Why have HackFests been Dropped from the PLUG Schedule?

[der.hans]

Am 29. Nov, 2014 schwätzte Lisa Kachold so:

moin moin Lisa,

> I was curious as to why you have removed the Hackfests (2nd Saturday of
> every month) afrom the PLUG Calendar?

You've been acting as a seperate group for years. You have your own web
site and mailing list for your group.

You may continue announcing your events on the list, but please stop
cross-posting to multiple lists.

ciao,

der.hans

> Hackfests have been going strong since 2008 and have students from ITT and
> strong support from DeVry where instructors provide extra credit to their
> security students for attendance.
>
> DeVry University provides a rack for PLUG use (providing it is actually
> used in context with student related open source activities) at OneNeck
> which is populated with a VMWare ESXi 5.5 server, OpenVPN server, Security
> Onion, Metasploitable and other images for demonstration purposes, all of
> which has been built entirely with community contributed assets and intern
> effort.  We contribute Kali CD's for lab demonstration use, promotional tee
> shirts and shared DefCon videos each year.
>
> We have a large following of local security professionals, with visits from
> University of Phoenix, Palo Verde Nuclear, Department of the Army and
> GoDaddy staff.
>
> I have received no notice related to any new requirements or change?
>
> I have posted monthly announcements to the PLUG Announce list since 2008
> and have never been notified of any other PLUG requirements?
>
> Please add this great linux security lab venue back to the PLUG Schedule.
>
> 2nd Saturday  of every month 11:00 - 2:00 PM.
> DeVry University
>
> Thanks

-- 
#  http://www.LuftHans.com/        http://www.PhxLinux.org/
#  A Polish friend of mine got an offer for a free account from AOL. The
#  login ID was "HELLO" and the passwd "CYMBAL". She says "cymbal" is like
#  a Polish word for "sucker". 'Hello sucker', a greeting from AOHell :).