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Paris Hosts the Second Hacker Space Festival

Posted by kdawson on from the cette-annee-a-paris dept.

zoobab writes "Hackers from all over Europe will meet at the end of the month (27-30 June) at the second Hacker Space Festival in Paris. The four-day schedule includes conferences and workshops on: Metasploit, HostileWRT, FPGA for beginners, ICT disaster recovery, software patents in Europe, Hadopi, and many other topics. The future of Hacker Spaces will also be debated. The event will be hosted by the first French hackerspace, /tmp/lab, located in an industrial zone on the outskirts of Paris."

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  1. HACKING by AndGodSed · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Is a dying art - and I am not referring to malicious hacking. That is a term spawned by the over-hyped media.

    Being able to hack a system to get it to work is sadly something that less and less techs are able to do. Format-reinstall is the mantra of techsupport lately.

    And these tools that the summary mentions might not refer to that kind of hack, but they still have some real-world positive applications that seem to be eschewed by the new generation of IT staffers, and when something does go bork in the night they stare wide-eyed at the screen and look for the re-install disks without thinking of running a diagnostic such as NMAP or metasploit (yes it can and should be used as a diagnostic tool) to find out where the problem actually lies.

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    1. Re:HACKING by AceJohnny · · Score: 4, Informative

      Actually, I think we're seeing a bit of a comeback. Hackerspaces are mushrooming around the world. (I like to believe the talk at the 24th Chaos Computer Congress in December 2007, Building a Hacker Space, helped provide impetus to this movement.) I also believe DIY culture is on the rise again, as spearheaded by Make.

      So I'd say it's not so much that hacking is dying off rather than being handed over to the new generation, which has its own interests.

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  2. What an eclectic group of topics by e2d2 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    After I saw FPGA and Verilog right along side making your own bio-diesel I knew, this was a really eclectic group of topics being talked about. I envy you insensitive euro-bastards. Where is my hacker space festival (in the US?) All we get is lame gatherings of steam-punkers doing the cosplay thing in the desert while modding their cases/cars/bodies to look like they were built by Jules Verne .. or commercial gatherings where it's free pencils and a few days at the poker tables in the area.

  3. Plenty of 20 minutes slots for Lightning Talks by zoobab · · Score: 4, Informative

    There are still plenty of 20 minutes slots for Lightning Talks to present your project:

    http://www.hackerspace.net/lightning-talks