Defcon Permanent Hangout experiment

[renderman]

Re: Defcon Permanent Hangout experiment

I'm blocked by my provider because your site is a "hacking" site. Time to fire up the VPN. I guess you know you made the big time when web filters know about you.

Ok, thats amusing. The direct address for the hangout is https://plus.google.com/events/cs6fe...mkicicsolmdfuk for those that are banned from accessing my site(!)

[astcell]

Re: Defcon Permanent Hangout experiment

I'm blocked by my provider because your site is a "hacking" site. Time to fire up the VPN. I guess you know you made the big time when web filters know about you.

[renderman]

At con and after, discussions with others liked the idea of a way to video chat with other Defcon people in an attempt to emulate the various Barcon's and such during Defcon. I like the idea of having others around in a virtual sense while I work and to not be as isolated as I am the rest of the year.

To that end, I experimented a bit this past weekend and setup a hangout on G+ and had lots of random friends drop in and chat and have some great discussions. It convinced me to start up a permanent, public hangout for forum members and generally anyone else that cares to join up.

http://renderlab.net/hangout/

I have an event setup for 2 years in the future, so the hangout is open for anyone to join 'early' and chat. It's a work around to keep things open without having to have a single person hosting.

Join the chat, see who else joins, start talking. It is a completely non-official thing, and may devolve into a hacker chat roulette, but still worth a shot.

Feel free to hit me up with questions and comments and ideas.

Render