Rochester 2600

Meetings are held on the first Friday of every month at 7:30pm. We meet at Interlock Rochesterjust like the 2600 listing says.   There are no fees to get in and all are welcome.  New faces are there every month. Thanks to the new location, presentations are welcome just send us an email so we can make sure we’re prepared.

The easiest way to get into the building is to find Door #1 at 1115 E. Main St. Go down the stairs to the basement.

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Explanation about meetings from 2600 Magazine:

There are absolutely no requirements of [laptop, money, etc] to attend one of our meetings.  They’re open to all ages and there’s no admission fee of any type.  We welcome people of all levels of expertise, including those who believe they know absolutely nothing.  (In fact, we greatly prefer them to those people who believe they know everything.) All we ask is that you come with an open mid, help those who ask questions, avoid developing cliques, and be ready to explain what we’re all about to those who might not get it right away, including any security guards who may work in the space you’re meeting in.  Some meetings have presentations but most are simply gatherings where people talk to a variety of individuals who show up.  There will always be those who imagine the meetings exist for the purpose of obtaining illegal information or devices and you may even encounter attendees who believe this and who try to subvert the image of hackers into the mass media definition.  This is why it’s so important to understand what the meetings are really about and to invite people from all circles to join in and make them even better.  We hope you find them interesting…

2600 Magazine, Autumn 2009

Official 2600 Guidelines for meetings:

1) We meet in a public area. Nobody is excluded. We have nothing to hide and we don’t presume to judge who is worthy of attending and who is not. If law enforcement harasses us, it will backfire as it did at the infamous Washington DC meeting in 11/92. (You can find more information on this event in the Secret Service section of our web site.)

2) We act in a responsible manner. We don’t do illegal things and we don’t cause problems for the place we’re meeting in. *Most* 2600 meetings are welcomed by the establishments we choose.

3) We meet on the first Friday of the month between 5 pm and 8 pm local time. While there will always be people who can’t make this particular time, the same will hold true for *any* time or day chosen. By having all of the meetings on the same day, it makes it very easy to remember, opens up the possibility for inter-meeting communication, and really causes hell for the federal agencies who want to monitor everything we do. (A few meetings have slight variations on the meeting time – these are noted accordingly.)

4) While meetings are not limited to big cities, most of them take place in large metropolitan areas that are easily accessible.While it’s convenient to have a meeting in your home town, we encourage people to go to meetings where they’ll meet people from as wide an area as possible. So if there’s a meeting within an hour or two of your town, go to that one rather than have two smaller meetings fairly close to each other. You always have the opportunity to get together with “home town hackers” any time you want.

5) All meetings *must* contact us to let us know how things are going even if nothing unusual is happening. If we don’t hear from your city on a regular basis, we’ll have to stop publicizing the site since telling people to go to where no meeting is really doesn’t do anyone a service. You can email us at meetings@2600.com or call us at (631) 751-2600. We also need a way of getting back in touch with you.