside interest is substantial, it might be possible for non-team members to contribute ideas through segregated chatrooms that the decision-making team members could observe.

* Evaluators would be 5-7 experts in cellular/telephone communications, radio communications, encryption and internet security, civil-military relations, and civil unrest/revolution.

* Timed turns conclude with a written paragraph of "instructions" followed by an evaluator review that establishes a current score along with a written description of scenario development. At the beginning of each round, teams can discuss the scenario with the evaluators.

* The game score is determined by some formula that combines the political and technical developments. A starting, basic model, which will elaborated in planning discussions, would be a composite of the score of degree of effective communications by anti-government actors and an assessed level of government coercion.

Communication + Coercion = Anti-Government Success

If communications remain high despite a fairly high level of attempted coercion, anti-government political organization succeeds. It might also be assumed that both high levels of anti-civilian coercion and effective communication weaken the political executive's ability to control the military. Hence, extremely high levels of (attempted) coercion alone (in some political environments) might be enough to trigger a military coup.

== Questions ==

* Should we assume the United States? An advanced European country? A lesser-developed country analogous to Egypt? A specific scenario with a political backstory? We have developed [[Network Strategic Simulation/Proposed Scenarion|one]] that involves riots after a sudden financial crisis, but we should discuss this further. Does specificity of the scenario distract from the technological questions (and open the game to political nitpicking), or would it give the simulation more coherence and weight?

* What experts would be most appropriate to staff such a simulation?

* Does this simulation encourage the development of novel alternative networking technologies? Should this be a goal of a successful simulation? Is it reasonable to assume this would be the result of such a scenario? How would the imaginary timeframe of the game impact this?

Networking Strategic Simulation

2011-02-10T06:41:52Z

Tfine:

== Overview ==

As internet becomes ubiquitous in commerce and social communications, governments permitting varying levels of political freedom have facilitated, or at least tolerated, growing consumer access to TCP/IP internet, an amazingly flexible technology with significant barriers for comprehensive monitoring and control. While almost all governments have some existing level of content regulation and filtering, recently a number of governments have attempted, during political crisis when the amount of objectionable material could overwhelm monitoring or when the total balance of all communications in a particular location or at a certain moment could be seen as negative in facilitating anti-regime political activity, to impose severe, general restrictions on an existing internet and mobile communication infrastructure. In Egypt, in January 2011, the government successfully shut down internet access for several days by forcing ISPs to withdraw more than 3500 Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routes. In June 2009, internet access in Iran was significant disrupted, and major restrictions were placed on a variety of forms of telephone communications.

These developments, illustrating the prospect of future government communications restrictions in crisis, raise two significant interconnected questions.

First, do contemporary governments have the practical ability to restrict communications in crisis and prevent effective political organization through electronic methods? With the substantial menu of technical communications systems -- radio; packet internet; mobile and landline phones; cable and satellite internet; alternative mesh networking systems; and the vast array of archaic code and cell-structure communications systems -- it might be surprisingly difficult for a government, without extremely high levels of coercion, to control communications at all. In light of recent experience, we now have growing empirical evidence of the technical solutions that anti-government organizers have adopted in crisis, and, with greater technical focus, communications and security experts might be able to determine (and anticipate) effective communications strategies in such a restricted environment.

Second, can restrictive regulation of the internet ever outweigh the political -- and economic -- costs that would accompany? Different levels and types of restriction of communications certainly impose different costs. These costs can become significant in terms of building anger at the government with lesser politicized cohorts and in affecting the military's perceptions of the legitimacy of the government and their survivability. Effective communications may also alter the military's evaluation, at both the enlisted and officer level, of the specific political claims of the regime. If restrictive solutions (long-term and short-term) seem to fail empirically and in simulation, governments may decide that they are better off monitoring internet communications in crisis. At a result of the interrelationship between the technical and political factors, we cannot evaluate them in isolation.

== Outline ==

We propose the creation of a strategic simulation of a scenario involving attempts by anti-government elements to establish communications in the wake of communications disruptions instigated by a government. Prompted by a crisis event, a government would restrict communications on either a local or national level, and anti-government elements (assuming the existence of a wide array of motivated civilian actors) would attempt to reestablish communications and attack the government's legitimacy or communicate some political message.

The scenario could potentially begin with some significant disruption of residential/business internet and/or a restriction of phone communications. As attempts to reestablish communications -- both public propaganda and leadership communication -- by anti-government actors continue, there would be a feedback "game" relationship between the government restrictions and anti-government attempts to seek alternative communication strategies.

== Setup ==

* An appropriate scenario would be written by event organizers. The details and the necessary degree of specification required would be discussed at a series of planning meetings in the coming weeks.

* Two physically separated teams, representing a government (as a unitary executive) and a broad mass of anti-government elements, would be staffed by appropriate technical experts. If outside interest is substantial, it might be possible for non-team members to contribute ideas through segregated chatrooms that the decision-making team members could observe.

* Evaluators would be 5-7 experts in cellular/telephone communications, radio communications, encryption and internet security, civil-military relations, and civil unrest/revolution.

* Timed turns conclude with a written paragraph of "instructions" followed by an evaluator review that establishes a current score along with a written description of scenario development. At the beginning of each round, teams can discuss the scenario with the evaluators.

* The game score is determined by some formula that combines the political and technical developments. A starting, basic model, which will elaborated in planning discussions, would be a composite of the score of degree of effective communications by anti-government actors and an assessed level of government coercion.

Communication + Coercion = Anti-Government Success

If communications remain high despite a fairly high level of attempted coercion, anti-government political organization succeeds. It might also be assumed that both high levels of anti-civilian coercion and effective communication weaken the political executive's ability to control the military. Hence, extremely high levels of (attempted) coercion alone (in some political environments) might be enough to trigger a military coup.

== Questions ==

* Should we assume the United States? An advanced European country? A lesser-developed country analogous to Egypt? A specific scenario with a political backstory? We have developed [[Network Strategic Simulation/Proposed Scenarion|one]] that involves riots after a sudden financial crisis, but we should discuss this further. Does specificity of the scenario distract from the technological questions (and open the game to political nitpicking), or would it give the simulation more coherence and weight?

* What experts would be most appropriate to staff such a simulation?

* Does this simulation encourage the development of novel alternative networking technologies? Should this be a goal of a successful simulation? Is it reasonable to assume this would be the result of such a scenario? How would the imaginary timeframe of the game impact this?

Networking Strategic Simulation

2011-02-10T06:08:33Z

Tfine: Created page with "== Overview == As internet becomes ubiquitous in commerce and social communications, governments allowing varying levels of political freedom have facilitated, or at least toler..."

== Overview ==

As internet becomes ubiquitous in commerce and social communications, governments allowing varying levels of political freedom have facilitated, or at least tolerated, growing consumer access to TCP/IP internet, an amazingly flexible technology with significant barriers for comprehensive monitoring and control. While almost all governments have some existing level of content regulation and filtering, recently a number of governments have attempted, during political crisis when the amount of objectionable material could overwhelm monitoring or when the total balance of all communications in a particular location or at a certain moment could be seen as negative in facilitating anti-regime political activity, to impose severe, general restrictions on an existing internet and mobile communication infrastructure. In Egypt, in January 2011, the government successfully shut down internet for several days by forcing ISPs to withdraw more than 3500 Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routes. In June 2009, internet access in Iran was significant disrupted, and major restrictions were placed on a variety of forms of telephone communications.

These developments, illustrating the prospect of future government communications restrictions in crisis, raise two significant interconnected questions.

First, do contemporary governments have the practical ability to restrict communications in crisis and prevent effective political organization through electronic methods? With the substantial menu of technical communications systems -- radio; packet internet; mobile and landline phones; cable and satellite internet; alternative mesh networking systems; and the vast array of archaic code and cell-structure communications systems -- it might be surprisingly difficult for a government, without extremely high levels of coercion, to control communications at all. In light of recent experience, we now have growing empirical evidence of the technical solutions that anti-government organizers have adopted in crisis, and, with greater technical focus, communications and security experts might be able to determine (and anticipate) effective communications strategies in such a restricted environment.

Second, can restrictive regulation of the internet ever outweigh the political -- and economic -- costs that would accompany? Different levels and types of restriction of communications certainly impose different costs. These costs can become significant in terms of building anger at the government with lesser politicized cohorts and in affecting the military's perceptions of the legitimacy of the government and their survivability. Effective communications may also alter the military's evaluation, at both the enlisted and officer level, of the specific political claims of the regime. If restrictive solutions (long-term and short-term) seem to fail empirically and in strategic simulation, governments may decide that they are better off monitoring internet communications in crisis and only using coercive force on select individuals. At a result of the interrelationship between the technical and political factors, we cannot evaluate them in isolation.

== Outline ==

We propose the creation of a strategic simulation of a scenario involving attempts by anti-government elements to establish communications in the wake of communications disruptions instigated by a government. Prompted by a crisis event, a government would restrict communications on either a local or national level, and anti-government elements (assuming the existence of a wide array of motivated civilian actors) would attempt to reestablish communications and attack the government's legitimacy or communicate some political message.

The scenario could potentially begin with some significant disruption of residential/business internet and/or a restriction of phone communications. As attempts to reestablish communications -- both public propaganda and leadership communication -- by anti-government actor continue, there would be a feedback "game" relationship between the government restrictions and anti-government attempts to seek alternative communication strategies.

== Setup ==

* An appropriate scenario would be written by event organizers. The details and the necessary degree of specification required would be discussed at a series of planning meetings in the coming weeks.

* Two physically separated teams, representing a government (as a unitary executive) and a broad mass of anti-government elements, would be staffed by appropriate technical experts. If outside interest is substantial, it might be possible for non-team members to contribute ideas through segregated chatrooms that the decision-making team members can observe.

* Evaluators would be 5-7 experts in cellular/telephone communications, radio communications, encryption and internet security, civil-military relations, and civil unrest/revolution.

* Timed turns conclude with a written paragraph of "instructions" followed by an evaluator review that establishes a current score along with a written description of scenario development. At the beginning of each round, teams can discuss the scenario with the evaluators.

* The game score is determined by some formula that combines the political and technical developments. A starting, basic model, which will elaborated in planning discussions, would be a composite of the score of degree of effective communications by anti-government actors and an assessed level of government coercion.

Communication + Coercion = Anti-Government Success

If communications remain high despite a fairly high level of attempted coercion, anti-government political organization succeeds. It might also be assumed that both high levels of anti-civilian coercion and effective communication weaken the political executive's ability to control the military. Hence, extremely high levels of (attempted) coercion alone (in some political environments) might be enough to trigger a military coup.

== Questions ==

* Should we assume the United States? An advanced European country? A lesser-developed country analogous to Egypt? A specific scenario with a political backstory? We have developed [[Network Strategic Simulation/Proposed Scenarion|one]] that involves riots after a sudden financial crisis, but we should discuss this further. Does specificity of the scenario distract from the technological questions (and open the game to political nitpicking), or would it give the simulation more coherence and weight?

* What experts would be most appropriate to staff such a simulation?

* Does this simulation encourage the development of novel alternative networking technologies? Should this be a goal of a successful simulation? Is it reasonable to assume this would be the result of such a scenario? How would the imaginary timeframe of the game impact this?

Regular Member Meeting 2011 02 08

2011-02-08T23:37:31Z

Tfine: /* Treasurer's Report */

'''Note:''' This page serves as the 2011-02-08 Member Meeting's agenda (before the meeting) and minutes (after the meeting).

== Time and Location ==
February 8, 2011

Meeting called to order at _____ by _____.

Members Present:

Others Present:

[[Quorum]] met?

== Approval of Previous Meeting's Minutes ==

[[Regular Member Meeting 2011 01 11]]

== Director Reports ==

=== President's Report ===

=== Vice President's Report ===

=== Treasurer's Report ===

Ordinary Income/Expense

Income

Membership Dues

Total for Membership Dues $1,929.50

Non Profit Income

1/10/2011 Journal Entry 57 -SPLIT- -0.17 -0.17
01/14/2011 Sales Receipt 1371 Nicholas Beauregard Paypal 12.68 12.51
01/24/2011 Sales Receipt 1383 Severin Tixier Paypal 48.25 60.76

Total for Non Profit Income $60.76

Total for Income $1,990.26

Expenses

Commissions & Fees
01/18/2011 Journal Entry 52 -SPLIT- 121.00 121.00 (D.C. Government Fees)

Total for Commissions & Fees $121.00

Insurance

01/10/2011 Journal Entry 49 -SPLIT- 71.08 71.08
01/28/2011 Journal Entry 55 -SPLIT- 71.08 142.16

Total for Insurance $142.16 (Twice Because of Previous Error)

Office Expenses

01/03/2011 Journal Entry 47 -SPLIT- 37.45 37.45 (Linode)
01/10/2011 Journal Entry 50 -SPLIT- 31.80 69.25 (Keys)
01/10/2011 Journal Entry 48 -SPLIT- 33.33 102.58 (GoDaddy)
01/12/2011 Journal Entry 51 -SPLIT- 24.25 126.83 (501c3 Fax)
01/27/2011 Journal Entry 54 -SPLIT- 10.55 137.38 (Quickbooks)

Total for Office Expenses $137.38

Rent or Lease

01/21/2011 Journal Entry 53 -SPLIT- 2,000.00 2,000.00

Total for Rent or Lease $2,000.00

Total for Expenses $2,400.54

Net Ordinary Income $ -410.28

Other Income/Expense

Other Income

Interest Earned

01/01/2011 Journal Entry 56 -SPLIT- 0.43 0.43

Total for Interest Earned $0.43

Total for Other Income $0.43

Net Other Income $0.43

Net Income $ -409.85

ASSETS

Current Assets

Bank Accounts

BBT Checking 2,726.07

Total Bank Accounts $2,726.07

Other Current Assets

Paypal 3,733.28

Total Other Current Assets $3,733.28

Total Current Assets $6,459.35

Other Assets

Rent Security Deposits 850.00

Total Other Assets $850.00

TOTAL ASSETS $7,309.35

LIABILITIES AND EQUITY

Net Income -409.85

TOTAL LIABILITIES AND EQUITY $7,309.35

=== Secretary's Report ===

=== Director-at-Large Reports ===

==== Will ====

==== Katie ====

* Results from LinkedIn survey
:How would you feel about advertising your HacDC participation on LinkedIn by being a member of a HacDC group there?
:{|
|I would like to do so.
| 5
|-
|I would not like to do so.
| 0
|-
|I don't care.
| 1
|-
|I don't use or intend to use LinkedIn.
| 0
|}

:If a HacDC group on LinkedIn is established, who should be allowed to join?
:{|
|Anyone at all
|1
|-
|Anyone who participates in HacDC, member or not
| 4
|-
|Only HacDC members
| 1
|}
* [http://hacdc.org/content/cupcake-challenge-status-cupcake-judged Cupcake Challenge results]
* [http://hacdc.org/content/unicorn-build-report unicorn build report]
* hoping to hold an [[LED Embroidery]] workshop before April
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HacDC our wikipedia entry] is being considered for deletion; we should probably update it to prevent that

== Member Reports ==

== Old Business ==

== New Business ==

===== Proposed change to the membership process which are defined in the Standing Rules: =====

Any member may nominate a qualified person to be a voting member. Any eligible person may be elected as a voting member at any regular meeting upon meeting one the following sets of qualifications:

1) The payment of their first periodic dues and visual approval of all members present.

2) The payment of their first periodic dues, a short statement prepared by the proposed member showing their support of article 1 of our Bylaws, having at least two members present vouch for the candidacy of the prospective member. The two members which vouch for the candidacy of the new member may not be the person who nominated the individual for status as a voting member.
* 2.1) The prepared statement may be written or in some other form of A/V communication that the members of the meeting may
understand.

=== New Members ===

== Adjournment ==

Adjourned at ____.

[[Category:Meeting_Agendas]]
[[Category:Meeting_Minutes]]

Regular Member Meeting 2011 01 11

2011-01-12T00:09:36Z

Tfine: /* Treasurer's Report */

'''Note:''' This page serves as the 2011-01-11 Member Meeting's agenda (before the meeting) and minutes (after the meeting).

== Time and Location ==
January 11, 2011
Meeting called to order at ___ by ___.

Members Present:

Others Present:

[[Quorum]] met?

== Approval of Previous Meeting's Minutes ==

[[Regular Member Meeting 2010 12 14]]

== Director Reports ==

=== President's Report ===

=== Vice President's Report ===

=== Treasurer's Report ===

Total for Membership Dues $1,930.00

Non Profit Income

12/04/2010 Sales Receipt 1307 Paypal 96.80 96.80

12/16/2010 Sales Receipt 1330 Patrik Barbu in honor of david mcinnis Paypal 48.25 145.05

12/31/2010 Deposit BBT Checking 190.00 335.05

Total for Non Profit Income $335.05

Total for Income $2,265.05

Expenses

Commissions & Fees

12/21/2010 Journal Entry 43 -SPLIT- 4.00 4.00

Total for Commissions & Fees $4.00

Dues & Subscriptions

12/15/2010 Check 1003 George Mason High School BBT Checking 70.00 70.00

Total for Dues & Subscriptions $70.00

Insurance

12/16/2010 Journal Entry 42 -SPLIT- 71.08 71.08

Total for Insurance $71.08

Office Expenses

12/02/2010 Journal Entry 41 -SPLIT- 37.45 37.45

12/27/2010 Journal Entry 45 -SPLIT- 10.55 48.00

Total for Office Expenses $48.00

Promotional

12/13/2010 Check 1004 Ben Stanfield BBT Checking 280.00 280.00

Total for Promotional $280.00

Rent or Lease

12/22/2010 Journal Entry 44 -SPLIT- 2,000.00 2,000.00

Total for Rent or Lease $2,000.00

Total for Expenses $2,473.08

Net Ordinary Income $ -208.03

Other Income/Expense

Other Income

Interest Earned

12/01/2010 Journal Entry 46 -SPLIT- 0.20 0.20

Total for Interest Earned $0.20

Total for Other Income $0.20

Net Other Income $0.20

Net Income $ -207.83

Total

ASSETS

Current Assets

Bank Accounts

BBT Checking 2,126.78

Total Bank Accounts $2,126.78

Other Current Assets

Paypal 4,742.42

Undeposited Funds 0.00

Total Other Current Assets $4,742.42

Total Current Assets $6,869.20

Other Assets

Rent Security Deposits 850.00

Total Other Assets $850.00

TOTAL ASSETS $7,719.20

TOTAL LIABILITIES AND EQUITY $7,719.20

=== Secretary's Report ===

=== Director-at-Large Reports ===

== Member Reports ==

== Old Business ==

== New Business ==

=== New Members ===

== Adjournment ==

Adjourned at ___.

[[Category:Meeting_Agendas]]
[[Category:Meeting_Minutes]]

Regular Member Meeting 2010 12 14

2010-12-14T23:14:22Z

Tfine: /* Treasurer's Report */

'''Note:''' This page serves as the 2010-12-14 Member Meeting's agenda (before the meeting) and minutes (after the meeting).

== Time and Location ==
December 14, 2010
Meeting called to order at ___ by ___.

Members Present:

Others Present:

[[Quorum]] met?

== Approval of Previous Meeting's Minutes ==

[[Regular Member Meeting 2010 11 09]]

== Director Reports ==

=== President's Report ===

=== Treasurer's Report ===

HacDC
Profit & Loss Detail
November 2010

Date Type Num Name Memo/Description Split Amount Balance
Ordinary Income/Expense

Income
Membership Dues

Total for Membership Dues $1,930.00

Non Profit Income

11/11/2010 Sales Receipt 1278 Paypal 242.45 242.45
11/15/2010 Deposit BBT Checking 350.00 592.45
11/29/2010 Sales Receipt 1300 Paypal 145.35 737.80

Total for Non Profit Income $737.80

Total for Income $2,667.80

Expenses

Bank Charges

11/22/2010 Journal Entry 38 -SPLIT- 4.00 4.00
Total for Bank Charges $4.00

Insurance 11/01/2010 Journal Entry 33 -SPLIT- 71.08 71.08
Total for Insurance $71.08

Office Expenses
11/02/2010 Journal Entry 34 -SPLIT- 37.45 37.45
11/12/2010 Check 1100 Intuit Quickbooks BBT Checking 10.55 48.00
11/15/2010 Check 1002 Intuit Quickbooks BBT Checking 10.55 58.55
11/26/2010 Journal Entry 39 -SPLIT- 10.55 69.10
Total for Office Expenses $69.10

Rent or Lease
11/12/2010 Check 1001 St. Stephen and the Incarnation Episcopal Church BBT Checking 2,000.00 2,000.00
Total for Rent or Lease $2,000.00

Total for Expenses $2,144.18
Net Income $523.62

ASSETS
Current Assets
Bank Accounts
BBT Checking 4,409.86
Total Bank Accounts $4,409.86
Other Current Assets
Paypal 2,667.17
Undeposited Funds 0.00
Total Other Current Assets $2,667.17
Total Current Assets $7,077.03
Other Assets
Rent Security Deposits 850.00
Total Other Assets $850.00
TOTAL ASSETS $7,927.03
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND EQUITY $7,927.03

=== Vice President's Report ===

=== Secretary's Report ===

=== Director-at-Large Reports ===

==== William ====
Unable to attend due to school commitments.

Please use the website to publish things! We have one small posts up on Spaceblimp 3; which briefly announced the planned date (which then channged). We had no post to announce the rescheduled flight or too announce the success of the flight. Is this a problem with people not having access to the site or not willing to post things?
If we are able to aggressively use web + social media, it will build awareness of our brand. This can potentially get us attention for funding from organizations for projects (think for a Spaceblimp 4) once we get 501C3 status.

Motley Fools used our space to hold their yearly software development meeting. we netted a 400usd donation from that event.

==== Katie ====

== Member Reports ==

Chris Koepke/Arc Riley - [[ShmooCon Sleepover and Streaming]]

== Old Business ==

== New Business ==
* Proposal to approve holiday gift of $100 to our excellent security guard

=== New Members ===

== Adjournment ==

Adjourned at ___.

[[Category:Meeting_Agendas]]
[[Category:Meeting_Minutes]]

Welcome to the HacDC Wiki

2010-07-13T14:40:55Z

Tfine: /* Top Links */

<span style="font-size:large; line-height:1.5em; color:#222">Welcome to HacDC. We are a hacker space located in Washington, DC. HacDC members improve the world by creatively rethinking technology. We break, build, and occasionally abuse technology in the pursuit of greater knowledge about how it works and repurposing it to build new things. Our shop is located in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Heights%2C_Washington%2C_D.C. Columbia Heights] neighborhood of DC.</span>

If you're new here, you should start by looking at our public web site at [http://www.hacdc.org/ hacdc.org]. Our Wiki is mostly for internal organization, but you're welcome to look through to get a sense of what we work on (and consider joining yourself!). We invite you to subscribe to our [http://www.hacdc.org/mailman/listinfo/announce announcement] (weekly e-mail) and [http://www.hacdc.org/mailman/listinfo/blabber blabber] (high traffic) mailing lists.

<div style="float:left; width:48%;">
=== Top Links ===
Themes and threads that span across the other categories in the Wiki. This is also where we keep things that don't easily fit in other categories:
* '''[[New Space]]'''
* [[FPGA Workshop]]
* [[GettingHere]]
* [[:Category:Meeting Minutes | Meeting Minutes]] . Current: [[Regular_Member_Meeting_2010_07_13]]
* [[:Category:Financial Reports | Financial Reports]]
* [[:Category:Meeting Agendas | Meeting Agendas]]
* [[:Category:Hacker Travel | Hacker Travel]]

=== [[:Category:Projects]] ===
Where our projects collaborate and document their research and progress. They are generally classified as:
* [[:Category:Ongoing Projects | Ongoing Projects]]
* [[:Category:Proposed Projects | Proposed Projects]]
* [[:Category:Abandoned Projects | Abandoned Projects]]

=== [[:Category:In the Space | Records]] ===
Entries relating to the space including layout and events and classes we hold
* [[:SpaceSearch | Space Search: the search for a new space]]
* [[:Category:Space Configuration | Configuration]]
* [[:Category:Event Planning | Event Planning]]
* [[:Category:Classes | Classes]]
* [[Wishlist]]
* [[:Category:What_I_Stole | What I Stole]]
* [[Human_Resources | Workspace Access]]
* [[Central_Services | HacDC Leadership]]
* [[Inventory | Inventory]]
* [[Procurement | Procurement]]
* [[Suppliers | Suppliers]]

</div>

<div style="float:right; width:48%;"> 
== HacDC's [[Live Status]] ==

We're working on providing [[Live Status]] information here; <br> please bear with us.<br>
See [http://twitter.com/hacdcdoorman the hacdoorman twitter feed].<br>
Or get your status straight from the source: [http://hacdc.org/sites/default/files/last_occsensor.txt last_occsensor.txt].

== Events ==

<googlecalendar>?showTitle=0&showPrint=0&showCalendars=0&mode=AGENDA&height=250&wkst=1&bgcolor=%23FFFFFF&src=c0jnbtagjrjs0h1o00jqvauduflv24ca%40import.calendar.google.com&color=%2328754E&ctz=America%2FNew_York" style=" border-width:0 " width="500" height="250" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></googlecalendar>

A [http://hacdc.org/ics iCal feed] is also available, for enjoying our events from your favorite calendaring software.

=== [[:Category:Community]] ===
Pages on people in our community :
* [[:Category:Members | Member User Pages]]
* [[:Category:Friends | Friends of HacDC]]
* [[:Category:Heroes | Heroes and people who inspire us]]

=== [[:Category:Policy]] ===
Our Policy Manual is divided into the following subcategories:
* [[Articles_of_Incorporation|Articles of Incorporation]]
* [[Bylaws]]
* [[MIBS_Simplified_Rules_of_Coordinated_Consensus_through_Chaos | Meeting Rules]]
* [[Privacy_Policy | Privacy Policy]]
* [[Resource_Use_Policy | Resource Use Policy]]
* [[Resource_Disposal | Resource Disposal Policy]]
* [[:Category:Communications Policy | Communications Policy]]
* [[Licensing_Policy | Licensing Policy]]

</div>

Welcome to the HacDC Wiki

2010-07-13T14:40:40Z

Tfine: /* Top Links */

<span style="font-size:large; line-height:1.5em; color:#222">Welcome to HacDC. We are a hacker space located in Washington, DC. HacDC members improve the world by creatively rethinking technology. We break, build, and occasionally abuse technology in the pursuit of greater knowledge about how it works and repurposing it to build new things. Our shop is located in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Heights%2C_Washington%2C_D.C. Columbia Heights] neighborhood of DC.</span>

If you're new here, you should start by looking at our public web site at [http://www.hacdc.org/ hacdc.org]. Our Wiki is mostly for internal organization, but you're welcome to look through to get a sense of what we work on (and consider joining yourself!). We invite you to subscribe to our [http://www.hacdc.org/mailman/listinfo/announce announcement] (weekly e-mail) and [http://www.hacdc.org/mailman/listinfo/blabber blabber] (high traffic) mailing lists.

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=== Top Links ===
Themes and threads that span across the other categories in the Wiki. This is also where we keep things that don't easily fit in other categories:
* '''[[New Space]]'''
* [[FPGA Workshop]]
* [[GettingHere]]
* [[:Category:Meeting Minutes | Meeting Minutes]] Current: [[Regular_Member_Meeting_2010_07_13]]
* [[:Category:Financial Reports | Financial Reports]]
* [[:Category:Meeting Agendas | Meeting Agendas]]
* [[:Category:Hacker Travel | Hacker Travel]]

=== [[:Category:Projects]] ===
Where our projects collaborate and document their research and progress. They are generally classified as:
* [[:Category:Ongoing Projects | Ongoing Projects]]
* [[:Category:Proposed Projects | Proposed Projects]]
* [[:Category:Abandoned Projects | Abandoned Projects]]

=== [[:Category:In the Space | Records]] ===
Entries relating to the space including layout and events and classes we hold
* [[:SpaceSearch | Space Search: the search for a new space]]
* [[:Category:Space Configuration | Configuration]]
* [[:Category:Event Planning | Event Planning]]
* [[:Category:Classes | Classes]]
* [[Wishlist]]
* [[:Category:What_I_Stole | What I Stole]]
* [[Human_Resources | Workspace Access]]
* [[Central_Services | HacDC Leadership]]
* [[Inventory | Inventory]]
* [[Procurement | Procurement]]
* [[Suppliers | Suppliers]]

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== HacDC's [[Live Status]] ==

We're working on providing [[Live Status]] information here; <br> please bear with us.<br>
See [http://twitter.com/hacdcdoorman the hacdoorman twitter feed].<br>
Or get your status straight from the source: [http://hacdc.org/sites/default/files/last_occsensor.txt last_occsensor.txt].

== Events ==

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A [http://hacdc.org/ics iCal feed] is also available, for enjoying our events from your favorite calendaring software.

=== [[:Category:Community]] ===
Pages on people in our community :
* [[:Category:Members | Member User Pages]]
* [[:Category:Friends | Friends of HacDC]]
* [[:Category:Heroes | Heroes and people who inspire us]]

=== [[:Category:Policy]] ===
Our Policy Manual is divided into the following subcategories:
* [[Articles_of_Incorporation|Articles of Incorporation]]
* [[Bylaws]]
* [[MIBS_Simplified_Rules_of_Coordinated_Consensus_through_Chaos | Meeting Rules]]
* [[Privacy_Policy | Privacy Policy]]
* [[Resource_Use_Policy | Resource Use Policy]]
* [[Resource_Disposal | Resource Disposal Policy]]
* [[:Category:Communications Policy | Communications Policy]]
* [[Licensing_Policy | Licensing Policy]]

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Regular Member Meeting 2009 12 08

2009-12-07T19:28:07Z

Tfine: /* New Business */

'''Note:''' This page, in a change from our previous practice, serves as the 2009-12-08 Member Meeting's agenda (before the meeting) and minutes (after the meeting).

== Time and Location ==
December 8, 2009
Meeting called to order at ? PM by President

Members Present:

Others:

[[Quorum]] ?

== Approval of Previous Meeting's Minutes ==

[[Regular Member Meeting Minutes 2009 11 10]]

== Consent Agenda ==

== Minister Reports ==

=== President's Report ===

=== Treasurer's Report ===

=== Vice President's Report ===

=== Secretary's Report ===

== Member Reports ==

== Old Business ==

== New Business ==

* [[Bylaws#Section_3:_Elections|Election]] of a director at-large (to replace Serge)
* Creation of annual report (Copy Writing and Scribus Work)

== Adjournment ==

[[Category:Meeting_Agendas]]
[[Category:Meeting_Minutes]]

Regular Member Meeting 2009 12 08

2009-12-07T19:27:55Z

Tfine: /* New Business */

'''Note:''' This page, in a change from our previous practice, serves as the 2009-12-08 Member Meeting's agenda (before the meeting) and minutes (after the meeting).

== Time and Location ==
December 8, 2009
Meeting called to order at ? PM by President

Members Present:

Others:

[[Quorum]] ?

== Approval of Previous Meeting's Minutes ==

[[Regular Member Meeting Minutes 2009 11 10]]

== Consent Agenda ==

== Minister Reports ==

=== President's Report ===

=== Treasurer's Report ===

=== Vice President's Report ===

=== Secretary's Report ===

== Member Reports ==

== Old Business ==

== New Business ==

[[Bylaws#Section_3:_Elections|Election]] of a director at-large (to replace Serge)
Creation of annual report (Copy Writing and Scribus Work)

== Adjournment ==

[[Category:Meeting_Agendas]]
[[Category:Meeting_Minutes]]

Suggested Classes

2009-01-30T17:43:46Z

Tfine: /* I'd like to learn... */

== I'd like to learn... ==

* Practical crypto, since we should all be signing our email. -- [[User:Myself|Myself]] 23:41, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
* How to use oscilloscopes. [[User:Tfine|Tfine]] 17:43, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

== I'd like to teach... ==
Potential teachers: see [[How to Run an Event]]!

* Slide rule usage
:I can teach beginning operations (multiplication, division, exponentiation, trig, logs, etc), but I'm pretty slow these days. [[User:Hudson|Hudson]] 16:28, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
* Oscilloscopes and triggers
:How to use a scope and build a programmable trigger using a microcontroller. [[User:Hudson|Hudson]] 16:28, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
* Unix tricks
:Efficient text processing using the Unix toolkit (vi, cut, sed, awk, perl, dc, etc). [[User:Hudson|Hudson]] 16:28, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
* Makefiles for microcontrollers
: How to automate the build, install, test cycle using a serial bootloader and make. [[User:Hudson|Hudson]] 16:28, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
* How to type
:timball and mark steele teach n00bs to codes. [[User:Timball|timball]] Thu Aug 7 18:39:11 UTC 2008
* Telephony
:Learning Telephony using Asterisk [[User:Emacsen|emacsen]]

[[Category:Classes]]