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Call for Papers for 4th Balkan Computer Congress – BalCCon2k16

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09|10|11 September 2016, Novi Sad, Vojvodina, Serbia, Europe, Earth, Milky Way

The Event

Balkan Computer Congress  is an annual three days gathering of the international hacker community in the organization of LUGoNS – Linux Users Group of Novi Sad and Wau Holland foundation from Hamburg. The first part of the program has been envisaged to be a set of presentations, workshops and lectures on the current topics regarding privacy, technology, software development, free software & socio-political issues. Hands-on projects and hacking have been planned for the second part of the program.

The Location

Novi Sad is the centre of Vojvodina, northern province of Serbia, famous for its multicultural history and active artistic and technological scene (e.g., music festival Exit and digital-media event Share). With a prestigious night life combined with the warm and welcoming character, Novi Sad offers inexpensive prices for lodging and dining, compared to the neighbouring EU. If you’re in Novi Sad or nearby during these dates, this is the place you want to be!

Our Goal

Our goal is to gather all the communities from the region, continent and the World in an effort to hack, play, learn, pass knowledge and exchange experience. BalCCon aims to become the central hacker community in South East Balkan, as well as to provide an opportunity for all people in this part of Europe to connect and to cooperate.
Having said that, we would like to invite you to make and send us proposals for talks, lectures and workshops on all topics of relevance. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

  • Hardware: Hacking, Making, Electronics, Lock Picking…
  • Software: Programming, A.I., F.O.S.S., Demo scene, preservation…
  • Security : reverse engineering, vulndev, malware, penetration testing,
  • Networks / Telecommunication: Internet, Alternative networks, GSM, HAM Radio…
  • Privacy: T.O.R., Darknets, Crypto…
  • Legal, Political and Social: Hacker Ethics, Forensics, Censorship, Politics, Hackerspaces/Communities, Psychology…
  • Science: DIY science, citizen scitents, emerging research, novel uses of technology, crowdsourcing for science…
  • Arts And Crafts: LASERs!!!, music, wearable electronics, artisan crafts, retro gaming, food, brewing, fermentation …

And any other topic we might have missed but you think might be interesting!

Submission Guidelines

Online submissions only:
All submissions of lectures and workshops have to be entered into our conference planning system, which is located at the following URL: https://frab.balccon.org/en/balccon2k16/cfp/session/new. Please follow the instructions there. If you have any questions regarding the submission, you are welcome to contact us via e-mail at orga (at) balccon.org.

Talks should be no longer than 45 minutes plus 15 minutes for questions and answers. Longer slots are possible in principle. There are 20-minute slots as well. Please tell us the proposed length of your talk at the time of submission. In addition, there are 5-minute short talks (so-called Lightning Talks) for small ideas, projects, or rants. These will only be organized during the event.

Language of the Presentation

BalCCon is an international conference, therefore your submissions should be in English. It is expected that we will have participants from all over the World, so it is important to have a common language.

Travel Expenses

The Balkan Computer Congress is a non-profit oriented event and speakers are not paid. However, financial help on accommodation may be possible, within our means, for all accepted submissions. Don’t be shy and state your requirements in the application when submitting your proposal.

Dates and Deadlines

All submissions will be reviewed by our Program Committee. Authors will be notified upon acceptance of their talk.

  • July 1st, 2016 (23:59 UTC): Submission deadline
  • July 15th, 2016: Final notification of acceptance
  • September 09th – 11th, 2015: BalCCon – Balkan Computer Congress

All submissions will be judged equally, disregarding race and gender. Organizers reserve the right to make changes to the event program or disregard any proposal if found inappropriate for this conference.

LUGoNS BarCamp №3 – Call for Papers (CfP)

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When: On Saturday March 07.2015.
Where: Univerisity in Novi Sad
Faculty of Technical Sciences – FTN
Dositeja Obradovića Square 6
21000 Novi Sad
Time: 12:00 – 20:00h


Call for Papers(CfP)

LUGoNS invites all interested parties to submit their work (lectures, presentations, workshops and discussions) until February 28th, 2015.

 

Topics for participation are:


  • Free software
  • Interesting hardware
  • Security nightmares
  • Hacking laws
  • Deep Web
  • Social Networks – unexpected use, abuse and analysis
  • Social Engineering
  • Anonymity and Privacy on the Internet
  • Mobile Device Hacking and Telecommunications Security, Security of Apps
  • Clouds – hacking, breaking, unexpected usage
  • DPI (deep packet inspection) – current state of introduction, breaking, circumvention and political situation
  • Net and device neutrality – ownership, censorship, circumvention, search engine politics and the politics of de-facto standards
  • Programming languages — state of the art, development and research


In case you still do not know what BarCamp is..

BarCamp (often: unconference) is a gathering of users with public workshops and lectures, their content and progress are established by participants at the beginning of the meeting and are further developed during the gathering itself. BarCamp serves to share ideas, to discuss, for learning, for development and the product of this work can already partially be seen at the end of the event, by demonstrating concrete results (e.g. joint workshop program).

Django workshop #1 – Python web development – Intro Django tutorial 15. 11. 2014. 17h @ FTN classroom 203

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Django – Python web framework
http://djangoproject.com

Requirements: bring your laptop, extension cables, novice level of
programming
FAQ: It’s not required to know python.

Python is pretty much a mature programming language. It’s used in large
variety of tasks like user applications, science, a scripting laguage
and in web development. In this workshop we’ll present you the Django, a
Python framework for web applications. Django isn’t a CMS, blog engine
or wiki. Django is a set of libraries and tools which will help you to
build a web application, web service or simply a web site by your
personal preference.

Django is a FLOSS project, developed by the community and the source
code is of course available. If you’re not sure if you will like it or
you don’t believe us that it’s worth considering, here’s few interesting
features:

– Integrated ORM (object-relational mapper)
– Well developed MVC
– Jinja like template engine
– Integrated support for testing
– Auto-generated admin interface
– Support for validating and generating HTML forms from data models
– DB scheme migration based on changes in data models
– Internationalization
– Built-in dev web server

It’s the Python. What else? (:

The idea is that in the first Django workshop we introduce you to Django
through standard tutorial and begin a talk on deployment Python based
web projects to a production server. We hope you will like Django and
Python, and that you will find nice use for it and then that you will
share those experiences with us in some future events.lugons

Linux Install Day -> Saturday, 11th October 2014. from 10:00 to 16:00 hour

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Installation and setup Linux by members of LUGoNS

Where, what, who?
Linux Install Day will be held on Saturday , 11th October 2014 . from 10.00-16.00pm at the Faculty of Technical Sciences (FTN) in Novi Sad. The idea is to help you to install Linux. For those who choose that we install Linux for them, they will receive from us installation DVD or CD, if we have them in stock.

Why are we doing this?
Many times people have asked us why we wanted to donate some knowledge, and then to resolve the mystery. We are not masochists who like to charge their work. Simply, if you want to do, (I mean business and jobs under Linux) we have to show people that this operating system is not a chore. The more of us there Linux users, the greater the chances for a job in a Linux environment. Another reason is that it is nice to help, such as people and helped us to stand on our feet with Linux.

What to bring?
First, take the good will and patience! Since there will be relatively few members LUGoNS, we can not guarantee that your machine will be taken care first. There are just few technical requests:

  • First, If you make a desktop computer, carry case, monitor, keyboard, mouse and all cables
  • Second ,on your computer, make sure to / leave a blank, unformatted partition of at least 10GB

 

Location:

Faculty of Techical Sciences
Dositeja Obradovića Square 6
21000 Novi Sad
classroom L1

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Call for Volunteers – BalCCon2k14

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BalCCon (https://balccon.org) has been organized by the community and appreciates all kinds of participation. 
You were encouraged to contribute to this event by volunteering.

The Congress would not be possible without many people donating their time bringing the Congress to life and dealing with all 
the side effects of bringing hundreds of hackers together in a congress centre.

The congress heavily relies on your help! Please consider volunteering at BalCCon2k14. 
You can sign up by submitting an email at jelena (at) balccon.org
Email subject should be:Volunteer BalCCon2k14
Email Body:
 Personal Information:
 Volunteer Name (nickname):
 Country:
 Email ID:
 Contact Number:
 T-shirt size:
 Volunteer Profile: (max 1000 words)

Application deadline: 25th August 2014.
A big thank you for applying for volunteering at BalCCon2k14.

OpenStreetMap Workshop №2 – 12th July from 15.00pm

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OpenStreetMap

Free Map of The World

http://osm.org

We invite you to the second OpenStreetMap workshop. Workshop is organized in cooperation with the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Technical Sciences.

OpenStreetMap is a map of the world which is free to change. Made by people like you. OpenStreetMap is an international project aimed for creating and using free geographic data. The project allows the use of data collected by the community, that in the world, currently has over one million active users. The idea is to eventually create a free map of the world, which will be available to everyone. OSM ( OpenStreetMap ) is a free map of the world which can be edited by anyone. All collected data is available and licensed under the Open Database License 1.0 ( Odlb ) .

If everyone would just mapped its city, neighbourhood or street soon we will mapped the whole world. It is an idea that has emerged from OpenStreetMap project. The workshop will be doing data mapping and data entry on the map using the JOSM application.

 

Time of event :

07/12/2014 from 15.00pm

Venue:

FTN – New space – Park City
Narodnog Fronta 21b
21000 Novi Sad


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New Hardware on Old computers – New Location, New Date 07.06.2014.

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Association  Once Upon a Byte, Department of Applied Computer Science Faculty of Technical Sciences, Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management, Faculty of Science and LUGoNS invite you to visit the exhibition “New hardware on old computers” in the Night of the Museums in 2014. Old home computers from 80’s of last century and the new hardware that was made for them in the past few year will be shown on exhibition.

Night of the Museums 2014 , 7th June 2014
The exhibition will be in the Zepter bank building, Grčkoškolska 2.

http://www.nocmuzeja.rs/2014/Novi-hardveri-na-starim-racunarima


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VCFe (Vintage Computer Festival Europa) 15

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VCFe (Vintage Computer Festival Europa) 15 – http://www.vcfe.org/

The 15th annual European Vintage Computer Festival on May 3rd and 4th 2014 awaits you!

Our mission is to encourage the preservation of obsolete computer hard- and software of years past, to promote interest in researching and documenting the history of the computer age … and to have fun playing with old iron.

The Vintage Computer Festival is not only a fixed entry in the Silicon Valley timetable, but it has also become a European event, celebrating our computer heritage.

Let us return to those thrilling days of yesteryear, when geeks were geeks and floppies were really floppy.

Fifty people, no less than 30 years old with smiles on their faces,  conclude where you will place your pet. It’s not about Linux / Geeks / hacker / nerds, but lovers of old, retro machine.

Today we are in a local gym, which includes a shooting range and whatever spaces for social activities, known as hanging live, setting the table, conducted electricity, beautiful table linen and watched it slowly installed machine whose names are quiet, pronounced with respect: Commodore PET, HP business calculator, Atari Portfolio … magic word that brings back memories of a nice period where everything was new and where you have to know how what he’s doing, no icons, and horror of horrors: no mouse!

For now, many of the teams LUGoNS – Munich abteilung Continued department which would Lala say!

Linux Install Day -> Saturday, 29th March 2014. from 11:00 to 16:00 hour

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Installation and setup Linux by members of LUGoNS

Where, what, who?
Linux Install Day will be held on Saturday , 29th March 2014 .  from 11.00-16.00pm  at the Faculty of Technical Sciences (FTN) in Novi Sad.  The idea is to help you to install Linux. For those who choose that we install Linux for them, they will receive from us installation DVD or CD, if we have them in stock.

Why are we doing this?
Many times people have asked us why we wanted to donate some knowledge, and then to resolve the mystery. We are not masochists who like to charge their work. Simply, if you want to do, (I mean business and jobs under Linux) we have to show people that this operating system is not a chore. The more of us there Linux users, the greater the chances for a job in a Linux environment. Another reason is that it is nice to help, such as people and helped us to stand on our feet with Linux.

What to bring?
First, take the good will and patience! Since there will be relatively few members LUGoNS, we can not guarantee that your machine will be taken care first. There are just  few technical requests:

  • First, If you make a desktop computer, carry case, monitor, keyboard, mouse and all cables
  • Second ,on your computer, make sure to / leave a blank, unformatted partition of at least 10GB

 

Location:

Faculty of Techical Sciences
Dositeja Obradovića Square 6
21000 Novi Sad
classroom No. 207 (second floor)

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OpenStreetMap Workshop

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OpenStreetMap

Free Map of The World

http://osm.org

We invite you to the first OpenStreetMap workshop.Workshop is organized in cooperation with the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Technical Sciences .

OpenStreetMap is a map of the world which is free to change. Made by people like you. OpenStreetMap is an international project aimed for creating and using free geographic data. The project allows the use of data collected by the community, that in the world, currently has over one million active users. The idea is to eventually create a free map of the world, which will be available to everyone. OSM ( OpenStreetMap ) is a free map of the world which can be edited by anyone. All collected data is available and licensed under the Open Database License 1.0 ( Odlb ) .

If everyone would just mapped its city, neighbourhood or street soon we will mapped the whole world. It is an idea that has emerged from OpenStreetMap project. The workshop will be doing data mapping and data entry on the map using the JOSM application.

 

Time of event :

03/22/2014 from 15.00pm

Venue:

FTN – New space – Park City
Narodnog Fronta 21b
21000 Novi Sad


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