notacon 6

Meet the people who make Notacon happen.

Physical

• Cleveland 2600 meeting at the University Circle Arabica
• NEO InfoSec Forum 3rd Wednesday of the month, check the website for meeting details.
• Youngstown LUG 4th Saturday of each month, at 5pm, in the back meetingroom of BW3 in Boardman, Ohio.

Other cons of interest

• Shmoocon - Washington DC
• Penguicon - Livonia, MI
• HOPE - NYC, NY
• Defcon - Las Vegas, NV
• Ohio LinuxFest - Columbus, OH
• DayCon - Dayton, OH
• Phreaknic - Nashville, TN

Online

We maintain a number of online mediums to keep you informed of Notacon events, changes and updates, as well as discussion.

• Announce mailing list
• Volunteers mailing list
• Official Notacon Forums [RSS Feed] host a discussion webboard as well as our room and ride-sharing posting board.
• Notacon Forums on oh2600.com [RSS Feed]
• IRC: #notacon on irc.notacon.org
• Livejournal community: notacon [RSS Feed]
• Notacon Blog [RSS Feed]

Become a part of the Notacon organization.

Interested in donating your time, talents and expertise to the betterment of Notacon? Please sign up on the volunteers mailing list to tell us what you can provide. Make sure to include if you are avaliable to help out during the year or only at the event itself. Notacon is a community-based volunteer effort so everyone's contributions are welcome and appreciated.

Let others know about Notacon through banners, ads and fliers.

Ads!

Spread the word. Got talent making videos? Make your own ad and let us know!

Ads for previous years

• Nota4th - Notacon celebrates the birth of the United States as well as the 9 month mark until Notacon 5 YouTube Super high quality MP4 High quality MOV Low quality MOV
• Blockparty 2008 Invite - blockparty 2008 site
• What is Notacon? - YouTube higher quality wmv
• Blockparty 2007 Invite - blockparty 2007 site

Fliers

One of the easiest ways to help Notacon is by putting fliers up in the places you visit most. We print 4 color glossy postcard sized fliers to be distributed. Email froggy -at- notacon.org or tyger -at- notacon.org if you would like some to hand out in your area!

Banners

If you would like to create a banner, we encourage use of our logo and preferred fonts. To contribute, email tyger@notacon.org

Notacon Logo Files:

• NAC logo (tiff format, random coloring) NAClogo.tif
• NAC logo (Illustrator) NAClogo.ai

Notacon fonts (the ones we generally use for publications):

• Telemarines
• ZeroThrees
• many variations of Blue Highway (bluehigl.ttf, Bluehigb.ttf, Bluehigc.ttf, Bluehigh.ttf, BLUEHIGD.TTF)

Help us advertise Notacon by designing the shirt worn by attendees of Notacon 2009! Become a part of Notacon history and have your art displayed by like minded individuals around the world. The suggested themes are: art, music, creativity, technology and community.

Submissions Due: March 1, 2009

Design Requirements

• Art must be Adobe Photoshop (*.psd) at 600dpi or Adobe Illustrator (*.eps or *.ai) format. Slogans will also be considered, please use a .txt format.
• Please limit the design to 4 colors on your 'main' side and 1 color on the other side. Each color must be in it's own layer as it will be screen printed. Also indicate in which order you would like the layers applied, if necessary.
• Please specify the color of the shirt(background). We may not be able to do exact matching, but will do our best.
• Minimum design width of 6" (3600px if *.psd) on your 'main' side. Maximum size is 12" x 12" (7200px x 7200px).

If you have any questions regarding these requirements, please email tshirts2009-at-notacon.org with the subject "notacon tshirt submission" and we'll help out as best we can.

Although it is not required, we strongly encourage incorporation of the word "Notacon" and/or "Blockparty" on the shirt, as well as the dates of the event (April 16-19, 2009) and the location (Cleveland, Ohio). We may add this information to your entry if we feel it would be in good taste. Use of the NAC logo is also encouraged. Official Notacon/Blockparty resources.

Shirt designs must be appropriate for public display. A design can be edgy, but the judging panel reserve the right to deem a shirt inappropriate. You can trust that we do have a sense of humor!

Submission Procedure

Email submissions to tshirt2009-at-notacon.org with the subject "Notacon tshirt submission" to make sure it gets past our spam filters. Submissions must be received by March 1, 2009 at 9:00pm.

Files must be named with the format [your_name_or_handle]-[#]-{front,back}.{psd,eps,ai,txt}. Increment the number for multiple submissions. Replace spaces in your handle with underscores (_). Enclosing brackets not required. Ex: Your_Name-2-front.psd

Judging

All designs will be judged primarily on creativity and originality! Judges decisions are final. By submitting a design to this contest you agree to transfer all ownership, copyright, and trademark rights related to the design to FTS Conventures. The creator is responsible for gaining permission and licenses if any copyrighted material is used in the submission.

Winners will be notified via email prior to the event and will receive a free shirt containing their design in their size and any other prizes as determined by FTS conventures. Winners will have their name and firm(if applicable) featured in the program with credit attribution for the T-shirt design.

Please email all questions and comments to tshirt2009-at-notacon.org

Notacon is wholly run and organized through FTS Conventures.

For more information about specific topics:

• Registration
• Hotel and travel information
• Speaker list and event/contest info
• Volunteer information
• Publicity for fliers and information about promoting.
• Sponsorship Information
• Press information
• For assistance with specific questions or concerns please contact froggy -at- notacon.org or tyger -at- notacon.org
• For general questions, check out our forums, mailing lists, and other ways to get involved. We welcome your input and will do our best to respond to any concerns or questions posed.
• If you need to fax, us, you can do so by dialing: 216-221-1409