Collaborate Disseminate
After three years, it’s odd to think back to those few weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic morphed from something on the news into an immediate and ever-present threat which kept …read more Continue reading Hacker Hotel 2023: Back Again!
Just a few days ago, MCH2022, a six day long hacker camp in Netherlands, has concluded – bringing about three thousand hackers together to hang out. It was my first …read more Continue reading Mutually Crafted Happiness: How MCH2022 Happened
After a four-year hiatus and a cancelled event, it was time earlier this month for British and European hackers to return to their field in Herefordshire. A special field, Eastnor …read more Continue reading Hacker Camps Post-Pandemic, Electromagnetic Field 2022
As we gear up for a summer in the field, or more accurately in a series of fields, it’s time to turn our attention towards Eastnor Castle in the Western …read more Continue reading Looking Forward To EMF Camp: Teasing Us With A Schedule
As we head into another Northern Hemisphere pandemic winter and hope that things won’t be quite as bad this year, next summer seems an extremely long time away in the …read more Continue reading Got Anything To Talk About? These Dutch Hackers Want You To Say It To Them
For Europeans, August is usually a month of blistering heatwaves, day after day of cloudless skies and burning sun that ripens fruit and turns we locals a variety of shades …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: What’s the Best Way To Heat a Tent with a Laptop?
As we stare dejectedly at our screens and consider what might have been during the 2020 summer that didn’t quite happen, here’s a little something to look forward to in a future where the COVID-19 pandemic will with any luck be much less of a threat. We have have had …read more
Continue reading Something To Look Forward To: MCH2021 Call For Participation
You could say 2020 is The Year That Didn’t Happen, or perhaps even The Year That Everything Happened Online. All the international cons and camps have been cancelled, and we’ve spent our time instead seeing our friends in Jitsi, or Zoom.
But there was one camp that wasn’t cancelled. The …read more
Continue reading Running A Successful Hacker Camp In A Pandemic: BornHack 2020
Every hacker gathering needs as many pixels as its hackers can get their hands on. Get a group together and you’ll be blinded by the amount of light on display. (We propose “a blinkenlights” as the taxonomic name for such a group.) At a large gathering, what better way to …read more
The North Sea in a winter storm is a spectacular sight, one of foam-crested waves and squalls driven on the gale. It’s not a place to spend a lot of time if you are a land-lubber, so to cross it twice in a few weeks must mean there is something …read more