Hey, it was great to see Ben, Mark, (FSFE-Mcr) Ash (Bitcoin Manchester) and Tom (ORG Manchester) at the planning meeting last night, with apologies from Mick Fuzz. It's so great to be collaborating with different people and groups, I think we have a really good thing going on right now :)
So...
You can sign up for the CryptoParty here: https://www.eventbrite.com/event/9167619597 and below is the current shape of the event schedule. (L) is for if you can lead the workshop and (H) is for if you can just help, but are not willing/able to lead it.
*Schedule on the day:*
* 1:30 Meet and greet with refreshments
* 2:00 3 quarters of an hour intro
* Intro to why cryptography
* Asymmetric encryption - including game based explanations
* High level intro to OpenPG
* 2:45 break * 3:00 - workshops 1
* OpenPGP
* OTR (on mobile) - Anna (H)
* 3:45 break * 4:00 - workshops 2
* OTR for pidgin/Adium etc. - Anna (H)
* TLS/SSL basic intro- Ben (L)
* BitCoin - Ash (L)
* 4:45 Break * 5:00 - workshops 3
* TLS/SSL you think you know what the padlocks - Ben (L?)
* Tor - Mick (L?)
* Escaping Google- Anna (V/L)
* 6:00
* Closing segment
* Keysigning Party
For more notes please see the pad https://pad.fsfe.org/p/cryptoparty-mcr
As you can see we are now at the stage where people need to sign up to run workshops. Ideally we need a lead (L) and several helpers (H) for each, so please add your name with and H if you just want to assist. Also note that each workshop will break down further into device based groups where needed. We have used Event-Brite (any complaints addressed to me personally if you please) and when people sign up they will be asked to specify the device they will bring, this will help us make sure we have enough people for each device type :)
Fliers will be ready soon (by Anna) but *we now URGENTLY need help with the website.* We need to change to a better theme (the one we have is old and spaghetti code central) and we need some design work to make it pretty.
Its going well folks, so EXCITING!
Lots of Love
Anna M