Summercon weekend is coming up, and we’re adding a proverbial expansion pack to both it’s tradition of learning and drinking by bringing hackers and beer together to help teach the masses how to use privacy tech.

When: Sunday June 9th, 2013 7:00 PM EST

What: CryptoParties are locally-organized events aimed to help people use cryptography software to help protect their online privacy a little better. NYC is having one at AlphaOne Labs’s new[er] location in Greenpoint. Bring your laptop to get help installing cryptography software tools like Tor and learn how they work. If you already know your onion routers from your onion rings, stop by to help people get stuff installed! It’s also a party in the Andrew WK sense of the word too, so BYOB if you’re over 21 and feel free to bring snacks. More details on the wiki.

Where:

AlphaOne Labs is a brisk walk from the Nassau Ave G, or Graham ave L train station at:
657 Meeker Ave #1L
Brooklyn NY, 11222

NOTE: There may be cameras at the space, please let photographers know if you don’t want your photo taken.

SURGEON GENERAL WARNING: May contain trace amounts of dubstep disco.

Hope to see you May 18!

The address is:

61 West 62nd Street 1st floor
New York, NY 10023

Our kick-off meeting is January 8th, see you there!

When: December 5th, 2012 7:00 PM EST

What: CryptoParties are locally-organized events aimed to help people use cryptography software to help protect their online privacy a little better. NYC is having one at AlphaOne Labs in Greenpoint. Bring your laptop December 5th to get help installing cryptography software tools like Tor and learn how they work. If you already know your onion routers from your onion rings, stop by to help people get stuff installed! It’s also a party in the Andrew WK sense of the word too, so BYOB if you’re over 21 and feel free to bring snacks.

AlphaOne Labs is a brisk walk from the Nassau Ave or Greenpoint Ave G train station at:
231 Norman Ave #312
Brooklyn NY, 11222

When arriving, please use the south entrance and pull open the makeshift handle made of ethernet cable and rebellion if the gate is closed.

SCHEDULE

7:15 PM Shamoon Siddiqui: Using Tor for anonymity

7:30 PM David Huerta: Cryptocat is experimental but check it out if you like JavaScript a lot

7:45 PM Shamoon Siddiqui: Intro to Bitcoin

8:00 PM A brief word from our sponsors followed by pizza

8:05 PM Software installs / party hard

10:00 PM Tweet/dent about how awesome CryptoParty NYC was and go out spreading datalove to all your friends

Food and drinks generously provided by:

NOTE: RSVP is nice since space is limited, but not required.

ALSO NOTE: There may be reporters with cameras at the space, please let them know if you don’t want your photo taken.

SURGEON GENERAL WARNING: May contain trace amounts of dubstep.

Headed by Sean Auriti, co-founder of Alpha One Labs, a hackerspace in Brooklyn, Hackert0wn meets the demands for high tech resources to drive innovation forward. Hackerspaces are physical spaces where everybody can come together and work on projects, brainstorm ideas, participate in training and activities and gain feedback.

Hackers today are not just guys on laptops pouring over code; they are the tinkerers and inventors who can break it then fix then add another feature to it and make it do something else. Hardware hacking differs from software hacking in that if you need a part, it can hold up your project, whereas with software hacking you can just download another library. This is what Hackert0wn solves. We have a retail marketplace where hackers can pick up supplies such as circuit boards, hardware, chemicals, fasteners and all those little pieces that cost double the retail price to ship that you need for your projects. And of course, if what you need doesn’t exist in a store, you can print it out on one of our 3D printers, or cut it out with one of our CNC mills.

Using recycled shipping container architecture and LED lighting, we provide a modular, eco-friendly place to hack.. Examples of some of the fearures we will include are detailed below.  We’re looking forward to a successful crowdfund with your help!

Make hackert0wn happen today!

We will be teaching people how to make cool things and how to solder! One of the most recent Learn to Solder areas has taught over 3100 people of all ages how to solder in two days! We need volunteers to help out. It’s a ton of fun and for doing a 4 hour shift, you’ll get a free weekend pass to Maker Faire! Anyone and everyone can volunteer! No experience necessary!

Signup on our wiki

In case you haven’t heard of them, the Raspberry Pi Foundation is a charitable organisation founded with the aim of promoting the study of computer science and related topics, especially at school level. The Foundation is responsible for the design and sales of the popular RaspberryPi single board computer. You can find out more about the Foundation and the RaspberryPi here.

The plan for the event consists of the following;

Talk:

RaspberryPi: Past, Present & Future – An introduction to the RaspberryPi, including an overview of its history and development, details on the technical specification and an outline of future developments with many cool tech demos along the way. Followed by a Q&A session.

Tech Demos:

A chance to demonstrate various OS’s, new revisions of the Pi and the latest add-on expansion hardware.

Workshop:

A Taste of RaspberryPi – A chance to play with the RaspberryPi hands-on.

Show & Tell / Prizes:

An opportunity to display RaspberryPi projects from the community with prizes for notable projects.

The tour will be blogged/vlogged on the RaspberryPi website and will hopefully attract RaspberryPi enthusiasts and hackers/makers from across the areas we will be visiting, providing your hackspace with lots of worldwide publicity.

Andrew Kessler, author of Martian Summer: Robot Arms, Cowboy Spacemen and My 90 Days with the Phoenix Mars Mission(which just came out in paperback). In the summer of 2008, Andrew spent three months living and working in mission control of the last Mars expedition, along with 130 top NASA scientists andengineers, becoming the first outsider ever granted unfettered access to such an event.

Andrew is also CEO and cofounder of Togather, a free, online fansourcing platform that brings authors and audiences together. He holds a degree in mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley and currently lives in Brooklyn, N.Y.

With another Mars mission currently underway and the new Curiosity rover expected to land on Mars on August 5, it’s the perfect time to stir up excitement among wannabe astronauts around the world. Andrew would love to share his personal account of life inside mission control during a NASA expedition to Mars, explain what’s going on with the current Mars mission, and show people why they should care about science and space.

Andrew lives in Brooklyn, but he’s going on the road and deep into cyberspace for his paperback book tour. His work has appeared in The New York Times and on the Discovery Channel, and he holds a degree in mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley. He’s an extremely knowledgeable and charismatic expert who has experience with TV, radio and print media, as well as live speaking opportunities. You can hear him on NPR hereand see some videos of him speaking here:

•       “Weather on Mars”

•       “Dig and Eat”

•       “Altered States”

All are welcome to join.

You don’t need to bring anything but you can bring some hardware if you want.

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