CactusCon 2018 · United States · 2018

CactusCon 2018 Paid Badge

Ticketed paid-badge registration artifact

CactusCon 2018 is seeded as a conservative paid-badge record because contemporaneous Arizona LoCo Team meeting notes say the September 28-29 Mesa Convention Center event required tickets, offered free admission, and let attendees pay to get a badge.

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EventCactusCon 2018

SeriesCactusCon

LocationMesa Convention Center, Mesa, Arizona

CountryUnited States

People

Authors & Credits

event lineage

CactusCon

Arizona security-conference context for the 2018 paid badge record, anchored to contemporaneous local meeting notes.

Source

local meeting-note publisher

Arizona LoCo Team

Publisher of the public September 2018 notes and attached log preserving the ticketing and paid-badge evidence.

Source

Why It Mattered

It closes a narrow CactusCon 2018 evidence gap without upgrading a registration note into an electronic badge: the public source proves a paid badge option, while hardware, firmware, image, and final distribution details remain unrecovered.

Hardware

The recovered source says CactusCon 2018 was at Mesa Convention Center, required tickets because the event was growing, had a free-ticket path, and required payment to get a badge. No source recovered in this pass identifies the badge as electronic, printed, PCB-based, wearable hardware, or a challenge platform.

Software & Apps

No public firmware, badge app, source repository, scanner behavior, challenge code, or badge-game evidence was recovered for CactusCon 2018. The catalogue models the record as a paid-badge registration artifact rather than a described programmable badge.

Lore

The meeting notes frame CactusCon 2018 as a growing Arizona conference whose venue shifted to Mesa Convention Center and whose ticketing separated free entry from a paid badge option.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

registration workflow source-backed

Ticket-required Mesa event

The Arizona LoCo notes say CactusCon 2018 required tickets because the event was growing and had moved to Mesa Convention Center.

Compatibility: CactusCon 2018 Paid Badge

Source

ticket badge source-backed

Paid badge option

The same notes say there was no cost to get in but attendees had to pay in order to get a badge.

Compatibility: CactusCon 2018 Paid Badge

Source

Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

artifact-depth caveat note

The recovered notes prove a paid badge option, but they do not say whether the badge was printed, electronic, PCB-based, lanyard-only, challenge-enabled, or produced in a specific quantity.

The catalogue keeps the 2018 record as a paid-badge entitlement and avoids unsupported physical or electronic details.

Confidence: source-limited
Status: needs official badge archive recovery
Timeframe: current CactusCon historical pass
Source note: Arizona LoCo Team September 2018 notes.

missing rights-cleared image note

No CactusCon 2018 badge image is published because no physical documentary photo or official reusable raster render was recovered with complete source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.

The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying event-page, social, wiki, or generated media without explicit reuse rights.

Confidence: local project policy
Status: needs licensed original replacement
Timeframe: current catalogue build
Source note: badge.gallery image policy and Arizona LoCo Team CactusCon 2018 notes.

source-type caveat note

This pass recovered contemporaneous local notes rather than an official CactusCon 2018 registration archive or badge-team source.

The record is useful as a source trail but should be revisited if official pages, ticket text, badge photos, or hardware archives surface.

Confidence: secondary local notes
Status: needs primary event-page recovery
Timeframe: current CactusCon historical pass
Source note: Ubuntu Wiki / Arizona LoCo Team September 2018 page and attached log.

Resources

Arizona LoCo Team September 2018 local meeting notes · Contemporaneous local notes source for the September 28-29, 2018 CactusCon Mesa Convention Center event, ticket requirement, free-ticket path, and paid badge option. Arizona LoCo Team September 9 log meeting log · Attached meeting-log source preserving the same CactusCon 2018 ticket and paid-badge language; used as corroborating local context rather than hardware evidence.

Sources

Ubuntu Wiki / Arizona LoCo Team: ArizonaTeam/TeamProjects/September 2018 Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Contemporaneous local notes source for CactusCon 2018 dates, Mesa Convention Center venue, ticket requirement, free-ticket path, and paid badge option. Ubuntu Wiki / Arizona LoCo Team: 2018-09-09 Arizona LoCo Team meeting log Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Attached meeting-log source corroborating the CactusCon 2018 ticketing and paid-badge language; no hardware, firmware, or image reuse details are claimed from it.