This year’s Balkan Computer Congress will be held on 20th, 21st and 22nd
September 2024 at the Congress Center in Novi Sad, Serbia.
BalCCon is a non-commercial, community-organized event, with talks and
workshops delivered by speakers from the region and abroad.
For more information, the schedule and tickets head over to https://balccon.org.
LUGoNS meetup September 14th 2024
We invite you to the eigth LUGoNS meetup of 2024, which will be held on
Saturday September 14th 2024 from 12:00-15:00 at Radio Cafe, Svetozara
Miletića 45, Novi Sad
LUGoNS meetup August 10th 2024
We invite you to the seventh LUGoNS meetup of 2024, which will be held on Saturday August 10th 2024 from 12:00-15:00 at Radio Cafe, Svetozara
Miletića 45, Novi Sad
This time we’ll have a closer look at tools of the coreutils package.
Let’s find out what sort, date, and dd can really do for you, how to slice, dice, splice, format, convert and checksum files and how to get information about the system you are using.
LUGoNS meetup July 13th 2024
We invite you to the sixth LUGoNS meetup of 2024, which will be held on
Saturday July 13th 2024 from 12:00-15:00 at Radio Cafe, Svetozara Miletića 45, Novi Sad
We will continue the exploration of Vim features and take a first stab
at writing simple shell scripts.
LUGoNS meetup June 8th 2024
We invite you to the fifth LUGoNS meetup of 2024, which will be held on Saturday June 8th 2024 from 12:00-15:00 at Radio Cafe, Svetozara Miletića 45, Novi Sad.
This time we will focus on useful commands and personal configuration of the Vim editor.
LUGoNS meetup May 11th 2024
LUGoNS meetup April 13th 2024
We invite you to the third LUGoNS meetup of 2024, which will be held on Saturday April 13th 2024 from 12:00-15:00 at Radio Cafe, Svetozara Miletića 45, Novi Sad
We will continue our exploration of Bash features and also create and collect SSH keys for future access to our lab server
In general we’ll try to stick to a regular schedule of meetups on the 2nd Saturday of each month
File uploads related to our meetups will be available at
https://media.lugons.org/meetups/
To receive notifications of these announcements you can subscribe to the RSS feed at https://events.lugons.org/?feed=rss
LUGoNS meetup March 9th 2024
We invite you to the second LUGoNS meetup of 2024, which will be held on Saturday, March 9th 2024 from 12:00 – 15:00 at Radio Cafe, Svetozara Miletića 45, Novi Sad
Planned topics are hands-on personalized configuration of SSH and Bash.
LUGoNS BarCamp №5
We invite you to the Fifth LUGoNS BarCamp, which will be held on Saturday, December 17th 2016 at the Faculty of Technical Sciences (FTN) in Novi Sad, with the beginning scheduled for 12:00 in the Amphitheatre A3. The Fifth LUGoNS BarCamp is organized in cooperation with the Chair of Applied computer sciences.
The primary goal of LUGoNS BarCamp is interconnection of communities, be it regional or international, socializing, hacking, learning and networking. We are actively working on strenghtening and expanding the community, and making a place where knowledge and experience could be shared.
For anyone who missed the previously held LUGoNS BarCamps, you can watch the lectures online at ftp://ftp.lugons.org/01_BarCamp_01122012/ , ftp://ftp.lugons.org/02_BarCamp_23032013/ and ftp://ftp.lugons.org/03_BarCamp_08022014/ .
All communities from the region are more than welcome!
Entrance is FREE!
List of lectures (start times are preliminary):
Nebojša Badnjar – Kako radi internet i IXP (12h)
Zoran Vujović – Docker Fundamentals (13h)
Milorad Kubatović – Bioinformatički inženjering (14h)
Get-jan Los – An introduction to UNIX’ users, groups and file permissions (EN) (14:45h)
Tomislav Perić – How to make a botnet (EN) (15:15h)
Goran Mekić – FreeBSD jail – implementacija kontejnera (15:45h)
Sharky – Web Browser Hardening (16:15h)
Where:
Faculty of Technical Sciences
Trg Dositeja Obradovića 6
21000 Novi Sad
Amphitheatre A3
Map:
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Call for Papers for 4th Balkan Computer Congress – BalCCon2k16
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.