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Contents 1 General Information 2 Campsites 3 Volunteers 4 FAQ 5 Registration 6 Sponsors 7 Important Dates

General Information

ToorCamp is the United States' first ever full-scale hacker camp. Modelled after the camps in Holland and Germany, ToorCamp will focus on all of the technology topics that ToorCon has become famous for but will expand out into other areas of society. ToorCamp will offer 2 days of talks on many different topics -- Security, Internet, Emerging Technologies, Hardware Hacking, and Privacy are just some of the areas we will be covering. ToorCamp will also feature 2 days of hands-on workshops on a multitude of different skills that you may have never found yourself interested in learning about before. Blacksmithing, Lock Picking, Orienteering, Logic Design, Archery -- these are just a few of the topics you can expect.

ToorCamp is run by the same group that runs ToorCon and will also be heavily supported by many other hacker conferences in the US. ToorCamp will be organized as a bunch of different campsites which will be fully run by autonomous groups. We will provide the power and internet -- you provide the rest. We're heavily encouraging groups to build structures, setup art projects, throw parties, and generally do things that will show to the world that US hackers can throw a kickass hacker camp too!

Oh, and did we mention it'll be at a Titan-1 Missile Silo? We've managed to find one of the best locations in the northwest to throw this event. We've partnered with a group of people who are currently retrofitting the Silo into an ultra-secure datacenter so internet connectivity won't be a problem. ToorCamp will be situated in central Washington roughly 3 hours driving distance from Seattle and within 15 minutes drive of a private international airport. Don't miss this once in a lifetime opportunity to make history with us and help launch the first public US hacker camp!

Campsites ToorCamp as a whole will consist of many different themed Campsites. If you are interested in running your own campsite, please fill out our campsite sign up form. Volunteers We're looking for volunteers that can help out during the camp as well as come out early to help setup or stay later and help clean up. We'll be posting more volunteer information in this section in the coming months. If you're interested in volunteering, please email nfiltr8@toorcon.org. FAQ We'll be posting up our frequently asked questions as well as guides for what to bring and expect at the camp. If you have any questions that aren't covered here, please feel free to email me at h1kari@toorcon.org, join and post to our Google Group, or stop by our IRC channel at #ToorCamp on Freenode.

Registration We're increasing registration every month so make sure to pre-register soon! This is our pre-registration schedule: March 10th, 2009 $150 Registration Starts April 3rd, 2009 $200 2nd Phase of Pre-Registration May 1st, 2009 $250 3rd Phase of Pre-Registration June 5th, 2009 $300 4th Phase of Pre-Registration July 1st, 2009 $350 On-Site Registration Sponsors We're looking for sponsors to help make ToorCamp even more awesome. If your company is interested in sponsoring, please email geo@toorcon.org.

Important Dates Here's also some important dates that you should be aware of: March March 10th, 2009 Call for Participation Opens April April 3rd, 2009 First Round of Registration Closes May May 1st, 2009 Second Round of Registration Closes May 1st, 2009 First round of selection announced May 15nd, 2009 Second round of selection announced May 29th, 2009 Call for Papers closes June June 5th, 2009 Third Round of Registration Closes June 5th, 2009 Speaker & sponsor selection finalized July July 1st, 2009 Move into ToorCamp July 2nd, 2009 ToorCamp 50-minute Talks July 3rd, 2009 ToorCamp 20-minute Talks July 4th, 2009 ToorCamp Workshops July 5th, 2009 ToorCamp Workshops July 6th, 2009 Move out of ToorCamp