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Notacon registration extended through Tuesday!

2008-03-22T23:55:26Z

For those who have slacked on registering for Notacon until the very last moment, you are in luck! Online registration will be open through Tuesday, March 25th @ 7 PM Eastern time.

Please check our room and ride share board. There are always a lot of people who have either an extra seat in their car or who need some floorspace to crash on for Notacon. Help out those in our community by getting involved!

See you all in about 12 days!

New Notacon Blog

2008-01-14T04:22:14Z

It's been awhile since anything was posted to this community!

The first few speakers have been listed on the website, events are getting planned and finalized, and in the midst of a server crash from hell the Notacon Blog was born. I'm not sure yet if we'll try to somehow synchronize blog posts and livejournal or what, but all the old information from the news feed will be posted to blog.notacon as well as other announcements and writeups as they come around.

So be sure to check out the blog!

Remember, CFP closes on January 31st!

Notacon 5 is becoming reality!

2007-08-01T02:50:14Z

Prereg and Call For Proposals for Notacon 5 are open!

Let the fun begin!

Celebrate the 4th with Notacon!

2007-07-02T23:15:17Z

Not only is July 4th a celebration of the birth of the US, this year it marks exactly nine months until the start of Notacon 5! That's right, we have selected the dates for next year.

Notacon 5
April 4-6, 2008
Holiday Inn Select City Centre Lakeside

Celebrate the 4th with the founders of Notacon with our new commercial,

Nota4th

Or, see the craptastic YouTube version:

Two hacker cons on two continents for only $1337.

2007-05-12T01:07:37Z

Extra room.

2007-04-20T16:02:15Z

So, somehow, I managed to book an extra room for NAC that I don't need.

Who wants it? $125/night OTD. It's already paid for.

Registration closes soon, hotel is getting full and bittorrents of media!

2007-04-18T20:10:29Z

Three quick notes for everyone,

A reminder that Pre-registration closes this Friday @ 9PM EST. We are
currently hovering at around 200 pre-registrations, with the $60 block
quickly dwindling. Note that prices at the door will be $80. If you're in
the mood to save $20, now is the time!

Second, we blew well past our hotel block for this year and the hotel is
quickly booking up. If you want to ensure a room at the Holiday Inn,
specifically around all of your fellow Notacon attendees, NOW is the time to
book that room. Make sure you use the link on our website, or use the "not"
promotional code to get the conference rate. We cannot guarantee that rate,
as the block is closed, but the hotel has been generous in extending it to
late room reservations.

Finally, if you want a copy of the Notacon audio and video files, or even
just a couple, we have the full set of media archives on bittorrent. There
are currently a number of very healthy and very fast seeds. Save us some
server bandwidth and use torrents!

That's all for now. You now have 9 days until Notacon. 9 DAYS.

See you there!

- Froggy

EDIT: There will be an official Fark party at Notacon as well!!!

Digg it!

2007-04-17T12:30:07Z

Myself made
a digg post about all of the nifty Notacon media that's now on torrent. Please download what you want via the torrent and give the link a digg so that others can find out about it too!

Notacon Freebies are arriving.

2007-04-12T22:59:48Z

The first shipment of freebie/prize material arrived today. Imagine our surprise to see this when we got home!

Updates and Reminders

2007-04-11T03:52:44Z

The official room block for Notacon closed today. If you have not yet booked your room, secure one now. There are likely still rooms available, but we cannot guarantee the conference rate. You will need to work with the hotel directly.

If you have not yet registered for Notacon, pre-registration will close on April 20th at 9pm. After that time, any remaining registrations will be available at the door for $80, so save yourself some cash!

Blockparty competition information is available. All registered Notacon attendees are invited to participate! (Let's just say that Blockparty has some really great prizes.)

Notacon ad and Blockparty invite!

2007-04-04T22:10:05Z

Hey all,

I just figured I'd let you know about a 30 second Notacon ad I put together the other day. There are a couple versions out there, the first is, of course, on teh YouTubes:

Any positive ratings and or promotion you can do with it is fantastic. Please pass it around!

There is another, higher quality version hosted on our server.

Finally, if you haven't checked it out yet, the Blockparty invite, by the Northern Dragons demo group, was released last month. Information about it can be found on the Blockparty website.

Registrations are coming in fast, and the hotel is booking up quickly. If you haven't done either yet, I highly suggest you do!

Digg this!

2007-03-15T17:10:32Z

Hey everyone, if you digg, I'd appreciate it if you would all digg a review for the neato demo to invite people to Blockparty at Notacon done by the Northern Dragons.

notacon @ 2007-03-14T23:05:00

2007-03-15T03:05:34Z

Courtesy of sketchthecow:

REGISTER FOR NOTACON!

Reminder

2007-01-31T20:08:42Z

CFP and Tshirt Design Competition close tomorrow, February 1.

What would you like to see at Notacon 4?

2006-12-08T02:23:37Z

Last year I started a thread on the Notacon Forums about what Notacon means to you and what you'd like to see at Notacon.

As things are ramping up in the background, it seems like a reasonable point to pose this question again.

What would you like to see at Notacon 4?

Remember to keep an eye on our news items. It's been a little slow, but there's a lot of things coming down the pipe in the next 4+ months and they'll be mentioned there first.

--Tyger

notacon @ 2006-10-13T22:39:00

2006-10-14T02:41:01Z

Blockparty @ Notacon

Ever been to a demoparty? No?

Well, if you attend Notacon in 2007, you'll get your chance.

This year Notacon will combine forces with a new demo party in North America called Blockparty. What is a demo party, you ask? To quote their site,

"If you're new to the idea of a demoparty, the concept is simple: set up a stage, invite programmers, artists and musicians from around the world to enter competitions, watch in amazement what comes out, and then hand out prizes to the best of the bunch."

Both events under one roof will definitely kick more art, music and creativity in the event and further our goal of bridging the gap between art and technology, as well as fostering a sense of community among all open-minded technology buffs.

All Notacon attendees can pariticpate in Blockparty events and vise-versa.

More information will be available as it becomes available, in the mean time, please chekc out the Blockparty website.

As an additional reminder, please note that both our Call for Proposals and
Pre-registration are open!

notacon @ 2006-08-03T15:07:00

2006-08-03T19:08:12Z

The Call for Proposals now open for Notacon 4, April 27th trough 29th, 2007
at the Holiday Inn City Centre in Cleveland Ohio. Those interested in
getting involved must submit their proposals by January 6th, 2007. Please
see our website for the most up-to-date information:

http://www.notacon.org/cfp.html

Also, many Notacon folks will be hanging out at Defcon in Las Vegas, if you see us, feel free to stop us and say hi!

Defcon 14 Hacker Jeopardy Signups

2006-07-30T20:49:47Z

Hacker Jeopardy signups are online in the Defcon forums.

Sign up TODAY and beat the rush at con. It's your chance to win a leather jacket and a free Defcon admission FOR LIFE.

(Everyone who signs up also gets to sit in a RESERVED area near the stage, closer to the beer.)

Notacon 4 Preregistration Open

2006-07-21T03:12:40Z

And hey, no one posted the dates here!

Notacon 4: April 27-29, 2007
Holiday Inn Select City Centre Lakeside
Cleveland, OH

Preregister now.

bleakenigma and I will be hitting up HOPE this weekend in New York City. I hope we'll see a few of you there.

We will also be attending Defcon in Las Vegas in 2 weeks. Feel free to leave a comment if you'll be there and want to hang out with us or anything. We might need help spreading fliers and the word around, and will likely have a "wear your notacon shirt day" like we've done the last couple of years. I'll try to post more details here as it gets closer.

See you in April!

Notacon 2 images

2006-05-01T10:29:16Z

I just uploaded some images from last year's Notacon 2

Enjoy!

notacon @ 2006-04-13T14:25:00

2006-04-13T18:27:00Z

Another Notacon has come and gone.

I'm collecting writeups and picture gallery links for the front page of notacon.org. Please email me or comment here if you have a writeup or photo gallery that you would like linked.

Notacon Radio

2006-04-08T16:07:18Z

What, no web streaming of Notacon radio during the event??? :(

pre-reg extended

2006-03-27T03:06:30Z

A bit short notice here, but we extended pre-reg until Tuesday, March 28th. The price is still set at $50, but there's only a few left.

Tell your friends!

Schedule posted and consuite news!

2006-03-15T03:57:58Z

Our first stab at a schedule for Notacon has now been posted! There are a few final tweaks we will make over the next week or so, but overall what you see is what you should expect. We are really excited about our broad and diverse selection of presenters this year!

Also, it turns out our consuite idea is taking off and many people have offered to augment the provisions we will provide (light food and beverages) with other goodies as well. Many have suggested we make it "pot luck" in nature and, well, what the heck? If you have a tasty morsel or beverage you'd like to share with the rest of the Notacon community, feel free to bring it up to the consuite.

For those unfamiliar with the consuite concept, basically it's another hang-out area we are making available to all Notacon attendees, presenters and staff that we are going to do our best to keep stocked with complimentary beverages, snacks, etc. We unfortunately can't afford to feed everyone five course meals, but if you need a quick snack, the consuite is the place to go.

As a final reminder, pre-registration closes on March 24th. If you haven't bought your registration yet or haven't booked your room, DO SO NOW. Your time is running out!

See you on the 7th!

Reminders

2006-03-09T14:50:42Z

If you have not preregistered for Notacon yet, the price is still at $50 and pre-registration ends on March 24th at 9:00pm. We've been having an upsurge of registrations lately, so we might even hit the next price group. The at the door price will be $100. (unless we hit 500 before March 24th...then there won't be any at the door)

The hotel block closes on March 23rd. I know there's still rooms available in the con block. I'm not sure how the hotel handles it if we outsell the block they set aside for us, but we can't guarantee they'll give you the con rate after March 23rd. They tend to be nice about it, but we just don't know.

I look forward to seeing everyone there. Our line-up looks great, our schedule will be posted soon. It will be a great time!