2015 Event Notes

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1/10/2015 Cryptoparty

  • Held at Somerville Public Library
  • Steve presented GnuPG, Jamie presented Tor. Noe made video recording for broadcast on SCATV
  • Approximately 18 attended. Event went well. Good turnout, despite very cold temperatures.
  • Should have enough footage for three episodes of Ville Pirates

1/12/2015 Aaron Schwartz Vigil

  • Jamie and Anoninmass. Good signage
  • Most of the rush hour crew ignored us, but a few stopped to talk. Lots of thumbs up.

1/17/2015 Cryptoparty

  • Held at Arisia
  • Captain James presents Tor, GnuPG, and VPNs
  • Approximately 36 people attended
  • Interest in doing it again next year, particularly if we can cover software for tablets and phones
  • Stallman dropped off some flyers and stickers at the beginning of the presentation, and collected the remainder afterwards.

1/19/2015 4-mile march

  • event was very well attended, and very well run
  • Noe and Jamie marched with banners

2/4/2015 Cryptoparty

  • Done at a Boston Desktop Linux Users Group meeting, at Akamai's Cambridge office
  • Steve presented Packet sniffing. Al Willis presented GnuPG
  • Approx. 30 people attended
  • Meeting was right after breaking boston's record for 7-day snowfall. Driving and public transit were rough going.

2/14/2015 Cryptoparty

  • Held in Holyoke, MA at the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center
  • 10 attended. Six from Western, MA and four from Eastern, MA
  • Micky Metts presented OTR. Steve presented GnuPG and Tor
  • A large snowstorm was forecast to start that afternoon. The first inch of snow fell before the cryptoparty ended
  • MGHPCC doesn't provide A/V support on weekends, so we brought our own projector. This seemed to work out fine.
  • The public meeting room has outlet banks in the floor (covered by access plates). The next time we do an event at this facility, we should leave enough setup time to position tables so that outlet banks are completely accessible. Would also be useful to bring a few short-corded power strips. Facility had open wireless network. No shortage of bandwidth and no issues with port blocking.
  • Although the turnout was small, I think the event was well received.
  • Seven people attended the social afterwards. We kept it short, due to weather.
  • For the next Western MA event, it might be nice to find some local group to work in conjunction with. I'm realizing that we tend to get better turnout when working in conjunction with other groups.