Kiwicon CFP 2k8 - Update

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Holy sheepshit, internets! Blanket-Man[1] has wrung out his loin cloth 
and is ready to fly-tackle more nerds with large egos and irc handles. 
Yes, it's time to open up your ~/haxing folder and get your talk 
together for Kiwicon 2k8! We've put out the black t-shirts, and deflated 
some satellite radomes, so where, as our more criminal yet fetchingly 
bikini clad cousins might say, the bloody hell are you?

The Kiwicon Crüe is proud to announce the call for presenters for the 
second installment of New Zealand's very own security conference: 
Kiwicon 2k8.

[CFP Update]

Despite being a community con, Kiwicon is now pleased, if not delighted 
to the point of gratuitous Morris dancing to be able to offer financial 
support for travel to a limited number of speakers. More details are 
available in the Submission section below.

We've already had a number of great talks submitted, and slots are 
filling fast. Those of you attending cons this year will already be 
aware of the number of Kiwis presenting - AusCERT, Shakacon, Syscan, 
Blackhat, Defcon, Ruxcon - you should see these guys in their natural 
habitat. They drop more 0day, wear tighter pants, and are 30% more 
likely to coyly flutter their eyelashes at you.

[About]

Kiwicon2k8 is intended to be an informal conference, drawing on the 
wider security community of Australia and New Zealand. It will be held 
in Wellington, New Zealand, on the weekend of the 27th and 28th of 
September, 2008.

Kiwicon's focus is on sharing information; ideas, code, and good whisky, 
in a rabelaisan carnival of security, nerdery, and *nix beards.

Last year, the inaugural Kiwicon ended up being kind of a big deal: 
highlights included tmasky's mighty Crackstation, the debut of Beau 
Butler as an "ethical hacker" making Microsoft "look like turkeys", and 
of course the Kiwicon Hax0r Quiz, with the winner taking the grand prize 
of An Illustrated Guide to the Commoner Skin Diseases. Hope it came in 
handy for the post-con diagnosis phase, dude.

This year, Kiwicon's own Bogan is already making anti-virus vendors 
quake in their little signature-laden booties at Defcon's Race to Zero, 
and the cauldron of 0h-0h-0hday in Brett Moore's secret Insomnia lair is 
bubbling over with pernicious brew. If you missed last Kiwicon (not 
"professional enough"? couldn't convince your boss it wasn't a hoax?) 
then find one of the 230+ people who were there and ask them if they're 
just-not-gonna-bother this year.

[Venue]

Our hosts for the weekend will, once again, be Victoria University of 
Wellington. If you have any memory of last year's Kiwicon, then it'll 
look disturbingly familiar.

The campus has the advantage of being close to the center of the city 
and its' various amenities. This includes cheap accommodation, good 
coffee, and, more importantly, several good pubs serving good, 
non-Australian, beer.

[Costs]

Kiwicon2k8 is a non-profit, non-commercial, non-corporate-funded event.

Attendance for the entire weekend will cost $50 for employed individuals 
(self-employed and salaried). There is a discounted rate of $30 for 
students and the unemployed. GST receipts can be issued upon request. If 
your management can't be convinced of the value of something that only 
costs $50, we're happy to issue you with some kind of personalised 
limited edition invitation in crayon, glitter pen, and macaroni 
(spray-painted gold for that luxe look) for the low enterprise-only 
price of $500.

[Topics]

Suggested topics include but are not limited to:

     - Crowd Control Techniques and Panic Modeling
     - Information Warfare / Industrial Espionage
     - Malware (Viruses, Spam, Phishing, Botnets)
     - Cellular Networks (GSM,GPRS,CDMA,3G,4G)
     - Application Security, Testing, Fuzzing
     - Government Spy Networks / Surveillance
     - Nanotechnology / Quantum Computing
     - Access Control and Authentication
     - Wireless / Bluetooth / Infrared
     - Social Engineering / Trolling
     - Breaking EAL Certified Kit
     - Forensics / Antiforensics
     - Banking / ATMs / Carding
     - Exploitation Techniques
     - Layer 1/2/3 Nastiness
     - Reverse Engineering
     - Phreaking / VoIP
     - Virtualisation
     - Web Security
     - Lockpicking
     - Biometrics
     - Hypnosis
     - Crypto
     - Ohday
     - 23

There is no pre-determined talk length but we ask that speakers limit 
their presentation to an hour, including some question time.

Kiwicon is a non-profit organisation, so generally funding is not 
available for travel and accommodation. However, we have a limited 
number of travel support packages available:

   1 x NZ$1500 for a speaker from outside Australasia or the South Pacific
   1 x NZ$750  for a speaker from Australia or the South Pacific
   3 x NZ$250  for speakers from New Zealand

These are available only to full length (>45min) speakers paying their 
own way. No speaking-in-a-corporate-capacity, no company logos on the 
slides and no industry weaseling. These stipends are for amateurs, 
crackpots, ecclesiasticals, students and other miserable 
doss-down-under-the-motorway-bridge-oh-my-goodness-two-cardboard-boxes-just-for-me? 
riff-raff. If you look too much like you should be hanging out between 
the pages of Men's Style magazine (and we know who you are), then we 
reserve the right to pick someone a trifle more threadbare. Organiser 
decision is final, no correspondence will be corresponded, and Sharrow 
has to think your existence does not constitute a putrefying abscess in 
the nostril of humanity.

If you are a corporate sellout, however, a formal letter will be 
provided for employer leverage. Either way, unless you're a complete 
jackoff, people will try and buy you beer.

To submit a presentation to Kiwicon2k8, send an email to cfp () kiwicon org 
with the following information:

Name or Handle: Country of Residence: Employer (if applicable): 
Presentation Title: Presentation Length: Presentation Synopsis: Brief 
Bio: Do Want Fat Cash: [Yes/No] ( If yes, pick one of the above support 
options, and explain how poor you are, and why you're worth spending our 
money on. Be creative. Poetry is acceptable? )

[CFP Submissions]

Please submit your CFP by email to cfp () kiwicon org, no later than 8:47pm 
NZST, Sunday 17th August 2008. There will be two rounds of selection, 
with the first half of the talks chosen in early August, so submit early 
for a better chance of acceptance.

[Contacts & Further Information]

Email us: kiwicon () kiwicon org Check the site: http://www.kiwicon.org/ 
Drop by silc: silc.isig.org.nz:2706/kiwicon Join the list: 
kiwicon-subscribe () lists isig org nz

Greetz and thanks to all who helped make Kiwicon 2k7 the awesomeness it 
was, we'll see you fuckers again this year. Thick, meaty props to Pipes 
for stepping up and making 2k7 happen. We would miss you, but Sharrow's 
just as tall, and better looking. Sorry pal.

-- The Kiwicon Crüe, 2k8 - Bogan, Metlstorm & Sharrow. \m/

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Hana

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