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C4bl3Fl4m3 wrote:

I'd like to n+1 the all night music videos.

God, I had such fun partying with the security folks, flirting with the boys, kissing the girls, getting nice and drunk, and dancing to Add N to (X) - Plug Me In. (I had never heard it before the con, now it's one of my favorites.)

Hmm... maybe next con some people should show geek TV shows too? I'd love to watch Star Trek (Voyager, TNG or DS:9 plz) or Invader Zim or something at the con. Or perhaps some anime?

Since when did a Hacker Con turn into a Sci-Fi Con?

What I am sying is lets leave them for I-Con in march

http://www.m5industries.com/  Creative, yes, hackers, maybe.

Not everyone goes to HOPE either.  So whats your point?

The prisoner was not a sci-fi theme.  The prisoner was a political theme.  Your a prisoner, your trying to escape the prison that your government threw you into because you disagreed with they way they do things. so to silence you they lock you up and throw away the key.  Much like what they did to the demonstrators dring the 2004 RNC, they didnt like what they were doing people protested and the government rounded them up and threw them into jail.  HOPE was also about Hacktivism last time and the time before that. (Big Brother).  I am not against Sci-fi but I just don't want to see HOPE turning into another ICON

Pirho wrote:

The prisoner was not a sci-fi theme.  The prisoner was a political theme.  Your a prisoner, your trying to escape the prison that your government threw you into because you disagreed with they way they do things. so to silence you they lock you up and throw away the key.  Much like what they did to the demonstrators dring the 2004 RNC, they didnt like what they were doing people protested and the government rounded them up and threw them into jail.  HOPE was also about Hacktivism last time and the time before that. (Big Brother).  I am not against Sci-fi but I just don't want to see HOPE turning into another ICON

One person having a projector showing geek shows, etc, and it would turn into I-Con? If you don't want to watch it, you don't have to.

Nothing specific.

There are a lot of short films generated every year. We could hold a hacker shorts festival during late night. Just do a call for entries a few months before the conference. Find 5-10 volunteers to divide up watching the submissions, every submission gets watched and rated by three or four people, then everyone watches the highest rated shorst and there is another rating from each volunteer. The best shorts get screened during a two hour block starting at midnight on Friday or Saturday, maybe in one of the bars.

*shrug*

Lots of options for interesting content. Only issue is filtering it down a bit, you don't want to show 6 hours of video that's 70% mediocre or just bad, better to show one or two hours with a punch.

What was I talking about?

Amazing, we cant get volunteers for NOC, or Security but we can get them to watch films.

Well thats diffrent

lexicon wrote:

Nothing specific.

There are a lot of short films generated every year. We could hold a hacker shorts festival during late night. Just do a call for entries a few months before the conference. Find 5-10 volunteers to divide up watching the submissions, every submission gets watched and rated by three or four people, then everyone watches the highest rated shorst and there is another rating from each volunteer. The best shorts get screened during a two hour block starting at midnight on Friday or Saturday, maybe in one of the bars.

*shrug*

Lots of options for interesting content. Only issue is filtering it down a bit, you don't want to show 6 hours of video that's 70% mediocre or just bad, better to show one or two hours with a punch.

What was I talking about?

That actually sounds really cool. I'd totally watch that, and I'm not an indy film fan.

the MPAA has a standard?

Jack Valenti for keynote. We won't let him talk, just have a guillotine set up on the stage.

Ok, that sounds really dark, sorry.

But, um, yeah, it would not be too hard to organize a brief late night shorts festival, as long as we get it prepared well in advance.

um, i'll second it...

but may i ask...

would the winner get the Palme d'HOPE?