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

[Colin Keigher]

Hey all (again),

I am going to post-pone this until after Bazcamp. If you have forwarded 
this around, just give a head's up.

Thanks,
Colin

Colin Keigher wrote:
> 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
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