Hackers Gather in Finland, Netherlands, and Vegas

tRSS points out this CNN article about the ongoing "What the Hack" gathering in the Netherlands which starts out "There are hundreds of tents on the hot and soggy campground, but this isn't your ordinary summertime outing, considering that it includes workshops with such titles as 'Politics of Psychedelic Research' or 'Fun and Mayhem with RFID.'" Read on for news from this weekend's other major hacker gatherings, namely (drumroll, please) The Gathering and DefCon. From Las Vegas, giucmo writes "The Hacker Jeopardy crew are sending images and video live from DefCon to a moblog at textamerica.com Last night they captured the lights going out in a tent full of hackers. Tonight is the main event." And sysrec writes "I've been to an even number of defcon's greater than 3 and wanted to share some personal insights from the largest hacker con in the world." (Largest, I guess, is in the eye of the beholder.)

Jumping back to Europe, Late writes "The Assembly 2005 demoparty, possibly the largest in the world, is taking place in Helsinki, Finland. As I write this the best compos are still to come and you can view them and a lot more live via the AssemblyTV streams (we use VideoLAN.org's VLC media player). If you do miss the compos, the entries will be available for download from our mirrors and as video clips from the AssemblyTV media gallery."

Comments

Re:Yeah, Assembly was there 2004 too

[Knos]

1999 wasn't anything specially different from today. Wish I was there actually this year, but anyway Assembly is still a premium choice date for north-european / central-european sceners to gather. It is possible to attend smaller more scene oriented events like breakpoint and still appreciate the opportunity big (even if more commercial) events give to meet even more people.

The kill all audio + light thing, the way assembly still tries to help out and sponsor other scene events (for example the scene.org awards) are still a big proof that the head of asm organizing is caring about its roots.

But yeah, I'm only bothering to answer so that people don't get the wrong idea that everybody's dissing assembly in the scene. My own take is that you make of any event what you yourself make of it, it's not the event's organisers that are gonna dictate the atmosphere there. (especially in the hills behind)