Title: We should go to the r2con together, again
Date: 2018-05-06 23:40
[](https://rada.re/con/2018/)
Remember last year, when I wrote an [article]({filename}/radare2/r2con_2017.md)
about the [r2con 2017](https://rada.re/con/2017/)?
It was the second edition, and it was great. The first part, the
[workshops]({static}/images/r2con_2017/r2con2017_workshop.jpg),
took place at the [last
floor]({static}/images/r2con_2017/r2con2017_workshop_places.jpg) of the
([beautiful](http://www.ub.edu/museuvirtual/visitavirtualEH/index.php/ca/))
[Edifici històric de la Universitat de Barcelona
](https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edifici_hist%C3%B2ric_de_la_Universitat_de_Barcelona),
during two days. The second one, the talks, were in a [big and cosy
amphitheater]({static}/images/r2con_2017/r2con2017_amphi.jpg),
with a [crowded opening]({static}/images/r2con_2017/r2con2017_opening.jpg).
I improvised a complete workshop because there was many more people attending than
initially planned, stuffed a fridge with [more than 16 different kind of
French cheese]({static}/images/r2con_2017/r2con2017_fridge.jpg), got
enigmatic plants from Hong-Kong, drank [some
beers]({static}/images/r2con_2017/r2con2017_beers.jpg), witnessed a [core
war]({static}/images/r2con_2017/r2con2017_r2wars.jpg) (powered by radare2's
emulation layer of course), …
There even was a fancy [badge]({static}/images/r2con_2017/r2con2017_badge.jpg)
for the speakers and friends, indicating various information like the [status of the
build](http://ci.rada.re/), the last commit, github stars, … It was done by
[NighterMan](https://twitter.com/NighterMan), mostly because he was looking for
a pretext to play with electronic, and to rant about it during its talk.
[condret]({static}/images/r2con_2017/r2con2017_condret.jpg) gave an enthusiastic talk about the brand
new input/output layer of radare2 name *siol*, and the limitations of the old
one.
As usual, [pancake]({static}/images/r2con_2017/r2con2017_pancake.jpg) shew
[awesome radare2
features](https://github.com/radareorg/r2con-2017/blob/master/talks/hidden-gems/HiddenGems.pdf)
that not everyone knew about, this time using a minecraft themed slide deck.
He's a minecraft fetishist. Maybe one day I'll tell your about his "radare2 in
minecraft" project.
We had the pleasure to have the [Google Summer of
Code](https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/archive/2017/organizations/4795019735072768/)
students on stage too, to tell us about their experiences, what they
implemented, why they thought that it was a great idea to waste their whole
summer in front of their computer writing C code for radare2, …
Surprisingly, there were talks about people that weren't close to the r2
inner-circle community, like [Travis
Goodspeed](https://twitter.com/travisgoodspeed) or
[ak42](https://twitter.com/dsknctr). It was refreshing to see new faces
amongst the known ones. Maybe people are starting to use radare2 for something
else than simple crackmes after all…
And of course, we took some pretty pictures:
[]({static}/images/r2con_2017/r2con2017_flag.jpg)
[]({static}/images/r2con_2017/r2con2017_flag2.jpg)
This year, for the [third edition](http://rada.re/con/2018/), from September the 5th to the
8th, in Barcelona, again, there will be 2 days of trainings (and hackatons),
and then 2 days of talks.
Although I'm not active anymore in radare2's codebase, I'm still helping people
on irc, holding workshops, [rewriting the website]( http://beta.rada.re ) and
trying to convince pancake to put it in production, I'll go to the r2con,
because the community is amazing, because albeit I'm doing more web-related
things lately, I still like reversing binaries and
writing exploits, and I would like to go with you.
See you there ♥