So the group is home. Some of us are recovering from winning the C19 CTF this year, so obviously this coming Monday’s meeting will be virtual. Please join the discord.
We hashed out some changes before and during Con. The Executive Committee met in secret at the Jersey Eats food truck at 3AM and made the following decisions, which you all will just have to live with until someone creates consensus for better ones.
- BadgeDev meetings for any potential badge to be released in conjunction with DC31 will be separate from the regular group meetings. Very limited in scope at this time, we will bring others in as needed.
- We will be launching a class for members who wish to learn to do PCB design. If this is you, join the PCB class channel in the Discord. We’ll plan a schedule and dates. The syllabus will come soon, and the objective of the class is for each attendee to send something off to be fabbed and have something useful and/or blinky to cherish, lament or scoff at forever.
- We will also hold separate meetings outside the normal group meetings to deal with the administrative tasks of keeping this group functional. Some things will trickle out of these meetings into the general membership meetings. There are soft, unspecified growth goals that will emerge and define themselves better as we move forward.
I have a funny little story to share. A few of us were hanging in the Forum outdoor area. Some were smoking, some were accompanying smokers. We were shooting the shit. Dude rolls up with one of those big badges with the speakers, we got to chatting about that, and Display recognizes him as the Strange Parts guy. He acknowledges, gives us cards & trinkets, and we’re still shooting the shit I guess. At some point DeadAddict rolls up and participates in the shit-shooting. Someone asks how the con is going, and I give my usual, “you get out of it what you put into it,” and DA responds, “oh no” and we all laugh. Some of the folks around are less attuned to DefCon history and don’t recognize DA. I think he’s got one of the most recognizable faces at the con. That’s fine, I didn’t recognize the Strange Parts guy. And nobody recognizes me unless they’ve interacted with us about badges and shit.