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9590	19580	about to be. First and foremost, who left their cell phone here? Free phone calls for me.
21180	25300	Okay, I'm going to do a quick introduction. I'm Agent X, aka Jesse Krems. I'm the president
25300	29760	and co-founder of the Hacker Foundation. And let me talk to you about some of the people
29760	38580	that are here. This is Jim Schuyler. He's from, he's our operative in Uganda right now. This is
38580	45840	Nick Farr. He's our accountant and registered CPA. Or he's working on it very hard. That's
45840	49720	uh, Fraser Cunningham. You've probably seen him around, aka Null Tone. He's our secretary
49720	56140	and I think I just outed him. Uh, that's Locke. Can I use a real name? Okay, that's Stephen
56140	66600	Kirk. He runs all the networks here at DEF CON. You got Wi-Fi? It's because you got Locke.
67080	79440	This man right here, he works for, uh, I, no, that's not Louise. That's Christian. I'm just
79440	84160	going to give this cell phone to some guy. So, uh, and then that's Jennifer at the end and that
84160	88020	man in between who I haven't talked to a lot. Uh, he's going to be talking about one of our
88020	94660	projects in Chicago. And this man bringing me water here is Code24, who's a stalwart friend.
94660	101920	Thank you very much. So here's our quick history of the Hacker Foundation, um, and where we've
101920	111660	been and where we're going kind of thing. In a, in 1996, Major Malfunction, one of the head
111660	115680	speaker goons, or one of the head goons, and who's currently speaking another track and can't
115680	120800	be here, went to Sarajevo to set up a BBS, uh, to help the people that were trapped in their
120800	126120	apartments by snipers. A BBS in a war-torn area is a pretty useful tool because, you know,
126120	129720	you need to know where you can get water, where you can get, you know, it's safe to travel and
129720	134400	so on and so forth. He's the one in the middle. Uh, and so he, he told me about this, uh, prior
134400	139760	to DEFCON 9. It's been rattling around in my head. I'm like, whoa, that's so cool. Flying to
139760	145960	war-torn areas. Set up network equipment. Yeah! So the, um, so that rattled around in my head
145960	150140	and I thought about that for a while. And then Nick and I were attending bar over at Caesar's
150140	154820	one night and I, this is how I met Nick and he was, he was helping me out and I was like, wow,
154820	159420	Nick's a really cool guy. He's really on it and he's way more organized than me. And the next
159420	166720	day we were up on top of the, uh, Alexis Park playing with one of Uncle Iris' sat phones. The,
166720	174240	um, and, uh, so the, uh, and we were talking about that and we thought this was a great tool.
174240	184100	It's really awesome. The, um, the, uh, wait a second. Cue it for me. So we were playing with
184100	186700	the satellite equipment. We thought this was really awesome. We were like, what could we do
186700	190200	with this? And we were thinking about something called Medici Sans Frontier at the time. Doctors
190200	197160	without borders. And Nick was like, yeah, hackers without borders. That won't scare anyone. Um,
197160	200600	and so we kind of toned it down a little at that time and we decided to call it Hackers for
200600	204520	Humanity. And we talked about it a little and that was about where we left it. And then at
204520	211920	Defcon 10, uh, I sent out a mailing to DC forums and we got a bunch of people together. He's one
211920	216580	of them. To, uh, talk about what Hackers for Humanity is going to be. What it, you know, what
216580	221560	this means. Um, and we went over to Metro Pizza which has these huge white paper tablecloths
221560	226300	and ideas were flying just fast and furious about what Hackers for Humanity should be.
226300	230800	Should be this, should be that. We really came out of this meeting with two things. Or three
230800	237100	things. A long possible list of activities. A lot of energy. And Priest said something that
237100	242240	was really important. Which was, if you want to make it real, you got to make it formal. So,
242240	248700	uh, we started to do that. Uh, Nick and I, before Defcon 11, exchanged boatloads of email
248700	253100	talking about what Hackers for Humanity should be and how we could help all these people.
254380	259860	Yeah. And it was like, oh, this is really confusing. Totally nuts. So what we did was we,
259860	264520	um, we kind of came up with this idea of a Hacker Foundation. And that's a overarching
264520	270280	organization. It's an umbrella for all other activities that you want to do. And we call
270280	277580	these activities projects. Yeah, so we're that kind of umbrella. Um, and then, so we get
277580	281640	together, Defcon 11, we talk, and then immediately afterward, uh, Nick goes back to
281640	287760	California and files the paperwork to make us a California benefit corporation. Uh, public
287760	291320	benefit corporation in California. This is really important. This is the state level exempt
291320	298400	status. And then we go, okay, this is great. We get that, we file that in August. We get
298400	303620	that on Christmas of 2003. Christmas Eve to be specific. A nice little gift from the
303620	309040	government. Well, that's a long time. That's just an idea about how slow this bureaucracy
309040	315420	moves. And then we decide, okay, we're going to go for the big kahuna. 501c3 status, tax
315420	321760	exempt, federal government, our friends, the IRS. Yeah, they're actually really great. Um,
321760	325900	because they're like, yeah, we can do that for you. So we file our paperwork with them
325900	331500	shortly before our first presentation at Defcon 12. And at Defcon 12, we kind of gave a
331500	335600	lot of people a little 20 minute TurboTalk hint about what we were going to be doing and
335600	343100	where we were at, which was in waiting mode. Shortly thereafter, we, uh, we got our
343100	349100	paperwork. It's in process. In April, we get a call back from the IRS. Yeah, that's a fair
349100	353860	ways off. It's like 10 months roughly after we filed our paperwork before we heard from
353860	357860	them. And they had some questions about us and they talked to us about, you know, we had
357860	361540	some very idealistic ideas about what our goals should be. And, you know, we thought it
361540	366520	would be really easy. You know, we'd, we'd get all this money from Cisco. Um, we'd get all
366520	370140	this money from everybody and we'd get networking equipment. We'd load it on a plane. We'd
370140	375700	fly to some godforsaken place that needs help. We'd help them and then we'd be back by, you
375700	380520	know, Friday afternoon for beer. I mean, come on, that's what every NGO and non-profit
380520	385120	agency does, right? Well, it's not that sexy. And Nick's going to talk about not that sexy
385560	402980	for me. Um. Thanks Jesse. Um, one of the things the IRS asked us to do when they sent a
402980	408400	letter back in response to our initial application was outline, uh, some of the things
408400	412880	we're going to do. There, the tax law here is very specific. Um, there are very certain
412880	417260	things that you can do. There's structures for churches, structures for schools. Um, and
417260	421860	what we want to do is we want to be the non-profit organization for the community. Uh,
421860	425740	coming up in the speech a little bit later, you're going to hear a lot about, um, some
425740	430000	really exciting projects, things going on in Uganda, things going on in Chicago. And
430000	434940	Fraser's going to do a little brief about how we want to get you involved, um, and how we'd
434940	439820	like to give your projects, um, a little bit of legitimacy in terms of federal tax law to
439820	445360	be able to offer, uh, tax deductible status for donations that people give to your products,
445360	450980	projects. Uh, the first goal that we have, of course, to get the ball rolling, and we've
450980	454500	started doing it at StepCon, is to raise money. Over the past year, the Hacker Foundation
455020	459340	has been running largely through the generosity of the people on our board, the directors,
459340	464800	the people who are here from day one. Um, and raising money is hard. You know, when we
464800	468680	thought, oh, it's going to be gloriful, it's going to be great, just like Jesse was saying,
468680	474420	um, the first step to any project that you want to do is raising the funds to be able to go
474420	478640	do it. And that's hard. It's hard to ask people for money. Uh, they're wondering what are
478640	485860	they getting in exchange. Um, in exchange, what we'd like to be able to do is involve the
485860	490280	community more. We have an application on our website, hackerfoundation.org. Basically
490280	495860	any, almost any open source coding project, almost any robotics project, almost anything
495860	501300	that has some kind of charitable aspect or some kind of, uh, charitable bent to it, can get
501300	505040	tax-exempt status through the Hacker Foundation. And one of our goals is to be able to
505040	509360	envelop and to take anybody in the community who's interested in that, interested in raising
509360	513100	more money, interested in building capacity, uh, and get them involved and get people
513100	517180	networking. And that's, that leads into the third goal of what we're doing, uh, building
517180	521380	infrastructure for the future. Getting everybody networked, getting everybody together,
521380	525460	Hacker Foundation handling the paperwork to free you guys up, uh, to do the intellectual
525460	531300	things. But, uh, I'd like to get, uh, right now to Jim's project, uh, the Ugandan Computer
531300	543090	Initiative. It's a really exciting talk. Uh, hi. Um, good afternoon. Uh, I'm Jim Skyler
543090	549890	and I'm the East Africa Regional Coordinator for the, uh, Hacker Foundation. And my project
549890	557590	is UCI, uh, or the Ugandan Computer Initiative. Uh, this is the prototype project of Hackers
557590	564650	for Humanity, which is the humanitarian arm of the Hacker Foundation. Uh, just about a
564650	571150	month ago, I returned from a three month long stay in, uh, Hoima, Uganda, uh, where I was
571150	575390	working as an open volunteer with local and international aid organizations, providing
575390	581010	technical support and, uh, training at health clinics, community based organizations, and
581010	590710	internally displaced people's camps. Uganda is, in a word, paradise. In seven words,
590710	599330	paradise with a bomb strapped to it. When I first traveled to Uganda in 1999, I was
599330	608850	captivated. Uh, the landscape was lush, green, perfect. Um, the people were warm, generous,
608850	613690	hospitable kinds. With what little they had, they would give me food and welcome me into
613690	622000	their homes. You know, the British actually have called Uganda the Pearl of Africa, uh, which
622000	628040	is ironic because you won't find a single damn oyster in the entire country. Um, and
628040	634680	Tanzania's got diamonds, but they didn't get a sweet nickname. My godparents are Ugandan, and
634680	639320	they met my father and mother, uh, while they were studying in Pennsylvania in the late 80s.
639320	646980	And when I turned 16, my father told me that it was time for me to go visit them. So, uh,
646980	654160	30 or so hours of planes, trains, and automobiles, and we were in Africa. Uh, now, as will
654160	660700	happen with idealistic, wide-eyed young men, um, who see true beauty for the first time in their
660700	669000	lives, I fell in love. I was completely set. I had spent most of my youth in suburban America, uh,
669000	678780	playing video games, skateboarding, and, uh, heck, I never got caught. Um, and being in Africa
678780	683580	really changed me. It was, uh, it was sort of one of those times where you just know you're
683580	687800	going to wind up somewhere for the rest of your life, and as fate would have it, it looks like
687800	698340	I'll be able to. Um, you know, I, oh, yeah, well, it's under his shirt. I don't have a slide for
698340	707520	this one, sorry. Yeah. I'm bad at this. Um, yeah, actually, this is the largest group of
707520	713560	white people I have seen in about a year. I'm a little creeped out right now. I apologize. Um,
717060	723860	no, I mean, sure, uh, even when I went there at 16, there's been a civil war raging in the north
723860	730780	of the country for about 20 years. It's still going. Um, there were tanks upended in ditches,
730780	738520	uh, you know, kids running around with dirty shirts and bare feet, and, uh, somehow, you know,
738520	743560	even though you couldn't drink the water, it was perfect. It was just absolutely perfect. Um,
744040	751720	and, uh, you know, really, Uganda is a country in a state of flux. Uh, corruption, civil war,
751720	758220	hunger, and disease are realities in Uganda. During my first week of my recent stay, I got
758220	763600	malaria. Uh, and for those of you who have not had malaria yet, you are not missing out on
763600	768860	much. Just, uh, delete that from your list of priorities and move on to the next one, like
768860	777620	typhoid. Um, you know, and even most of the roads are still unpaved in Uganda. Uh, transport
777620	785860	is long, arduous, uh, power is intermittent, hardline data connections are unreliable, and,
785860	793480	uh, few and far between. But still, um, you know, it's kind of needless to say that my, uh,
793480	797800	blog missed an update for a week or two, uh, and I think I might have missed a couple of
797800	805340	MySpace invites. But, where those limitations might seem to create closed doors, uh,
805340	810060	wireless mesh networks are starting to pop up all across even the remote regions of the
810060	818160	country. Uh, expansive GSM coverage, uh, really is incredible. You see, because hardline
818160	827780	data connections are nearly impossible to keep active and running, what the Ugandans in,
827780	833740	uh, set up wireless towers all across the country. I mean, I could literally get a clear, I
833740	839860	could get a clearer signal in the middle of nowhere, in Hoima. I, I could get a clearer
839860	847300	signal than I could in downtown Chicago. It was incredible. And, so instead of just sort of
848100	854260	going with traditional methods of connectivity, they're really branching out into new and
854260	861360	incredibly, just exciting, uh, means of creating communication. Um, you'll even see
861360	867040	internet cafes in little one room storefronts. Uh, they're, you know, on satellite phones,
867040	871940	they're irregularly connected, poor administration, doesn't matter, they're there. And
871940	877480	Ugandans are going through their very own electronic revolution. Uh, you'd be amazed by how
877480	882080	many are taught to type in their primary school education system, and they are now using
882080	887960	email. I, I don't think many of them have picked up on Friendster, but they definitely are,
887960	896620	uh, are communicating with each other within country. Um, now, as well as regular citizens,
896620	901100	non-government organizations like the Danish, uh, the Danish Cooperative for International
901100	906920	Development, MS, uh, the United Nations Humanitarian and Children's Relief Fund, and the
906920	911240	International Medical Corps, all, all three of whom I've worked with, are starting to take
911240	918140	advantage of these incredible new technologies, and, uh, to improve their communication and
918140	927480	really streamline their methods of just connectivity and, uh, productivity. Um, they're
927480	931180	also using them to preserve client records, which is a problem they've been really
931180	938320	struggling with for years. Um, the big problem that I discovered while I was working in
938320	944860	country was that, that the organizations are relying, the people on the ground, you know, in
944860	951240	the remote districts are relying on outdated hardware and software. I, I mean, woefully
951240	955840	outdated hardware and software. Uh, for example, I've been working with a community-based
955840	961420	organization, the Hoyma Nursery School, Nursery School Development Association, or HNSDA,
961420	967220	uh, extensively for the past two months or so. And HNSDA relies on its computers to create
967220	972660	teaching materials and keep both its financial and client records for hundreds of nursery
972660	979260	school teachers in western Uganda. Uh, that's two of them actually. And, um, when I first
979260	986600	started with HNSDA, only one of their three office machines was up and running. And what was
986600	993400	it running, you might ask? Uh, Windows 95 on a Pentium II with 48 megs of memory, a
993400	998940	completely shot hard drive, and no CD-ROM. And this was the best that they could get out to
998940	1004540	them. I'm, I'm not kidding, this was the best. Uh, another example is HADFA, the Hoyma
1004540	1011980	District Farmers Association. Now, HADFA uses its computers to create databases of
1011980	1016360	clients, very remote clients. These people have no other means of connectivity except for
1016360	1023380	the sort of general addresses that are used. Um, I got a little click happy there, sorry.
1023400	1030360	Uh, and when I went to work with them, all four of their donated office computers were
1030360	1037940	completely shot. All four of them, completely shot by, does anyone remember the hurry virus?
1038280	1047300	I, I think McAfee 98 successfully took care of it for most of us? Two days. What happens is
1047300	1052540	that because so few Ugandans own computers, they take flash drives and floppy disks and can
1052540	1056600	keep all of their own records, all of their correspondence, all of their email logs,
1056600	1062300	everything. And they just carry them around with them in pockets on chain drives. And then
1062300	1067420	they go anywhere that they know there's a printer and plug it in. And so viruses are passed
1067420	1074800	around like crazy because they don't know how viruses are transmitted. Um, and because there
1074800	1080500	are so few IT professionals available in Uganda, these NGOs and CBOs suffer. This is not
1080500	1085200	to say that there are no IT professionals in Uganda, it's just that they're even more
1085200	1091580	expensive than they are here. And the more I worked with these organizations, I mean,
1091580	1096180	they're dedicated, incredible people who are doing good work, the more I realized that they
1096180	1101920	needed a durable, sustainable solution, uh, to their IT problems. And this is how the
1101920	1107700	Uganda Computer Initiative was born. The primary objective of UCI is to provide an open
1107700	1113500	source solution to the technological challenges NGOs and their subsidiary CBOs face on a
1113500	1119400	daily basis. We want to also simultaneously provide training and resource materials to
1119400	1122780	these staffers. We are talking about the Ugandans themselves so that they can become
1122780	1128300	self-reliant so they no longer have to rely on these IT professionals who are overcharging
1128300	1133240	them. You know, the cost just for transport from the major city of Kampala is ridiculous.
1133240	1140200	They cannot afford this. And furthermore, to empower all of the counterparts so that they can
1140200	1147460	network together and everyone can support each other in sort of a nationwide CBO and NGO
1147460	1154060	network. Now, UCI has five primary goals. First, to develop and deliver the stable and
1154060	1159360	workable open source option package for NGOs and CBOs, including an alternative and
1159360	1164360	continually customized Linux distro to replace whichever Windows system they are currently
1164360	1169240	using. Because these computers are donated and they are preloaded before they come to them,
1169240	1174680	they all have Windows in one form or another. Ugandans do not use Windows because their
1174680	1180400	corporate, you know, head honchos tell them they have to. This is not about market share.
1180660	1186340	Ugandans just don't have a choice. When the NGOs and CBOs receive these in bulk, in-kind
1186340	1193260	donations, they don't have the resources or the IT staff available to fix them, change them,
1193260	1200040	or provide a stable solution. Our next goal is to provide comprehensive training and support.
1200040	1203780	I mentioned this earlier. This is the training curricula package where we will bring them
1203780	1209600	into our classrooms and train them on a pro bono basis. The next is to provide donated
1209600	1215160	computer and networking hardware to these organizations on a proven need basis, as
1215160	1219240	determined by an application and approval process to be administered by the Hacker
1219240	1226020	Foundation, Hackers for Humanity, and UCI. Also to develop and follow a monitoring and
1226020	1236080	self-evaluation program to create quantifiable long-term and short-term goals. So that the
1236080	1241020	Hacker Foundation and its subsidiaries, the donors, anyone who chooses to donate to this
1241020	1245400	project, will know exactly what we are doing, what our goals are, and how we plan to achieve
1245400	1252340	them, if we achieve them and if we are being successful. And finally, to implement a long-term
1252340	1258220	sustainability program in which Ugandan nationals will train along UCI staffers to one day replace
1258220	1264160	them, being me, and become the directors of the organization. This is, if at any point, I
1264160	1269340	decide to come back to a country where I can still get a cheeseburger. And I have to admit
1269340	1277520	there really is a sixth goal, and that's to promote hacker ideals and open-source evangelism in
1277520	1285140	Uganda and East Africa. There is no counterculture in Uganda. There is no culture of closed
1285140	1292620	source or proprietary source activism. You would be amazed by how open to the idea of free
1292620	1299320	software, an NGO or a CBO, will be, even a regular user. The idea of not having to pay for
1299440	1305620	a Linux distro is revolutionary. The savings to international aid organizations and to
1306320	1312920	common individual users across the country who have connectivity will be immense. I'm
1312920	1319260	also proud to announce another project tied in with UCI and Hackers for Humanity, which
1319260	1324980	is Laptops for East Africa. This is not, of course, to be confused with the great program
1324980	1331740	being run by the good folks over at computersforafrica.org. They are doing good work. What we're
1331740	1338080	looking to do is target specifically Uganda and then Tanzania, Kenya and Burundi and Rwanda.
1340040	1346640	The deal is this. We need newer equipment. And just walking around this con for the past
1346640	1354960	three days, I see a lot of really nice laptops, and I got to tell you, I want them and I want
1354960	1359380	to give them to organizations who can use them. Actually, are we going to be doing Q&A
1359380	1365720	afterwards? We'll be doing Q&A afterwards. Laptops come with built-in UPS systems. When
1365720	1369780	the power goes out, instead of having to fire up a diesel generator, a laptop just keeps
1369780	1374880	running long enough to do what you need to do. They're small. They're portable. We can
1374880	1380460	transport them easily. It is easy to ship a number of laptops instead of one or two
1380460	1386640	desktops. And so what you do is you sign up with us. We give you a sticker to put on your
1386640	1392280	laptop. When you're ready to upgrade to that shiny new box that you've been saving up for
1392280	1398020	for the past few years, you donate the computer to us for a tax write-off, and we send it
1398020	1404760	where it needs to go and where it will be used. Now, again, I'd like to thank you for your
1404760	1409300	time and your patience. I'm really not very good at this, but remember, please, geeks do
1409300	1413700	come in all colors. And I'd really like to see some of my Ugandan friends here in a couple
1413700	1415240	of years. Thank you.
1426830	1430290	And please, definitely get some of those stickers, because I know I'm getting one. I would
1430290	1437230	love to see one of those Ugandans with, you know, talk nerdy to me and root me, and I would
1437230	1441630	love to see that. So send me some pictures, please. My name is Louis Sorows. I wasn't
1441630	1446290	announced in the beginning because I was taking care of something personal. But anyway, I'm
1446290	1451970	the systems administrator for the Chicago Neighborhood Boys and Girls Club. And the Chicago,
1451970	1456350	it's exactly what the name suggests. Kids come there, and they hang out with their friends,
1456350	1461850	they play sports, and they just chill out after school. But we wanted something more for
1461850	1468050	them. And in 2004, in March 2004, we set up for them a computer lab. And next slide,
1468050	1473810	please. And that computer lab consisted of these things. Five Dell computers, three
1473810	1478930	Emacs, a Clark Connect router, and some wireless access points and bridges. We were able to
1478930	1485650	do all this with a small donation of about $10,000 from a large financial institution. We
1485650	1492190	also have some office equipment as well for them, for the general staff, of five standalone
1492190	1496810	PCs, a Linux terminal server project, which is really cool if any of you have ever worked
1496810	1501970	with that. And Jim already spoke something about that. And another router. And we also
1501970	1508310	built for them a Athlon Debian file server and mail server. But I don't think that's too
1508310	1516430	safe. But when you're a non-profit, you do with what you got. Next slide, please. This is
1516430	1521650	what our lab looks like when we were first building it. It's pretty sparse, but it works
1521650	1526510	for what the kids need. Basically, IM, chat with their friends, that's about it. You know,
1526510	1529850	blogs every once in a while. They don't do much because they don't know much what's out
1529850	1541510	there with what they got. Next slide. Some of them having fun, opening day. Next. Next.
1543470	1547890	And this is our current state of funding. That $10,000 that we got from that financial
1547890	1554330	institution, it's all gone. The various hardware donations that we get from the community,
1554330	1558070	pretty much useless because they're Lexmark's printers that they get for free anyway when
1558070	1563710	they buy that other computer. Then they realize it's crap and then they give it to us. And
1563710	1568570	Packard Bell, they are still out there. I cannot believe it. And then the other one, we do
1568570	1574230	get some private financial funding. These are some of the people who fund. This woman is
1574230	1580930	the program director for the club. Next one. And that's me. And obviously you can tell we
1580930	1586650	need a lot of help if we're duct taping switches to the wall. So you know we need some help.
1586650	1592570	Next. So how are we going to use this really cool hardware that we can probably get from the
1592570	1596050	Hacker Foundation? Some of the things that we want to do, I mean because these guys, they're
1596050	1600770	getting together with some really big corporations and giving you that hardware that they're
1600770	1605410	not going to be using anyway. So you guys can have some fun with it. We want to build a
1605410	1610130	local database. What does that mean? There are so many community businesses that support
1610130	1615610	the club in many different ways. We want the kids to be able, once it's all set up, to go to
1615610	1619890	these different community businesses, get some interesting stories from them, get some
1619890	1625030	contact information, photos, and create a nice database that's online for the parents to go
1625030	1629850	research. Kind of like a good guy's yellow books where they say, hey, these people donate to
1629850	1634370	the club. I'm going to go support them first. That way, hey, some of that money will then
1634370	1639090	come back to the club. All is good. Maintaining the website. Some of these kids are pretty
1639090	1643230	good. They want to learn about website building, but right now our current webpage is a
1643230	1649370	static ask website that was donated to us for free from an alum. It's nice and all, but it's
1649370	1654110	not what we want. We want something that's live, maintainable, easy for them to use. We have
1654110	1661210	over 70 years of historical newsletters that these people have created on mimeographed paper
1661650	1666490	that are still in hard copy. We finally started digitizing some of them, but we want to be
1666490	1671650	able to create a database of them in PDF with OCR. Very nice. And I'll tell you why that's
1671650	1676810	important in a second. And also we want to create a photo archive. We have 70 years of photos
1676810	1685890	as well. The reason is this, because next year we have the 75th anniversary coming up.
1685890	1690070	We have people coming from all over the country. Some of these people are 80 years old, 90
1690070	1695670	years old, and they want to be able to see all the things that they remember in the past,
1695670	1700810	but everybody believes that they're lying about. So they want to be able to come in, see all
1700810	1706910	the photos up on a big LCD, and say, hey, that's me. Then they can take a little card,
1706910	1710950	write down that number, go over to another computer, and print it out. So that way they've
1710950	1715090	got a copy for themselves. And then what about for their little grandkid that they told,
1715090	1719510	remember I scored that goal during that game and you didn't believe me? Here, check this
1719510	1724270	out. They type in their name in the PDF archive and up comes every single PDF that they were
1724270	1731130	in. Boom. There you go. Print it out and go eat it, bitch. All right, anyway. Next, we've
1731130	1737390	got a digital jukebox of legal MP3s and Burns CD backups. There's this really cool software
1737390	1741470	called Tunes that, because I don't know if any of you have kids. Yeah, they all agree on the
1741470	1746990	same music all at the same time, definitely. But what this is, Tunes is a democratically
1749010	1754250	designed email, excuse me, email, MP3 server where they log on to the website for it as
1754250	1758270	long as they've got an account and they get to vote which song they want to hear. And
1758270	1762410	whichever song has the highest amount of votes, that's the one that gets played. So it's very,
1762410	1766730	very cool. That's what I want. Computer repair and donation. These kids, I mean, they see
1766730	1771210	something shiny and they're like, ooh, I want to touch. And they want to learn how to build
1771210	1775230	computers, they want to repair them. We want more computers that are either broken that
1775230	1780510	we can then, or people that send them in, repair them and give them back, or even better,
1780510	1786490	have donations of those dead computers, the kids can repair them. And one project we want
1786490	1793570	is that every sixth computer they build, they get to keep that seventh one. And then after
1793730	1796210	a while, you're going to be like, well, these kids are going to be stacking up with computers.
1796210	1799430	Are they going to have a cluster and stuff? Yeah, that's one option if they want to do
1799430	1803930	that. But the cool thing is, though, they get to then choose if they want to, who they
1803930	1808090	actually donate that computer to, which is even more fun, I think, because then they get
1808090	1815350	to see and actually affect somebody else's life. Next. These sound like some good ideas
1815350	1821210	you guys might use also in your community? Okay, cool. Linux terminal server project.
1821210	1825470	You saw that lab, okay? It was pretty sparse. It was about eight total computers in there
1825470	1831370	plus the router. Well, we've got it right now where if you connect two Playstations in the
1831370	1836430	room next to us, it blows out half the computers. Not too much fun. So what we want to do is
1836430	1841270	set up a terminal server project where we can have lightweight, like Jim spoke about,
1841270	1847310	lightweight laptops which have their own power supply, so on and so forth, and be able to
1847310	1851750	run at least 20, 25 computers for all these kids to then run those previous projects you
1851750	1859470	saw. Also the web server to host all our online projects. Events registration. You guys probably
1859470	1864710	have some kids, okay? You can't always make your time to go out and sign them up for all
1864710	1871630	these different things. Go online, register them, and you're done. Timesheets. Timesheets
1871630	1875690	for the staff so that way they can just sign in and the administration doesn't have to do
1875690	1883690	all this stuff by hand. It's really sad. Next, please. Wi-Fi for the park. We've got a really
1883690	1888710	nice park out there and we want to be able to broadcast Wi-Fi out there and just for the
1888710	1893110	people to come in and use, have the laptops, have a good time. If we can, which would be
1893110	1897990	really great, is to be able to track the scores online, live. Once again, you guys can't
1897990	1902290	always get to your kids' games. You can at least check the scores online and RSS feed would
1902290	1907710	be great. But anyway, you can check the scores online and then say, hey, when the kid comes
1907710	1911390	home, I saw your game, you had a great time, I saw what you scored, that's excellent, and
1911390	1916410	talk about it. Wireless video cams to watch the games online. Secured and password protected
1916410	1922030	so that only the parents, well, and you guys, can watch the kids play, alright? Same thing.
1922030	1927170	You want to be able to see your kids play, score that one home run. And finally, be able
1927170	1931810	to provide the classes that the community and these kids have been looking for. I repair
1931810	1940730	computers all day. Generally, all spam, viruses, pop-up blockers, all that stuff. And it's
1940730	1944430	the same thing every time, asking the exact same questions every single time, and I feel
1944430	1948790	like I should just have a tape recorder of myself right there and just play it. So I
1948790	1952070	want to be able to provide those classes for them so they can actually learn. And on
1952070	1955830	those eight computers, it's not going to happen, but with what we want to do and with the help
1955830	1962230	of the Hacker Foundation, I think it's pretty possible. Next slide. And finally, just, you
1962230	1965530	know, thanks to the Hacker Foundation because hopefully together we can show the community
1965530	1970550	and these kids that there's a lot more to tech and computers than just IMs and blogs.
1970670	1994720	And that's my speech. Thanks guys. So by now you can see that the Hacker Foundation is
1994720	2000580	an official 501C non-profit with a definite presence here at DEF CON. So that brings up
2000580	2007320	the next question. What does that mean for you guys? How can the Hacker Foundation help
2007320	2014520	your projects? What can the Hacker Foundation do for the entire hacker community? Basically,
2014520	2020180	as an umbrella non-profit, we can provide you with three things. Funding, advocacy,
2020180	2026480	and non-profit status. Funding is often the largest obstacle for a non-profit initiative.
2026940	2032860	In order to receive adequate funding, some projects will simply work under another organization.
2039010	2044670	For instance, a great plan would become just another university project or government project,
2044670	2049050	receiving nearly all of its funding from just one source. While that might seem like an
2049050	2058410	okay idea, the project loses autonomy. Even though universities have great intentions,
2058410	2063570	they're at the mercy of the school's budget, policy, and agenda. If a project chooses to
2063570	2068250	work with the Hacker Foundation, funding can come from a wide variety of sources. And we
2068250	2073550	can work with you to develop those. The Hacker Foundation will work to keep projects connected
2073550	2080370	to organizations that provide funding. And also, having IRS 501C tax exempt status means
2080370	2087450	that your project can receive donations just like any other. The next issue is advocacy.
2088510	2093090	The Hacker Foundation is all about security conscious individuals working together for
2093090	2098930	positive action. And I'm sure we're all tired of stereotypes and misrepresentation, and
2098930	2104270	this is our chance to fight that. Without a doubt, this will also provide more public
2104270	2110650	awareness, positive exposure for the hacker community as a whole. Finally, as I mentioned
2110650	2117150	before, the Hacker Foundation can provide 501C status for a project. The process to
2117150	2122470	achieve this status typically takes at least two years and an incredible amount of paperwork.
2122470	2128370	It's definitely a headache, and hackers aren't really good at paperwork. By eliminating the
2128370	2134250	headache, dealing with the IRS, and incorporation, hopefully more people will be encouraged to
2134250	2140670	turn their altruistic ideas into a reality. The bottom line is, the Hacker Foundation
2140670	2148110	is ready. It is ready to receive your applications. It's ready to hear your ideas. We provide
2148110	2154730	the networking for funding, 501C non-profit status, and we make it easy enough as just
2154730	2169860	submitting an application to us. So hopefully you've learned a little bit more about what
2169860	2178140	the Foundation is about, what we've been doing, if you haven't left. It's a long, hard
2178140	2184260	road to get over what I call the hacker hump, which is, oh, you're a hacker? Oh, God, you're
2184260	2192420	obviously a criminal. And that's not entirely undeserved, because you don't see a lot of
2192420	2199000	things that are like, hackers fly to, you know, bang after, or bam, after an earthquake
2199000	2205180	and do great works. You don't see that stuff a lot. So that's one of the things we're also
2205180	2210540	trying to take care of, and Fraser hit on that. So, I'm going to open it up for questions.
2211740	2212580	Yes, sir?
2244160	2246040	That's actually a really good question.
2247480	2251080	Yeah, yeah, let me touch it. So the main issue is, you're out in the bush somewhere, where
2251080	2254920	do you get the juice from? It's not as bad as you think, actually.
2256980	2262020	Well, there are a number of ways that we really tackle the power situation.
2264440	2269980	Our biggest problem was not in the cities. It was not in the even sort of developed rural
2269980	2275400	districts. It was in the internally displaced people's camps. In the IDP camps, there would
2275400	2281900	be about one government power line into the entire camp, and chances were pretty good
2281900	2287260	that it didn't have juice in it. And when it did, it would spike to about 350 and set
2287260	2293880	everything on fire. Yeah. I lost too many fridges that way.
2294760	2299680	What we do is, as you mentioned, the battery gang solution. The battery gang solution is
2299680	2305880	an incredibly effective way. You'll see this in a lot of, I guess, infomercials. It'll
2305880	2311560	be a group of car batteries ganged together and then inverted. I'm not really a tech geek,
2311560	2316500	but I know we do use the battery gang. We also have a lot of solar cells that have been
2316500	2322680	donated, but it's a very... solar technology is difficult. We are on the equator. We have
2322780	2330360	a lot of sunlight, but we also have... Uganda has two seasons, rainy and sunny. You can
2330360	2338380	guess which season is less effective for power from solar. Also, the weather gets pretty
2338380	2344040	volatile, and we have had solar racks, panels, just demolished overnight while we've been
2344040	2349980	sleeping, no matter how well we try to protect them. Right now, we are using primarily diesel
2349980	2355460	backup generators that we're lugging around. Petrol's expensive, but when you need it,
2355460	2361520	you need it. Especially when you've got IMC volunteers using their laptops, they really
2361520	2370100	need that connectivity, so we'll just fire up a diesel. You want to donate the fuel cells?
2370100	2375060	We want to use them. Yeah, we're not that well-funded yet. Yeah, that's one of the main
2375060	2379180	issues that you see is that, you know, the next... everyone's like, oh, China's the next
2379180	2384960	big market. Well, it is, but they're already really far ahead of the curve. Let's not worry
2384960	2390120	about the next market. Let's worry the market about the next one, the next next market.
2390920	2394600	And that's one of the reasons that you see a lot of talk about Africa in the NGO world,
2394600	2400440	but we don't want to focus too much on just Jim's project, as awesome as it is, because
2400440	2404240	that's not what the Hacker Foundation just does. If you've got something else in mind,
2404240	2411600	say mine detection equipment, our nice robotics challenge, and for a lot of reasons, we're
2411600	2416620	interested in that kind of stuff, too. Yes, you. No, no, it's actually the guy behind
2416620	2433040	you. Nick? He has the funding question about how you, like, manage the money. Can you repeat
2433040	2451720	the question real quickly? I still can't hear you. Could you stand up? Sorry, got a cold.
2451840	2455720	My understanding is that, as an individual, I can't call up the Hacker Foundation and
2455720	2460920	say, okay, I want to give organization to, say, the Apache organization, and then give
2460920	2463980	you money and take a tax deduction, and then you give it to the Apache organization or
2463980	2468900	to an individual. I have to give money to you, and then you, in theory, in a separate
2468900	2472480	process, give it to another organization. Have you figured out how that works with the
2472480	2476860	IRS tax deductions? What happens with organization open source projects, they go through an application
2476860	2482120	process. It's a more interactive process than a bureaucratic process. What we're doing is
2482120	2486700	determining and making sure that what the goals and aims of each project are, are charitable
2486700	2493600	and fall under our section of the Internal Revenue Code. Once that happens, it's not a
2493600	2498000	question of you're donating money and earmarking funds. You, as an organization, go out there,
2498000	2503220	directly solicit funds. You're working with the Hacker Foundation. The Hacker Foundation
2503220	2508780	cashes the checks and gives the money straight back to you. That's all we do. And, actually,
2508780	2512680	if I can add to that, the other thing you guys do is also the hardware as well, correct?
2512680	2516420	Right. And that's the other thing, is that the Hacker Foundation... I was just referring
2516420	2522280	to projects that apply that are looking for ways to be sort of non-profit in a box. I
2522280	2526240	hope there's nobody from the IRS here because... And in cases like mine, I'm actually hoping
2526240	2531420	for the hardware versus getting money because I'd love to see the money guys, you know,
2531420	2535900	give that out to the athletics department and have kids play basketball with the server.
2535900	2540160	I'd love to see it. I mean, it could be fun, but I don't think so. There's two separate
2540160	2544120	issues going on here. I think the issue that you were addressing is that if a group applies
2544120	2547720	to the Hacker Foundation, will it be sort of a United Way thing? No. It's a much more
2547720	2551320	streamlined, much more effective than that. But what the Hacker Foundation does as an
2551320	2556580	organization on itself is go out there and actively raise funds for all of its projects.
2556580	2561220	So we can make our own decisions about giving you money. And we'd love to do that. I mean,
2561220	2568980	if everybody at DEF CON gave us 60 bucks or 80 bucks, we could, A, throw a really sweet
2568980	2574520	gas party. And this might seem familiar. You're at that party. Or we could do a lot
2574520	2596930	of really great projects. You, sir, in the shiny lame. At this time, we have three, we
2596930	2601730	call these projects. We should have done a slide about this. If you think about the umbrella
2601730	2605850	like this, the Hacker Foundation sits at the top and does the money, and then we have projects
2605850	2610450	underneath it. Uganda, and in this case, the Chicago project. We also have another internal
2610450	2616130	project, which is capacity building. You know, we need infrastructure and money, because
2616130	2620510	that's how you make more money. And then we have, and then we're actively seeking more
2620890	2644210	projects. So is that what your question was, Mike? Yeah, I'm familiar. Oh, are we out talking
2644210	2650250	to other nerds about non-profit-y stuff? Yes. Yeah, we throw around words like capacity
2650250	2656610	and IDP and, you know, UNHCR and all that kind of stuff all the time, and we kind of
2656610	2660570	don't say it here, but we definitely, you know, we're definitely in on that world, or
2660570	2667090	we're getting more in on that world. Most of us are amateur non-profit workers. But
2667090	2677230	we're working up to pro. Yes, you. My personal biggest motivation behind the Hacker Foundation?
2677230	2683510	Um, I think I talked about this a little earlier in someone else's speech. There's, uh, two
2683510	2690790	ways you can solve really bad problems, like poverty, terrorism, and war. You can, uh, buy
2690790	2698090	them out, buy them in, or you can fight them. If we go to Africa, and I mean hackers go to
2698090	2703110	Africa, or hackers go to Chicago, and we're like, hey, we're really cool people, we want
2703110	2710210	to help you, and we raise them in our mental sphere, and get them trained in our mental
2710210	2714470	sphere, and say open source is a good thing, and they're used to using open source. When
2714470	2721130	Microsoft goes to visit in ten years, who's got more feet on the ground? That's the kind
2721130	2727810	of stuff, I mean, you want to see more hackers? Go where there aren't a lot already, and make
2727810	2733090	them. It's not that hard. Personally, I'm in it for the money. He's in it for the money.
2733090	2737630	Uh, but I can't speak to every, I, I've actually studiously avoided that. We don't try and
2737630	2748330	tell you why you should help other people. Everyone has those reasons. And, uh, yeah, we're
2748330	2752830	done. Let me take one more, because we're that good. Oh, he's giving me the, lookit, two
2752830	2762740	minutes. Yes. Yes, this is what we want to hear. Yes, I do, we are interested in talking to
2762740	2768980	you afterward about a political project, sir. Yeah. Any more questions? Yes.
2770820	2778700	Well, you can get a shirt for $20 and it's tax deductible. No, we have one right here. And I
2778700	2787180	also have an issue of frack. Now this I haven't figured out how to give away yet. How about
2787180	2795300	the biggest donation? It's an option, I mean, who's willing to buy this issue of frack and
2795300	2802140	write it off? 20 bucks? Yeah, yeah, yeah, you can do better than 20 bucks. Oh, I have a bid
2802140	2810940	back there. Yes, sir. Huh? 30. Okay, a little bit more money. Oh, somebody's checking their
2810940	2818900	wallet. Excellent. I like ambition like that. And by the way, this is kind of our money
2818900	2827840	making strategy. I call it beg or torture. Or make Nick Farr eat a really, really big goddamn
2827840	2834160	hamburger. Yeah, oh yeah. Yeah. I'm also having some formal dinners with some rich people
2834160	2840480	tonight. That'll help too, hopefully. Jesse, you just got one more question, right? Yeah, one
2840480	2872640	more question? Well, actually, the idea is that we don't give them to individuals directly.
2872660	2877740	They'll be used in the offices of the NGOs and CBOs themselves. I keep using the acronym,
2877740	2882820	it's non-governmental organizations. They're international aid organizations. And the idea is
2882820	2887480	we give them to the organizations because they can then use that hardware to affect the most
2887480	2892740	people, or as many people as possible, more than a single individual could. Thank you.