[00:01.600 --> 00:03.080]  We made it.
[00:16.120 --> 00:23.000]  A lot of us were here in the opening ceremony, and if you weren't, I'll repeat what I mentioned then.
[00:23.440 --> 00:27.320]  And this is an opportunity to give some thought to what I mentioned then.
[00:27.500 --> 00:40.420]  What I said in the opening ceremony, this was a five-minute thing we did about 300 years ago, otherwise known as Friday morning, was I said, let's consider forming an intention around hope.
[00:41.520 --> 00:43.580]  What is it you're hoping to get out of this?
[00:43.760 --> 00:45.280]  What is it you're hoping to learn?
[00:45.540 --> 00:49.480]  What sort of conversations, interactions are you looking to have?
[00:49.780 --> 00:52.700]  How are you going to look to model your best self?
[00:53.820 --> 00:59.880]  And by doing that, extend yourself to the community.
[01:00.100 --> 01:09.640]  And I hope that people were doing that, and I hope that if you weren't, or you hadn't given it too much thought since then, or you weren't in opening ceremonies, you can look back now and say, oh yeah, I did that.
[01:09.640 --> 01:11.080]  That was part of what happened.
[01:11.220 --> 01:18.780]  It wasn't just the talks, wasn't just the workshops, wasn't just the interaction, wasn't just the sleep deprivation, the Emerald Pub.
[01:18.780 --> 01:20.400]  All those things are important.
[01:21.160 --> 01:41.940]  So I wanted to revisit that, and we'll keep inviting you, including I think an after HOPE email blitz, to email feedback at hope.net, because we sincerely want to know how it went, and we sincerely want to know any ideas for how it could go differently or better in the future.
[01:42.360 --> 01:44.080]  So thanks to everyone for being part of it.
[01:44.360 --> 01:53.980]  What we're going to do tonight, and I'm sure some people have been to closing ceremonies before, is it's just really a big round of what we did, how we did it, and an awful lot of thank yous.
[01:53.980 --> 01:54.940]  And thank you.
[01:55.480 --> 02:04.640]  First thing I want to do is thank all the people that attended, all the people that bought tickets, especially all the people that bought tickets before even the program was out, and took that leap of faith.
[02:04.920 --> 02:08.480]  Let's give ourselves a round of applause for showing up to HOPE and being part of it.
[02:17.770 --> 02:29.510]  What I'd like to do now is invite our main sponsor, representative, convener, and all-around incredible person, Emmanuel Goldstein.
[02:36.640 --> 02:37.360]  Thanks.
[02:43.000 --> 02:47.960]  If you've been to previous conferences, this face would be very familiar to you.
[02:49.060 --> 02:51.760]  Cheshire was at every single one of our HOPE conferences.
[02:54.300 --> 03:01.980]  And we are so sorry to have lost him in the past year, and his memory lives on, and I feel his presence.
[03:01.980 --> 03:02.500]  I really do.
[03:03.620 --> 03:05.480]  I want to reiterate what Greg said.
[03:06.100 --> 03:07.460]  You guys made it possible.
[03:07.780 --> 03:08.960]  It was the spirit here.
[03:09.140 --> 03:14.000]  It was the amazing enthusiasm that everyone here showed.
[03:14.080 --> 03:14.980]  That's what makes an event.
[03:14.980 --> 03:20.160]  We did a lot of coordinating, and yeah, it was hard, and we have a fantastic team.
[03:20.660 --> 03:24.800]  But without the attendees bringing that magic, it's nothing.
[03:25.060 --> 03:28.260]  So thank you all so much for making it a great event.
[03:28.700 --> 03:33.000]  And I'd like to ask people, you know, we live in a crazy world.
[03:33.000 --> 03:35.520]  We live in a world that's at each other's throats.
[03:36.180 --> 03:45.840]  This weekend, I saw people from all over the world, from all different walks of life, and we all got together and made an incredible event.
[03:46.640 --> 03:53.880]  Let's bring that back out to the rest of the world and hopefully help make that a better place and do this again in a couple of years.
[03:54.460 --> 03:55.340]  With that...
[04:01.680 --> 04:06.900]  With that, I'd like to introduce Alex from Networking, who's going to share some interesting statistics.
[04:09.320 --> 04:10.280]  All right.
[04:10.760 --> 04:13.860]  My name is Alex, and I'm representing the HOPE NOC.
[04:20.420 --> 04:23.820]  So this time we were cruising on megabits.
[04:26.060 --> 04:27.780]  So how it all began.
[04:28.220 --> 04:34.280]  So as some of you may recall, setting up in the hotel pen used to be a pretty major hassle.
[04:34.280 --> 04:37.540]  We had to run fiber down 18 floors.
[04:37.580 --> 04:42.440]  We established full EBGP with 10 gigs of connectivity from Hurricane Electric.
[04:42.800 --> 04:51.360]  We had to troubleshoot in data centers, SELEX, use an IPv4 allocation from a random defunct construction company registered in the Netherlands.
[04:52.340 --> 04:53.760]  Some interesting stuff.
[04:55.100 --> 04:58.320]  So at St. John's University, it's been a bit different.
[04:58.320 --> 05:07.060]  So our first conference here was two years ago, and there was a bunch of unknown unknowns that we walked into coming into a new environment.
[05:07.320 --> 05:20.820]  So there was concerns, obviously, about, you know, a big group of hackers, you know, convening at a university campus, especially when we had a history of DDoS attacks and fiber cuts and other activity.
[05:21.940 --> 05:27.040]  So fortunately, we were able to come to an agreement on a co-managed architecture.
[05:27.640 --> 05:33.020]  To our surprise, everything came together and we were up and running in a couple of hours upon our arrival.
[05:34.160 --> 05:42.280]  So this year, we effectively copied and pasted our template from the last one with a few slight modifications.
[05:42.920 --> 05:49.680]  We had a single Zoom session in advance of the conference, and we had one on-site visit to walk some of the new spaces.
[05:50.320 --> 05:57.040]  And with our pre-planning and pre-configuration, the network was fully functional 20 minutes after our arrival.
[06:03.890 --> 06:07.070]  So in terms of a co-build, what does that really mean?
[06:07.310 --> 06:11.130]  Well, St. John's provided extensive pre-existing wiring.
[06:11.510 --> 06:15.930]  That's an example of some of the cables that they've actually pulled out of the campus.
[06:15.930 --> 06:20.330]  But to put it into perspective, there's a lot of cabling going between these buildings.
[06:21.770 --> 06:29.250]  We also had numerous wireless access points and controllers that we were able to put to use with our own SSIDs.
[06:30.070 --> 06:38.370]  They have comprehensive routing infrastructure, over 100 gigabits of Internet connectivity out of here, which is a blend of three different ISPs.
[06:38.370 --> 06:43.610]  They have their own autonomous system, and we were able to put that to use.
[06:45.070 --> 06:46.710]  What we provided...
[06:46.710 --> 06:53.690]  So there was a bit of a prior concern around putting us into the data path.
[06:54.130 --> 07:01.050]  And so we came to an agreement where we will provide DHCP and DNS to all of the attendees.
[07:01.050 --> 07:05.190]  They'll just provide, effectively, the network capability and SSIDs.
[07:06.690 --> 07:12.930]  We pulled cables, we installed switches for areas where we needed some additional connectivity that they didn't have it.
[07:13.650 --> 07:17.690]  We handled, obviously, any troll hunting that would need to be occurring.
[07:18.470 --> 07:22.350]  And making sure that the bandwidth quality across the board was good for you all.
[07:23.090 --> 07:24.570]  So, yeah.
[07:25.510 --> 07:29.190]  In terms of the configuration, so we had two different VLANs.
[07:29.830 --> 07:33.970]  So we had a wired network and a wireless network, both of them slash 18s.
[07:33.970 --> 07:39.010]  The wired network was accessible in the cafeteria, Tobin, Marilock, and Little Theatre.
[07:39.650 --> 07:43.990]  We actually had to have a switch installed on the stage in Little Theatre.
[07:44.490 --> 07:48.310]  And we had fiber punched through a brick wall in order to pull that off.
[07:49.930 --> 07:53.630]  For the wireless network, so it was actually accessible campus-wide.
[07:54.130 --> 07:58.290]  Each individual access point was capable of doing about 200 to 400 megabits.
[07:58.290 --> 08:01.890]  This room alone has eight access points in it.
[08:02.070 --> 08:04.750]  So pretty good coverage, given the number of attendees.
[08:05.230 --> 08:08.670]  We had an overload NAT in place for Internet access.
[08:08.910 --> 08:11.610]  So no TCP session exhaustion issues.
[08:12.290 --> 08:18.070]  And we had a FortiGate ADF for the DNS and DHCP requests.
[08:19.370 --> 08:22.290]  We had a few projects that we pulled off this time.
[08:22.290 --> 08:28.470]  So the first was a implementation of a product called FortiSassy from Fortinet in the NOC.
[08:28.950 --> 08:36.030]  Provided an alternate SSID where traffic was tunneled from the NOC to a data center in Ashburn as its egress point.
[08:36.230 --> 08:39.830]  So as soon as you got connected to the SSID, you were securely connected to the Internet.
[08:40.590 --> 08:46.170]  We also used ChatGPT very extensively across everything that we did.
[08:48.090 --> 08:54.610]  So we built a new NOC website with some quote-unquote live bandwidth graphs.
[08:55.350 --> 09:02.750]  As I mentioned, we didn't really have a lot of real-time visibility because we weren't in the data path other than the DNS and DHCP.
[09:03.150 --> 09:05.750]  So the bandwidth graph that was up there was actually fake.
[09:05.930 --> 09:06.490]  Sorry about that.
[09:08.650 --> 09:20.170]  So to get the same level of visibility that we would have from SFlow or NetFlow, we decided to build a Python application to actually analyze the logs that were coming off of the FortiGate.
[09:21.050 --> 09:28.390]  We also set up a one uptime server for just some visibility into external connectivity and a status page.
[09:28.890 --> 09:32.890]  We set up a honeypot and we built out this presentation with ChatGPT.
[09:34.810 --> 09:36.650]  So some observations.
[09:37.210 --> 09:46.990]  So with over 100 gigabits of Internet connectivity available, 25 gigabits on the wireless, you peaked at 431 megabits a second.
[09:47.230 --> 09:47.850]  Congratulations.
[09:53.820 --> 10:01.580]  We had a little over 1,100 connected DHCP clients with a peak of around 1,400 DNS requests.
[10:02.160 --> 10:04.580]  As I mentioned, we didn't have SFlow or NetFlow.
[10:04.800 --> 10:10.020]  We only had historical data and some SNMP data that they shared a graph from.
[10:10.180 --> 10:13.080]  So that's actual utilization across the weekend.
[10:14.000 --> 10:33.360]  However, so since most of you didn't change your default DNS settings that you learned from our DHCP server, you trusted the UDP DNS, or you accepted our self-signed certificate for DNS over TLS or DNS over HTTPS, you provided us a lot of information about your usage, suckers.
[10:37.460 --> 10:41.040]  So the script that we wrote did a lot of things.
[10:41.040 --> 10:44.280]  So it took the syslog input and extracted all the domains.
[10:44.580 --> 10:49.500]  It actually did a DNS lookup of every domain that you all accessed over the period of time.
[10:50.780 --> 11:02.180]  We used Team Kumru's database to actually do IP to AS mapping so we could see what destination networks were being hit and also what countries were being hit.
[11:02.180 --> 11:05.320]  So we got a lot of really useful information from that.
[11:06.280 --> 11:15.820]  So in terms of the top access domains, a lot of the things that you would expect, Google, YouTube, you know, you all hit that stuff, obviously.
[11:16.380 --> 11:17.500]  Nothing special there.
[11:17.660 --> 11:19.560]  But some random observations that we had.
[11:20.440 --> 11:21.720]  Y'all really like Google.
[11:22.860 --> 11:23.840]  Probably too much.
[11:24.600 --> 11:27.400]  That first entry there isn't even Google, by the way.
[11:27.540 --> 11:29.380]  It's hosted by Ackermeyer and Linode.
[11:29.380 --> 11:32.880]  So, yeah, I don't know why you hit it like 3,000 times.
[11:35.500 --> 11:40.080]  Many users attempted DNS lookups for their company's internal FQDNs.
[11:40.500 --> 11:49.020]  We could enumerate many of the companies and also the users and devices that were doing those queries, but we're not shaming anyone.
[11:50.860 --> 11:57.720]  Also, remember, if you use example.com or example.org from a how-to guide, it doesn't mean you actually need to use it.
[12:00.980 --> 12:04.200]  So, the top destination networks, what you would expect.
[12:07.760 --> 12:10.580]  Top destination countries, heavy U.S.
[12:14.040 --> 12:15.620]  I was very proud of this.
[12:15.840 --> 12:19.500]  So, your DHCP requests, many have showed up as an unknown vendor.
[12:19.900 --> 12:22.840]  So, good default security settings for DHCP.
[12:24.140 --> 12:25.660]  But really, you had a BlackBerry.
[12:33.040 --> 12:35.040]  And these host names are just ridiculous.
[12:45.750 --> 12:50.830]  Some of you actually brought your own devices that were, I guess, provision for HOPE, given your host name was HOPE.
[12:51.030 --> 12:53.250]  So, we're very proud of that from a security perspective.
[12:53.410 --> 12:53.750]  Good job.
[12:55.310 --> 12:56.850]  We also ran a honeypot.
[12:57.370 --> 13:01.890]  And we noticed that TikTok was actually trying to brute force us on SSH.
[13:02.730 --> 13:03.250]  So...
[13:07.610 --> 13:09.490]  Shout out to the HOPE NOC crew.
[13:12.090 --> 13:12.490]  Thanks.
[13:15.290 --> 13:16.350]  And our sponsors.
[13:17.970 --> 13:18.750]  Thank you, everyone.
[13:39.060 --> 13:43.500]  As I think a lot of you know, we had a tripartite wellness and security team.
[13:44.060 --> 13:45.460]  Is Operation Hammond in the house?
[13:45.560 --> 13:46.600]  Yeah, Christine, why don't you come on up?
[13:57.700 --> 14:01.780]  So, the tripartite consisted of Operation Hammond.
[14:01.880 --> 14:04.480]  It consisted of the HOPE security team.
[14:04.520 --> 14:09.310]  And it consisted of the St. John's University public safety team.
[14:11.040 --> 14:14.380]  And so, let's hear a little bit about how that went for Operation Hammond.
[14:16.600 --> 14:17.320]  Hey, folks.
[14:17.440 --> 14:18.920]  My name is Christine, or Ducky.
[14:19.140 --> 14:21.060]  I am part of Operation Hammond.
[14:21.060 --> 14:24.080]  For those of you that weren't here at HOPE last...
[14:24.080 --> 14:24.900]  Not last year.
[14:24.900 --> 14:25.540]  Two years ago.
[14:25.820 --> 14:27.880]  You might not know what Operation Hammond is.
[14:28.220 --> 14:30.080]  So, quick two seconds about us.
[14:30.240 --> 14:40.720]  Is we're an all-volunteer, non-profit, first-aid organization that provides services to nerd conventions like anime, pop culture, sci-fi, hacker cons, obviously.
[14:41.240 --> 14:45.560]  We find this is a great way to give back to the communities that we're a part of and help support them.
[14:45.920 --> 14:48.160]  You folks, though, didn't need much support at all.
[14:48.160 --> 14:51.620]  We helped about five people, but...
[14:51.620 --> 14:59.000]  We handed out a ton of band-aids, which I hope you all keep in your wallets and your bags, and you can use moving forward for whatever you need.
[15:00.020 --> 15:04.080]  Otherwise, had a super awesome HOPE, was super bored the entire time.
[15:04.220 --> 15:09.560]  And like I say, I'm happy to be the only person that's bored at this convention as long as y'all had fun.
[15:09.560 --> 15:11.140]  Thank you.
[15:17.310 --> 15:17.810]  Amazing.
[15:20.630 --> 15:25.950]  I might be live again on the slide.
[15:28.850 --> 15:30.890]  The third part...
[15:32.570 --> 15:41.090]  The third part of the wellness and safety tripartite was the St. John's University public safety folks.
[15:41.290 --> 15:43.470]  These are the people that kept...
[15:44.730 --> 15:50.450]  Generally, these are some of the smiling, greeting faces that you saw every time you walked into one of the spaces, or almost every time.
[15:50.610 --> 16:00.330]  There were folks that were keeping an eye out for badges, helping with directional stuff, helping with parking, helping with lost and found, anything like that.
[16:02.130 --> 16:04.450]  And they did a fantastic job, in my opinion.
[16:04.650 --> 16:05.750]  They were friendly, personable.
[16:06.270 --> 16:09.210]  Some of them were over-the-top helpful, and all of them were extremely helpful.
[16:09.210 --> 16:13.070]  So, thanks to St. John's Public Safety for being the third part.
[16:13.570 --> 16:16.290]  Now, let's hear from the second part, which is the HOPE security team.
[16:16.690 --> 16:19.290]  Roadie, I think you can come on out and bring up the whole team.
[16:27.420 --> 16:30.520]  I see a few people with pink shirts on.
[16:30.880 --> 16:36.200]  And anybody you see with those shirts on, you should shake their hand and tell them they did a great job.
[16:36.200 --> 16:37.720]  They were here early.
[16:38.500 --> 16:40.340]  We got delayed on the way up here.
[16:41.040 --> 16:43.040]  Andrew jumped in, helped out.
[16:43.720 --> 16:45.820]  Keith came in, helped out.
[16:47.040 --> 16:50.240]  Everything was taken care of by the time we got here.
[16:50.480 --> 16:52.760]  I think we're about six, seven.
[16:54.640 --> 17:00.080]  It was an absolutely boring conference from the security point.
[17:05.570 --> 17:14.130]  I mean, there's a 500-gig drive that's possibly full of data that we don't know anything about, but it's in lost and found in case you need it.
[17:16.010 --> 17:17.090]  Nothing got stolen.
[17:17.490 --> 17:18.590]  Nothing got taken away.
[17:19.190 --> 17:20.130]  Nobody stole the kiosk.
[17:21.230 --> 17:22.790]  And that was about it.
[17:23.010 --> 17:24.130]  So, thank you.
[17:35.700 --> 17:36.140]  Amazing.
[17:38.060 --> 17:40.460]  And, yeah, Roadie, if you wanted to stay, that was okay.
[17:40.520 --> 17:42.120]  Let's bring up some of the core organizers.
[17:42.120 --> 17:43.320]  I think you know who you are.
[17:43.780 --> 17:47.500]  And we'll go through sort of a department-by-department analysis.
[17:48.320 --> 17:52.800]  Alex, Liz, Lindsay, Mitt is here somewhere.
[17:53.820 --> 17:56.700]  And, yeah, and I think there might be one or two folks who know who you are.
[17:56.880 --> 17:58.160]  Is Jolie in the house?
[17:59.840 --> 18:01.140]  I don't think Jolie's in the house.
[18:01.240 --> 18:01.940]  We'll thank Jolie separately.
[18:02.080 --> 18:02.740]  Come on up, please.
[18:02.740 --> 18:04.180]  I can't do this alone.
[18:14.680 --> 18:15.480]  Um...
[18:15.480 --> 18:16.680]  DJ Spock, thank you.
[18:17.200 --> 18:22.900]  While that's happening, I'd like to have a few words from a special friend.
[18:27.450 --> 18:28.250]  Hey.
[18:29.010 --> 18:29.890]  This is Johannes.
[18:30.950 --> 18:32.590]  The crazy Austrian.
[18:33.530 --> 18:33.770]  Ah.
[18:35.250 --> 18:36.330]  It got me.
[18:37.210 --> 18:37.750]  Shit.
[18:38.540 --> 18:39.050]  Heh.
[18:39.590 --> 18:41.070]  I cannot be...
[18:41.070 --> 18:41.850]  with you.
[18:42.270 --> 18:43.830]  The last two days...
[18:43.830 --> 18:45.210]  I made it happen.
[18:45.730 --> 18:47.250]  But today...
[18:47.250 --> 18:49.190]  some fucked up...
[18:49.190 --> 18:51.150]  some actually pretty nice...
[18:51.150 --> 18:52.450]  Dr. Lady...
[18:52.450 --> 18:53.530]  told me...
[18:53.530 --> 18:54.810]  you stay home...
[18:54.810 --> 18:55.910]  and eat...
[18:55.910 --> 18:57.390]  your fucking...
[18:57.390 --> 18:58.190]  antibiotics.
[18:59.650 --> 19:00.170]  Ah.
[19:01.480 --> 19:02.610]  Seems that...
[19:02.610 --> 19:03.890]  on the way over...
[19:03.890 --> 19:04.820]  from Austria...
[19:05.530 --> 19:05.990]  Heh.
[19:06.310 --> 19:07.470]  I had...
[19:07.750 --> 19:08.370]  a...
[19:08.370 --> 19:09.850]  pretty major...
[19:09.850 --> 19:10.830]  bronchitis...
[19:10.830 --> 19:11.070]  attack.
[19:11.570 --> 19:13.230]  It was coughing...
[19:13.230 --> 19:14.130]  for eight...
[19:14.130 --> 19:14.910]  hours...
[19:14.910 --> 19:15.310]  straight.
[19:15.790 --> 19:17.830]  And it was so hyperventilating...
[19:17.830 --> 19:18.950]  that I...
[19:18.950 --> 19:20.090]  had a chat...
[19:20.610 --> 19:21.950]  with my dead...
[19:21.950 --> 19:22.590]  grandmother.
[19:23.650 --> 19:24.110]  I...
[19:24.110 --> 19:26.310]  I can't actually remember anything.
[19:27.530 --> 19:27.970]  Maybe...
[19:27.970 --> 19:29.250]  it was not the real grandmother.
[19:29.410 --> 19:30.350]  Maybe it was some...
[19:30.350 --> 19:31.590]  spiritual groper.
[19:31.830 --> 19:32.790]  Something like that.
[19:32.930 --> 19:33.370]  I don't know.
[19:34.330 --> 19:35.210]  Anyhow...
[19:35.750 --> 19:36.950]  I just...
[19:37.690 --> 19:39.290]  wanted to tell you...
[19:39.290 --> 19:40.890]  that I've been part...
[19:40.890 --> 19:42.050]  of the closing ceremony...
[19:42.790 --> 19:43.170]  since...
[19:43.170 --> 19:44.430]  2000...
[19:44.430 --> 19:45.230]  and...
[19:45.230 --> 19:45.410]  and...
[19:46.790 --> 19:47.850]  I want...
[19:47.850 --> 19:48.710]  to be part...
[19:48.710 --> 19:49.930]  this year...
[19:49.930 --> 19:50.650]  as well.
[19:51.730 --> 19:53.110]  I've done some...
[19:53.110 --> 19:53.890]  pretty...
[19:53.890 --> 19:55.310]  mission to you...
[19:55.310 --> 19:55.830]  like...
[19:55.830 --> 19:56.670]  goats at you...
[19:56.670 --> 19:57.670]  and stuff like that.
[19:57.890 --> 19:58.550]  I think...
[19:58.550 --> 19:59.050]  I'll...
[19:59.050 --> 19:59.770]  probably...
[19:59.770 --> 20:00.970]  not do this...
[20:00.970 --> 20:01.750]  this time.
[20:02.730 --> 20:03.930]  one thing...
[20:06.550 --> 20:08.770]  but something interesting happened in the morning.
[20:08.970 --> 20:09.990]  I was sitting...
[20:10.670 --> 20:11.890]  in the dark...
[20:11.890 --> 20:12.750]  in my bathtub...
[20:13.670 --> 20:14.850]  the wonderful...
[20:14.850 --> 20:15.750]  warm water...
[20:16.450 --> 20:18.750]  was flowing into my face...
[20:19.890 --> 20:21.750]  and I could turn off...
[20:22.910 --> 20:23.750]  and it was...
[20:24.470 --> 20:25.750]  you know...
[20:27.050 --> 20:27.730]  Thursday...
[20:27.730 --> 20:29.110]  so I got...
[20:29.110 --> 20:30.210]  like a...
[20:30.210 --> 20:31.210]  gallon...
[20:31.210 --> 20:32.030]  of Arizona...
[20:32.030 --> 20:32.730]  I see...
[20:33.410 --> 20:34.470]  and I...
[20:34.470 --> 20:35.390]  put it...
[20:35.390 --> 20:36.730]  to my face...
[20:38.030 --> 20:40.490]  lifted my face up...
[20:40.490 --> 20:40.790]  and...
[20:40.790 --> 20:41.870]  dumped it down...
[20:42.870 --> 20:43.790]  while I was...
[20:43.790 --> 20:45.110]  looking straight...
[20:46.310 --> 20:46.790]  into...
[20:47.270 --> 20:47.850]  the...
[20:47.850 --> 20:49.090]  tower ray...
[20:49.090 --> 20:50.170]  and then...
[20:50.170 --> 20:51.130]  I accidentally...
[20:51.810 --> 20:53.130]  waterboarded myself...
[20:55.010 --> 20:56.450]  3.5...
[20:56.930 --> 20:58.090]  out of 5...
[20:58.770 --> 21:00.530]  I will probably try again...
[21:00.670 --> 21:02.410]  but the most important part is...
[21:02.410 --> 21:03.470]  that I decided...
[21:03.850 --> 21:05.090]  to keep the video...
[21:05.650 --> 21:07.370]  of hacking at least...
[21:07.710 --> 21:09.450]  here's the link...
[21:09.450 --> 21:10.370]  my new documentary...
[21:11.050 --> 21:12.190]  that premiered...
[21:12.190 --> 21:13.310]  yesterday at HOPE...
[21:13.710 --> 21:14.530]  online...
[21:14.690 --> 21:15.170]  until...
[21:16.050 --> 21:16.530]  tomorrow...
[21:17.090 --> 21:17.670]  midnight...
[21:17.670 --> 21:18.950]  not today...
[21:18.950 --> 21:19.350]  midnight...
[21:19.350 --> 21:19.810]  tomorrow...
[21:19.810 --> 21:20.390]  midnight...
[21:20.390 --> 21:21.810]  so you can relax...
[21:21.810 --> 21:22.630]  go home...
[21:22.630 --> 21:23.370]  and if you want...
[21:23.370 --> 21:24.890]  you can watch it...
[21:24.890 --> 21:25.650]  you...
[21:25.650 --> 21:26.450]  deserve it...
[21:26.450 --> 21:28.150]  you are the best community...
[21:28.150 --> 21:29.490]  I love you...
[21:29.490 --> 21:30.370]  I wanna hug you...
[21:30.370 --> 21:30.890]  and kiss you...
[21:30.890 --> 21:32.450]  and spit in your face...
[21:32.450 --> 21:33.430]  to share...
[21:33.430 --> 21:34.670]  all the goodness I have...
[21:35.830 --> 21:36.810]  I see you...
[21:36.810 --> 21:38.130]  in two years...
[21:49.030 --> 21:50.390]  You can always count on...
[21:50.390 --> 21:50.890]  Johannes...
[21:50.890 --> 21:51.850]  what I'll do is...
[21:51.850 --> 21:52.330]  I made a...
[21:52.930 --> 21:53.410]  screenshot...
[21:53.410 --> 21:54.570]  no, no, I'm not gonna do that...
[21:54.570 --> 21:55.290]  there...
[21:56.810 --> 21:58.150]  that was kind of gross, right?
[21:59.530 --> 21:59.970]  I...
[21:59.970 --> 22:01.910]  if you want to take a photo of this...
[22:01.910 --> 22:03.810]  I saved a screenshot of it...
[22:03.810 --> 22:04.710]  with the password.
[22:07.560 --> 22:08.740]  so what we'll do...
[22:08.740 --> 22:09.240]  and I...
[22:09.240 --> 22:11.020]  we don't have everyone on the stage...
[22:11.020 --> 22:12.540]  we don't have nearly everyone on the stage...
[22:12.540 --> 22:13.280]  who helped...
[22:13.280 --> 22:16.120]  and not everyone on the stage wants to talk to their...
[22:16.120 --> 22:17.180]  particular area...
[22:17.180 --> 22:18.980]  but what we'll do is we'll just go through the different areas...
[22:18.980 --> 22:21.460]  And talk a little bit about what was involved and how things went.
[22:21.580 --> 22:25.760]  We're going to try to keep it moving along, but I think there's always a lot of curiosity about what's involved.
[22:26.340 --> 22:33.580]  And the main message that I'll probably come back to a few times is this organization, first of all, is all volunteers.
[22:34.320 --> 22:44.420]  Second of all, it's a meritocracy in that the way people get up on the stage is by being interested in helping out and putting some effort in.
[22:44.420 --> 22:51.200]  And we'll have an opportunity to thank, in general, the many, many people that volunteered throughout the weekend.
[22:51.200 --> 23:00.700]  And some of the folks on the stage here now are the people that have been working for about eight months to put this together, doing weekly teleconferences for a few months now.
[23:00.960 --> 23:09.840]  And the way I characterize this, in case you're interested in getting involved, is being on the HOPE organizing committee is about 4,000 emails.
[23:10.160 --> 23:11.700]  That's about what it consists of.
[23:11.700 --> 23:14.700]  And maybe someday... Thank you.
[23:14.860 --> 23:21.860]  And maybe in the future we'll all be on chat and Mastodon, GPX, whatever.
[23:22.240 --> 23:23.140]  We don't know.
[23:24.620 --> 23:25.420]  Thank you.
[23:26.020 --> 23:26.960]  Relatively few.
[23:27.760 --> 23:30.640]  The technology we rely on is email.
[23:30.780 --> 23:31.620]  Maybe someday that'll change.
[23:32.540 --> 23:36.160]  So let's first talk about... Am I going to first talk about ticketing and registration?
[23:37.380 --> 23:40.880]  Who is the person that greeted everyone when you walked in the door?
[23:41.180 --> 23:41.520]  Lindsay?
[23:41.860 --> 23:42.100]  Hi.
[23:51.740 --> 23:54.420]  We have a ticketing system that everyone experienced.
[23:54.420 --> 23:56.760]  You buy in the Shopify store.
[23:57.040 --> 23:58.640]  You get a QR code eventually.
[23:58.900 --> 24:03.800]  That's a little bit of custom software, a couple of standard libraries with a QR code.
[24:03.800 --> 24:14.660]  We also have a group that set up our matrix robot, the core bot, to respond to your matrix subscription requests.
[24:14.720 --> 24:16.080]  I think most of us have been through that.
[24:16.340 --> 24:21.700]  And so that's all sort of semi-custom based on some existing mainstream libraries.
[24:21.920 --> 24:23.680]  So that, I think, worked pretty well.
[24:23.760 --> 24:28.240]  And I saw a fairly long line, especially Friday morning, to register.
[24:28.240 --> 24:30.700]  But I also observed that the line moved fairly quickly.
[24:30.900 --> 24:32.720]  I know some people were there for 20 or 30 minutes.
[24:32.880 --> 24:33.780]  That was about the most.
[24:33.980 --> 24:45.580]  And for the most part, the check-in process, get your badge, get your packet, after you show your ticket, get that ticket scanned with a phone app, was about a minute for folks.
[24:45.780 --> 24:47.540]  So that was how ticketing and registration went.
[24:47.640 --> 24:48.860]  That was what was behind it.
[24:48.860 --> 24:55.220]  And that was why you were able to have a swift process of getting into the space.
[24:55.520 --> 25:05.420]  The badges that we have, the admission badges, are custom laminates with a hologram background, as I think you've observed.
[25:07.560 --> 25:08.320]  Dropping out here.
[25:09.320 --> 25:09.480]  All right.
[25:09.700 --> 25:11.160]  Up next, so thanks for that.
[25:11.380 --> 25:14.960]  Up next, I think Liz is going to talk for a little bit about how the InfoDesk went.
[25:15.100 --> 25:17.720]  And that's another smiling face you saw when you first walked through the door.
[25:17.720 --> 25:20.580]  I think the most impressive thing is I still have a voice.
[25:22.140 --> 25:22.580]  Hi.
[25:22.800 --> 25:23.300]  Hi, friends.
[25:31.320 --> 25:34.660]  I'm pretty sure I spoke to everyone at some point or another during the conference.
[25:34.840 --> 25:35.980]  It's wonderful to see you all here.
[25:36.940 --> 25:38.700]  I run InfoDesk now.
[25:39.200 --> 25:41.440]  I started in 2016 as a volunteer.
[25:41.980 --> 25:42.920]  And now I'm up here.
[25:43.020 --> 25:43.420]  You can too.
[25:43.860 --> 25:44.760]  Make sure you volunteer.
[25:47.680 --> 25:49.520]  We answered everyone's questions.
[25:49.520 --> 25:50.860]  There were no conflicts.
[25:51.060 --> 25:52.460]  We had some interesting finds.
[25:52.660 --> 25:53.220]  The hard drive.
[25:54.740 --> 25:57.380]  We found a SIM card.
[25:57.520 --> 26:00.160]  It looks like it's from Orange, the French telecom.
[26:01.800 --> 26:03.360]  Some other interesting finds.
[26:03.960 --> 26:07.400]  My sister, who's actually manning the InfoDesk right now, just got a laptop.
[26:07.680 --> 26:12.140]  So if you lost a laptop, you might want to go talk to her.
[26:14.380 --> 26:16.540]  No promises on the condition.
[26:18.120 --> 26:22.100]  We had a number of absolutely amazing volunteers.
[26:23.040 --> 26:27.280]  There were people who came Saturday to help set up.
[26:27.740 --> 26:30.400]  And people came in and just got to work.
[26:30.580 --> 26:32.580]  And things were done and things were done fast.
[26:32.740 --> 26:36.120]  And I'm so, so very grateful for your hard work.
[26:38.180 --> 26:40.640]  Especially Marcus, I want to call out specifically.
[26:40.880 --> 26:41.820]  Tom, who took the mornings.
[26:42.360 --> 26:45.740]  I had some problems getting in in the morning mostly.
[26:45.920 --> 26:46.920]  I didn't want to get out of bed.
[26:49.020 --> 26:51.100]  And Tom filled in on the mornings for me.
[26:51.620 --> 26:53.640]  And I'm extremely grateful.
[26:55.200 --> 26:58.240]  There were some also online volunteers that I also want to call out.
[26:58.780 --> 27:02.680]  Lord of the Realm was checking the AV for each feed every hour.
[27:04.020 --> 27:07.220]  All day, yesterday, today, and I think some of Friday.
[27:07.660 --> 27:11.040]  And those volunteers in particular were amazing and excellent.
[27:11.780 --> 27:14.600]  I know there are others who are also wonderful and excellent.
[27:15.880 --> 27:20.760]  But if I could get a round of applause for them, that would be a really, really nice feed group.
[27:25.810 --> 27:28.710]  Should I also mention like the food trucks and the hotels?
[27:29.030 --> 27:29.870]  And where are we good?
[27:30.270 --> 27:30.710]  Yeah.
[27:31.070 --> 27:33.050]  The food truck and hotel stuff.
[27:33.550 --> 27:33.990]  Yeah.
[27:34.190 --> 27:34.350]  Okay.
[27:34.490 --> 27:34.690]  All right.
[27:34.770 --> 27:35.070]  I guess.
[27:35.250 --> 27:35.610]  Sorry.
[27:35.730 --> 27:36.330]  You're stuck with me.
[27:37.590 --> 27:43.230]  This year, we arranged as a group to have two trucks with us.
[27:43.490 --> 27:46.370]  The Halal Urban Bistro and Waffles and Dingus.
[27:47.690 --> 27:50.110]  We were kind of scrambling to get them.
[27:50.610 --> 27:52.710]  But they were incredibly awesome.
[27:53.070 --> 27:59.290]  We confirmed everything and showed up to make sure we had like food for you guys during the night.
[28:00.450 --> 28:02.870]  From what I understand, everyone seems to really like it.
[28:03.490 --> 28:06.030]  And I would really like your feedback on that specifically.
[28:06.330 --> 28:08.710]  So if you could email feedback at hope.net.
[28:09.470 --> 28:10.450]  I'd love to hear it.
[28:10.490 --> 28:14.210]  If you have any comments, concerns, things like that for them.
[28:15.170 --> 28:18.850]  We also had the hotel discount.
[28:19.030 --> 28:21.690]  I know there were some issues with limited booking.
[28:22.050 --> 28:24.290]  But you guys sold out really quickly.
[28:24.590 --> 28:25.410]  So thank you again.
[28:27.230 --> 28:27.690]  Yeah.
[28:27.830 --> 28:28.530]  I think that's everything.
[28:29.230 --> 28:29.870]  Thank you, Liz.
[28:30.130 --> 28:30.310]  Yeah.
[28:37.830 --> 28:38.350]  Yeah.
[28:38.630 --> 28:41.990]  Talking about food trucks reminds me and talking about feedback.
[28:42.970 --> 28:46.230]  Not everyone, of course, was here two years ago at St. John's University.
[28:46.230 --> 28:48.210]  If you were, you know we're in a different space.
[28:48.570 --> 28:52.890]  I wanted to mention briefly that what happens with feedback.
[28:53.130 --> 28:55.170]  One of the things that people said was there's not enough to eat.
[28:55.350 --> 29:00.230]  We like having a Starbucks in the main building, which was D'Angelo up the hill there.
[29:00.230 --> 29:01.750]  But we need more food.
[29:01.870 --> 29:02.590]  So poof.
[29:02.690 --> 29:03.490]  We have food trucks.
[29:03.710 --> 29:03.910]  Poof.
[29:04.070 --> 29:08.010]  We have the cafeteria open with sort of a custom menu.
[29:08.950 --> 29:10.950]  And so that was an improvement.
[29:11.170 --> 29:19.710]  We had concerns about St. John's rather rigid notions concerning gender identity or the dorms.
[29:19.950 --> 29:27.910]  And we talked to them and it turned out there's maybe a couple of people that have those types of notions.
[29:27.910 --> 29:30.570]  And for the most part, they don't care.
[29:30.870 --> 29:36.990]  And so the registration for the dorms was, yeah, you have to enter what's on your driver's license because it's a campus.
[29:37.170 --> 29:44.490]  And university campuses, as I'm sure we're all aware, are pretty strict about identity and access control and so forth to the living spaces anyway.
[29:45.590 --> 29:48.170]  And otherwise, whatever you want, right?
[29:48.250 --> 29:48.890]  Mix it up.
[29:49.450 --> 29:55.650]  Single room, double room, couples, female, female, female, male, and all the other variations.
[29:55.650 --> 29:59.790]  So that was, I think, a pretty important innovation.
[30:00.170 --> 30:15.210]  And then the other thing that you notice, and we'd love to hear your thoughts about this, was it was kind of a long slog getting from the D'Angelo building, as beautiful and wonderful as it was, down to the little theater and back again and also to get some food and so forth.
[30:15.210 --> 30:22.130]  And this is the flagship auditorium on campus is where they do a lot of graduations and things like that.
[30:22.130 --> 30:30.350]  And we had some concerns two years ago about the AV in this room, like the ability to have a good presentation.
[30:31.890 --> 30:33.370]  And here it is, right?
[30:33.370 --> 30:35.290]  So it turned out fine.
[30:35.490 --> 30:40.270]  So I just wanted to mention that there's a notion of continuous improvement.
[30:40.490 --> 30:41.870]  Your ideas really do matter.
[30:42.070 --> 30:55.170]  I can't say we took every single item that was suggested and took action on it, but it was certainly frequently stated that, you know, food and hills and so forth were issues and dorms.
[30:55.710 --> 30:58.090]  And also we got pretty good parking this year.
[30:58.450 --> 31:02.750]  Campus says, no, no, you must park in the parking structure.
[31:02.850 --> 31:04.110]  And we said that one over there, right?
[31:04.790 --> 31:06.050]  They said, yeah, that one over there.
[31:06.110 --> 31:07.830]  We said, what about this lot over here?
[31:07.930 --> 31:12.150]  They said, no, no, thou shalt not park in the general parking lot.
[31:13.970 --> 31:19.050]  And the conversation iterated a few times and we got access to the general parking lot.
[31:19.170 --> 31:22.630]  So we've had a good relationship with St. John's and I think some continuous improvement.
[31:23.070 --> 31:23.230]  Okay.
[31:23.230 --> 31:23.990]  Wanted to mention that.
[31:24.190 --> 31:26.290]  Let's talk about talks briefly.
[31:26.490 --> 31:27.110]  I think, is this me?
[31:27.230 --> 31:28.330]  I think I'm talking about talks.
[31:28.490 --> 31:30.430]  So we had about a hundred.
[31:30.610 --> 31:35.830]  I think it was either just over or just under 100 speaker sessions in three rooms.
[31:36.090 --> 31:41.590]  We also had the fourth unscheduled talk, which really ramped up on Saturday and Sunday.
[31:41.710 --> 31:44.430]  We managed to get that into InfoBeamer, which we've never done before.
[31:44.430 --> 31:47.970]  So we had sort of a rolling set of announcements about the fourth track talks.
[31:48.390 --> 31:48.790]  Mostly.
[31:48.990 --> 31:53.150]  I know that some of them didn't get in quite in time, but I think fourth track went pretty well.
[31:53.230 --> 31:53.530]  Overall.
[31:53.730 --> 31:58.630]  The three tracks were the ones that were submitted and reviewed.
[31:58.870 --> 32:11.910]  So I'd like to thank the program committee that dealt with all those submissions and also thank the people that didn't get accepted this time, but maybe will be accepted next time.
[32:11.910 --> 32:15.350]  Maybe you did fourth track and maybe, and we'll try to remember this again.
[32:15.570 --> 32:23.730]  Maybe you'll turn your talk idea into an article for 2600 because articles are welcome to the magazine.
[32:24.010 --> 32:31.090]  So we had well over a hundred presenters because we had some panels and some pairs and some tag teams.
[32:31.090 --> 32:32.990]  So the talks I thought were wonderful.
[32:32.990 --> 32:35.250]  I thought it was an extremely strong program.
[32:35.630 --> 32:45.430]  We did have some AI, which was not too surprising, but I can say that the program committee thought it was pretty hacker-ish AI.
[32:45.430 --> 32:53.430]  We weren't getting the mainstream over the top, piped up AI bullshit nearly as much as you might at some other events.
[32:53.670 --> 32:56.970]  So I think that was certainly a topic that we had a lot.
[32:57.130 --> 33:00.690]  I don't recall that the word Bitcoin occurred anywhere.
[33:06.160 --> 33:08.760]  We, uh, we took Bitcoin though.
[33:09.060 --> 33:14.020]  We, we, we accept Bitcoin payments, but, uh, evidently not Bitcoin talks.
[33:14.560 --> 33:18.820]  Um, and, uh, yeah.
[33:18.860 --> 33:22.440]  And then, uh, uh, just, just going at opposite, almost opposite order here.
[33:22.580 --> 33:23.740]  We had an AV team.
[33:23.860 --> 33:25.480]  We have three separate production stations.
[33:25.480 --> 33:29.000]  We did work with St. John's performing arts for the little theater.
[33:29.000 --> 33:33.420]  And otherwise this was a build out that was operated by a series of volunteers.
[33:33.420 --> 33:35.300]  Thank you to the AV team volunteers.
[33:36.200 --> 33:39.360]  And on equipment provided by, and I still don't see Jolie.
[33:39.920 --> 33:41.820]  If you're here, make movements, Jolie.
[33:42.000 --> 33:48.020]  Uh, Jolie McPhee of the Internet Society, um, uh, New York chapter.
[33:48.280 --> 33:52.180]  So it, ISOC is an organization that does a lot of streaming.
[33:52.400 --> 33:53.660]  It does a lot of other stuff.
[33:53.660 --> 33:56.840]  If you don't know what the Internet Society is, uh, you can look them up.
[33:56.840 --> 34:01.980]  They're actually, uh, not only a currently important organization behind the Internet.
[34:02.220 --> 34:06.580]  They are a very much historically important organization behind the Internet.
[34:06.860 --> 34:10.580]  And the New York chapter has been our streaming partner now for a number of different events.
[34:10.720 --> 34:12.040]  So, uh, thanks to Jolie.
[34:12.280 --> 34:13.560]  Thanks to the AV team.
[34:13.780 --> 34:15.000]  Thanks to the Internet Society.
[34:15.320 --> 34:23.800]  Thanks to the committee that reviewed and processed the, the talks and edited the bios and, and all that, um, important stuff to go into the printed program.
[34:23.800 --> 34:25.540]  Thanks to the printed program.
[34:25.720 --> 34:31.760]  And thanks especially to 100, 100 plus talks worth of presenters of excellent quality.
[34:42.500 --> 34:45.160]  Uh, next, I want to, uh, thank our sponsor.
[34:45.420 --> 34:47.940]  We have a sponsorship opportunity to HOPE.
[34:48.060 --> 34:50.240]  The sponsor gets a couple of little, uh, benefits.
[34:50.380 --> 34:51.500]  They have a vendor table.
[34:51.620 --> 34:53.720]  You might've spoken to them during the event.
[34:53.720 --> 34:59.120]  This is, uh, jump.chat, and this is a pretty cool organization.
[34:59.480 --> 35:11.460]  You get a phone number, a real phone number in area codes, including for example, 516, which a lot of people recognize and a number of other, you know, real, real area codes.
[35:11.840 --> 35:17.640]  And, um, and you get to hook it in via a jabber back end to your phone and to your forwarding.
[35:17.640 --> 35:21.180]  And, and you get sort of some, some voice call features, uh, neat service.
[35:21.320 --> 35:23.080]  I encourage you to check it out if you haven't already.
[35:23.220 --> 35:26.660]  So thanks to JMP or jump.chat for being a sponsor.
[35:27.120 --> 35:29.760]  Thanks also to infrastructure sponsors.
[35:30.100 --> 35:34.830]  So where does this scheduler application called PreTalks run?
[35:35.450 --> 35:40.910]  It runs on equipment or a virtual machine donated by John company's hosting company.
[35:41.270 --> 35:54.630]  Um, what supported the, uh, the network group, uh, as I think we heard from Alex, uh, Excel X and Fortinet, uh, equipment ran the, uh, the portion of the network that, uh, that HOPE network team ran.
[35:54.910 --> 36:01.610]  And, uh, as I just mentioned on the previous slide, uh, who made this stream happen and that's Internet Society.
[36:01.610 --> 36:10.190]  And then lastly, we had, uh, I'm sorry, not, not lastly, almost lastly, we had, uh, electronic badges and this was a great surprise.
[36:10.630 --> 36:17.550]  Um, Michael was, uh, the, the, uh, main force behind the badges, put in huge number of hours, organized a team.
[36:17.770 --> 36:22.230]  These are based on some previous badges from the Dutch hacker camp.
[36:22.510 --> 36:23.910]  And, uh, and there's just wonderful.
[36:24.090 --> 36:26.130]  We know we didn't have quite enough badges.
[36:26.330 --> 36:28.310]  We had at least one box that didn't get delivered.
[36:28.310 --> 36:34.510]  We had some documentation that might've fallen through the cracks somewhere along the line, but they blink, they're pretty, they're custom.
[36:34.790 --> 36:35.750]  You can program them.
[36:35.870 --> 36:40.990]  And these are the companies that, uh, donated significant funds to make those badges happen.
[36:41.130 --> 36:45.530]  So thanks to all of our sponsors, infrastructure sponsors, jump.chat, and the badge sponsors.
[36:54.250 --> 36:56.810]  We also had, uh, quite a number of vendors.
[36:57.110 --> 37:01.790]  And again, people that have been to previous HOPEs, you might recall back in, uh, Hotel Pennsylvania.
[37:01.790 --> 37:04.610]  Uh, so last event there was 2018.
[37:05.030 --> 37:08.590]  We would have a few rows of vendor tables and it was really cool.
[37:08.710 --> 37:13.150]  There'd be some nice stuff going on because we had the open space in the Marillac Terrace.
[37:13.270 --> 37:15.790]  Uh, vendors that needed two tables, got two tables.
[37:15.890 --> 37:18.570]  Vendors that wanted to have a couple of chairs, got that.
[37:18.710 --> 37:23.010]  Vendors that wanted to put up a exhibit of some sort, got to do that.
[37:23.010 --> 37:26.490]  So we had, I think a really vibrant and interesting vendor space.
[37:26.630 --> 37:31.810]  And these are the organizations that were, um, uh, you know, uh, operating vendor tables.
[37:31.950 --> 37:34.550]  So I hope you had wonderful conversations with the vendors.
[37:34.730 --> 37:39.410]  I hope you reinforce your interest in their organization and we sort of grouped things.
[37:39.530 --> 37:51.490]  We called them all vendors, but you can see that, uh, we groups, uh, a couple of organizations in there, notably, uh, EFF and FSF, Free Software Foundation, that are very much a part of our community.
[37:51.690 --> 37:57.150]  So I hope you had great conversations and we appreciate the vendors showing up and making our space more interesting.
[38:05.740 --> 38:18.800]  So we weren't sure, you know, when you run an event like this, you plan, you plan, you plan, you do a spreadsheet, you do a Gantt chart, you do a schedule, uh, as I said, number of, uh, email messages and so forth.
[38:19.620 --> 38:24.020]  And there are things that you can't control and you don't know what's going to happen.
[38:24.400 --> 38:25.620]  One of them was the badges.
[38:25.900 --> 38:33.520]  We had, uh, boxes coming in, in the days and week or so before the hardware, I'm sorry, the hardware badges that you got, not the, uh, laminates.
[38:33.960 --> 38:35.680]  And, uh, so that came together.
[38:35.720 --> 38:36.520]  That was wonderful.
[38:36.780 --> 38:41.320]  Um, and actually we should, I was supposed to let you talk about badges.
[38:41.620 --> 38:42.740]  So maybe we will still.
[38:42.880 --> 38:46.460]  But the, um, other thing we weren't sure of was Club Mate.
[38:46.460 --> 38:54.480]  And I mentioned, uh, before at the start of the keynote, um, this is a beverage that some people seem to enjoy.
[38:54.920 --> 38:56.600]  Some people enjoy it warm.
[38:57.220 --> 38:58.720]  Some people enjoy it cold.
[38:59.520 --> 39:03.080]  And, um, the, uh, company that's a U.S.
[39:03.200 --> 39:06.620]  importer donated an entire pallet of Club Mate.
[39:06.920 --> 39:08.420]  So, uh, this was wonderful.
[39:08.600 --> 39:10.300]  It was refreshing for many of us.
[39:10.400 --> 39:13.080]  It was a learning experience for many of us.
[39:13.080 --> 39:16.320]  And we'd like to, uh, we'd like to thank Ferryman for making it happen.
[39:26.200 --> 39:28.980]  I just realized, I think I have another, another slide about badges.
[39:29.160 --> 39:35.280]  So Mitch, I don't know if you can, if you can see what I wrote there, but I have you talking about workshops and talking about badges and talking about villages.
[39:36.460 --> 39:36.980]  Sure.
[39:37.540 --> 39:46.780]  So I can't really add too much more about badges, except that, uh, Michael put in immense amount of time and very little sleep in order to make those happen.
[39:46.920 --> 39:51.720]  And stuff was actually coming in hours before the conference started.
[39:51.720 --> 39:51.800]  Right.
[39:52.040 --> 39:57.200]  So, uh, and we were, had volunteers putting them together in little bags for everyone.
[39:57.200 --> 40:03.600]  So, and everyone got to get the badge for free because of our sponsors that Michael organized.
[40:03.660 --> 40:05.500]  So thank you very much, Michael.
[40:12.630 --> 40:17.490]  And workshops, we had more workshops, this HOPE, than any other HOPE before.
[40:17.810 --> 40:19.830]  There were, um, what did I write down?
[40:19.950 --> 40:21.430]  54 workshops.
[40:22.290 --> 40:25.010]  And, uh, they were mobbed.
[40:25.210 --> 40:30.950]  Uh, so, uh, hopefully, uh, people who went there had a good experience.
[40:37.040 --> 40:37.680]  Yeah.
[40:37.960 --> 40:41.820]  So, uh, uh, there were a wide variety of workshops.
[40:42.000 --> 40:46.800]  There was one room with, uh, soldering tools and that was hopping all the time.
[40:46.960 --> 40:58.040]  There were two other rooms with a huge diversity of topics, uh, that were also very well attended, uh, in the workshop room where I was most of the time throughout the event.
[40:58.300 --> 41:02.020]  Um, there were over 300 people learn to solder.
[41:07.730 --> 41:10.410]  So, yeah, that's, that's kind of cool.
[41:10.590 --> 41:20.830]  And, um, yeah, let's see, uh, four days of being here at St. John's and I got 15 hours of sleep through those four days.
[41:21.550 --> 41:21.650]  Yeah.
[41:23.250 --> 41:23.690]  That's me.
[41:23.910 --> 41:24.490]  That's me.
[41:25.450 --> 41:27.270]  So, what up?
[41:28.510 --> 41:29.950]  Ham radio, right.
[41:29.950 --> 41:30.070]  Um.
[41:30.270 --> 41:30.530]  Thirty.
[41:31.170 --> 41:34.270]  New people became amateur radio operators.
[41:37.130 --> 41:42.350]  Including the person waving this hand here, who's nine years old.
[41:49.370 --> 41:50.190]  And
[41:54.730 --> 41:59.570]  there was a whole team of people making that happen, uh, all day yesterday.
[41:59.570 --> 42:02.730]  So, thank you to all of those people.
[42:03.670 --> 42:06.670]  Um, yeah, that's about all I have to say for workshops.
[42:07.550 --> 42:09.130]  And, um, yeah.
[42:09.350 --> 42:09.590]  Thanks.
[42:12.730 --> 42:13.310]  Thank you.
[42:16.430 --> 42:19.070]  We, uh, mentioned before Cheshire Catalysts.
[42:19.130 --> 42:22.010]  We know that Emmanuel was involved in very early days.
[42:22.530 --> 42:28.810]  Uh, Mitch is one of the inventors of hackerspaces, of hacker, hacker, physical, collaborative hacker communities.
[42:28.810 --> 42:35.890]  And he's taught well over, I don't even know if there's a much higher number now, but I know it's well over 10,000 people to solder all around the world.
[42:35.890 --> 42:36.190]  Oh, no, no.
[42:36.290 --> 42:36.650]  Way more.
[42:36.970 --> 42:37.510]  Way more.
[42:38.590 --> 42:40.430]  Perhaps close to 100,000?
[42:40.610 --> 42:41.590]  Close to 100,000.
[42:42.130 --> 42:42.510]  Astounding.
[42:46.070 --> 42:49.090]  That's just, just one of my quirks, you know, I can't help it.
[42:49.470 --> 42:49.850]  Astounding.
[42:50.110 --> 42:51.430]  Can you talk a little bit about villages?
[42:52.410 --> 42:53.050]  Oh, yeah.
[42:53.130 --> 42:53.490]  Villages.
[42:53.710 --> 42:59.230]  We've had, um, we had 14 villages and, um, mixed in with all the vendors.
[42:59.490 --> 43:01.970]  There were a lot of activity there.
[43:02.170 --> 43:03.970]  People were learning to solder there as well.
[43:03.970 --> 43:10.470]  And we even had two, uh, two villages that were based on the same open hardware project.
[43:10.810 --> 43:16.470]  Um, and so that was really cool to have them, uh, split away and then come together again.
[43:16.470 --> 43:21.550]  So I'm glad to have provided, helped provide that to happen.
[43:22.070 --> 43:25.790]  Um, but yeah, there were a whole bunch of diversity of, uh, villages as well.
[43:26.170 --> 43:28.730]  Uh, lock picking is always popular.
[43:28.790 --> 43:38.890]  And this time we had a physical, um, security village who provided other aspects of how insecure, all the stuff we think is secure is.
[43:39.010 --> 43:40.990]  And that's always fun to learn about.
[43:41.190 --> 43:50.530]  It's way cool to learn about things that we use every day and don't necessarily understand and us here as the hacker community are really good at that.
[43:51.330 --> 43:56.690]  Um, and the other villages as well, we're providing other aspects of that, including people from hackerspaces.
[43:58.270 --> 43:59.310]  Yeah, thanks.
[44:04.590 --> 44:05.190]  All right.
[44:05.250 --> 44:07.270]  We talked about hardware badges, uh, performances.
[44:07.490 --> 44:08.590]  Let's hear from DJ Spock.
[44:09.790 --> 44:10.630]  Oh, hi.
[44:14.200 --> 44:14.720]  Thanks.
[44:15.120 --> 44:16.460]  Um, we had two stages.
[44:16.640 --> 44:18.020]  One was in the cafeteria.
[44:18.020 --> 44:22.820]  The other one was in little theater after the, um, after the talks.
[44:23.000 --> 44:28.120]  We had 15 performances, 18 performers, and also some visual artists.
[44:28.420 --> 44:40.740]  Uh, we used all kinds of technologies to generate the sound like synthesizers, game boys, wireless shoes, um, live coding, uh, Hello Kitty guitar, cello drums, keyboards.
[44:40.740 --> 44:43.020]  Yeah, we even had some 3D visuals.
[44:43.500 --> 44:47.220]  Um, Mars Rover was also, uh, used for creating sound.
[44:47.700 --> 44:49.740]  Uh, Nintendo Switch for karaoke.
[44:50.140 --> 44:52.940]  Mix, uh, very nice open-source mixing software.
[44:52.940 --> 44:56.580]  So if you wanna, um, be a DJ, try with this.
[44:56.740 --> 44:58.040]  Yeah, and many, many more.
[44:58.280 --> 45:00.500]  And thank you very much for, to all the performers.
[45:00.820 --> 45:04.600]  Also, thank you very much to all the people who helped with setup, with sound.
[45:04.600 --> 45:08.180]  Also, with Teardown, we are almost done with this.
[45:08.520 --> 45:10.100]  Um, and yeah, thank you for dancing.
[45:18.500 --> 45:20.840]  The performances add so much to the event, I think.
[45:21.000 --> 45:22.540]  It just, it gives you something to do in the evening.
[45:22.720 --> 45:25.580]  But also, we had all the ambiance during the, uh, afternoons.
[45:25.920 --> 45:28.340]  So, um, thanks to everyone that made, made that happen.
[45:29.020 --> 45:33.500]  Uh, like to mention, a lot of people asked, uh, what was that music that we were playing in between talks?
[45:33.960 --> 45:37.500]  And, uh, Cameron Glass, you might recognize the last name.
[45:38.000 --> 45:41.040]  Uh, Cameron is a friend of, uh, of the magazine, a friend of HOPE.
[45:41.260 --> 45:45.000]  And that was an original composition from Cameron that we were listening to in between.
[45:45.000 --> 45:47.080]  And we think it might be an untitled composition.
[45:47.380 --> 45:50.520]  Um, and if you want, you can email, uh, the FAQ list.
[45:50.800 --> 45:53.400]  And we'll try to, try to track down further information if you're interested.
[46:01.260 --> 46:01.760]  All right.
[46:02.140 --> 46:03.580]  Um, is this for me to speak?
[46:03.900 --> 46:04.520]  That's me, yeah.
[46:04.600 --> 46:05.380]  That's Liz, thank you.
[46:05.480 --> 46:05.860]  Yeah, that's right.
[46:06.600 --> 46:09.240]  So, I'll be speaking on behalf of, uh, the remote crew.
[46:09.240 --> 46:11.860]  Uh, who are very conveniently not here tonight.
[46:12.480 --> 46:18.480]  Um, we had Aesthetics and Mal running, um, Matrix, um, the website, the wiki.
[46:19.100 --> 46:24.780]  Uh, anytime there was an announcement that needed to be made, Aesthetics, um, I would relate it to Aesthetics.
[46:24.840 --> 46:26.180]  Aesthetics would get it up instantly.
[46:26.820 --> 46:27.940]  Um, thank you very much.
[46:28.560 --> 46:30.040]  Uh, Stefan Moleski?
[46:30.220 --> 46:30.880]  Is that how you say that?
[46:31.320 --> 46:32.180]  I hope so.
[46:32.700 --> 46:36.220]  Um, uh, Stefan did our artwork and our theme.
[46:36.220 --> 46:39.260]  Um, the shirts that, um, the shirts, the badges.
[46:39.480 --> 46:40.780]  Uh, that's all Stefan's work.
[46:40.940 --> 46:42.400]  He, uh, did all of our art.
[46:42.920 --> 46:44.540]  And Colin McCarthy set up pre-talks.
[46:44.660 --> 46:49.040]  Our, that would be our scheduling software on the, um, .NET website.
[46:49.880 --> 46:52.840]  Uh, we had some online volunteers as well.
[46:53.040 --> 46:54.820]  Um, I think I mentioned Lord of...
[46:54.820 --> 46:56.300]  I can't remember his name now.
[46:56.500 --> 47:00.560]  Um, but we had some online volunteers that were, uh, helping out in the Matrix Info Desk as well.
[47:01.100 --> 47:01.660]  Uh, I think...
[47:01.660 --> 47:01.740]  What?
[47:02.300 --> 47:02.700]  Mel?
[47:02.920 --> 47:03.400]  Mel's here?
[47:03.820 --> 47:04.240]  No, no.
[47:04.940 --> 47:05.340]  Oh.
[47:06.060 --> 47:06.460]  Oh.
[47:06.660 --> 47:07.800]  I have no brain.
[47:09.360 --> 47:10.140]  I'm tired.
[47:10.140 --> 47:11.100]  I want to go to bed.
[47:11.420 --> 47:13.280]  Um, yeah.
[47:13.280 --> 47:20.200]  So, thank you very much, especially to Aesthetics who was staying up super late in Berlin time, um, and dealing with sirens left and right.
[47:20.420 --> 47:21.500]  So, sorry man.
[47:22.300 --> 47:23.000]  Um, yeah.
[47:23.260 --> 47:23.660]  Thank you guys.
[47:31.060 --> 47:31.960]  Uh, many...
[47:31.960 --> 47:42.860]  We're not gonna tell the story in detail, but many of you have heard the story that, uh, Emmanuel usually tells of how, uh, the first HOPEs were inspired by the Dutch and German hacker cams.
[47:42.860 --> 47:55.240]  And we still are inspired because we leverage their software, including PreTalks, uh, which is what you see on the scheduler system and including, uh, Angle system or Angel system, which is a volunteer system.
[47:55.340 --> 47:56.640]  So, and it's, uh, it's good stuff.
[47:56.780 --> 48:00.680]  We also use the, uh, InfoBeamers, which Kyle is a maestro of.
[48:01.080 --> 48:01.520]  Right?
[48:01.780 --> 48:02.040]  Sort of.
[48:02.260 --> 48:02.300]  Yeah.
[48:02.520 --> 48:02.680]  Yep.
[48:03.060 --> 48:03.660]  And, uh,
[48:08.360 --> 48:10.320]  these are, these are wonderful little devices.
[48:10.360 --> 48:12.400]  They're, uh, free software, as you can imagine.
[48:12.400 --> 48:13.940]  And it's a Raspberry Pi.
[48:14.140 --> 48:15.120]  Do you want to talk about it?
[48:15.300 --> 48:15.920]  What are you talking about?
[48:16.420 --> 48:17.480]  I mean, you want to know.
[48:17.600 --> 48:18.200]  Well, Raspberry Pi.
[48:18.560 --> 48:21.280]  They're, uh, they, uh, they're really drawn.
[48:21.760 --> 48:21.900]  Wow.
[48:22.480 --> 48:28.960]  Um, they're, um, they're in takeout containers and they're taped up.
[48:29.140 --> 48:30.680]  And yeah, there's one under here.
[48:30.840 --> 48:34.580]  No, uh, they're like two Raspberry Pi threes and a four.
[48:34.620 --> 48:42.600]  Uh, we had, uh, earlier models, but we sort of upgraded so we could do full age, uh, aspect, aspect ratio.
[48:43.840 --> 48:56.360]  Um, yeah, we've just sort of got our, our like fonts and look down and, and, and aesthetics works wonders getting that sort of tied in with, uh, Colin and that system.
[48:56.360 --> 49:12.060]  Um, but yeah, they're kind of a standard piece of equipment now and it really makes setting these rooms up and giving something for the, uh, screens in between, um, really simple and accurate.
[49:12.060 --> 49:20.700]  Uh, and especially if we have to push announcements out, it's, it's really simple for myself or other people administering it like aesthetics to just get a, uh, info.
[49:22.300 --> 49:24.120]  Um, yeah, that's the short version.
[49:27.670 --> 49:30.690]  Oh, uh, let me, let me think one more person.
[49:31.190 --> 49:39.230]  Uh, Nadim who lives in France, uh, uh, gave us the wiki, set it up and also hosts it for us.
[49:39.230 --> 49:40.210]  So thank you, Nadim.
[49:46.270 --> 49:46.990]  All right.
[49:47.610 --> 49:50.190]  Um, I realized let me mention first.
[49:50.350 --> 49:50.810]  Oh, no, it's there.
[49:50.970 --> 49:51.070]  Okay.
[49:51.490 --> 49:51.810]  Nevermind.
[49:51.910 --> 49:52.210]  It's there.
[49:52.750 --> 49:53.490]  Um, logistics.
[49:53.730 --> 49:54.670]  Kyle did a lot of logistics.
[49:54.830 --> 50:01.630]  A lot of us did a lot of the logistics actually, but you can imagine, you know, someone's gotta do the artwork and then order stuff like this.
[50:02.170 --> 50:08.690]  Someone has got to put together the PDF that's going to get printed a couple thousand copies for the program, the printed program.
[50:08.690 --> 50:14.570]  And, uh, a lot of us are going to conferences or trade shows and we're not getting printed programs.
[50:14.590 --> 50:20.050]  We were getting, uh, you know, a website or maybe a URL or maybe a email or who knows what.
[50:20.550 --> 50:24.330]  Um, uh, but well, you know, there's a magazine involved.
[50:24.510 --> 50:27.170]  They know how to print and we get this wonderful print program.
[50:27.170 --> 50:30.770]  So thanks for the logistics of setting things up, ordering things and making the program.
[50:30.890 --> 50:33.850]  How many of you think we should continue having a printed program?
[50:37.590 --> 50:38.230]  All right.
[50:38.370 --> 50:39.190]  Publishing industry.
[50:39.190 --> 50:39.790]  Hear that.
[50:40.730 --> 50:40.950]  Yeah.
[50:41.290 --> 50:42.270]  Print is not dead.
[50:44.810 --> 50:49.210]  I think we, we mentioned the, uh, the website, what goes into the website behind the website.
[50:49.450 --> 50:52.790]  The, um, uh, uh, uh, team does that.
[50:52.790 --> 50:55.530]  I wanted to call out, especially the 2600 store.
[50:55.710 --> 50:58.010]  I think they're going to be around for another hour or so.
[50:58.170 --> 51:12.030]  So if you didn't yet, I don't know why you wouldn't have, but if you didn't get, yet get your 2600 swag, your official conference shirt with a beautiful academic owl hoodie hacker type of, uh, icon on it, uh, I know that there's still some left.
[51:12.030 --> 51:13.530]  The last mate too.
[51:13.890 --> 51:14.410]  Better hurry.
[51:15.030 --> 51:15.290]  Yes.
[51:15.430 --> 51:15.510]  Yes.
[51:15.650 --> 51:15.690]  Yes.
[51:15.710 --> 51:21.290]  There's some more club mate and those, um, uh, physical non fungible token things.
[51:21.670 --> 51:27.390]  The nickels, um, which, uh, either collector's items or you can trade them in for a beverage.
[51:28.450 --> 51:29.330]  Either is welcome.
[51:29.950 --> 51:32.290]  Um, we have a, uh, small press team.
[51:32.450 --> 51:34.150]  Actually that's, that's Liz, uh, mostly.
[51:34.370 --> 51:35.490]  I think it was just me.
[51:35.650 --> 51:40.490]  I think, which is really weird because I was sold press team, press team.
[51:40.490 --> 51:42.930]  I'm like, who else is on the team?
[51:43.090 --> 51:43.710]  I don't know.
[51:44.610 --> 51:54.730]  Um, I fielded about seven or eight different requests from various publications, including Reuters, uh, Wirecutter, 404 Media, um, and I forgot the others.
[51:55.390 --> 51:59.290]  Um, and they, they came, they, uh, enjoyed the conference.
[51:59.410 --> 52:01.970]  We already, uh, saw some really nice stuff coming out of them.
[52:02.410 --> 52:03.550]  Um, yeah.
[52:03.730 --> 52:04.990]  So I guess it was me.
[52:05.490 --> 52:05.910]  Yeah.
[52:05.990 --> 52:08.750]  And thanks, thanks to the, uh, media that have covered this event.
[52:08.750 --> 52:13.930]  Um, I think all of us, uh, learned a few new things and saw some amazing content.
[52:14.790 --> 52:20.890]  And for that to be out there in articles, in the technical media and so forth is, um, is great.
[52:21.030 --> 52:21.930]  Gets the message out further.
[52:22.170 --> 52:34.470]  Can I just, um, if you have, if you, uh, did cover anything for us, we would love a copy of it, um, to be like made available to us, especially, um, any photos that you took, um, that are particularly good at the conference.
[52:34.470 --> 52:35.870]  We would love to see them.
[52:36.270 --> 52:38.310]  Um, you can tag us in all our social medias.
[52:38.710 --> 52:40.950]  Um, someone will get it, probably aesthetics.
[52:41.570 --> 52:47.950]  Um, and, um, we, we'd love to share it like for future, uh, for future use if that's okay.
[52:48.470 --> 52:48.770]  Thank you.
[52:55.750 --> 52:56.190]  Okay.
[52:56.650 --> 53:02.330]  And, uh, and I had a slide that does not quite match the numbers we heard just a few moments ago for radio exams.
[53:02.330 --> 53:04.790]  So this might, this might be the, uh, the accurate number.
[53:06.730 --> 53:07.210]  Yeah.
[53:07.510 --> 53:07.670]  Yeah.
[53:08.150 --> 53:09.930]  Congratulations to Andrew for upgrading.
[53:10.150 --> 53:16.960]  So, uh, extra class or what's went from tech to general.
[53:17.200 --> 53:17.420]  Okay.
[53:17.520 --> 53:19.340]  Does that still require Morse code?
[53:19.620 --> 53:20.580]  No Morse code.
[53:20.720 --> 53:21.340]  It's just, okay.
[53:21.420 --> 53:22.420]  It's just out of there entirely.
[53:22.840 --> 53:23.200]  All right.
[53:23.360 --> 53:23.480]  Yeah.
[53:23.540 --> 53:24.460]  Congratulations on that.
[53:24.660 --> 53:25.180]  Thanks, Andrew.
[53:25.320 --> 53:30.560]  And thanks to the folks that brought the ham radio station on site, ran the, uh, exams.
[53:30.560 --> 53:37.340]  That was a, a major undertaking and one of many things that requires effort, skill, talent, and devotion.
[53:45.420 --> 53:49.340]  So we're here at St. John's university for the second time in four years.
[53:49.540 --> 53:53.200]  Um, some of you might recall this story, probably most of you don't.
[53:53.360 --> 54:02.220]  We, uh, 2600 ran a public request for proposals when we were, you know, we knew we were out of the, uh, hotel, Pennsylvania.
[54:02.460 --> 54:05.820]  And since then, as probably a lot of, you know, it's just a hole in the ground, right?
[54:05.880 --> 54:13.760]  It's literally gone from across Penn station and, uh, eventually will become some sort of new office tower or whatever for an auto is thinking of doing.
[54:14.160 --> 54:16.460]  Um, but we knew that was coming for a while.
[54:16.760 --> 54:19.480]  Uh, the hotel, Pennsylvania preservation society.
[54:19.660 --> 54:33.040]  If you haven't heard of those, uh, or that organization, uh, did a great job of chronicling the demise and covering some of the public debate over whether it should be, of course, it should have been a, um, uh, landmark building and therefore not eligible for removal.
[54:33.260 --> 54:40.080]  Anyway, we knew that was going, we did a public RFP with some wonderful help from the New York City, um, uh, tourism office.
[54:40.580 --> 54:43.800]  And, um, uh, we heard from various hotels.
[54:43.800 --> 54:46.300]  We heard from a few different organizations.
[54:46.380 --> 54:51.940]  We contacted a few dozen organizations to, uh, find out details.
[54:52.120 --> 54:54.340]  And St. John's came out on the top.
[54:54.340 --> 55:11.240]  We, um, thought it was an organization that because of their cybersecurity program, which to which they had sent a bunch from which they had sent a bunch of people to hope over the years, um, and their general sort of approach to talking with us, we thought this would be a pretty good venue to try.
[55:11.420 --> 55:16.900]  And I'd say that, um, the relationship has continued to be very positive with St. John's.
[55:16.940 --> 55:21.740]  I mentioned before that public safety has been a wonderful for us.
[55:21.740 --> 55:25.600]  Our main interface to the campus is, uh, is the conference services group.
[55:25.760 --> 55:37.240]  And they're the folks that don't only handle our thousand or so people that are coming to campus, but also, um, as you might've seen people from all around the world, uh, Azerbaijan and Italy and all kinds of crazy places.
[55:37.520 --> 55:39.180]  So, uh, so they're doing an awful lot.
[55:39.260 --> 55:42.980]  They were interface to the campus and they were, uh, really very effective and, uh, and helpful.
[55:43.260 --> 55:47.860]  Another group that was very effective and helpful is the IT networking and classroom tech group.
[55:47.860 --> 55:52.600]  We heard from Alex about how smooth the network was and I don't, we didn't have any call-outs, right?
[55:52.720 --> 55:56.660]  But they had, they had staff on call all the time that you were here.
[55:57.900 --> 55:58.000]  Yeah.
[55:58.160 --> 56:00.620]  They had staff actually on site, uh, every day.
[56:00.920 --> 56:02.020]  So it was super helpful.
[56:02.280 --> 56:02.400]  Yeah.
[56:02.540 --> 56:10.120]  And, uh, their, uh, campus, uh, their classroom tech guy, Sal, every morning, seven, seven 30 in the morning, he was walking the space, checking in.
[56:10.120 --> 56:19.200]  And we had a problem on Friday with, uh, a cable and I don't know if it was a cable or a port or whatever it was, but a signal wasn't getting through on, on the video.
[56:19.420 --> 56:21.400]  And he had it fixed by like seven 45.
[56:21.800 --> 56:26.960]  So we've had tremendous response and support from St. John's and, uh, and really enjoy it.
[56:27.060 --> 56:29.220]  The performing arts group owns a little theater.
[56:29.420 --> 56:32.540]  They were very supportive and helpful in, in getting things set up.
[56:32.540 --> 56:45.740]  And as I think people heard, if they were there for the performances Friday and Saturday night, there's just a booming sound system and a professional grade lighting system and, and, and everything in there is, uh, uh, super fine for, uh, for our, our purposes.
[56:46.000 --> 56:51.480]  And then the facilities and housekeeping teams that did, uh, various cleanup, uh, refresh the soap in the bathroom.
[56:51.680 --> 56:59.980]  And, you know, when we, when we heard of an issue, um, I reported the issue and typically within 20 or 30 minutes, someone is here addressing it.
[57:00.060 --> 57:01.420]  So they were, they were really very responsive.
[57:01.420 --> 57:04.640]  So, uh, thanks to St. John's and we'll see what happens.
[57:04.820 --> 57:05.520]  Maybe we'll be back.
[57:06.280 --> 57:06.720]  Right there.
[57:14.430 --> 57:14.850]  All right.
[57:15.610 --> 57:16.470]  Um, okay.
[57:16.570 --> 57:17.930]  And this is not going to last forever.
[57:18.090 --> 57:18.910]  It just seems that way.
[57:19.210 --> 57:22.150]  And, uh, and I, as I said, we, we like, we thought it was interesting.
[57:22.310 --> 57:28.250]  I mean, we, we've all had a fun time and we, uh, thought it might be interesting for folks to see what's involved, what happens.
[57:28.430 --> 57:32.910]  And like I said, especially to give a lot of thanks to a lot of different parties that made it all occur.
[57:32.910 --> 57:35.310]  And there's a huge shout out to the volunteers.
[57:35.670 --> 57:43.530]  We had, um, approximately a hundred volunteers, uh, volunteers, by the way, that did not get your volunteer t-shirts stopped by the info desk.
[57:43.530 --> 57:46.290]  Uh, as soon as we're done here and you can get a shirt.
[57:46.530 --> 57:46.630]  Yeah.
[57:46.790 --> 57:50.510]  As soon as we're done, I have plenty of nice things.
[57:50.670 --> 57:52.650]  I only have a limited number of the shirts.
[57:53.010 --> 57:53.850]  So be quick.
[57:54.470 --> 57:56.830]  Um, I do have last year shirts if you want that.
[57:57.010 --> 57:58.090]  Um, but those are green.
[57:58.330 --> 58:00.170]  So not the nice, beautiful.
[58:00.170 --> 58:00.690]  Yeah.
[58:00.850 --> 58:08.050]  So if we run out of sizes, for example, um, the, uh, uh, the, the 20, uh, 22 shirt is also available to volunteers.
[58:08.210 --> 58:11.790]  So if you worked a few volunteer shifts, you earned yourself a volunteer shirt.
[58:11.930 --> 58:22.430]  Um, if you went to the angel system, registered, signed up for shifts, but weren't there early enough to register for a t-shirt size, you still get a shirt as long as, you know, as long as supplies last.
[58:22.430 --> 58:27.650]  So don't feel like, uh, if you were a late comer or you just started volunteering on site that you're excluded.
[58:27.790 --> 58:31.330]  Everyone that, that, uh, put in a shift or a few shifts, please pick up your shirt.
[58:31.530 --> 58:37.110]  We also have, um, after and during, uh, cleanup, which we'll talk about in a few moments.
[58:37.510 --> 58:46.010]  Um, if you stay to clean up, even if you didn't do any other volunteer activities, we have a variety of gifts that were provided by, uh, vendors.
[58:46.010 --> 58:53.530]  And I, I think we, we got, I don't know, uh, dozens of things from almost all the vendors that had, uh, stuff.
[58:53.770 --> 58:56.790]  You know, we, we went around and said, Hey, how about some stuff?
[58:57.070 --> 58:57.350]  Yeah.
[58:58.550 --> 59:00.930]  Um, but, oh, you're going to mention, go ahead.
[59:00.950 --> 59:03.930]  Uh, we have some really beautiful posters, some stickers.
[59:04.410 --> 59:08.890]  Um, Calix was really cool and gave us some t-shirts restored the fourth.
[59:09.170 --> 59:09.990]  Um, great people.
[59:10.150 --> 59:12.610]  They also gave us a very limited number of t-shirts.
[59:13.270 --> 59:15.330]  Um, there was also a discovery.
[59:15.790 --> 59:22.650]  And, uh, so, so maybe come by, find out what it is, help out first, and maybe I'll give you something, but...
[59:25.170 --> 59:30.610]  No Starch Press is a publisher that probably all of us have heard of, or most of us have heard of.
[59:30.710 --> 59:32.030]  I said it was a surprise.
[59:39.290 --> 59:39.990]  Never mind.
[59:43.830 --> 59:44.390]  Thanks.
[59:44.670 --> 59:45.870]  Huge thanks to the volunteers.
[59:46.390 --> 59:46.850]  Huge thanks.
[59:50.230 --> 59:50.790]  Hi.
[59:51.750 --> 01:00:00.910]  I know I called out some particular names before, but I want to, uh, actually, like, also say our AD and MC volunteers.
[01:00:00.910 --> 01:00:07.170]  We were having trouble filling those roles and a lot of people stepped up and filled them as the calls went out.
[01:00:07.310 --> 01:00:08.370]  Thank you again so much.
[01:00:08.470 --> 01:00:10.050]  You guys run the show for us.
[01:00:10.170 --> 01:00:10.770]  Thank you.
[01:00:10.970 --> 01:00:11.290]  Thank you.
[01:00:11.450 --> 01:00:11.830]  Thank you.
[01:00:19.120 --> 01:00:22.640]  Uh, almost a thank you, and I'm sorry I spilled the theme.
[01:00:23.480 --> 01:00:24.220]  It's fine.
[01:00:24.220 --> 01:00:25.060]  I'm used to it.
[01:00:29.760 --> 01:00:52.380]  Um, last, uh, almost a last thank you, and by no means the least, um, this is a volunteer organization, which is sponsored by a non, um, commercial, a commercial, but a, uh, publisher that doesn't accept advertising, which is entirely community driven in terms of the, uh, articles, which has a digital subscription option.
[01:00:56.080 --> 01:01:05.380]  So you can get the PDF or the E pub every quarter in addition to the print or instead of, or in addition to the print magazine, you can subscribe to quarterly digital additions.
[01:01:05.380 --> 01:01:06.940]  You can get back issues.
[01:01:07.280 --> 01:01:09.860]  And, uh, the editor in chief is right here.
[01:01:10.020 --> 01:01:10.740]  Emmanuel Goldstein.
[01:01:17.400 --> 01:01:24.340]  What, um, what Greg failed to mention is that he's the one who designed the digital subscription option.
[01:01:24.540 --> 01:01:28.220]  So we'd be still at the mercy of Amazon were it not for him.
[01:01:28.340 --> 01:01:32.800]  So that's exactly the kind of hacker spirit we need to, um, uh, to make our own way.
[01:01:32.800 --> 01:01:38.960]  And thanks to everybody who, uh, supports us, uh, either by reading the magazine or coming to the conferences.
[01:01:39.640 --> 01:01:52.360]  Um, like Greg said, we don't take any advertising and the, the magazines that are failing are the ones that do take advertising because, uh, advertisers are, are few and far between these days, I guess.
[01:01:52.580 --> 01:01:57.000]  But as long as we have supportive readers, that's all we need and that's all we care about.
[01:01:57.000 --> 01:01:58.580]  So thank you for, for being there.
[01:02:07.700 --> 01:02:08.260]  All right.
[01:02:08.480 --> 01:02:16.880]  And I, uh, think for a moment, if there's anything, anyone I forgot to thank, or even in the audience, if there's something that you noticed that I should have mentioned.
[01:02:17.340 --> 01:02:20.160]  Cause I want to thank Corey Doctorow for his amazing talk before.
[01:02:20.300 --> 01:02:20.700]  Thank you.
[01:02:20.820 --> 01:02:21.320]  As you were there.
[01:02:22.720 --> 01:02:23.200]  Thank you.
[01:02:23.200 --> 01:02:24.080]  Thank you for coming here.
[01:02:25.880 --> 01:02:26.280]  Yeah.
[01:02:27.540 --> 01:02:33.280]  I'll, uh, if we, on the limb I'll mention what I mentioned before.
[01:02:33.680 --> 01:02:40.860]  Um, uh, when I introduced Corey, I mentioned that I'd been reading them since your first book and, um, and this is just my opinion.
[01:02:40.860 --> 01:02:44.320]  And I know that not everyone in the room reads books all the time.
[01:02:44.460 --> 01:02:47.100]  And you might read fiction all the time, but not non-fiction.
[01:02:47.300 --> 01:02:49.380]  You're right, might read non-fiction all the time, but not fiction.
[01:02:49.580 --> 01:02:53.800]  You might do some young adult work or you might just be out there looking at the blog.
[01:02:54.080 --> 01:02:55.580]  Corey does all of that stuff.
[01:02:56.080 --> 01:02:57.160]  All of that stuff.
[01:02:57.340 --> 01:02:57.960]  And it's all wonderful.
[01:02:57.960 --> 01:02:59.540]  And I happen to read quite a lot.
[01:02:59.700 --> 01:03:09.420]  And my personal feeling is that, first of all, Corey has his finger on this community, on the hacker community, on the maker community, on the solar punk community.
[01:03:09.580 --> 01:03:16.800]  And he has a handle not only on the current and past, but also he's talking about and projecting to the future.
[01:03:17.000 --> 01:03:20.660]  So I feel like Corey is one of our guiding lights in the community.
[01:03:20.860 --> 01:03:23.540]  And if you're not reading Corey Doctorow, you should really start.
[01:03:32.960 --> 01:03:33.500]  All right.
[01:03:34.220 --> 01:03:35.380]  So let's talk about cleanup.
[01:03:35.600 --> 01:03:41.420]  Those that have time, what we'd like to do is impress the heck out of St. John's University.
[01:03:41.620 --> 01:03:45.180]  I think you're allowed to impress the heck out of St. John's University, but we'll do it anyway.
[01:03:46.280 --> 01:03:49.380]  If you see some trash, please pick it up, put it in the barrels.
[01:03:49.500 --> 01:03:51.380]  If the barrels get full, put it next to the barrel.
[01:03:51.540 --> 01:03:59.300]  In this room, in the Marillac cafeteria space, I realize that no one, very few people saw it as it was when we arrived.
[01:03:59.300 --> 01:04:11.260]  But what we'd like to do is to disperse the tables, put the chairs around the tables, and leave it in a space where it won't take the housekeeping staff too long to set things up.
[01:04:11.440 --> 01:04:13.720]  And just about everyone can do that, move a table, move a chair.
[01:04:13.720 --> 01:04:20.960]  There's a whole bunch of equipment which is going to go in the 2600 truck, which will eventually be parked right outside Marillac.
[01:04:21.080 --> 01:04:26.880]  So we'd love to have some people stick around and start consolidating the 2600 items.
[01:04:27.640 --> 01:04:29.220]  Eventually, we'll get some pallets.
[01:04:29.740 --> 01:04:37.180]  So take some guidance from Kyle and some of the other crew here that will shepherd that cleanup.
[01:04:38.080 --> 01:04:45.880]  Mitch will mostly be looking in the Tobin building and could use some helpers up on the 200 level with all the soldering irons and stuff like that.
[01:04:45.880 --> 01:04:51.240]  And I think as proper protocol, you should always treat a soldering iron as though we're still hot, right?
[01:04:51.440 --> 01:04:54.460]  So everyone knows which end to pick up the soldering item from.
[01:04:54.460 --> 01:04:59.800]  If not, Mitch will teach you and you can be number 100,001 or something like that.
[01:05:00.500 --> 01:05:02.240]  So really appreciate cleanup.
[01:05:02.500 --> 01:05:05.340]  We do not expect to need any helpers tomorrow.
[01:05:05.340 --> 01:05:08.320]  We think we're going to get everything done within a couple hours tonight.
[01:05:08.320 --> 01:05:13.820]  So if you want to see a massively heavy payphone booth get loaded into a truck, stick around.
[01:05:14.020 --> 01:05:14.780]  It's always an adventure.
[01:05:15.580 --> 01:05:15.980]  Yep.
[01:05:16.480 --> 01:05:16.720]  Yep.
[01:05:16.940 --> 01:05:21.260]  And many hands make light work, as the saying goes, so we'll be able to get that done.
[01:05:21.380 --> 01:05:25.160]  And even if you're not going to stick around for the cleanup, if you see a piece of trash, please pick it up.
[01:05:25.320 --> 01:05:29.520]  If you see something that's out of place, you can straighten it, that type of thing.
[01:05:29.700 --> 01:05:33.040]  Really appreciate that effort.
[01:05:33.500 --> 01:05:40.040]  And as I was just saying, we don't think we're going to be doing this tomorrow morning, as some of you know that have done this in the past.
[01:05:40.240 --> 01:05:48.700]  We often had a massive, massive truck loadout with all the rental trucks of equipment in the day after, you know, on Monday morning.
[01:05:48.880 --> 01:05:52.740]  And in this case, we really just have the one rental truck from 2600.
[01:05:54.100 --> 01:06:03.600]  And we had very few rentals, which helped with cost control and also helped with efficiency, because we were able to use like this room and the little theater as they're built.
[01:06:03.900 --> 01:06:06.340]  So, and that's another feedback item, by the way.
[01:06:06.560 --> 01:06:15.940]  What did you think of the production value compared to the, you know, the production experience, you know, lights and all that sort of thing compared to previous events?
[01:06:16.760 --> 01:06:18.960]  Okay, so that's all the thank yous.
[01:06:19.080 --> 01:06:24.660]  That's a note about cleanup, a little bit about what we're not doing tomorrow and what we will be doing tonight.
[01:06:24.900 --> 01:06:27.660]  And as I said, you're welcome to stick around for a little while.
[01:06:27.920 --> 01:06:31.160]  We do expect to close the space, I think, by 10 or 11 at night.
[01:06:32.980 --> 01:06:34.200]  And this is it.
[01:06:34.480 --> 01:06:35.000]  Thank you.
[01:06:35.200 --> 01:06:36.760]  We were excellent to one another.
[01:06:36.760 --> 01:06:39.000]  Thank you.
[01:06:52.680 --> 01:06:54.000]  I think.