Hi…
I’d like to re-visit the possibility of having a CryptoParty BoF at SCaLE. If we avoid the times of all the big evening events, including the Key Signing party, I really can’t find an evening time slot that would work.
I did put in for one in the evening. Someone suggested it should be 2 hours. So, I put in for one… but there really wasn’t any good time. We have to allow time for folks to eat dinner and get to wherever the events are. Nothing left for BoFs that I can see.
So, I have one idea… how about Saturday and/or Sunday morning from 8 am to 9:45 am? It isn’t quite 2 hours and folks would have to eat before coming. But it could possibly work.
There are a lot of areas of Cyber-security we could deal with, but this would be for the “ordinary folk,” like me, who don’t deal with large corporate files and important business transactions and things like that. We would just like to keep our personal cell phones relatively secure and our internet browsing private as much as possible. That is probably all we could cover in an hour and a half or so anyway.
If we did it on Sunday morning it could even be announced on Saturday evening at the UpScale gathering. If we concentrated on cell phone and browsing only. I can probably get some people who are using Signal to help do something on that. I just installed Badger on Chrome but I’m not sure how much that does for me yet.
Der Hans, are you still interested in helping organize this?
Anyone else want to contribute ideas/skills?
Can we get a room to do it in the AM? Can it be near the Keynote (and a restroom) so people who don’t want to miss that will have time to get there?
Caryl
P.S. Maybe if it goes well we could get it sponsored next year with a continental breakfast or something like that.