A Hacker’s Travel Guide To Europe
This summer, I was pleasantly surprised when a friend of mine from Chicago turned up at one of the hacker camps I attended. A few days of hanging out in …read more Continue reading A Hacker’s Travel Guide To Europe
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What Goes Into A Hacker Camp
Long-time readers of Hackaday will know that we attend quite a few events, including summer hacker camps. Here in Europe this year there are two large events, the British Electromagnetic …read more Continue reading What Goes Into A Hacker Camp
The Hackaday Summer Camp Survival Guide
It’s a feature of summer for us, the round of hacker camps in which members of our community gather in fields and spend a few days relaxing and doing what …read more Continue reading The Hackaday Summer Camp Survival Guide
Mutually Crafted Happiness: How MCH2022 Happened
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
Hacker Camps Are Back. To Get You In The Mood, Here’s A Story From 1997
The past couple of years of the COVID pandemic have been rough in some unexpected ways, and it’s clear that our world will never be quite the same as it …read more Continue reading Hacker Camps Are Back. To Get You In The Mood, Here’s A Story From 1997
Reporting From BornHack 2021: Hacker Camps Making It Through The Pandemic
In a normal summer we would be spoiled for choice here in Europe when it came to our community’s events, with one big camp and a host of smaller ones …read more Continue reading Reporting From BornHack 2021: Hacker Camps Making It Through The Pandemic
May (No Longer) Contain Hackers: MCH 2021 Has Been Cancelled
In a sad but unsurprising turn of events, MCH, this summer’s large hacker camp in the Netherlands, has been cancelled. Organising a large event in a pandemic would inevitably carry some risk, and despite optimism that the European vaccine strategy …read more
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The First Hacker Camp To Show up on Google Maps
Our summer gatherings at hacker camps are fleeting and ephemeral, anticipated for months but over far too quickly. Afterwards we have only our memories, and perhaps the occasional Hackaday write-up. We think BornHack 2020 in Denmark was the only hacker …read more
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