[Noisebridge-discuss] Yuri's Night
Joel Jaeggli
joelja at bogus.com
Sun Mar 7 22:11:19 UTC 2010
I've been there, I walk past it every couple of day on the steven's
creek trail and if you haven't experienced it it's worth beholding, not
just because it's your peace dividend at work, but because some of the
most incredible engineering effort ever, was produced in our backyard
under time and economic pressures that rival those of internet startups,
by our grandparents.
On 03/07/2010 05:50 PM, Red ShuttleGunner wrote:
> just checking here. I would not have thought I was the only Yuri's
> Night Security/Gate staffer on this list. I thought you people
> had a million ties to the YN folks. For example I know people who Jake
> knows who are involved in Yuri's Night. You don't have a scam worked
> already? What kind of hackers are you?
>
> If you're a Noisebridge hacker and you are into high tech stuff and you
> haven't been inside Ames before, you should go. If it's like last time,
> it's held in a hangar at the edge of the airfield. You don't go into
> the NASA part of the facility. But do your homework. You park next to
> Hangar One, where they parked airships in the 30's. You drive in past
> the largest wind tunnel on the west coast.
> (yeah, they test jet fighters they. they also test mars lander
> parachutes. our mars probes work and the european''s don't because we
> have badass martian lander parachutes because they were tested at
> Ames...) And it's part of NASA, our badly designed Soviet-era space
> agency that might not be there in 5 years.
>
> On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Christie Dudley <longobord at gmail.com
> <mailto:longobord at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Eh. They had burners (gate) doing security there, due to the...
> difficulties of regular security people interacting with the
> artists. It was like a special security zone or something.
>
> When I did the thing with the FLG there, I had to haggle a lot to
> get enough crew tickets to run the piece, and we got the largest
> allowance of any group there. What strikes me as a good idea is to
> have /several/ noisebridge groups putting together proposals so each
> can get a small batch of tickets. but they're really whiny about
> awarding them - much more so than other events I've done.
>
> Christie
> _______
> "We also briefly discussed having officers replaced by very small
> shell scripts." -- Noisebridge meeting notes 2008-06-17
>
> The outer bounds is only the beginning.
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/genriel/sets/72157623376093724/
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Jonathan Foote <jtfoote at ieee.org
> <mailto:jtfoote at ieee.org>> wrote:
>
> Actually, it's a NASA, and thus Federal, facility. The last Yuri's
> Night there the security was super-tight. Messing around with them
> might be fun, but getting caught risks a Federal offense. (For that
> reason, also a good idea to leave the fun stuff at home.)
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 4:23 PM, aestetix aestetix
> <aestetix at gmail.com <mailto:aestetix at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > Critical mass, yo.
> >
> > Then again, some friends and I once got into a rave festival
> for free by
> > showing up with sound equipment and saying we were the
> "Renegade Stage", and
> > the door security bought it. Maybe there's room to improvise? :)
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Mike Ashmore
> <motomike at gmail.com <mailto:motomike at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >> Criminy. $58 tickets (plus $5.58 bullshit "service charge")?
> Do you
> >> suppose a Noisebridge presence would entitle our
> representatives to free
> >> admission?
> >> -Mike
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mar 5, 2010, at 10:53 AM, Mitch Altman wrote:
> >>
> >> Hey kids,
> >>
> >> You know about Yuri's Night? It's coming up April 9th &
> 10th. And they
> >> are looking for people to do cool things there. I went a
> couple years ago,
> >> and met lots of great people. There were many people showing
> off their way
> >> cool projects, such as several people doing cool things with
> brainwaves, and
> >> lots of way wonderful art and music and video and lights and
> robots and on
> >> and on... I have some mixed feelings about NASA's mostly
> military
> >> existence, but they do some crazy tripped out stuff. Yuri's
> Night is one
> >> such!
> >>
> >> Anyone up for putting together a Noisebridge presence at
> Yuri's Night?
> >>
> >> http://www.ynba.org/
> >>
> >> Mitch.
> >>
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