Author: Rob T Firefly

Join us offline or online for April’s NYC2600 meeting!

• Who: Us, and hopefully you.
• What: The NYC2600 Meeting, TIROS-1 Edition.
• When: Friday, April 1, beginning at 5:00 PM EST.
• Where: In-person at Citigroup Center, or virtually via Zoom.
• Why: To meet up, eat food, do things, and start small.

Here’s how it works:

To attend the physical meeting:

Show up to the food court at Citigroup Center, 53rd Street and Lexington Avenue! Look for a cluster of tables occupied by friendly hackers who are excited to meet you.

To attend the virtual meeting:

1. Send an email to conf at nyc2600 dot net asking for a Zoom conference invite.
   Please do so even if you were already a recipient of an invite to any previous remote NYC2600 meetings, as those email addresses were not kept. They will not be kept this time, either. These invitations are being handled by a robot which is too busy being pranked to remember you.
2. You’ll receive said invite at the email address from which you requested it. With this invite you can join by web, app, or even cordless or cordful telephone (originating numbers will be partially masked from other participants) anytime after the meeting starts up at 5PM EST.
3. There’s no step 3!!!

Join us offline or online for March’s NYC2600 meeting!

• Who: Us, and hopefully you.
• What: The NYC2600 Meeting, Yellow Light Edition.
• When: Friday, March 4, beginning at 5:00 PM EST.
• Where: In-person at Citigroup Center, or virtually via Zoom.
• Why: To meet up, eat food, do things, and try version 1.0 of something.

Here’s how it works:

To attend the physical meeting:

Show up to the food court at Citigroup Center, 53rd Street and Lexington Avenue! Look for a cluster of tables occupied by friendly hackers who are excited to meet you.

To attend the virtual meeting:

1. Send an email to conf at nyc2600 dot net asking for a Zoom conference invite.
   Please do so even if you were already a recipient of an invite to any previous remote NYC2600 meetings, as those email addresses were not kept. They will not be kept this time, either. These invitations are being handled by a robot which is too busy thinking about the future to remember you.
2. You’ll receive said invite at the email address from which you requested it. With this invite you can join by web, app, or even private or public telephone (originating numbers will be partially masked from other participants) anytime after the meeting starts up at 5PM EST.
3. There’s no step 3!!!

Join us offline or online for February’s NYC2600 meeting!

• Who: Us, and hopefully you.
• What: The NYC2600 Meeting, Fuzzy Logic Edition.
• When: Friday, February 4, beginning at 5:00 PM EST.
• Where: In-person at Citigroup Center, or virtually via Zoom.
• Why: To meet up, eat food, do things, and ponder Plan 9.

Here’s how it works:

To attend the virtual meeting:

1. Send an email to conf at nyc2600 dot net asking for a Zoom conference invite.
   Please do so even if you were already a recipient of an invite to any previous remote NYC2600 meetings, as those email addresses were not kept. They will not be kept this time, either. These invitations are being handled by a robot which is too busy hunting groundhogs to remember you.
2. You’ll receive said invite at the email address from which you requested it. With this invite you can join by web, app, or even private or public telephone (originating numbers will be partially masked from other participants) anytime after the meeting starts up at 5PM EST.
3. There’s no step 3!!!

See you there!

• Who: Us, and hopefully you.
• What: The NYC2600 Meeting, Dernyn Memorial Edition.
• When: Friday, January 7, beginning at 5:00 PM EST.
• Where: In-person at Citigroup Center, or virtually via Zoom.
• Why: To meet up, eat food, do things, and stay warm and interested.

Here’s how it works:

To attend the virtual meeting:

1. Send an email to conf at nyc2600 dot net asking for a Zoom conference invite.
   Please do so even if you were already a recipient of an invite to any previous remote NYC2600 meetings, as those email addresses were not kept. They will not be kept this time, either. These invitations are being handled by a robot which is too busy cleaning up New-Year’s confetti to remember you.
2. You’ll receive said invite at the email address from which you requested it. With this invite you can join by web, app, or even private or public telephone (originating numbers will be partially masked from other participants) anytime after the meeting starts up at 5PM EST.
3. There’s still no step 3!!!

See you there!

It is with a broken heart we share the news that longtime NYC2600 friend Joel D’Ort, also known as Dernyn, was killed in a traffic accident on Tuesday, December 21, during a visit to Hawaii. He was 40.

Joel began attending NYC2600 meetings in 2000, and was known by many of us as an eager learner and a fun presence with an endlessly curious mind. He was an avid attendee of the HOPE conferences, eventually taking the stage himself as part of a panel discussion of weird technology in 2006 and for a solo presentation about reverse-engineering a USB firewall in 2018.

Many of us in the NYC2600 crowd, this writer included, counted Joel as a close friend and companion in adventures beyond just the hacker scene. While he had his struggles in life he pushed past them with enthusiasm and determination, and it devastates us to know that the promising future he’d been working long and hard toward for himself will now not come to pass. Joel meant a great deal to a great many, and will be sorely missed.

A fundraiser has been posted by Joel’s family to help with the expenses of transporting his remains home from Hawaii and funeral arrangements, and it is planned to update that page with the details of services when they are announced. We strongly encourage all who are able to donate what they can.

While Joel was not the most avid user of public-facing social media, you can see a little bit of the imprint he made on the Web at Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and GitHub.