Okay, here's what I think I figured out so far...
... and probably a lot more. Still digesting. I had an awesome time, and it was incredible seeing this instant community spring up simply from spamming the forums and bugging people.
If I do this or something like it again next year, I think the format will be quite a bit different. I got a lot of feedback from people, and a lot of great ideas, so we'll see.
After a month or two of recovery, I'll try to run some polls to see what people would like to see. I want to keep the openness, the solo aspect, and try to keep this as something that doesn't try to compete with aCTF and CTF, and try to keep it funny. Beyond that, who knows?
Thanks so MUCH to all of you who participated, helped, got food, heckled, harassed, and generally made this a blast.
Without leaving anyone out, I want to thank PukingMonkey, Izer, PunkAssBitch, and Tatsumori, all of whom pretty much lived in 115 for the whole con, and Jeff and Nate from INAV who showed up at the last minute and ended up being booth jockeys for most of con and running the kickass display everyone liked watching. And also GFleischer, who I forgot to mention during closing ceremonies because I'm a dumbass.
Thanks again all, see you again next year, with (if I can catch up on sleep by then) something else fun to do.
-- sk00t
- Defenders need an event
- Solo People (sans posse) need an event
- People like blinky lights and traffic maps
- I really should just write down my root pass
- Vegas 2.0 are amazingly nice people
- People will do ANYTHING for a t-shirt
- Ding Dongs from the gift shop + Monster Java is not a good breakfast
- Really old hardware is pretty tough for anyone under 40 to exploit
- Running a contest is a massive amount of work
- Zac, Major, Russ, Hackajar, DCNetworking, and all the goons are AMAZING
- A 10-foot high "0wn me" sign confuses people
- Sniffers make people nervous (seriously, we didn't want your 0days)
- The DefCon community is the best one on the planet
- I really should sleep more
... and probably a lot more. Still digesting. I had an awesome time, and it was incredible seeing this instant community spring up simply from spamming the forums and bugging people.
If I do this or something like it again next year, I think the format will be quite a bit different. I got a lot of feedback from people, and a lot of great ideas, so we'll see.
After a month or two of recovery, I'll try to run some polls to see what people would like to see. I want to keep the openness, the solo aspect, and try to keep this as something that doesn't try to compete with aCTF and CTF, and try to keep it funny. Beyond that, who knows?
Thanks so MUCH to all of you who participated, helped, got food, heckled, harassed, and generally made this a blast.
Without leaving anyone out, I want to thank PukingMonkey, Izer, PunkAssBitch, and Tatsumori, all of whom pretty much lived in 115 for the whole con, and Jeff and Nate from INAV who showed up at the last minute and ended up being booth jockeys for most of con and running the kickass display everyone liked watching. And also GFleischer, who I forgot to mention during closing ceremonies because I'm a dumbass.
Thanks again all, see you again next year, with (if I can catch up on sleep by then) something else fun to do.
-- sk00t
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