CodeCon 2005 - Possible Discount - Reply if interested

Tue Jan 25 16:23:42 PST 2005

The BayLISA Board is in the process of working towards getting discounts 
for BayLISA to events/conferences/training as you may have noticed in the 
past emails.  We actually need to know how many people are interested in 
attending CodeCon 2005, Feb 11-13 2005 (Friday-Sunday) at Club NV, San 
Francisco before we make further steps.

Haven't heard of CodeCon before?  From the website 
http://www.codecon.org/2005/index.html
CodeCon is the premier showcase of cutting edge software development. It 
is a workshop for developers of real-world applications with working code 
and active development projects. All presentations will be given by one of 
the active developers, and accompanied by a functional demo.

So why would you be interested?  It depends.

Did you find Mark Langston's "Through a Sniffer Darkly: Covert 
Communications Channels" July talk interesting?  You may find Dan 
Kaminsky's OzymanDNS presentation on using the DNS protocol for other 
services interesting as well.  There are other security topics being 
presented as well. (Look it's Cat Okita!)

Check out their website, and send me an email if it sounds like you would 
be interested in attending this conference.

>From the program listing:

ApacheCA - A PGP based Certification Authority (CA) for the Apache 
Software Foundation (ASF)
David Reid, Ben Laurie

ArX - A flexible, high performance, distributed revision control system 
featuring whole-tree atomic changesets, easy branching, and sophisticated 
merging
Walter Landry

Aura - "Who do you know? Who do you trust?"
Cat Okita

The Ultra Gleeper - A recommendation engine for web pages
Leonard Richardson

H2O - An innovative open-source platform for education that freely 
provides syllabi and other scholarly content to teachers and students 
across the globe, while also linking them in networks, communities and 
valuable discussions around common or associated resources and academic 
goals.
Hal Roberts, Molly Krause

i-brokers - decentralized i-broker technology gives people total control 
over their identity-related transactions
Victor Grey, Fen Labalme

Incoherence - A novel approach to stereo sound visualization
Steven Hazel, Greg Hazel

Jakarta Feedparser - An Open Source RSS/Atom and Weblog API
Kevin Burton

Mappr - Mappr uses data from images shared on flickr.com to allow 
map-based viewing and interaction
Eric Rodenbeck, Michal Migurski, Tomas Apodaca

Off-the-Record Messaging - Enables private conversations over IM by 
providing encryption, authentication, deniability, and perfect forward 
secrecy.
Nikita Borisov Ian Goldberg

OzymanDNS - Advanced exploration into the use of DNS as a general purpose 
communication medium. DNS is more hostile to this than any other protocol, 
so the solutions being built should be generalizable.
Dan Kaminsky

Photospace - An open platform for searching, viewing and annotating 
digital media in time and space
Alon Salant

RPOW - Reusable Proofs of Work
Hal Finney

SciTools - The grand unified web-based toolkit for genetic design 
and analysis
Meredith L. Patterson

Wheat - An environment for web programming
Mark Lentczner, Jim Kingdon