Participation
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Call for Participation
Everyone who goes to conferences should consider being a part of the conference as well.
Here's your chance to make yourself known as a contributor!
Submit your proposal to speak / show off / demonstrate / teach by adding it below.
Submission Guide: Name / Contact Details (email) / Subject or Title / Brief Description
Speak
You've got 20 minutes to say what you want to say. There are between 5 and 10 speaking slots. Are you up for it?
Speaker 1 - James Arlen / myrcurial@thinkhaus.org / You Let Your Kid Do What? / A brief story about children and taking advantage of applied engineering skills in a positive way.
Speaker 2 - Byron Sonne & Kent Spragget [Kent not presenting] / blsonne@halvdan.com / RF Countersurveillance / A primer on monitoring police and security frequencies using a trunk-tracking scanner, and how it can assist in penetrating a target/
Speaker 3 - Benjamin Tompkins / urbanmonkey@thinkhaus.org / Multiple Personality Disorder / A brief overview of virtualization on the x86 platform. What is it? What can it do for me? What is available for me to use? Both free as in speech and free as in beer.
Speaker 4 - Natalie Silvanovich / namely_audacious@hotmail.com / ZigBee: Fact and Fiction / Want to use ZigBee, but think it's too expensive, too complicated or just don't know enough about it? An introduction to ZigBee for the hobbyist.
Speaker 5 - Jedediah Smith / jedediah@silencegreys.com / Laser Quest / The story of the Hacklab.TO laser, how it was brought back from the dead and made to do things that Laser God never intended.
Speaker 6 - Darin White / dw@kwartzlab.ca / Overcoming Internet-Induced Inertia to Making / Is your screen tripping you up on the way to the lab? The same technology that informs and enables us may be sucking our will to make. Awareness is the first step to recovery.
Speaker 7 - Richard Degelder / richard@thinkhaus.org / Introduction to OpenStreetMap / An introduction to OpenStreetMap, the Open Source map
Speaker 8 - Steve Singer / ssinger_pg@sympatico.ca / Importing GeoBase data into OpenStreetMap / An overview of the importing of Canadian government data from GeoBase into OpenStreetMap
Speaker 9 - Tony Clifton / tcliffton@kwartzlab.com / Process of fractionation for the Purposes of Refining and Collection of CH3–CH2–OH.
Show Off
This is your chance to be wild. Show your stuff. Please wear clothes. Again, 20 minutes.
Show Off 1 - Adina Bogert-O'Brien and Trevyn Watson: Intro to Kite Aerial Photography
- Come see our kite and camera set up. We will discuss types of kites that are good for KAP, kite building, and modifying your camera to take pictures automatically.
Show Off 2 - Seth Hardy - Intro to Electronics Hardware Design By Someone Who Isn't an Expert
- Over the course of about four months, I learned how to design a circuit, design a PCB, and have the boards fabricated. I'd never done this before, never used any of the tools, had no hardware or electronics experience. And I was still able to do it rather successfully! As someone who's still far from being an expert at this, I'll tell you why it's not nearly as hard as you think it might be, show you the steps and tools you may want to take, and warn you of some of the potential issues you may face.
Demonstrate
Demonstrate a technique or methodology. If you can't do it in 20 minutes, let us know.
Demonstration 1 -- Chad Mounteny (HacklabTO) / readability@gmail.com / OpenWRT Demo / Unboxing, flashing, and demonstrating OpenWRT on an Asus WL-520GU
Teach
If it's hard to show, but easy to talk about - teach us something we've missed out on. 20 minutes.
Teacher 1 -- Trevyn Watson and James Arlen / Badge Hacking / That badge you're wearing is more than just a blinky light - find out how to do more with the first production badgeduino.
Teacher 2 -- Trevyn Watson / Vive La Resistance / Do you know what a pull-up resistor is? No? Then come to my talk. I will educate you.
