Ideas for Defcon 15

[Rance]

Re: Ideas for Defcon 15

Ok some positive criticism, using certified daycare officials is good, negative critism daycares often have a ton of toys and room for the kids to play with and a limit to the number of kids per room so what happens when you run out of room for the kids to play? You could keep tacking on rooms but if you have one kid in one room with one person watching him that would well i'll let you think up a word for it. The best idea would be to Just leave your kids with aunt so and so.

[mage2]

Re: Ideas for Defcon 15

The idea is not to scar the kids for life. The idea is not for strangers to be watching them either. Its more so that the parents could get together and give each other time away from the kids. Even if they do not give each other time away. The parents could meet and the kids could play together.
I know Priest had his family with him and I saw others. Last year I know my SO had to watch the kid for the weekend most of the time. I am sure that commonly happens.

Thats why I opened the idea for others to have ideas. For instance getting a local daycare to be a part of it or hiring a local baby sitter or something like that. It may be a bad idea and never happen. But at this stage it is just a idea. And is open to criticism or helpful ideas.

[theprez98]

Re: Ideas for Defcon 15

I'm not planning on bringing any of my kids to Vegas!

[Rance]

Re: Ideas for Defcon 15

Why day care? If your going to scar them for life at least make them useful. Make them wear little flying monkey costumes and let them serve drinks. But the question is do you really want a bunch of strangers watching your kids?

Chris I'm sure this is the worst idea.

[Chris]

Re: Ideas for Defcon 15

DefconDaycare.

I can't stress enough how bad an idea I think this is.

[converge]

Re: Ideas for Defcon 15

DefconDaycare

Hmmm... kind of like a summercamp to slowly introduce your offspring to drinking, smoking, gambling, social engineering and electronic domination. ... this could have merit.. this could prove more useful than private school.

[big chopper]

Re: Ideas for Defcon 15

DefconDaycare.
Last year we brought our son and noticed that many other attendees are now spawning...

Any comments?

Hmm. Should we encourage people to bring kids to vegas?
A hacker conference at the Riv no less?

There isn't much for kids to do in Vegas, outside of asking why there are pictures of nude ladys on the cabs.
--bc,

[mage2]

Re: Ideas for Defcon 15

DefconDaycare.
Last year we brought our son and noticed that many other attendees are now spawning.
We thought about having a defcon daycare type thing where we could leave the kid for a little bit so that the mother and father could have some time off.

We speculated that , itll be run by volunteers, either the SO's.. or another form of "goons", but made for daycare. we could call them mannies if theyre guys!
but anyway..
we could either have a hotel room specifically for the "day care".. with whoever signs up to use it, pitches in to cover the cost of the room. or, we could get in contact with a local daycare, and see if they would like to make extra money by providing us with care over that weekend. however, i dont think they would be able to do so overnight.

as for the SOs volunteering, it should be required that if people want to use the day care, they need to put in volunteer hours as well. (unless there are plenty of volunteers without that being necessary)

This could give a little time off for the geeks with familys.
Any comments?

[Deviant Ollam]

Re: Ideas for Defcon 15

hell, I'd settle for having the pool open and more accessable. It's just not the same without free and open access to the pool.

i agree 100%. i miss the pools terribly... they were the best aspect of the alexis park, the layout of the grounds encouraged casual meetups and chance encounters by the water.

[DaKahuna]

Re: Ideas for Defcon 15

We need something in the pool having to do with pirates.

hell, I'd settle for having the pool open and more accessable. It's just not the same without free and open access to the pool.

[Nikita]

Re: Ideas for Defcon 15

You know what, I would like to see an improv "theatresports" style game. Very similar to who's line is it anyway. I've meet a lot of defcon folk who are just plain hilarious and quick witted. I wouldnt be surprised if there are a lot of people who could do it, would want to, and/or had experience.

We could make the audience suggest things of a techincal or "hacking" nature, you must use this buzzword, making the game that much harder. There would be two teams, a gong system, and audience participation.

For example we pick someone in the audience both teams act out a scene in which they must inflict the most FUD to audience member and then he/she decides which team did the best job. It would have to be funny of course.

A nice game of "what are you doing?" could be endlessly funny. That is where you pantomime a activity and another team member asks you what you are doing and you reply with "port scanning the nsa" and it goes on and on... Hacker comedy hour, what is better than that?

There are so many games we could play, the whole event need not be more than 1 hour the most, staged at the dunk tank area, 10-16 players, a few judges and a "game master" (hehe) in order to compete you have to put up a small donation (no less than 5, no high limit) to the EFF.

How you win....
The winning team gets to take the combined amount of the donation money and pay to push the button to dunk members of the losing team. (10$ to push the button, if we can arrange the discount ) How much they can afford is up to them because there is a second round of dunking they have to budget in. There will be 3 special guest dunkees,( think like DT, Priest, Grifter, a speaker) The opposite team picks one of three cards, 10 bucks, 40 bucks, 50 bucks to determine how much it will cost to dunk and then another card to determine who will be the dunkee.

This could be cool, i just thought of it now so im sure there would be things to work out, and im pretty sure i can convince people to get involved. Plus all the money goes to the EFF, the winning team getting to dunk people. It could bring some attention to the dunktank area too.

What do you think? would you be interested?

[TheCotMan]

Re: Ideas for Defcon 15

Well it is starting to get to be that time.

I'm working on the new floor plan lay out for this year, and it looks like we have more rooms this year for break outs or maybe 1/2 or full day mini trainings.

Put on your thinking caps, and I'll post the floor plan in a new thread early next week.

Also if you book a hotel room they are trying to put all the con attendees in one tower who want to. That should make angering the 'norms a easier.

You know... you could post that as an image on the pics server, and people running other events, or looking to meet can download, alter and upload copies with modifications showing an "X" or some other symbols to designate meeting locations. (Like those Toxic BBQ organizers.)

I also added support in the forums for the "[" and "pics=" and "]" where pics=#SOMEINT# to reference loading of a picture from pics here. (I *think* this tries to follow the http-> http and https->https for the forums session to load the pics image using the same protocol as the user's forum session.)

Use of "["pics=#INT"]"comment"[" and "/pics" and "]" described here:
https://forum.defcon.org/misc.php?do=bbcode#pics

[Edit: added]
Sorry. This adds a link, not an img tag. I'll look to add support for that too.

[Dark Tangent]

Re: Ideas for Defcon 15

Well it is starting to get to be that time.

I'm working on the new floor plan lay out for this year, and it looks like we have more rooms this year for break outs or maybe 1/2 or full day mini trainings.

Put on your thinking caps, and I'll post the floor plan in a new thread early next week.

Also if you book a hotel room they are trying to put all the con attendees in one tower who want to. That should make angering the 'norms a easier.

[mage2]

Re: Ideas for Defcon 15

A ship possibly? How about hoisting the flag from somewhere? a pirate treasure chest?

A plank that could be used to make other walk da plank!

Arrrrr.

We need something in the pool having to do with pirates.

[astcell]

Re: Ideas for Defcon 15

We need something in the pool having to do with pirates.