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Notacon 7 CFP Now Open!

Tyger — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:16:25 +0000

As of July 1, 2009, we are accepting proposals for Notacon 7! This next iteration of Notacon will occur April 15-18, 2010 at the Wyndham Hotel in Playhouse Square, downtown Cleveland, OH. Check out our CFP for details on the submission process. Our guidelines for next year have changed a little bit from the past, so please read them over carefully before submitting your proposal.

This post was made from WI while driving down I-94 on the way to Toorcamp.

Notacon 7 registration is open!

froggy — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:36:01 +0000

Notacon 7, which will take place April 15th through 18th, 2010, will again be at the Wyndham in Playhouse Square in downtown Cleveland. Registration for the event is now open!

The first 25 people who purchase a premier registration will receive a $10 coupon to use on their next purchase in the Notacon store.

We’d also like to remind you that Notacon on Toor will be hitting Toorcamp, July 2nd through the 5th, in Moses Lake, Washington. Almost a dozen of us will show the West Coast what we’re about at Notacon and will share our talents, art and skills through visual media, music, radio and hardware hacking. If you’re still interested in camping with us, please check out the Notacon on Toor site and buy your tickets now!

Notacon On Toor: Progress Report

Tyger — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:05:13 +0000

The dome trial at RR Primer was a great success! Some details are available on the Dome Page. We are currently working out the details of transporting the 6 of us from Toronto, Buffalo, and Cleveland the 2,227 miles to Moses Lake, and back. There we will meet with 3 other camp members who are traveling on their own.

If anyone has suggestions on rental car companies with unlimited miles and no state to state restrictions, please email tyger@notacon.org.

Recycled Rainbow presents: Primer (may 23rd, 24th, 25th)

froggy — Wed, 20 May 2009 02:40:21 +0000

Hey gang! A bunch of us local to Cleveland will be attending Recycled Rainbow’s Primer event this weekend. Our goal is to test a lot of our structures and ideas not only for Recycled Rainbow, later in the year, but also for Notacon on Toor, our pilgrimage to Toorcamp over July 4th weekend.

Please read the message below from everyman, one of Recycled Rainbow’s primary organizers.

Hope to see you there!

Many of you have seen fliers for an event called Recycled Rainbow. To clarify, Recycled Rainbow has nothing to do with rainbow festivals or recycling.

Froggy best described it as “a blank canvas upon which you can make your own statement and define your own experience in the context of everyone else’s experiences within the same space and time.”

Very true! We are in fact inspired by the Burning Man festival. Everything is organized, built and paid for by volunteers with their own resources. There are no trash cans, so you’ll have to pack your trash out with you. There are no vendors, so you have to bring enough food, drink and whatever else you need for four days. There are no schedules or rules, so you’ll have to make things happen yourself and respect your neighbor.

THIS message isn’t about RR, however, it is about the upcoming Primer.

Primer is a pre-event providing people who have never been to RR a chance to meet the people involved in their natural habitat as well as get a flavor of the RR event. It’s also an opportunity for people building projects to prototype them in an environment more primitive than they will experience at RR.

This year’s RR PRIMER will last for three days and two nights giving people with projects more time to prototype and test and visitors more time and more opportunities to visit and experience a taste of this intensely participatory experiment in preparation, decentralization, respect, responsibility and uncertainty!

PRIMER is being held at the same location is was last year:

Crystal Springs Campground
31478 Bagley Rd
North Ridgeville, OH 44039
May 23, 24 and 25, 2009
(Memorial Day weekend)

Our entrance is to the right of the brown building immediately ahead of you as you leave Bagley road.

http://www.recycledrainbow.org/primer

A sign will be visible during the day.

DO NOT DRIVE OVER 5MPH ONCE YOU LEAVE BAGLEY ROAD

There are children at play all over the campground!

Admission is $10, payable at the gate (found to the immediate right of the building that stands in front of you as you leave Bagley road and enter Crystal Springs.).

It’s no coincidence that PRIMER is being held Memorial Day weekend, the same weekend that RR used to be held in the house. Come join us even if you aren’t planning on camping with us. We’d love to see you and think you’ll enjoy participating!

There is no electricity or water in the area where PRIMER is held, making it even more interesting and fun. You will have to bring your own supplies. We strongly encourage you to buy your supplies, lumber, electrical doo-dads, refreshments, food and any last-minute items from local North Ridgeville merchants. SUPPORT THE LOCAL ECONOMY!

Prototypers!

Participants building projects at PRIMER may have their materials delivered on Friday May 22. You must be present when materials are delivered and you may store your materials in the “pavilion”. If you are storing materials, you must keep your materials together and label them clearly as belonging to you.

Participants wishing to camp and work Friday night are more than welcome to. If you arrive before our greeters, you will be approached for your $10 admission Friday night or Saturday morning.

You must supply your own electricity. There is no electricity available at the campground.

We look forward to seeing you this year!

For more information on Primer: http://www.recycledrainbow.org/primer

For more information on Recycled Rainbow itself: http://www.recycledrainbow.org/

Last call for Notacon 2009 t-shirts!

froggy — Mon, 04 May 2009 19:20:05 +0000

This is your last call to order a Notacon 2009 t-shirt. I am extending the deadline by one day. Hence, the shirts will no longer be available by the end of the day tomorrow, May 5th.

We still do not have the 25 orders required to make it a viable order, so please buy yours now or we may be forced to scrap the idea all together.

Notacon on Toor: Toorcamp 2009

froggy — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:54:06 +0000

Notacon will be hosting the Notacamp theme camp at the inaugural Toorcamp, to be held July 2nd through July 5th, 2009 in Moses Lake, Washington. If you are interested in joining our camp, or simply want more information, we have set up a mailing list for organization and logistics. All are encouraged to subscribe. Those actually intending on being involved with the camp will be expected to join. *grin*

If Notacamp manages to have at least 10 campers, 10% of all of the registration fees will be kicked back to the camp to cover expenses such as group meals, structures, activities, water, supplies and other goodies. We will disclose how the money is allocated once we verify that we have 10 confirmed campers in our group. When registering, please indicate “I’m with Notacamp!”.

Our current plans for the event include:

A non-stop caravan from the upper Midwest to the Toorcamp site starting on or before June 30th
Live music and PAs throughout the event
Amateur radio of all sorts
Electronics projects, including LED signs, elwire, and other neat things
Community meals exclusively for Notacampers
Spreading lots of the Notacon love and showing the folks on the West coast what the heck it is they are missing here in Cleveland!

Toorcamp registration fees are time-based and go up $50 every month until the event. Reserve your tickets with them before the end of April before rates go up!

I hope to see many of you there. If you have any questions about how to participate, what is involved in regards to camping or the event itself, join up and start discussing!

Notacon 2009 Tshirt Reprint

Tyger — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 03:56:18 +0000

There has been enough interest to confirm a reprint of 2009 shirts! Using the responses so far we have an estimate of what sizes to order. 2009 shirt reprint orders will only be open until Monday, May 4th. Place your order now to assure sizing is available.

Order now!

Also until May 4th buy $50 in merchandise and get 10% off. Use coupon code “Save10″!

The first notacon media has been posted!

Tyger — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 02:58:57 +0000

Jason Scott has posted his presentation “Super Jason Scott Presentation 64″ on archive.org. Adrian “Irongeek” Crenshaw has posted his presentation “Hacking Video Tutorial Tips: Getting the point across with screencasting computer videos” to his blog at irongeek.com. Jason has also kindly recorded and linked online his Presentation Presentation from the Thursday night Freeview.

As soon as we get everything cleaned up here at the FTS Compound we’ll be putting the rest of the media files online as well as a handy-dandy torrent to pull them all from.

Notacon is here! Keep yourself up to date with schedule changes and announcements through Twitter!

froggy — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:43:21 +0000

Notacon is, for all intents and purposes, ON! Any scheduled changes or announcements will be sent to the Notacon twitter feed. Subscribe now if you haven’t already. This will be the primary source of all official Notacon announcements during the event.

See many of you at tonight’s free preview!

Win the Demo Competition, Win the Machine

Jason Scott — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:12:48 +0000

The Blockparty prizes are now dropping into place, and the competition page is starting to grow with them. The heart of the demoscene is doing it for the glory, not the prizes, but your time is valuable. And so, if possible, we like to reward your hard work with ample prizes.

Therefore, we’re announcing a new prize for the main demo competition that has almost never happened before: If you win the demo competition, you go home with the machine the competition ran on!

At roughly $1000, this is quite the prize. Be sure to check out the competition rules page for information on entering and what you have to do and the specifications of your machine. Also, the other competitions are getting additional prizes this week.

Competition-winning demos have been written in less time than this, and staying up crazy amounts of hours to carve out an entry has a long and storied history in the demoscene. Get coding and creating!