Behold! What follows is a listing of some of the more significant
aspects of Rubi Con 1999.
Speakers
More than a dozen expert speakers will provide two whole days
of technical content for all attendees. Offered will be both large
group and classroom settings for both broad and specific topics.
Learn about the hacker community, data and network security, the
future of the technology industry, and many other topics. Speaker
sessions will run all day Saturday and all day Sunday. On Sunday
speakers will be presented six topics at a time for six hours, making
for more than 40 different sessions over the weekend.
Games
Challenge your skills and compete with your friends in the many Rubi
Con games. Cool prizes and the adoration of young, attractive women
await all winners. Try your hand in our programming contest where
people try to come up with the coolest or most unusual hack on their
OS of choice. Or play in the hacking contest, where combatants race
each other to see who can break into secured network boxes first and
retrieve a special file. The Rubi Con games will run for the entire
three days, with prizes awarded and winners declared during the
Sunday closing ceremony.
Rave
More than five different DJs are coming in from all over the country
to spin at the Rubi Con Rave. Starting late Saturday night, and
laboring on into Sunday morning the rave will feature some of the
coolest electronic music available from some of the coolest DJs
around, including some local favorites like DJ Elixir. There are
plans to make this a silent rave, where we will broadcast the DJ's
signal over a radio station and people can pick it up on walkmans.
Plans remain tentative, but if you have experience with pirate radio,
please contact someone.
Workshops
Spanning the entire three days of Rubi Con will be a programmer's
code clinic. Staffed by expert programmers versed in several
languages, the code clinic is being set up so anyone with a troubled
program can come in and work it out. Bring in the project that just
won't compile, and the problem that you just can't figure out and
work it out with your programmer peers.
The Network
There will be a large RJ45-based Ethernet network at Rubi Con.
Attendees are invited to bring their boxes and plug them in for
network games and access to the Internet through our dual ISDN
connection. All you need to do is bring your computer and a monitor
to join in. The network will be entirely ad hoc, so you may want to
bring in your spare hub and some Cat-5 just in case of a
shortage.