Hack South: Home of the ubiquitous South - Charles "AngusRed" Wroth | BSides Cape Town 2023
Channel: BSides Cape Town
Date: 2023-12-20

Hack South has become a staple of the ZA Hacker community. Hack South has come a long way since lockdown, but what does the future hold, and where can you get involved?

This talk will cover the following:
It will briefly talk about the path and history of Hack South, and what inspired it, along with its transition over to Discord. We will highlight a few fond memories, then talk about where it is today.

From there we want to talk about some plans/ideas for the future, that being achievable and tangible.
This includes content, monitization without exclusivity.
Company partnership.
Security Research.
Office Hours and collective proposals and voting on direction.
Training.
Transparency.
Hack South Core.
Swag.

I then want to cover the big part. What we need from the community. We all share ideas, concepts, nice to haves, but what do we trully need, how can you get involved, and how can we make Hack South a community of hackers, into a community for change.

The idea is, after this talk we would like to have an open forum, somewhere on site, to talk through ideas. Talk action, and see some hands go up to take ownership.

Filmed at BSides Cape Town 2023
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