Tyger and I are en route to New York City and the Last HOPE! Look for us at the conference and come to our presentation on Saturday, the 19th, at 8 PM in the Engressia room.
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April 2009 will be sneaking up on us before you know it, so right now, it’s time to start thinking about would you would like to do at Notacon 6. We know you’ve got an awesome idea, a cool demonstration, or something else equally fun and wacky. Well, now’s the time to tell us!
The Call for Proposals for Notacon 6 is now officially open!
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Registration is now open for Notacon 6, which will run April 16th through the 19th, 2009 at our new venue, the Wyndham Playhouse Square in downtown Cleveland!
In order to simplify things for everyone, we have 2 basic registration levels, one with swag, the other with just the badge. With either registration, you can opt to pre-order a Notacon t-shirt via a drop-down option on the registration page.
The swag bag in the premier registration package not only will give you tons of goodies, but will also include a couple of meal vouchers that are good at the hotel to make sure you get at least some good meals over the course of the weekend. We will continue, of course, to have our con suite with complimentary sodas and snacks, but if you want something more substantial, think about the premier package!
For those who want us to take care of all of the details, there are a limited number of Corporate Rate packages, as well.
Total registrations will be limited to 600 this year. More information and details are available on our registration page.
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Tyger and I will be presenting at The Last HOPE this year, which runs from July 18th through July 20th in New York City. As part of a slate of almost 100 presenters, we will be talking about the ins and outs of how to throw your own hacker conference entitled, “Starting Your Own Con for Fun and No Profit: A How-to”. Information about the presentation can be found on their Scheduled Talks page. Running a hacker conference is a subject we like to think we know a little bit about. The past 5 years of Notacon have taught us a lot not only about the eclectic community we live in, but also how many problems, details, considerations and other things need to be taken into account when one decides to start an endeavor as large as Notacon.
No news yet on specific days or times for the presentation, but we encourage everyone to attend HOPE and check it out. HOPE is considered by some the “de facto” hacker conference and one is likely to meet many other interesting fringe types as well, something we at Notacon highly encourage!
If you plan on being at HOPE, let us know! If there’s enough interest, we can throw together an impromptu Notacon/Blockparty gathering of some sort or another.
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I am pleased to announce that we have chosen to hold the next three Notacons at the Wyndham Cleveland at Playhouse Square in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. This three year commitment will allow us to spend more time making Notacon and Blockparty awesome and less time on stuff like figuring out where it’s going to be held! In addition, we will be doubling the amount of conference space available. The quality of the space, overall is much nicer and rumor has it the hotel will be renovated prior to Notacon in 2009.
Here are the dates to put into your calendar now!
April 16-19, 2009
April 15-18, 2010
April 14-17, 2011
Notacon registration and pricing brackets will be open soon.
We look forward to the opportunities this move will provide and we hope you will join us in 2009 and agree!
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Gudshu put together a nifty montage of happenings from Notacon/Blockparty 2008 this year:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhNpkthJkdc
If you have cool video, pics or other media to share, let us know in the comments!
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A group of Notaconers will be at Penguicon in Troy, MI this weekend. Jason Scott (co-founder of BlockParty) will be giving multiple presentations, and I’m sure every one of them will be a hit! Sam Harmon will also be giving another workshop on circuit bending, which I can highly recommend.
If you see someone in a Notacon shirt, make sure to stop by and say hi.
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Notacon 5 was by almost all accounts a huge success. We’re still finalizing details on the administrative end, but the survey reactions were overwhelming positive. Details for Notacon 6 will start being posted as soon as they are known. We hope to have the dates decided by early June, and will likely open registration and our call for proposals as soon as the dates are final.
Until then, if you’ve written a blog post or other write-up, we’d like to link to it from our write-ups section. A portion of these we will probably find on our own through google, but we might not catch all the links. If your writeup gets missed from the list, please comment to this entry and I’ll make sure to add it. Let’s get together to spread the good word to those who were unable to attend this year.
We will be linking to the main category of Notacon photos on flickr instead of individual galleries, so remember to tag those photos. If you do not use flickr and prefer to use your own gallery, but still want people to see your Notacon photos, please leave a comment with the URL.
See you in 2009!
Notacon 5 is totally the best notacon to date. If you are not here you are totally missing out. Keep an eye out for our media as it gets posted after the conference.
Remember, the talks are posted, but the after party and games are not!
Come for the talks, stay for the community.
There is still time to come to a full day of presentations, and the bulk of Blockparty!
Posted from powerpoint karaoke.
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The podcast has been posted of our interview with Meet the Bloggers on March 13. We are as frenetic and disjointed in conversation as we are in con planning. 
Also, we have developed a phone in version of the event schedule which can be reached at 248-434-5508 Check out our new feature and tell us what you think!