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<h2 id="venues-dates-and-attendance">Venues, dates, and attendance</h2> <p>Each conference venue and date has been included for easy reference. </p> <table><tbody><tr><th>Conference Name</th><th>Venue</th><th>Duration</th><th>Year</th><th>Attendance</th></tr><tr><td>ShmooCon I</td><td><a href="/facts/Marriott_Wardman_Park/M6lhyYXj">Marriott Wardman Park</a></td><td>February 4–6</td><td>2005</td><td>~400 attendees</td></tr><tr><td>ShmooCon II</td><td><a href="/facts/Marriott_Wardman_Park/M6lhyYXj">Marriott Wardman Park</a></td><td>January 13–15</td><td>2006</td><td>~700 attendees</td></tr><tr><td>ShmooCon III</td><td><a href="/facts/Marriott_Wardman_Park/M6lhyYXj">Marriott Wardman Park</a></td><td>March 23–25</td><td>2007</td><td>900+ attendees</td></tr><tr><td>ShmooCon IV</td><td><a href="/facts/Marriott_Wardman_Park/M6lhyYXj">Marriott Wardman Park</a></td><td>February 15–17</td><td>2008</td><td>1200+ attendees</td></tr><tr><td>ShmooCon V</td><td><a href="/facts/Marriott_Wardman_Park/M6lhyYXj">Marriott Wardman Park</a></td><td>February 6–8</td><td>2009</td><td>1600+ attendees</td></tr><tr><td>ShmooCon VI</td><td><a href="/facts/Marriott_Wardman_Park/M6lhyYXj">Marriott Wardman Park</a></td><td>February 5–7</td><td>2010</td><td>~1600 attendees</td></tr><tr><td>ShmooCon VII</td><td><a href="/facts/Washington_Hilton/R2vgjHfA">Washington Hilton</a></td><td>January 28–30</td><td>2011</td><td>1600+ attendees</td></tr><tr><td>ShmooCon VIII</td><td><a href="/facts/Washington_Hilton/R2vgjHfA">Washington Hilton</a></td><td>January 27–29</td><td>2012</td><td>1800+ attendees</td></tr><tr><td>ShmooCon IX</td><td>Hyatt Regency</td><td>February 15–17</td><td>2013</td><td>1600+ attendees</td></tr><tr><td>ShmooCon X</td><td><a href="/facts/Washington_Hilton/R2vgjHfA">Washington Hilton</a></td><td>January 17–19</td><td>2014</td><td>1900+ attendees</td></tr><tr><td>ShmooCon XI</td><td><a href="/facts/Washington_Hilton/R2vgjHfA">Washington Hilton</a></td><td>January 16–18</td><td>2015</td><td>1900+ attendees</td></tr><tr><td>ShmooCon XII</td><td><a href="/facts/Washington_Hilton/R2vgjHfA">Washington Hilton</a></td><td>January 19–21</td><td>2016</td><td>1500+ attendees<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a></td></tr><tr><td>ShmooCon XIII</td><td><a href="/facts/Washington_Hilton/R2vgjHfA">Washington Hilton</a></td><td>January 13–15</td><td>2017</td><td>~2200 attendees<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a></td></tr><tr><td>ShmooCon XIV</td><td><a href="/facts/Washington_Hilton/R2vgjHfA">Washington Hilton</a></td><td>January 19–21</td><td>2018</td><td>~2200 attendees<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a></td></tr><tr><td>ShmooCon XV</td><td><a href="/facts/Washington_Hilton/R2vgjHfA">Washington Hilton</a></td><td>January 18–20</td><td>2019</td><td>2091 out of 2179 attendees checked in<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a></td></tr><tr><td>ShmooCon XVI</td><td><a href="/facts/Washington_Hilton/R2vgjHfA">Washington Hilton</a></td><td>January 31–February 2</td><td>2020</td><td>2097 out of 2170 attendees checked in<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3">—</td><td>2021</td><td>Con not held</td></tr><tr><td>ShmooCon XVII</td><td><a href="/facts/Washington_Hilton/R2vgjHfA">Washington Hilton</a></td><td>March 24–26</td><td>2022</td><td>1676 out of 1995 attendees checked in<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a></td></tr><tr><td>ShmooCon XVIII</td><td><a href="/facts/Washington_Hilton/R2vgjHfA">Washington Hilton</a></td><td>January 20–22</td><td>2023</td><td>2020 checked-in attendees<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a></td></tr><tr><td>ShmooCon XIX</td><td><a href="/facts/Washington_Hilton/R2vgjHfA">Washington Hilton</a></td><td>January 12-14</td><td>2024</td><td>2024 out of 2171 attendees checked in<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a></td></tr><tr><td>ShmooCon XX</td><td><a href="/facts/Washington_Hilton/R2vgjHfA">Washington Hilton</a></td><td>January 10-12</td><td>2025</td><td>TBA</td></tr></tbody></table> <h2 id="research-presented-at-shmoocon">Research presented at ShmooCon</h2> <p>ShmooCon seeks to select talks that are original research and have not been presented at other conventions. </p> <h2 id="charitable-efforts">Charitable efforts</h2> <p>Every year ShmooCon supported multiple <a href="/facts/Charities/x8frlCm4">charities</a>, such as the <a href="/facts/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation/vCy44tuo">Electronic Frontier Foundation</a> and <a href="/facts/Hackers_for_Charity/xo6QF0kx">Hackers for Charity</a>, by sponsoring T-shirt sales. Attendees were provided the opportunity to donate a fixed amount of money for a charity in exchange for a T-shirt. ShmooCon also had a long-standing program, Shmooze-A-Student, where attendees could opt to cover an undergraduate college student's ticket fee and stipend when purchasing their own ticket.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a> </p> <table><tbody><tr><th>Year</th><th><a href="/facts/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation/vCy44tuo">EFF</a></th><th><a href="/facts/Hackers_for_Charity/xo6QF0kx">HFC</a></th><th>Other</th><th>Total</th></tr><tr><td>2008</td><td>$2,540</td><td>$1,660</td><td>$1,490 for <a href="/facts/One_Laptop_per_Child/5YMMxho2">One Laptop per Child</a></td><td>$5,690</td></tr><tr><td>2009</td><td>~$2,500</td><td>~$2,500</td><td>$3,290 for <a href="/facts/Covenant_House/xTvsmv0a">Covenant House</a> from raffle</td><td>~$8,290</td></tr><tr><td>2010</td><td>$2,704</td><td>$3,324</td><td>$2,284 for <a href="/facts/American_Red_Cross/KNR9RcU4">American Red Cross</a></td><td>$8,312</td></tr><tr><td>2011</td><td>$5,010</td><td>$7,640</td><td></td><td>$12,650</td></tr><tr><td>2012</td><td>$6,215</td><td>$6,175</td><td></td><td>$12,390</td></tr><tr><td>2013</td><td>$7,165</td><td>$6,250</td><td></td><td>$13,415</td></tr><tr><td>2014</td><td>$5,600</td><td>$6,700</td><td></td><td>$12,300<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14"><sup>14</sup></a></td></tr><tr><td>2015</td><td>$8,050</td><td>$7,920</td><td></td><td>$15,970<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15"><sup>15</sup></a></td></tr><tr><td>2016</td><td>—</td><td>—</td><td>—</td><td>—</td></tr><tr><td>2017</td><td>$4,185</td><td>$4,010</td><td>$3,490 for <a href="/facts/Child%27s_Play_(charity)/XBSjESlT">Child's Play</a></td><td>$11,685<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:16" href="#fn:16"><sup>16</sup></a></td></tr><tr><td>2018</td><td>$7,330</td><td>$6,715</td><td>$4,176 for <a href="/facts/The_Planetary_Society/rAuRH7IK">The Planetary Society</a></td><td>$18,221<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:17" href="#fn:17"><sup>17</sup></a></td></tr><tr><td>2019</td><td>>$5,866</td><td>>$5,314</td><td>>$5,110 for No Starch Press Foundation</td><td>>$16,290<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:18" href="#fn:18"><sup>18</sup></a></td></tr><tr><td>2020</td><td>>$6,800</td><td>>$5,125</td><td>>$4,135 for No Starch Press Foundation</td><td>>$16,060<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:19" href="#fn:19"><sup>19</sup></a></td></tr><tr><td>2022</td><td>$7,875</td><td>—</td><td>$9,950 for <a href="/facts/Capital_Area_Food_Bank/Lp7PGk9P">Capital Area Food Bank</a></td><td>$17,825<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:20" href="#fn:20"><sup>20</sup></a></td></tr><tr><td>2023</td><td>$11,640</td><td>—</td><td>$9,495 for <a href="/facts/Broadway_Cares/Equity_Fights_AIDS/dIYVR6ms">Broadway Cares</a></td><td>$21,135<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:21" href="#fn:21"><sup>21</sup></a></td></tr><tr><td>2024</td><td>$8,385</td><td>—</td><td>$10,380 for <a href="/facts/Memorial_Sloan_Kettering_Cancer_Center/M9BVl8tB">Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center</a></td><td>$18,765<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:22" href="#fn:22"><sup>22</sup></a></td></tr></tbody></table> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://www.shmoocon.org/">ShmooCon website</a></li> <li><a href="https://archive.today/20130119194933/http://news.com.com/Windows+weakness+can+lead+to+network+traffic+hijacks/2100-1002_3-6170229.html">"Windows weakness can lead to network traffic hijacks", ZDNet, March 26, 2007</a> at <a href="/facts/Archive.today/B9vA7Vmt">archive.today</a> (archived 2013-01-19)</li> <li><a href="http://lists.shmoo.com/mailman/listinfo/shmoocon-roommates">ShmooCon "find a room" mailing list</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"End of Year Ticket Stats – ShmooCon". www.shmoocon.org. Retrieved 2024-11-21. <a href="https://www.shmoocon.org/2015/12/16/end-of-year-ticket-stats/" target="_blank">https://www.shmoocon.org/2015/12/16/end-of-year-ticket-stats/</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"ShmooCon 2017 – Ticket Sales Stats – ShmooCon". www.shmoocon.org. Retrieved 2024-11-21. <a href="https://www.shmoocon.org/2016/12/10/shmoocon-2017-ticket-sales-stats/" target="_blank">https://www.shmoocon.org/2016/12/10/shmoocon-2017-ticket-sales-stats/</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"End of Year Ticket Stats – 2018 – ShmooCon". www.shmoocon.org. Retrieved 2024-11-21. <a href="https://www.shmoocon.org/2017/12/16/end-of-year-ticket-stats-2018/" target="_blank">https://www.shmoocon.org/2017/12/16/end-of-year-ticket-stats-2018/</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"Yearly Ticket Sales Stats – 2019 – ShmooCon". www.shmoocon.org. Retrieved 2024-11-21. <a href="https://www.shmoocon.org/2019/01/03/yearly-ticket-sales-stats-2019/" target="_blank">https://www.shmoocon.org/2019/01/03/yearly-ticket-sales-stats-2019/</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Shmoo Group, various presenters (Jan 20, 2019). "ShmooCon 2019 Closing Remarks". Event occurs at 27:00. Retrieved Jan 11, 2025 – via Internet Archive. <a href="https://archive.org/details/ShmooCon_2019/ShmooCon2019-Closing+Remarks.mp4" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/ShmooCon_2019/ShmooCon2019-Closing+Remarks.mp4</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Shmoo Group, various presenters (Feb 2, 2020). "ShmooCon 2020 Closing Remarks". Retrieved Jan 11, 2025 – via Internet Archive. <a href="https://archive.org/details/ShmooCon_2020/Shmoocon2020-Closing_Panel_and_Ruminations.mp4" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/ShmooCon_2020/Shmoocon2020-Closing_Panel_and_Ruminations.mp4</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>"End of Year Ticket Sales Stats – ShmooCon". www.shmoocon.org. Retrieved 2024-11-21. <a href="https://www.shmoocon.org/2021/12/19/end-of-year-ticket-sales-stats/" target="_blank">https://www.shmoocon.org/2021/12/19/end-of-year-ticket-sales-stats/</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>Shmoo Group, various presenters (Mar 26, 2022). "ShmooCon 2022 Closing Remarks". Event occurs at 20:35. Retrieved Jan 11, 2025 – via Internet Archive. <a href="https://archive.org/details/Shmoocon-2022/Shmoocon2022-Closing_Remarks.mp4" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/Shmoocon-2022/Shmoocon2022-Closing_Remarks.mp4</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>"End of Year Ticket Sales Stats – 2023 – ShmooCon". www.shmoocon.org. Retrieved 2024-11-21. <a href="https://www.shmoocon.org/2023/01/07/end-of-year-ticket-sales-stats-2023/" target="_blank">https://www.shmoocon.org/2023/01/07/end-of-year-ticket-sales-stats-2023/</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>Shmoo Group, various presenters (Jan 22, 2023). "ShmooCon 2023 Closing Remarks". Event occurs at 56:56. Retrieved Jan 11, 2025 – via Internet Archive. <a href="https://archive.org/details/shmoocon2023/Shmoocon2023-Closing_Remarks.mp4" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/shmoocon2023/Shmoocon2023-Closing_Remarks.mp4</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:11"><p>Shmoo Group, various presenters (Jan 14, 2024). "ShmooCon 2024 Closing Remarks". Event occurs at 58:50. Retrieved Jan 11, 2025 – via Internet Archive. <a href="https://archive.org/details/shmoocon2024/Shmoocon2024-The_Shmoo_Group-Closing_Remarks.mp4" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/shmoocon2024/Shmoocon2024-The_Shmoo_Group-Closing_Remarks.mp4</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:12"><p>"Shmooze-A-Student – ShmooCon". www.shmoocon.org. Retrieved 2024-01-12. <a href="https://www.shmoocon.org/shmooze-a-student/" target="_blank">https://www.shmoocon.org/shmooze-a-student/</a> <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:13"><p>"The Answers to the Burning Question: What is a Shmoo? – Seidenberg School News". seidenbergnews.blogs.pace.edu. Retrieved 2024-01-12. <a href="https://seidenbergnews.blogs.pace.edu/2015/02/13/2776/" target="_blank">https://seidenbergnews.blogs.pace.edu/2015/02/13/2776/</a> <a href="#fnref:13" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:14"><p>"ShmooCon 2014 - Closing Remarks". Jan 29, 2014. Retrieved Oct 29, 2020 – via Internet Archive. <a href="https://archive.org/details/ShmooCon2014_Closing_Remarks" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/ShmooCon2014_Closing_Remarks</a> <a href="#fnref:14" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:15"><p>"Closing Remarks [SC2015]". Retrieved Oct 29, 2020 – via Internet Archive. <a href="https://archive.org/details/Closing_Remarks_SC2015" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/Closing_Remarks_SC2015</a> <a href="#fnref:15" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:16"><p>Shmoo Group, various presenters (Jan 15, 2017). "ShmooCon 2017". Retrieved Oct 29, 2020 – via Internet Archive. <a href="https://archive.org/details/ShmooCon2017" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/ShmooCon2017</a> <a href="#fnref:16" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:17"><p>Shmoo Group, various presenters (Oct 29, 2018). "ShmooCon 2018". Retrieved Oct 29, 2020 – via Internet Archive. <a href="https://archive.org/details/Shmoocon2018" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/Shmoocon2018</a> <a href="#fnref:17" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:18"><p>Shmoo Group, various presenters (Jan 20, 2019). "ShmooCon 2019 Closing Remarks". Event occurs at 27:00. Retrieved Jan 11, 2025 – via Internet Archive. <a href="https://archive.org/details/ShmooCon_2019/ShmooCon2019-Closing+Remarks.mp4" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/ShmooCon_2019/ShmooCon2019-Closing+Remarks.mp4</a> <a href="#fnref:18" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:19"><p>Shmoo Group, various presenters (Feb 2, 2020). "ShmooCon 2020 Closing Remarks". Retrieved Jan 11, 2025 – via Internet Archive. <a href="https://archive.org/details/ShmooCon_2020/Shmoocon2020-Closing_Panel_and_Ruminations.mp4" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/ShmooCon_2020/Shmoocon2020-Closing_Panel_and_Ruminations.mp4</a> <a href="#fnref:19" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:20"><p>Shmoo Group, various presenters (Mar 26, 2022). "ShmooCon 2022 Closing Remarks". Event occurs at 20:35. Retrieved Jan 11, 2025 – via Internet Archive. <a href="https://archive.org/details/Shmoocon-2022/Shmoocon2022-Closing_Remarks.mp4" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/Shmoocon-2022/Shmoocon2022-Closing_Remarks.mp4</a> <a href="#fnref:20" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:21"><p>Shmoo Group, various presenters (Jan 22, 2023). "ShmooCon 2023 Closing Remarks". Event occurs at 56:56. Retrieved Jan 11, 2025 – via Internet Archive. <a href="https://archive.org/details/shmoocon2023/Shmoocon2023-Closing_Remarks.mp4" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/shmoocon2023/Shmoocon2023-Closing_Remarks.mp4</a> <a href="#fnref:21" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:22"><p>Shmoo Group, various presenters (Jan 14, 2024). "ShmooCon 2024 Closing Remarks". Event occurs at 58:50. Retrieved Jan 11, 2025 – via Internet Archive. <a href="https://archive.org/details/shmoocon2024/Shmoocon2024-The_Shmoo_Group-Closing_Remarks.mp4" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/shmoocon2024/Shmoocon2024-The_Shmoo_Group-Closing_Remarks.mp4</a> <a href="#fnref:22" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>