I just got word from the Daycon Security Summit that during the PacketWars event they will be hosting some small sumobot competition/demonstrations. Dayton Diode will build a bot and Daycon will have their own bot. They wanted up to come up to PacketWars with some of our bots to compete. They are giving us a community table at the event as well. I know a lot of you were not able to complete your bots the way you wanted them for the last event so this is your chance to finish them up!
Early registration for BlackHat is $1,500 and we won’t even talk about CanSecWest in Vancouver…
Another local con you may want to check out that I think will be very good (although this is the first year for it) is DerbyCon http://www.derbycon.com/ But I’m afraid you will be paying at least $150 for that con as well. Good news is that you don’t need to get a room if you just want to drive, so flight/hotel costs are lower for these cons.
Packetwars I believe is open to the public for free but since we have a table it doesn’t really matter.
notacon is $75 if you register early, preaknic was just $25 last year.
most cons give presenters and performers +1's, so if you really want
to go to one, get in on the RFP's also volunteers often get in
for free and i'm not certain, but i think that defcon goons get a
break on staying in the staff rooms as well, so that's another way to
do big events for not very much. being a goon at defcon is hard work
tho, so there's that
also volunteers often get in