[Vanhackspace] Call-out for interest in a hacker(ish) conference in the springtime

[Colin Keigher]

Hey all,

I have been throwing around the idea of a hacker con-like conference in 
Vancouver for a few years and have started to bounce it around the IRC 
channel for the past few months and I've decided to go ahead and see if 
we can drum up some formal interest in it and potentially get the ball 
rolling.

The reason why I am beating the bush around the term "hacker" is I want 
to see what sort of focus we want. Here are some of things I want to 
bring up at the meeting and I invite anybody else to think about them or 
come up with others as well:

- How can this benefit VHS and the hacker community in the region?
- If we go ahead with this, how and who should we market this to?
- Where should we host it? When? Should it be at 45 West?
- Should we have guests? What sort of talks are we looking for? How many 
tracks?
- Should we incorporate a Makerfaire-type event?
- Most importantly, what should it be called? "VanHack"? "HackYou"? 
"ThisIsAHack"?

The day I would like to host the meeting would be Sunday, October 25th 
at around 2 PM at the space itself. I can reschedule this of course, but 
this seems like a logically good time to me.

Feel free to forward this to other MLs.

Thanks!
Colin