LayerOne 2008

[DJ Jackalope]

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Final note on l1, thanks for the footage flea.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx624Hobetg

Awesome, CP. Things like that being posted during my night make me happy that my cat gets me up at 6am so I can be one of the first people to see them!

[CP99]

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Final note on l1, thanks for the footage flea.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx624Hobetg

[DJ Jackalope]

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(or if you like to see naked inflatable women)
Big thanks to Lope for standing in as the guard during Vyrus' run when others were searching for where the first guard had sprung and air leak.

I am not a naked inflatable woman. Vyrus at the moment, i think is the only person who has actually grabbed the guard from inside the cell. Props to him!

[Deviant Ollam]

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Xinc's Pictures

that album includes a small child in a cage and a young girl kicking a cop's ass. xinc wins.

[noid]

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Anyone know if Xinc or CHS's pictures are up?

Xinc's Pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/x.incorporated/LayerOne2008

As people send me their galleries, I put them up on the main LayerOne site. Also, the post-con page is now up. How's that for turn around. I'm missing a few slide decks, but I expect to have them in a day or so.

[Deviant Ollam]

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Here are my photos from the Lockpick Village and Gringo Warrior. Not many, but a few choice ones in there if you like to see people having fun in a contest (or if you like to see naked inflatable women)

http://deviating.net/photos/2008-05-16-layerone/

Big thanks to Lope for standing in as the guard during Vyrus' run when others were searching for where the first guard had sprung and air leak.

[DJ Jackalope]

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Anyone know if Xinc or CHS's pictures are up?

[flea]

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Ok, here's one last short video... :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqfiGy_8_p8

[flea]

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Man, good thing my password is still stored, I only login here once a year or so.. :)

Anyway, I'm stoked about my weekend, this was the best layer one yet!

The hotel was pretty cool about the mobile club, they let us set up in the smoking oasis and jam until they, 'got complaints.' Hell, just letting us roll it around their hotel was a stretch, things were falling off of it and creating small grass fires everywhere!

I'll surmise the hotel experience with; sucks and nasty

The gringo warrior challenge was awesome. Thanks much to deviant for that. I've talked to him a bit for some ideas to dress it up a bit more at defcon, hopefully we can help him continue it and make it better. I hope ella comes to defcon and defends her time!

Here's a video of ella running through the course:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=cHL6Xu9-idE

Props to the dc-949 guys for getting up in front of a crowd and giving their first talks, great jobs, barely any puking before hand!

Props to the Layer One staff, you guys ran a great con with zero problems on your end from my perspective. When things like a lack of water in the con room happened, you guys clearly cared about it and went after the solution, awesome. Noid, pappy, skroo, mmca, chs, zerodevide, evil and xinc (who'd I forget?), you guys did great, high 5's all around.

THANKS TO THE NINJA'S FOR THE FREAK SHOW! I had no idea until the last day. I didn't even SEE bark0de, I just pictures! Damn.

Anyway, can't wait till next year!

[microgramme]

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I thought LayerOne was a blast! Paying for the room sucked - $480+ after tax and shit for two nights(!?!@!) *and* being hassled by the Hotel Staff!?! On Friday we tried to bring down a bottle of Vodka from our Bathtub 'O Booze to the Smoking Oasis (WTF is that shit anyway?) we got escorted away by an armed guard.

The talks were great, good cozy atmosphere! I really enjoyed hanging out with everyone in this smaller setting and 23b did a great job on both the mobile club and the cage (even if we couldn't put it together properly and left the hinges in Queeg's truck). I look forward to next year and hope it is in a seedy place where we can smoke and drink anything we want with our friends.

[Deviant Ollam]

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The common theme we've seen from the comment cards (thanks to everyone who filled one out, btw) is that the conference was really good but the venue needs to change. Without going into too much detail, we agree and will be taking your comments under advisement.

i can totally guarantee that between all of our hype and good photos here on the forums and the excitement that newer, better events will bring... you could truly see some kickass attendance in coming years if the venue is right.

i have to say that i'm waiting with bated breath to hear what sort of a plan comes together with respect to location. just by poking around with Google and some travel sites i turned up a lot of results along the lines of the Knights Inn. Although it's another few miles out from the airports (this is in Rosemead... man, i could never live in LA, just keeping all the neighborhoods and suburbs straight is crazy) it's so delightfully cheap and low-class. Tons of food options in walking distance that are likely to be open at all hours, and i'm willing to bet parking is next to nothing.

i wish to bow and pray to the gods of LayerOne planning that some establishment like that might be considered... anything with a pool and rates under $100 a night. hell, that particular place (the Knights Inn) only has 100 rooms... imagine if we filled it completely and just took the place over. LayerOne would be a total throwback to the Ghost of DefCon Past. Folks could bask in memories of some of the original parties and then the later poolside times at the Alexis before the con got all grown up.*

heh, i fear i've put in more than my $0.02 by now so i'll let others float their ideas and see what turns up. i have total confidence in noid and his whole crew that things will be even better the next time around. i look forward to returning.

* NOTE - i'm not saying this is all bad. in DefCon's case it was just sort of "time" for it to mature. a single con can't sustain itself forever in the same incarnation over and over. still, it's really nice when small upstarts take the baton and run with it so hackers everywhere can continue the work hard / play hard lifestyle that prevents us from chewing on the end of a gun barrel.

[noid]

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I highly recommend this con if you can make it there cheaply. The hotel is expensive for a night if you miss the con room rate ($230) and parking is about $22 a day. Nearby is a mall with reasonably priced food and parking if you need it.

Something I did find out when I checked out is that if you are a Hilton Honors member, valet was only 15 bucks a day. Oh, and membership is free. Now that I know that, I may also sign up for reward programs for some of the other hotel chains I frequently stay at in hopes of similar discounts.

The room rate thing was a real pain. The short version of the story is this: took Hilton corporate 3 weeks to get us a hotel discount code set up in the system. Hotel room block discounts expire a month prior to the start of the conference*. By the time they got us the code, we were only a few days away from that mark, so only those ready to pounce on the rooms were able to get them.


*I think this is stupid. These days no one plans things out that far, especially those of us in the 'anything can happen' IT world. Hell, I didn't even buy my plane ticket to DEFCON last year till two weeks before the convention and I help organize the damn thing

[noid]

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Overall I was happy with the event as an organizer. The quality of the speakers was top notch, and I loved having the lock picking setup in the registration room. Previous years we hadn't done too much with that room. I wish nous and nkryptr could have gotten the Phreaking Challenge up and running too, but they had several of their servers die. They spent all day on Saturday trying to get them rebuilt, but in the end it just didnt happen.

In regards to the hotel, it seems everyone has their own story about how the hotel made their stay unpleasant. Even as organizers we found them difficult to work with this year. I'm frankly not sure why, as there had been no major staff shake-ups on their side since last year. Previous years we had always gotten along with them, even when being rowdy. This year we did our best to make them happy and that wasn't good enough. The common theme we've seen from the comment cards (thanks to everyone who filled one out, btw) is that the conference was really good but the venue needs to change. Without going into too much detail, we agree and will be taking your comments under advisement.

Thanks to everyone who showed up. Thanks to Deviant and Jackalope for running the Lock Pick Village and Gringo Warrior. I think everyone got something out of that, including little Ella as well as the little kids that came over from the Mexican wedding across the hall. Super huge thanks to 23b for saving the day on Saturday. The folks we had come entertain us Saturday night, The Freakshow Deluxe, had sound trouble that was remedied by the 23b mobile disco dance party. Also, when planning this years event Deviant asked me 'do you think any of the local guys could make up a door for Gringo Warrior?'. 23b took that as a challenge and came up with a portable cage. I'd like to thank my fellow co-organizers Pappy Ozendorph, Evil, Xinc, MMCA, CHS, and Skroo as well as our small but indispensable staff of Ms. Demeanor and Zerodevide. I also want to thank Ninja Networks* for coming through for us on the entertainment front (they sponsored that party on Saturday night). Finally a huge shout out to Arclight and Mattrix for bringing us in some much needed sponsorship money.

*See Nous, I got it right this time :)


Oh..and huge shout outs to my peeps at the Armenian Prom! You folks certainly know how to party!

[DJ Jackalope]

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i changed the above link to my Google Video copy of that montage i put together, so you all can stop ass-raping my cable modem now. kthnxbye.

Was it as good for your cable modem as it was for me?

[Deviant Ollam]

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i changed the above link to my Google Video copy of that montage i put together, so you all can stop ass-raping my cable modem now. kthnxbye.