Category Archives: /travel

Shmoocon Labs 2008

By Ken | Published: December 13, 2007
Recently I have been getting all the stuff for Shmoocon Labs off the ground. In case you don’t know Shmoocon Labs is an event held one day prior to Shmoocon. The basic idea is as follows. Get 30 or so geeks, a handful of vendors with cool gear and spend a day hammering out the [...]
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Shmoocon: Tickets now on sale & Shmoocon Labs

By Ken | Published: December 5, 2006
Shmoocon tickets have been on sale now for a couple of days and early bird tickets for the first round have sold out! You can still get “Open Reg” and “I love shmoocon” tickets at the registration page. Myself and Cowboym have been organizing the NOC for the past two Shmoocons, this year in addition [...]
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Toorcon Workshop

By Ken | Published: September 14, 2006
Myself and Matt will be doing a workshop at Toorcon 8. It will be a one day workshop covering the basics of boot strapping an embedded wireless device ( Soekris based ) and setting up a wireless mesh using OLSR. Participants in the class get an embedded wireless device from my company Metrix that they [...]
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LayerOne Pics

By Ken | Published: April 18, 2006
Well the pictures from LayerOne are starting to hit flickr. I only took a couple but a bunch of people were running around with cameras, so I expect there to be quite a few.
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LayerOne Talk Wrap Up

By Ken | Published: April 15, 2006
So I just wrapped up my presentation for LayerOne. I think it went really well and people had some great questions. As promised to the audience here are a bunch of links for further reading on the subjects we discussed: Community Wireless: Seattlewireless.net Freenetworks.org Mesh Routing: OLSR: Optimized Link State Routing Protocol Hazy Sighted Link [...]
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LayerOne this weekend

By Ken | Published: April 11, 2006
Myself and bunch of people from DC206 are flying down to LA on Friday for LayerOne. LayerOne is whats generally referred to as a Hacker Con, with topics including things like lock picking, hardware hacking, and information security. I will be leading off the festivities on Saturday morning with a talk about Seattlewireless and Freenetworks in general. Community [...]
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Quality Inn Survey

By Ken | Published: April 6, 2006
So one of the running themes this past weekend was the Quality Inn Hotel. This is where Matt and I stayed. The Canadians stayed there one night and then checked out after being less than impressed with “Quality” of the Quality Inn. When asked how the hotel was, my response was “They definitely got the [...]
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More on the twister

By Ken | Published: April 2, 2006
So it looks like the storm we experienced left some serious devastation in its wake.
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Community Wireless Summit Decompression

By Ken | Published: April 2, 2006
So here we are sitting at the Sheraton in St. Charles, MO. It may sound like the beginning to a bad joke: “I am sitting in a bar with an Anthropologist and Physcologist from Intel, people from the and Ghanna Community Wireless Network, Eastern India Community Wireless and of course Matt.” Bogdan of Belgrade Wireless [...]
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Beware the green clouds

By Ken | Published: April 2, 2006
So a few moments ago the Community Wireless Summit was wrapping up and a bunch of us were hanging out saying our goodbyes. In the course of 5 minutes a beatiful sunny day with people going shirtless turned into a complete grey sky with large green clouds rolling through fast enough to make everyone turn around and [...]
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