Re: What the hack roundup

[Adam Shostack <adam () homeport org>]

When I was at the 99 Chaos camp, there was lots of English.  Besides,
even if the talks are in German, offsets are in hex. ;)

Adam


On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 11:29:28PM +0200, Michael Sandee wrote:
| At monday when everything was pretty much done, we were thinking about 
| the "next" event. Four years is kind of a long time, so the CCC camp is 
| definately what we should aim for. The only problem is that most of the 
| talks are apparently in german, but if we have our own village that 
| should not be so much of a problem.
| 
| Michael
| 
| 
| Dave Aitel wrote:
| 
| >So, as with all conferences I'm doing a post-conference report to the 
| >mailing list. My summary is this:
| >What the Hack rocked. It was by far more awesome than I thought it 
| >would be. First of all WTH is humongous. It was on a massive scale I 
| >hadn't really experienced before. Second of all, it was remarkably 
| >well run. It had a for-the-people-by-the-people atmosphere I've never 
| >seen before. At no other conference are you going to get served drinks 
| >by some of the best hackers you've ever met. And I don't mean 
| >"hackers" in the same sense that small-minded people pretend to when 
| >what they really want to say is "coders". Remember when hacking was 
| >fun and not something you did just for cash? Apparantly everyone in 
| >Europe does.
| >
| >One of my favorate talks (I didn't hit many of them, but the ones I 
| >did hit were excellent, up to date, and well done) was this one:
| >http://wiki.whatthehack.org/index.php/Evolutionary_Computation . There 
| >were many good talks I couldn't make it too, and they're all available 
| >online already. There was a huge booth of Apple computers busy doing 
| >live transcoding during the conference, so the talks were available 
| >almost immediately afterwards.
| >
| >Lemme just do a bullet point list of WTH, since there were very few 
| >Americans there (Justine and I were almost the only ones):
| >
| >o WTH had its own phone system. You could bring a phone (some standard 
| >kind) or buy one there, and you'd have phone service wherever you 
| >went. People could call you on your phone from anywhere in the world 
| >and it would get routed through the WTH pdx to you, sitting next to a 
| >camp-fire drinking beer with THC people and watching the lights on the 
| >spaceship.
| >o There were happy rabbits running around the campground. Oddly, these 
| >rabbits didn't chew on the ethernet or power cords. I can only assume 
| >they were trained rabbits, there to provide amusment.
| >o There were lesbian computer art displays (you'll have to see it to 
| >understand what I mean)
| >o There was a 50 foot space ship with a light display. I originally 
| >thought it was inflatable. It wasn't. I wouldn't have been surprised 
| >if it had worked.
| >o There was a THC birthday party with free beer
| >o There were lots of other places with free beer
| >o Even if you paid for your beer, it was reasonably priced
| >o There were easy signs to get to the place from all available directions
| >o Parking was plentiful, and well manned
| >o It was visibly stunning - walking into the place you went past a 
| >huge, lit sign, that said "Hacking is not a crime." Everywhere you 
| >went were colored light bars. The visual impact of the conference is 
| >hard to explain.
| >o You could walk into almost any tent for a free show of some kind. 
| >For example, the blinkenlights people could tell you how to play pong 
| >on their big light display using your camp phone.
| >o Food was reasonably good, and reasonably priced.
| >o Toilets and other facilities were perfectly good. Power appeared to 
| >be exceptionally good.
| >o Very few mosquitos
| >o EU Feds much better dressed than US feds.
| >o There was a room full of sun computers to use (with full working 
| >network connections) if you felt like browsing for a bit. None of 
| >these were defaced or owned by amatures.
| >o Everyone there quite smart and nice. No salesguys at WTH. WTH is not 
| >all about the "networking". You could leave your wallet/laptop on the 
| >table, and not worry about it walking too much.
| >o A military (NATO?) AWACs buzzed us for fun during lunch. As halvar 
| >said "I guess a lot of wireless boxes got popped just now". Who has an 
| >AWACs in the area?
| >o All talks in understandable english. Lots of good viewer questions, 
| >but few people just raising their hand to say how smart they are, like 
| >in most conferences.
| >
| >Basically, WTH was mind-blowingly awesome. In a couple years we plan 
| >to hit up the CCC camp as well, since I assume it's similar. Next time 
| >we'll bring a tent.
| >
| >-dave
| >
| >
| >
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