PhreakNIC is having a bit of a struggle this year. Presentation submissions have been very slow this year, artwork is still stalled at the inspiration stage, and now toorcon has plopped down on the same weekend of the calendar as PhreakNIC. That's ok, things like this happen and you can't grow every year. Toorcon may or may not have an impact on a regional con like PhreakNIC in terms of pulling away attendees, but it will definitely have an impact on us in terms of speaking engagements.
I am asking for help here. I need people to commit to speaking at PhreakNIC now - not later. Over the past several years we've hosted some great presentations and have had the wonderful success of reaching new audiences. In last year's opening talk, a good 75% of the people in the room at that time were first year attendees. Those people are the reason why PhreakNIC exists today, even though it started out as a get together of old school people to party. It has evolved since then.
Skydog will be handing out literally hundreds of "marketing items" (condoms with the logo and URL printed on them) at DEFCON and I hope that means a lot of page hits. The best way for us to capitalize on that would be to have some worthwhile presentations listed. Can you help us out?
Thanks,
Dolemite
Come on guys, step up....
