How to run the workshop comittee? Advice to board III

How to run the workshop comittee next year:

This document is for Board III (2026-2027). If you read this after, please delete this document or remove names that no longer make sense.

The workshop comittee is a lot of work, but fear not! Many are already prepared and (almost) ready to go! Workshops are very important for studsec as it makes studsec very unique compared to the rest of the country. Additionally, it encourages members to engage with cybersecurity material and "lowers the barrier of entry" into CTFs, hacking and the general field.

In the summer holiday, I encourage you to spend time planning out the workshop year, and I discourage you to spend time making workshops before planning is done. This planning helps you to see what actually has to happen, and what actually is important. Have a look at other workshops before creating your own. 

When running a workshop, be sure to:
 * Speak with excitement and try not to be monotonous.
 * Showcase what cool people have done
 * Spend time thinking about explaination of concepts, how to best approach the explaination? Could a picture help you?
 * Make a boardmember do a loop with maybe making some chitchat to the attendees about the hacking or life in general. Your members are your most important resource, they can join comittees and help you out. Moreover, they are very important as they may be the next board.

## Spread all the intro workshops over the year, in particular:

     * Ask mike for the Rev workshop again
     * Ask yourselves (after softsec) to do the Pwn workshop
     * Ask Nox & Elena to do wifi workshop again
     * If you make friends with a vusec PhD student, ask them to talk about their work
     * Ask Elena for the web workshop, or watch a few videos.
     * Ask a board member to run the intro workshop.

 

## Rerun advanced workshops:
     * Ask anyone who did BAMA to do the Angr workshop again
     * I will try to ask Lisanne for the DPA challenges, then we can host them on our platform and rerun the workshop with her or ask joa or Paul to do it.
     * After I make the kernel challenges, I will try to put them on the platform. For a speaker, perhaps contact Can again, or longshot maybe Herbert or Erik. Maybe there is a vusec PhD that wants to talk about it?
     * I hope the hardware hacking workshop will be cool, you should ask patrick to rerun it.
     
## Prepare more advanced workshops:
     * Ask Amir for an advanced web workshop. We may need some challenges for this.
     * Do soldering workshop with Mentor program folks maybe? You'll need to find someone who is good at soldering though.
     * Purchase some ESP32s and maybe make a bluetooth hacking workshop?
     * If you dare to make spectre challenges, ask Sander, Mathe, Sebastian or Maximilian (vusec PhDs concerned with microarch) to talk about spectre and their research.

## Maybe prepare more intro workshops?
     * DFIR is a less popular topic, but are well known CTF categories.
     * cryptography is a less popular topic, but is a well known CTF category.
     * blockchain is not at all a popular topic, but it could be kind of cool.

## Scrap workshops:
     * Scrap the bpftrace workshop, its too vague and kind of a bunch of topics splat together. If you ask Joa to rerun, Joa will throw a die, and rerun a random workshop instead (none will know which one until workshop start).