Jeff Shouse
Shouse's public post says that he helped make the Cackalackycon 2026 badge and describes an active badge team; no more specific technical role is inferred.
Sourcecackalackycon 2026 · United States · 2026
cackalackycon 2026 Speaker Electronic Badge
Speaker-colored electronic admission badge; allocation evidence is limited
Cackalackycon 2026's organizer-provided Call for Papers promises every selected speaker a speaker-colored electronic badge and free admission. It separately gives the speaker one paper-badge guest admission, noting that a guest who wants an electronic badge must purchase a ticket. The organizer-linked ticket page also markets a 2026 electronic badge, and post-event organizer and badge-team reports corroborate that badges were made and handed out. This record therefore captures a source-backed speaker electronic-badge allocation, not a universal attendee or technical claim.
Eventcackalackycon 2026
Seriescackalackycon
LocationDoubleTree by Hilton, Durham, North Carolina
CountryUnited States
People
Authors & Credits
Why It Mattered
It resolves the 2026 electronic-badge marketing language into a real, explicitly scoped artifact: an accepted speaker's electronic badge. That preserves the event's documented student, guest, speaker, and ticketed eBadge distinctions without guessing whether all paid attendees received the same device or how its hardware worked.
Hardware
Primary sources call the speaker artifact electronic and speaker-colored, but do not document its physical form, color treatment, PCB, microcontroller, display, radio, battery, connectors, material, dimensions, serial or credential technology, manufacturing, or variant relationship to any paid-ticket eBadge. The record does not infer those details from the word electronic or from the separate student paper badge.
Software & Apps
No Cackalackycon 2026 electronic-badge firmware, application, challenge, repository, schematic, Gerber, BOM, flashing guide, programming interface, or protocol documentation was recovered. Post-event reports confirm badge engagement and a badge team, but do not establish any particular runtime behavior or source-release status.
Lore
The organizer-provided CFP draws a precise access boundary: selected speakers receive a speaker-colored electronic badge, while the included guest path is paper and a guest seeking an electronic badge must buy a ticket. Cackalackycon's official LinkedIn feed reposted a post-event account calling the 2026 badge handout smooth and describing a badge-virus breakout, and badge-team member Jeff Shouse publicly reported helping make the badge. Neither post identifies the board or establishes the final recipient inventory, so the record remains deliberately narrow and image-free.
Lifecycle
Add-ons & Upgrades
admission variant
organizer-provided 2026 CFP
Guest paper-badge and electronic-ticket split
The CFP provides one paper-badge guest admission for a selected speaker and says a guest who wants an electronic badge must purchase a ticket.
Source
post-event maker report
organizer and first-hand 2026 report
Post-event badge-team confirmation
The official organizer feed reposted a report of smooth badge handout and badge engagement, while Jeff Shouse publicly reported helping make the badge with an active badge team.
Source
speaker admission artifact
organizer-provided 2026 CFP
Speaker-colored electronic-badge allocation
The CFP promises every selected speaker a speaker-colored electronic badge and free admission.
SourceOperational history
Issues & Camp Impact
distribution and variant boundary
note
The CFP establishes selected-speaker eBadge allocation, a paper guest admission, and a paid guest eBadge condition, but does not show whether the speaker-colored badge differs technically from paid-ticket badges, what speaker-colored means physically, or how many general attendees received an electronic badge. The Eventzilla marketing line does not resolve those boundaries.
The record preserves the documented speaker and guest paths without claiming a universal attendee eBadge, a known variant inventory, or a visual color treatment.
- Confidence
- organizer-provided CFP and ticketing
- Status
- partially source-backed
- Timeframe
- 2026 post-event follow-up
- Source note
- cackalackycon 2026 CFP and organizer-linked Eventzilla ticketing page.
hardware and firmware source gap
note
Public sources prove a speaker-colored electronic badge and post-event badge-team activity, but no board photo with reuse rights, physical form, PCB, MCU, display, radio, power, connector, schematic, Gerber, BOM, firmware, challenge, programming guide, protocol, or repository was recovered.
The dossier records the real electronic artifact without treating the term electronic, a ticket-page slogan, or social confirmation as a component-level technical description.
- Confidence
- source-conservative public record
- Status
- needs primary technical archive
- Timeframe
- 2026 post-event follow-up
- Source note
- cackalackycon 2026 CFP, Eventzilla listing, organizer updates, and Jeff Shouse report.
missing rights-cleared image
note
No cackalackycon 2026 speaker electronic-badge image is published because the CFP, ticketing page, organizer feed, and maker report do not pair a specific badge image with a reusable license or permission basis, attribution, source URL, and processing record.
The electronic-badge record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying event graphics, LinkedIn media, ticket artwork, or screenshots without complete provenance.
- Confidence
- local project policy
- Status
- needs licensed original replacement
- Timeframe
- current catalogue build
- Source note
- badge.gallery image policy and cackalackycon 2026 public sources.
Resources
CackalackyCon organizer updates
official organizer channel · The official company feed reposts a post-event report describing a smooth 2026 badge handout, engaged badge use, and a badge-virus breakout, without publishing technical details or image rights.
Cackalackycon 101
official attendee guide · Official student-admission guidance used to preserve the paper-versus-electronic allocation boundary.
Jeff Shouse post-event badge-team report
first-hand maker report · Public LinkedIn activity from Jeff Shouse says he helped make the 2026 badge and describes an active badge team; it does not provide a reproducible technical archive.
cackalackycon 2026 Call for Papers
organizer-provided call for papers · Primary allocation source: accepted speakers receive a speaker-colored electronic badge and free admission, while the included guest admission is paper and guests seeking an electronic badge must purchase a ticket.
cackalackycon 2026 official event page
official event page · Official event context that explicitly distinguishes student paper-badge access from electronic badges.
cackalackycon 2026 tickets
organizer-linked ticketing page · Completed-event ticketing page that markets another 2026 electronic badge but supplies no component, firmware, final-form, or allocation specification.
Sources
CackalackyCon / LinkedIn: CackalackyCon organizer updates
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official organizer feed that reposts a post-event 2026 account of smooth badge handout, badge engagement, a badge-virus breakout, and badge-team work.
Jeff Shouse / LinkedIn: Jeff Shouse post-event badge-team report
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · First-hand public account stating that Shouse helped make the Cackalackycon 2026 badge and that it had an active badge team, without component-level or source-release documentation.
cackalackycon: cackalackycon 2026 official event page
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event source used to distinguish student paper-badge access from the separate electronic-badge paths.
cackalackycon: Cackalackycon 101
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official attendee guide that repeatedly identifies free student admission as a paper badge, not an electronic badge.
cackalackycon / Eventzilla: cackalackycon 2026 ticketing
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Organizer-linked completed-event listing that markets a 2026 electronic badge while leaving the hardware, software, final physical form, and allocation unspecified.
cackalackycon / Sessionize: cackalackycon 2026 Call for Papers
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Organizer-provided CFP source proving the selected-speaker speaker-colored electronic badge, free speaker admission, paper-badge guest admission, and the paid-ticket condition for a guest electronic badge.