Hey, Jason from LayerOne here. I just thought I'd go on record and run down some of the commentary as well as the article itself.
LayerOne was started to infuse the traditional hacker style conventions like Defcon and Toorcon with some of the spirit and ideas of conferences like Emerging Tech. Encouraging use of collaborative spaces such as wikis and IRC while the conference is going on. We've set up a note exchange where people can leave their notes or comments on a talk. The whole concept is to add a nurturing environment onto a conference and seeing where it goes from there.
Then again, we also want the people who can't make it out to see what they're missing...
We've also kept it simple this year, with a single track of speakers. There's no worrying about two talks you really want to see being placed back to back. We'll also have what's known as a classroom setup in part of the conference area, so if you bring your laptop or a notepad you'll have a space to get your thoughts organized. It's a comfort thing.
Sure, we've got some decent talks of the hacker variety lined up, but I wouldn't go so far as to call this a "hacker conference". We've also got some great soft tech talks on the line-up. That's why we're calling it a "technology conference".
To be perfectly honest we know that there's no way we can educate the masses. In fact, everyone we'll be reaching this weekend will be people who are already clued in. In a way, we'll be preaching to the choir this year, and probably for a couple years to come. Hopefully we'll turn someone else on to a viewpoint they haven't considered, but that may be a few years out.
I hope to catch at least some of you there this weekend. Cheers!
The reason you can't find an RSS feed is because Blogger uses Atom for their feed format. The feed is available here.
Not every RSS reader supports Atom just yet - but they're getting there.
There were stores all thru Anaheim that had the caps since the begining of March - which granted, was a bit late. Plus most of the 7-11's [Where I'd spotted the caps] in California had iTunes promotional cups that had you cut and unroll the lip of the cup for a code since the middle of February.
I used to take my chances with the cups and get a Coke instead of a Pepsi. I'd already down a Big Gulp of that a day anyhow. That technique netted me 24 songs. *shrug*
space.app is pretty cool as far as virtual desktops go but i've always been a bigger fan of desktop manager. desktop manager offers some neat eyecandy under panther [which you can turn off] and will allow you to change desktops by dragging your mouse to the extreme edge of the screen. it's a little less obtrusive than a little window that sits in the corner of your desktop since you can reduce it to menubar lint. i couldn't live without it on my ibook.
A whole bunch of us on the left coast [see: Los Angeles] have been working on getting our own convention off the ground. We're calling it LayerOne and it's a bit more for the Slashdot set then it is for the h4x0rs.
We're currently taking papers until March 14th from any interested parties who would like to speak on a broad range of topics. Anything from copyright issues to social software to VoIP is fair game.
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Hey, Jason from LayerOne here. I just thought I'd go on record and run down some of the commentary as well as the article itself. LayerOne was started to infuse the traditional hacker style conventions like Defcon and Toorcon with some of the spirit and ideas of conferences like Emerging Tech. Encouraging use of collaborative spaces such as wikis and IRC while the conference is going on. We've set up a note exchange where people can leave their notes or comments on a talk. The whole concept is to add a nurturing environment onto a conference and seeing where it goes from there. Then again, we also want the people who can't make it out to see what they're missing... We've also kept it simple this year, with a single track of speakers. There's no worrying about two talks you really want to see being placed back to back. We'll also have what's known as a classroom setup in part of the conference area, so if you bring your laptop or a notepad you'll have a space to get your thoughts organized. It's a comfort thing. Sure, we've got some decent talks of the hacker variety lined up, but I wouldn't go so far as to call this a "hacker conference". We've also got some great soft tech talks on the line-up. That's why we're calling it a "technology conference". To be perfectly honest we know that there's no way we can educate the masses. In fact, everyone we'll be reaching this weekend will be people who are already clued in. In a way, we'll be preaching to the choir this year, and probably for a couple years to come. Hopefully we'll turn someone else on to a viewpoint they haven't considered, but that may be a few years out. I hope to catch at least some of you there this weekend. Cheers!
The reason you can't find an RSS feed is because Blogger uses Atom for their feed format. The feed is available here. Not every RSS reader supports Atom just yet - but they're getting there.
There were stores all thru Anaheim that had the caps since the begining of March - which granted, was a bit late. Plus most of the 7-11's [Where I'd spotted the caps] in California had iTunes promotional cups that had you cut and unroll the lip of the cup for a code since the middle of February.
I used to take my chances with the cups and get a Coke instead of a Pepsi. I'd already down a Big Gulp of that a day anyhow. That technique netted me 24 songs. *shrug*
space.app is pretty cool as far as virtual desktops go but i've always been a bigger fan of desktop manager. desktop manager offers some neat eyecandy under panther [which you can turn off] and will allow you to change desktops by dragging your mouse to the extreme edge of the screen. it's a little less obtrusive than a little window that sits in the corner of your desktop since you can reduce it to menubar lint. i couldn't live without it on my ibook.
A whole bunch of us on the left coast [see: Los Angeles] have been working on getting our own convention off the ground. We're calling it LayerOne and it's a bit more for the Slashdot set then it is for the h4x0rs.
We're currently taking papers until March 14th from any interested parties who would like to speak on a broad range of topics. Anything from copyright issues to social software to VoIP is fair game.
Gee, I covered this yesterday over at GuerrillaNews. Normally I find headlines from Slashdot... I guess y'all are falling behind. :)