How about "Crumpet Con"!   

Good Luck!

Dale,

meant to reply to this sooner, just had a bad couple of weeks so I've been out of it for a while.


guess you've seen my previous ideas here? Should be obvious I'm not going to be much help in this area

Hell yeah Been thinking of trying the same thing once I've managed to shift some of my workload. Birmingham seems fairly central, so should be fairly accessible to most of us in the UK. Not sure how good the transport/airlines are around that part of the country for potential international attendees though, could be worth considering. Personally I'd head anywhere in the UK for a decent conference, outside of M25 would be preferable to try and keep accomadation costs etc. down.

Hopefully life should get back normal and get me fully back in the game. I'll try to hit you up next week.

How about ConUKon -pronounced  Can you Kon.

Right guys, some more help please

I have been thinking of names, con related but also sorta security related.
So I have added a poll, I have my own thoughts on my favorite, but would like your feedback.

Cheers.
Dale

Hi Dale,

I'd definitely attend - I didn't see this thread until now.

Just some initial thoughts (sorry for the long post):

Perhaps it's my ignorance coming through but is there a similar European conference already?  I only really know of the US ones.

Do you want to/should you make it Euro-centric rather than UK centric?

I think Birmingham is a good spot - it's easy to get to from London so visitors from Europe shouldn't have a problem getting there if they go via London on the eurostar.

Please tell me that collaberate is deliborately spelled that way......  personally I'd say any name is better than miss-spelling something in an attempt at word-play..... I don't know about other people but Londoners get way too much of that in the daily rags... it lowers the tone a bit IMHO.

One thing I'm sure you've already thought about is image - what type of press do you want to attract to the conference?  Defcon for example is known as a "hacker" (in the bad-press propagated sense of the word) conference and the press picks up on things like the lockpicking competitions and recently the anti-virus avoidance competition etc.  would you want this type of image or would you prefer a more "professional" computer security image (to be honest I don't know how this can be achieved in practicality, but the name "collaberate...because every day is a school day" possibly wouldn't help.) the decision on this would help direct what events you'll have and the imagery used in logos etc. I believe image is very important, and is perhaps a rant for another day, but if the public see the conference as a get together of people similar to the image on the metasploit homepage for example.... and compare that to the ethicalhacker.net logo and you'll see what I mean.  Potentially you'll attract different types of people to the con depending on the image also?

Perhaps the underlying issue is really the philosophy of the con - Defcon, for instance seems to be all about freedom to experiment, HOPE conference pushed the "hack the planet" image also.   However, take the TOOOL (www.toool.nl) organisation for instance - they're a bunch of people who get together to pick locks, but they've been on national TV in the Netherlands and are known for promoting security rather than promoting bypass.  Perhaps decide on how much you want to focus on vulnerabilities as opposed to securing things?

Anyway - regardless of however it turns out, I'll be there :-)

I'd certainly be willing to assist in any way I can - I'd love to see a con here in the UK. Let me know if there's anything you need done.