The first ever meeting of Leeds2600 was to be held in The Elbow Room, despite many people telling me it wouldn’t work very well having it there on a Friday night due to loud music and many-many-peoples..guess what, it didn’t. The moment I and Jonny walked through the door we realised you could never hold an actual meeting in there as you couldn’t hear anyone, and finding a table to sit at was next to impossible.
However people were going to go there first so we hung around at the back of the balcony, I tweet’d where we’d wait for people to come with the idea being to move on to somewhere more appropriate after a while.
In time Channon, Paul and Neil turned up, and we all agreed on moving on to a small place called the Grove Inn, not far away from station.
Once in a quieter (and friendlier) environment we all had a “get to know each other” round-table-esque session and the night finally got off to a good start with some chatting about the hacking we each get up to in our daily lives, and the kind of things that interest us.
Topics on the table for the night included:
- Getting the word out of Leeds2600
- Other geeky meetings in Leeds/WY
- Embedded hardware hacking, and the the Arduino for hobbyists
- Big-arse servers like the Sun Origin series, making use of them, and how to send your power bills sky high
- Remote aerial war-driving, e.g. War Ballooning (video)
- War-dialling revival, using VOIP
- Hackerspaces, including a hackerspace in Sheffield and the possibility of forming a Leeds hackerspace
- A suitable location for next months meet, in the end we decided upon trying out The Brewery Tap
- Joe McCray’s talk on advanced SQL injection, video and slides
Anyone remembers anything I haven’t mentioned here, including links, leave a comment and I’ll redact.
Or alternatively you can bookmark any links on Delicious with for:leeds2600, and I’ll roll up any bookmarks on here.