Re: DEF CON One Five CfP in effect!

[Adam Shostack <adam () homeport org>]

In 1999 or 2000, the International Financial Crypto Association
looked, and discovered that the calendar was full with events that we
thought our target market would care about, and that avoiding overlap
was impossible.  That was years ago, I assume it's gotten worse as the
field has grown.

At the same time, I think it would be helpful for the largest events
to not overlap.  Both Blackhat and Usenix have longstanding hotel
commitments which would be challenging to rearrange at short notice,
but since neither is going away, when is the first year that one could
move?

Adam

On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 11:30:14AM -0500, Richard Thieme wrote:
| I've been to eleven Def Cons now and this is correct - it has always 
| been scheduled last week of July first week of August and since Def Con 
| 5, which was the first Black Hat, has had to mind the tail that now is a 
| full grown dog ...
| 
| if someone put all the infosec, infowar, physical security, and homeland 
| defense cons on the calender - would there be ANY open days in the year 
| besides a few holidays?
| 
| RT
| 
| 
| Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
| > dan () geer org wrote:
| >
| >   
| >> A curiousity question that I've been meaning to
| >> ask...  This is the Nth time that DefCon has
| >> scheduled directly over USENIX Security.
| >>
| >>     
| >
| > Interesting that you'd say Defcon was scheduled over USENIX Security. I 
| > always thought of it as the other way around. Having attended for lo 
| > these many years, I can assure you that the choice of dates is not 
| > cavalier, and because of its success it appears to conflict. For several 
| > years now, the sister conference, Blackhat, has taken place during the 
| > week, and the scheduling of it certainly also overlaps something or 
| > other. Defcon has always been last few days of July, first few days of 
| > August. Always.
| >
| > You just have to choose. I choose Defcon; you will probably continue to 
| > choose Usenix Security. There you have it.
| >
| >   
| 
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