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HSF2009: Deadline for Proposals Extended to May 12th

The HSF2009 Programming Committee[0] has extended the deadline for proposals to the upcoming Hacker Space Festival[1] next month.

Fellow hackers can send conferences and workshops proposals until May 12 (next week). After this date, the CFP will be closed for good.

For late proposals:

  • Re-read the Call For Proposals[2]
  • Make sure you can come in the first place
  • Do use the provided fields from the CFP

As a reminder:

  • this is a hacker event
  • this is a self-organized operation
  • we can’t cover any expenses (travel, visa, etc.)
  • we can provide free accomodation on site (bring camping gear)
  • we can provide cheap (but good) food

Speakers already selected will be notified starting tomorrow, as scheduled.

[0] http://hackerspace.net/committee
[1] http://hackerspace.net/
[2] http://hackerspace.net/cfp

HSF2009 Programming Committee

All I can say is that I will NEVER forget the HSF disco night and the most heart baring confession I took being the Pope of the Church of Security. The guys just blew me away for life! When the HSF is on, I can’t be anywhere else in the world now. I just gotta be there. I’m so totally hooked! 

-- Marcos El Ruptor, (http://enrupt.com/)

An “hackerspace” festival is about a bunch of freaky geniuses
hacking day and night until falling aligned in sleeping bags on the
ground. 

-- Denis "Jaromil" Roio

European Software Patents Version 3.0


We wrote to the European Patent Office to indicate our concern about patents being granted:

“Paris, 30th of April 2009

Contribution to the Referral G03/08

Dear members of the Enlarged Board of Appeals,
together with a majority of software experts and parliaments in Europe we see no role for patents for software and business methods. So we are surprised to find out that some die-hards in the European Patent Organization (EPO) still do. We apologize in advance for the unbalanced tone of this Amicus Curiae Brief, however we intend to transmit our opinion through content and form. We hope with this to help the members of the board, among other issues, to understand how outrageous the question of software patents is seen by many and what answers are considered correct.

Where is the law on which legal base you grant for us in Munich patents on software, eCommerce and business methods? In our country we believe that laws have some importance for a referral on points of law, so let us remind you of the relevant legal base:
European Patent Convention Article 52 Patentable inventions
Continue reading “European Software Patents Version 3.0”

Church of Security

Church of Security opened its temporary chapel last week. Preaching about the over-development of surveillance and the creative space it created for us, believers, who will use Infrared-Blinder for CCTV, Consumer B Gone to prevent highly dangerous terrorist from stealing your shopping cart in the supermarket, RFID detection and activation Crosses and other artifacts during our constant celebration of the all-seeing, all-knowing (yet slow to act) God of Security. Allelujhack!

HSF 2009 Call for Proposals


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/tmp/lab announces the second Hacker Space Festival
(Paris, 26-30 June 2009)
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Hacker Space Festival 2009 | Call For Proposals

In 2008, we organized HSF[1] on the spot, as an ad-hoc meeting for
hackerspaces-related networks, technical and artistic research emerging
from them and social questionning arising from them. This sudden
experiment proved to be a huge success, as much as on the
self-organizing level as on the participants and meetings quality, as
well as the emotionally-charged ambient, the kind of which you make
fond memories.

The 2008 edition generated a strong emulation in France, from its
historical role as the first official hack meeting there, and in Europe
with the subsequent creation of the Hacker Space Brussels[2], the
rapprochement with The Fiber in Amsterdam and the hackerspaces.org[3]
network. Initiatives of hackerspace openings in Grenoble or Lille, or
the upcoming FrHack[4] conference show an actual enthusiasm in the
French hackers community that was doomed to the "underground" not so
long ago. We salute these initiatives and their diversity!

Soon enough, we wanted to reiterate the HSF experience : however, it
was out of the question to institutionalize this temporary autonomous
zone, nor make it an ersatz of the previous edition, nor even to wrap
it into an "elite" or "underground" aura. On the opposite, we ardently
desire; and especially to explore further, in all directions some
lesser known domains (see below) et foster meeting and sharing around
experiences at the confluence of art, technology and politics.

The world financial crisis, the decay of democracy in Europe, the
obscurantism, paranoia and lack of culture presiding over legislation
(Internet and Reaction... Err... Creation Law[5][6]) seem a fertile
environment for the sensible development of new (social...) life forms.
Quick! Let's rest for a few days in jubilation and ecstasy to take a
deep breathe of freedom under the indelicate smells of the medicine
factory nearby!

For if the public space is shrinking to oblivion, where any side-step
becomes suspect, and that, from an early age (deviant behavior
detection in nursery school), where moving without a mobile phone
becomes suspect (hello you Julien Coupat[7], a French political
prisoner in France!), there's a domain that the Leviathan would have a
lot of trouble to contain, and for a reason: that of sensitivity. Even
the desperate attempts of the State to block the free and premonitory
expression of sense (hello you Demeure du Chaos![8]) cannot do anything
against a loud laughter or a knowing glance, a sensual kiss or an
explosion of colors.

Sensitivity, we could say, is what is left to a human being when she
has nothing anymore, and differenciates her from the body corporate or
the institution, that are, in essence, devoid of it. Therefore, Art
definitely remains the public space to share between humans, and only
between us. And if it the last one to share, we propose to explore it
and take it over during the upcoming edition of the Hacker Space
Festival, from the 26th to 30th of June, 2009 at Vitry sur Seine[9].

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Keynote Speakers: Sergey Grim and Larry Fake with Eric Schmoudt
Groogle Summer of Crode, Survivor style
"VLC, I vote against you because you really fucked up when..."

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== W A N T E D =========================================================

Focus on solutions rather than problems.

* The Final (Hardware) Frontier: Open FPGA Cores, Reverse Engineering
* Designer Religions and Creative Beliefs Systems
* WiFiDoors & WiFi System-on-Chip controllers firmware hacking,
infection & backdooring
* Telecom Core Network Equipment Reverse Engineering: MSC, STP,
Switches, ...
* Algebraic Attacks and Modern Cryptography Attacks
* Autonomous, Parasitic and Viral Drones
* Enhanced or Infected Reality Swarms
* Auto-Builders / Self-Fabrication
* Embedded OS breakins stories & recipies
* Actualization rather than mere concepts
* FPGA & ASIC hacking / backdooring
* Cloud+Privacy+Open Source: O Brave New World?
* Explosion-Proof clothing
* Radio Appz & Hackz: Mesh @ RF Layer 1-3
* Database & Privacy
* Problematic & Ethical Open Source/Content Licenses
* Institutional Relationships: Lobbying or Licking?
* Non Lethal Protection (anti-taser vests?)
* Survival in the Age of the Ministry of Immigration and National
Identity
* Mental asylum improvised visit
* Open Source Legacy Media(TM) Production Solutions (TV, Radio, Press,
DRM)
* Gas Sensors & Environmental Benchmarking
* Building Hackerspaces Without Money
* Milsatcomm hacking: Military satellites shots, broken birds in the
sky
* Academics and Hackers
* Organics and Fermentation
* Clean Food in Tainted Environment
* Low Impact Energy & Recycling
* Media Sandwich: layers of crap makes good food?
* Deconstructing Carla Sarkozy
* Knitting DIY Factory (jazzy, eh?)
* Signs of life among industrial wasteland
* Hallucinogenic & Computing: Can you Code on Acid?
* Mesh Networking (Wireless BattleMesh Royal!)
* Legal Sabotage: When Democracy Needs You

And anything that does not fit.

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== P R O P O S E =======================================================

Send you contributions to HSF2009-CFP@lists.tmplab.org

+ Type of the proposal:

1. conference (45min. presentation + 10min. for questions)
2. workshop / demo (30min. à 2 heures)
3. installation / performance (music, plastic, sound, video)

Lightning talks can be proposed and organized until the last moment,
according to available space and schedule, in the form of BarCamps or
Blitz Conferences.

+ Required Information:

* Title of the presentation
* Type (see above)
* Language : French or English
* Name of speaker(s)
* Affiliation (organization / company)
* Short biography
* Abstract (5 to 10 lines)
* Topics / Keywords
* Includes a demo? YES | NO
* Release during the festival? YES | NO
* Internet connection required? YES | NO

+ Acceptable Formats

* Open Document
* PDF
* Plain Text
* RTF

+ Agenda

* beginning of proposals : now
* end of proposals : 01 May 2009
* selection notification : 07 May 2009
* publication of program : 15 May 2009

+ Evaluation criteria for proposals:

1. Innovating Topic
2. Open Technology
3. Demonstration / Live Act
4. DIY Reproducibility
5. Fun Potential

The Programming Committee resembles that of last year
See : http://hackerspace.net/committee

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== V E N U E ===========================================================

/tmp/lab
6 Bis rue Leon Geffroy
94400 Vitry sur Seine
France

http://hackerspace.net/directions
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== P A R T I C I P A T E ===============================================

Email : http://lists.tmplab.org/listinfo.cgi/hsf2009-talk-tmplab.org
CFPmail: HSF2009-CFP@lists.tmplab.org
IRC : irc://irc.freenode.net/frlab
Jabber : xmpp:hsf2009@space.cepheide.org?join
Wiki : http://hackerspace.net/hsf2009

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== L I N K S ===========================================================

[1] http://hackerspace.net/hsf2008
[2] http://hsb.wikidot.com/
[3] http://hackerspaces.org/
[4] http://www.frhack.org/
[5] http://jaimelesautistes.fr/
[6] http://laquadrature.net/
[7] http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julien_Coupat
[8] http://www.demeureduchaos.org/
[9] http://hackerspace.net/

/tmp/lab @ wintercamp, Amsterdam, NL

This week is the wintercamp, and a few members of /tmp/lab and Art Sensitif are going there, along with Jaromil for Dyne, meeting 160 participants for a networked experience in order to create, cross-breed and develop what the collectives are doing. Very different than the traditionnal approach to CodeCamps or Hack Conference, wintercamp is organized by some great dutch organization giving it a very different flavor, at least in the making. Questions and projects that will be addressed will revolve around Open Education, Code and Open Source, Tech experiments for culture, Open Infrastructure development, Social and Creative network building and autonomous initiatives.

BattleWirelessMesh2009 – April 11-12 @ TmpLab – Sponsors Update

SPONSORS updates

The TmpLab is pleased to announce the support of two first sponsors for the BattleWirelessMesh to help this event to be the one occasion a have a real case mesh test-bed.

  • Wireless-fr (http://wireless-fr.org)  will be providing 8 nodes (Buffalo)
  • FON (http://fon.com) will be providing 25 nodes (WRT54G)

We are still looking for more supports from the community and from the vendors to complete our architecture.

DEVELOPERS updates

Already developers from BATMAN, BABEL and OpenWrt are scheduled to be part of the event to optimize their packages and BSP to improve the results of the contest.

The TmpLab is scheduling an OpenWrt workshop on Sat, April 4 @ /tmp/lab which will be the occasion to prepare and speak about the network constraints and infrastructure to build.

Each protocol team should be preparing a ready-to-flash built image to prepare the event.

First TMPLAB Wireless Battle Mesh – April 11-12th 2009 @ tmplab

We are pleased to announce that the /tmp/lab  will be organizing a Spring Wireless OpenWRT Mesh Contest called “Wireless Battle Mesh” during 2 days (April 11-12th) with the goal of building 3 wireless mesh networks based on embedded hardware running OpenWRT and different concurrent mesh routing protocols.

The targeted architecture will be 3 networks of 25nodes + 1 wireless managment networks (10-20 nodes) to achieve realistic size of nodes number, data traffic, configuration problems. The architecture will be set-up indoor and outdoor around the building of the /tmp/lab.

OpenWRT will be the selected for the BoardSupportPackage running on the different hardware nodes and a core network configuration will be built on Linux servers with user-friendly features such as :
*VLANs
*Captive portal
*Authentication
*Admin portal

Concerning the mesh-protocols, selected targeted protocols are :

*OLSR : IP-based mesh routing platform (http://olsr.org and openWRT package available)

*BATMAN : Layer2-based mesh protocol (http://open-mesh.org) and available as a kernel module for Linux and packaged in OpenWRT

*BABEL : Layer-3 mesh protocol developed by University Paris 6, available for Linux and soon to be packaged for OpenWRT (http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/babel/)

Concerning the hardware node, we are looking for hardware sponsors that could enjoy this “real-case” contest by providing 50-100 nodes to the event. This sponsor will be actually displayed on the organization website as well as during the event. The feedbacks for the hardware manufacturers can be not only from the users but also from the network community running real-case test (academic- or community-wide).

The TMPLAB core team.

Consumer B Gone at 25C3

Don’t miss out the lightning talk we will be giving today at 25C3 on Consumer B Gone !

At approx 12 in Saal 2. More info on these pages :
Consumer B Gone : http://www.tmplab.org/2008/06/18/consumer-b-gone/
Lightning talks : http://events.ccc.de/congress/2008/wiki/Lightning_Talks#Talks_-_Day.234
And for those who are not at the 25C3, there is streaming video : http://events.ccc.de/congress/2008/wiki/Streaming

Workshop: Soldering workshop + Repurposing Audio Devices as Hacking Tools

This thursday 18th of December 2008 at 8 PM, there will be a workshop with Mitch Altman, father and inventor of TV-B-Gone,

1/ First part: Soldering Workshop
Learn to solder, anyone can learn. Just bring your solder iron if you have one. If you don’t, it’s ok, we have some. Mitch has fun kits to practice on. Reimbursement for parts cost requested. Lack of fund should not be a problem to you (means: COME ON!)

2/ Repurposing Audio Devices as Hacking Tools
TV B Gone from an Music Player?
Consumer B Gone from your cell phone?

Audio cards and players are amazing hacking platforms for other-than-sound signalling:
* Infra Red
* Radio-frequencies
* Electromagnetic Fields
All this can be generated by your audio output!!!

Come and let’s be creative about what will be the next WHATEVER-B-Gone

— FRENCH —
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35 Days Against DRM — Day One: MacBook – DefectiveByDesign.org

DefectiveByDesign has launched a new initiative to show which products are being tweaked by their own manufacturer in order to pressure consumer into more sheep-like buyers:

35 Days Against DRM — Day One: MacBook | DefectiveByDesign.org

have a look and vote for it on DIGG.