For those who like to plan ahead, keep Friday and Saturday 23 & 24 September 2011 free. Spread the word.
BruCON 2010 was a huge success. We want to thank the sponsors, speakers, volunteers and visitors to be part of this awesome event and hope to see you back in 2011. To help us make the event even better, please send us general feedback and ideas on how to improve, to our emailbox (feedback @ brucon.org) and provide the speakers with feedback on their talks at http://schedule.brucon.org. Just click on a presentation and it should…
After the presentation track on Friday, there will still be some activities like hardhack.org in the hardware hacking area. BruCON has decided to open its doors Friday after 20:00 till midnight that evening so people can still participate with or without a ticket. BUT we cannot exceed the venue capacity due to safety reasons so we cannot allow entrance above 400 people. Of course ticket holders have priority but feel free to drop by and…
Signal will be recording and broadcasting at BruCON!! Signal is hackerspace radio bringing news, gossip, interviews and other audio related to hackerspaces, the hackerscene, technology, science and what have you. Broadcasting live every Thursday from 10 pm – 12 am CEST | 08 pm – 10 pm UTC | 04 pm – 06 pm EDT | 01 pm – 03 pm PDT (aka International Hacker Time). Signal will be broadcasting live from Brussels on thursday…
To help avoid long queues on Fridaymorning, you can pickup your conference badge already on Thursday evening between 18:30 and 20:00. The volunteers will be present for buildup process at the venue so the registration desk will be open. Feel free to drop by. Directions to the venue can be found here.
Online registrations will end at midnight today. There are only about 15 seats available so we advice you to book in advance. Prices at door will be slightly higher and if we are sold out we cannot guarantee entrance. More details athttp://2010.brucon.org/index.php/TicketsWe have 2 days packed full of great stuff so come and join us!!!http://2010.brucon.org/index.php/ScheduleThanks to all the sponsors, partners, volunteers and visitors for making this event happen! See you all next week!!!
To prevent chaos for our workshops, we will start a registration list. Starting at 12:00 on Tuesday 14/09, you can register on the workshop page. Details are mentioned there. Most workshops will be given on both days so you have 2 options. Arrive early (5 minutes for start). Even if you don’t have a spot, drop by to see if anybody didn’t show up. If a lot of people miss out on a workshop, we…
Today, some people on the internet discovered the properties of a wiki: editing pages. Just like the Chaos Communication Conference (CCC) and other similar conferences, we deployed a wiki so that users could actively contribute to the conference. Schedule workshops, share traveltips, help us make wallpapers and upload them etc… etc… Although critical pages are locked down, a lot of pages can be used by our volunteers and visitors. That’s the nature of a wiki…
We promised more content and more surprises and here is the next one: a beer workshop. Since Belgium is known for its beers, we thought it would be fun on how to learn how to hack together your own beer. Machtelt gave this workshop at Hacking at Random and she is willing to give this workshop also at BruCON. Brewing a great Belgian-style double-fermentation beer, includes tasting and taking some home. You will learn the…
Another security conference is taking place in the same week as BruCON in Barcelona, Spain but luckily not on the same days. This created a great opportunity to visit both conferences. Although we are not officially affiliated, SOURCE Barcelona has offered BruCON attendees a 50% discount to visit their conference. Simply use the code “SOURCEBru10” at registration – (www.sourceconference.com). With flights starting at 109 euro between BRU and MAD, this could be a tempting offer….