cackalackycon

cackalackycon 2026

Name: cackalackycon 2026
Location: DoubleTree by Hilton, Durham, North Carolina

The May 15-17, 2026 Cackalackycon edition in Durham whose official event and first-timer guidance specify that students with valid student ID receive a paper badge, not an electronic badge, without preregistration. An organizer-provided CFP separately promises selected speakers a speaker-colored electronic badge and says guests who want an electronic badge must purchase a ticket; no technical, physical, or wider allocation detail is public.

DoubleTree by Hilton, Durham, North Carolina · United States · 2026

cackalackycon 2026 Student Paper Badge

Cackalackycon 2026's official event and Cackalackycon 101 pages say students with a valid student ID can attend for free with a paper badge, no electronic badge, and no preregistration. This record models that explicitly disclosed student identity artifact only; related speaker electronic-badge evidence is kept in a separate, scoped record rather than becoming a student hardware claim.

cackalackycon 2026 Speaker Electronic Badge

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.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

cackalackycon 2026 Speaker Electronic Badge organizer-provided 2026 CFP

admission variant

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.

Compatibility: Selected-speaker guest path; it does not establish all general-ticket allocations or final eBadge variants.

cackalackycon 2026 Student Paper Badge official 2026 attendee guidance

admission workflow

No-preregistration student check-in

The official first-timer guide says students should bring valid student ID to registration and do not need to preregister.

Compatibility: cackalackycon 2026 student paper-badge pickup path.

cackalackycon 2026 Student Paper Badge official 2026 attendee guidance

identity artifact / admission

Student paper-badge admission path

The official event and first-timer pages say students with a valid student ID attend free with a paper badge and no electronic badge.

Compatibility: cackalackycon 2026 student admission; the public wording does not establish a general-attendee paper-badge allocation.

cackalackycon 2026 Speaker Electronic Badge organizer and first-hand 2026 report

post-event maker 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.

Compatibility: cackalackycon 2026 electronic-badge ecosystem; neither report supplies a hardware, firmware, or image-release archive.

cackalackycon 2026 Speaker Electronic Badge organizer-provided 2026 CFP

speaker admission artifact

Speaker-colored electronic-badge allocation

The CFP promises every selected speaker a speaker-colored electronic badge and free admission.

Compatibility: Accepted cackalackycon 2026 speakers; the public source does not define the badge's final physical or electronic specification.

Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

cackalackycon 2026 Speaker Electronic Badge note

distribution and variant boundary · organizer-provided CFP and ticketing · partially source-backed

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.

cackalackycon 2026 Student Paper Badge note

electronic-badge technical and delivery-detail gap · official organizer, CFP, and ticketing sources · needs badge-specific primary documentation

The organizer-provided CFP proves a separate speaker-colored electronic-badge allocation and paper-badge guest path, while Eventzilla markets an electronic badge and calls the student item a paper ticket. None of those sources identifies the electronic badge's board, maker, physical form, ticketed-recipient inventory, quantity, firmware, or source archive.

The paper record remains bounded to students, while the separately seeded speaker electronic-badge record captures only the allocation actually established by public sources rather than treating ticket marketing as a universal technical claim.

cackalackycon 2026 Speaker Electronic Badge note

hardware and firmware source gap · source-conservative public record · needs primary technical archive

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.

cackalackycon 2026 Student Paper Badge note

missing rights-cleared image · local project policy · needs licensed original replacement

No cackalackycon 2026 student paper-badge image is published because the official event, guide, schedule, and ticketing pages do not establish a specific artifact image's reusable license or permission basis, attribution, source URL, and processing record.

The record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying event graphics, ticket artwork, or social-media imagery without complete provenance.

cackalackycon 2026 Speaker Electronic Badge note

missing rights-cleared image · local project policy · needs licensed original replacement

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.

cackalackycon 2026 Student Paper Badge note

non-electronic artifact boundary · official event and attendee guidance · source-backed identity artifact

The official event and first-timer pages explicitly describe the student artifact as a paper badge and say it is not electronic. They provide no visual design, material detail beyond paper, credential technology, PCB, component, firmware, or manufacturing record.

The dossier models a real disclosed identity artifact without upgrading it into an electronic badge or inventing attributes of a paper credential.

Resources

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 101 official attendee guide · Official first-timer guidance repeating that student admission includes a paper badge rather than an electronic badge, with valid-ID and no-preregistration instructions. Cackalackycon 101 official attendee guide · Official student-admission guidance used to preserve the paper-versus-electronic allocation boundary. cackalackycon 2026 official event page official event page · Official source for the May 15-17, 2026 Durham event and its explicit student paper-badge, no-electronic-badge admission wording. cackalackycon 2026 official event page official event page · Official event context that explicitly distinguishes student paper-badge access from electronic badges. 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 2026 schedule official schedule · Official schedule source corroborating the May 15-17, 2026 dates and Durham venue context. cackalackycon 2026 tickets organizer-linked ticketing page · Ticketing page that records the completed event, separately markets an electronic badge, and calls the student artifact a paper ticket; it supplies no 2026 electronic-badge specification or allocation detail. 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. cackalackycon 2026 Call for Papers organizer-provided call for papers · Organizer-provided Sessionize CFP that distinguishes the student paper badge from selected speakers' speaker-colored electronic badges and paper-badge guest admissions. 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.

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