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DC612 – July 8th 2010 Meeting! Defcon is just around the corner!
So Defcon is just about here! This month we will be at Elsie’s in North East Minneapolis. We are going to go over schedules, contents, and fun things to do while in Vegas. We also want to setup a time to have a casual meeting during con with either lunch or drinks.
Hope people can make it, and please bring your questions, comments or ideas for this years Defcon!
We will start at around 7pm.
Please RSVP: http://dc612-2010.eventbrite.com/
-VideoMan
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Make Day the SMM – June 20th
Make: Day at the Science Museum of Minnesota is this Sunday from Noon to 5pm. This is a great time to meet folks that have created cool and wonderful things! Please stop by, and if your around lets meet up at 1pm at the Twincites Makers booth.
Please stop by and check out all of booths and events for this year, it’s looking super cool!
April 8th DC612 – Key Managment – Thursday
This month Jay Jacobs will be presenting at DC612. He will be speaking about the key management interoperability protocol (KMIP), why it’s needed, where it is and where it’s headed. He will also talk about his participation and how challenging the standards bodies are, touch on other Key Management standards and efforts and why KMIP stands out.
This meeting will be held at Elsie’s Bar and Bowling Alley.
Agenda :
6PM-7:15PM Gather and order food and drinks
7:15PM-8:15PM Jay presents on KIMP
8:15PM Open forum and meeting.
9PM Wrap up.
Please RSVP so we can get an approximate count for chairs and tables. http://dc612-2010.eventbrite.com/
Thanks!
DC612 Mgmt.
March 11th Meeting @ HackFactory!
This month we are going to invite you, our great community members, to bring in projects or things that your working on and show them off at DC612. This will be a free form night with good food and conversation. If you have something specific that you think would be fun to demo, please bring it!
The Hack Factory doesn’t have catered food, so I ask that you pre-register, and I’ll order from Pizza Luce again. If you want beer, please bring some. We will have soda on hand for sale. Register at http://dc612-2010.eventbrite.com/.
-DC612
Hack Factory is located in the Seward neighborhood.
I think that the April meeting might move back to Elsie’s, depending on space and availability.
WiFi Antenna building night! Febuary 11, 2010 DC612
Let’s build some fun antennas! Things like the Wifi Cantenna, Bi-Quad sardine antenna, HDTV, etc.
I will supply the materials like, pop-rivets, soldering irons, N-female connectors, Copper wire. You supply a clean tin can. You can use soup cans, pinapple juice cans, anything that is made of metal, and has been washed out! We will calcuate the placement based on the size of the can, and you can go to town making your own canteena.
Please register using Event Brite: http://wifi-building.eventbrite.com/
If you want to make a bi-quad anteena, which has about 10-12db of gain, you can bring a cookie tin or sardine can that is at least 62mm x 40mm.
If you want to make the HDTV antenna from Make, please plan on bringing your own supplies ( see http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/01/maker_workshop_dtv_antenna_steadyca.html).
The anteena connectors for the WiFi anteenas will be $5, and as can be purchased at the time of the event. I will make sure that I bring at least one connector/person. To use these, you will need a wireless card that has an external antenna connector, such as an MMCX or RP-SMA. You will then need a pigtail that does N-Male to your card, EG: N-Male to MMCX, or N-Male to RP-SMA Male.
If people want to bring a DSS (small dish) satilite dish we can mount the cantenna on the end, and you can boostt your performace by quite a bit!
The hack factory is located at 3119 East 26th Street, Minneapolis, MN 55406, Enter using the side door by the large garage door.