Staff-Projects/DefCon 27 Event
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Overview
DEFCON 27 Hacking Conference
- When: August 8-11, 2019
- Vendor Room Hours are:
- Aug. 8th - Thursday SETUP ONLY
- 9 am Vendor Setup Available - 9 pm Room Closes
- Aug. 9 & 10 - Friday and Saturday
- Vendors can enter at 9 am
- 10 am to 7 pm Doors Open to Attendees
- Aug. 11th - Sunday
- Vendors can enter at 9 am
- 10 am - 3 pm Doors Open to Attendees
- 4 PM Tax Paperwork Due
- 8 PM Load Out Complete
- Aug. 8th - Thursday SETUP ONLY
- Where: Paris, Bally's, & Planet Hollywood, Las Vegas
- OWASP Board requested and approved the conference
Three volunteers at the booth at all times
Project Links
- Event Link: https://www.defcon.org/index.html
- Floor Plan: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/File:DC27_Vendor_room_final.jpg
- Sticker order: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/File:Sticker_Giant_DEFCON_2019.pdf
- Tickets are $300 CASH at the door.
Goals
Community Outreach initiative
Lessons Learned
- Total Tickets needed = Ask Mike and Harold
- Budget for all artwork should not exceed $ 2,000
- One t-shirt design
- Internet and power not needed for the booth.
- Staff should stay at the venue's hotel to utilize the receiving, storage and delivery of booth packages.
- Vendor for Stickers Giant Stickers
Milestones
- 2019-02-28, DONE - Vendor application submitted [Lisa]
- 2019-03-30, DONE - Granted approval of vendor application by [DEFCON NO confirmation provided just email]
- 2019-04-01, DONE - Submitted a proposed budget for the event for approval [Lisa]
- 2019-04-04, DONE - Booth invoice submitted for payment OSD-2318 payment sent ACH April 17, 2019 [Lisa/Mike/Virtual]
- 2019-06-14, Art Due from Artist [Jon McCoy]
- DEFCON 26 Artwork (2018 historical data)
- 2019-06-14, DONE - Second invoice for balance due t-shirt artwork processed for payment OSD-2502[Approved 6/17/2019]
- 2019-06-14, DONE - Printer contacted - quote on 1 t-shirt design, 6ft 3 sided tablecloth
- 2019-06-27, DONE - Final order to the printer including 2 designs, all black t-shirt, and adj qty with shipping info [DONE 6/26/2019 Lisa]
- 2019-06-28, DONE - Dragongraphics invoice entered for payment OSD-2542
- 2019-07-01, Final Art selected [DONE- T-shirt approved 6/17/19] HANDOUTS?
- 2019-07-10, DONE - with Mike for final approval and payment w/Sticker Giant 7/12/2019
- 2019-07-12, DONE - OSD-2586 3rd invoice for sticker artwork with Mike for approval for payment
- 2019-07-12, DONE - 7/15 email from Jonathan he will handle creating, printing and shipping HANDOUTS
- 2019-08-02, DONE - Jonathan received HANDOUTS and will bring them to the table Thursday
- 2019-08-08, Vendor Room - Vendor Ops table - Mike or Harold have to pick up and sign for ALL badges and distribute. [Janet Whitaker]
- Volunteers identified - Board Members attending
Badge Plan
*August 8, 2019 - Mike will pick up and sign for all badges 9am on August 8th. Badge pick up is in the Vendor room at the Vendor Ops table - Janet Whitaker should be present.* Jon is staffing the booth. (1 pass came with the purchase of the booth - Jon)
Badges
- Conference/Exhibition Pass: Jim Manico VOLUNTEER (badge distributed to Jon)
- Conference/Exhibition Pass: Jon - VOLUNTEER (badge distributed to Jon)
- Conference/Exhibition Pass: Zoe - VOLUNTEER (badge distributed to Jon)
- Conference/Exhibition Pass: Vandi - VOLUNTEER (badge distributed to Jon)
Staff
- Conference/Exhibition Pass: Staff/Harold (badge distributed)
- Conference/Exhibition Pass: Staff/Mike (badge distributed)
Board Requests (only 4 to share)
- Conference/Exhibition Pass: Richard
- Conference/Exhibition Pass: Owen (badge distributed)
- Conference/Exhibition Pass: Sherif
- Conference/Exhibition Pass: Martin (badge distributed)
- Exhibition Pass: Ofer - PURCHASED ONSITE (badge distributed)
Leadership
- Lisa Jones [OWASP Staff]
- Mike McCamon [Execitive Director of OWASP Foundation - Approval authority]
- Jon McCoy [OWASP Member [email protected]] requested approval from the board to do the event and received approval for $ 3,500 for artwork. (2018 $2,500 spent on artwork for this event)
Name & URLs
- Name: DEFCON 27
- URL: https://www.defcon.org/index.html
- Cash at the door- $300.00
- Exhibition Information: Vendors must stay at Bally's or Paris Hotels in order to take advantage of the packaging center for logistical assistance with receiving and picking up vendor booth event materials.
- 2019-06-27, Janet Whitaker[[email protected]] from DefCon responded that Booth numbers not available yet. They are behind we should find out the first week in July sometime.
Registration is not available. Only accept cash
Budget
| Quantity | Expenses: | |
| Artwork for t-shirt & stickers | $1,500 | |
| 1 | Booth 8X8 | $1,100 |
| Power | $250 Do not get next year | |
| Internet | $400 Do not get next year | |
| Tickets 6 Board & 2 staff | $2,700 | |
| 750 | t-shirts & printing (<$8 per) | $6,220 |
| 1 | table cloth | (included in t-shirt invoice) |
| Stickers | $819 | |
| Flyers estimate - Hand out? | (Jonathon completed?) | |
| Est. | Packing & Handling fees | (included in invoices) |
| 2 | Staff travel & expenses | $5,000 |
| 9 | Board Hotel Accommodations | $2,400 |
| 5 | Travel Assistance Grant $1,000 | $5,000 |
| 25 | Global AppSec Vouchers to 1st 25 Woman to donate | $20,000 |
| Total | $43,394 |
- 25 Vouchers for the first women to "make a donation" to the Foundation at our booth. A process will be setup after the event to solicit Travel Assistance Grants for a later conference. The approximate cost of this promotion is approximately $20,000.
T-Shirt Order
NEW DESIGN Men (adjusted to stay within budget)
- XXXL 20
- XXL 130
- XL 185
- L 185
- M 50
- S 10
Women
- XXXL 5
- XXL 10
- XL 10
- L 10
- M 5
OLD DESIGN Men
- XXL 20
- XL 20
- L 20
Women
- XXXL 5
- XXL 10
- XL 10
- L 10
- M 5
Comparison with last year's information located.
- John's t-shirt order - Mike would like to adjust in 2020