[Ground-station] Orlando HamCation 2020

[Bruce Perens]

I submitted a scooter race as a Hamcation paper. Everybody on a scooter
parades around the site, at a safe speed, all together. You get a
certificate.

On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 2:13 PM Michelle Thompson via Ground-Station
<ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute> wrote:

> I got asked about CTFs. I apologize for not better defining them in the
> original message!
>
> A "CTF" is a "Capture the Flag" competition. It's very very much like the
> playground game, where you have to hunt down and capture a flag and take it
> back to your base (or just keep it for a round) and then you get a point.
>
> At many conferences, there are CTFs that are there for people to compete
> in a controlled environment.
>
> Here's a link to the CTF Report from GNU Radio 2017:
> https://w5nyv.blogspot.com/2019/07/gnu-radio-conference-2017-wireless.html
>
> What generally happens is that teams or individuals sign up to solve
> problems that are posed by organizers. It's like a scavenger hunt combined
> with a bar trivia game. The organizers tell you what you need to bring, you
> show up, and then you get a series of problems to solve. They may be hard!
> They may be interconnected. There might be things to distract or false
> leads. There might be art involved, or some sort of literature reference,
> or social engineering. Or, it might all be very narrowly technical.
>
> Usually there's a theme, or a tool, or a technology that the CTF is
> designed around. I competed in a CTF at a workshop recently that was
> devoted to BlueTooth Low Energy communications.
>
> One of the more famous and difficult computer networking CTFs is one
> hosted by DEFCON (https://www.defcon.org/html/links/dc-ctf.html).
>
> CTFs shine as a way for people that learn best by example or application
> to get ahead. There's a lot of classroom material out there for people that
> learn by equation or theory. Sometimes there's not a lot for people that
> learn by doing. CTFs really do a great job of teaching through doing. They
> range from individual to teams, and can be very competitive to very
> collaborative.
>
> One can think of amateur radio foxhunts (and ARDF in general) as a type of
> CTF.
>
> -Michelle W5NYV
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 12:51 PM Michelle Thompson <
> mountain.michelle at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Open Research Institute has been asked to come back to Orlando HamCation.
>>
>> We have a ham radio satellite communications FPGA workshop that would be
>> of interest.
>>
>> We have a wireless Capture the Flag reputation that is of interest.
>>
>> We need to decide very soon and pay the booth fee of $375.
>>
>> We need a team! If you want to help make these things happen, we need to
>> start now.
>>
>> Questions, comments, support, commitment, critique? Reply here!
>>
>> -Michelle W5NYV
>>
>>
>>

-- 
Bruce Perens - Partner, OSS.Capital.
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