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OHM2013 - a 5 day hacker/maker camp in The Netherlands

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This event series has a great long history in Europe. It all started with "The Galactic Hacker Party" in 1989, followed by "Hacking at the End of the Universe" in 1993, "Hacking In Progress" in 1997 and later "Hackers At Large" in 2001, and "What the Hack" in 2005 - the previous one was called Hacking At Random and was held in 2009.

They are all held in The Netherlands - with four years in between each event. They usually get a three letter abbreviation (GHP, HEU, HIP, HAL, WTH, HAR).

There is a related event held in Germany, also every fourth year - but amusingly two years apart from the event in The Netherlands by the Chaos Computing Club.

If you're an North American and this seems interesting - I'd recommend that you check with "Hackers on a Plane" and see if they'll arrange a trip - like they've done previously from The States over to Europe.

These events draw hackers from all over Europe.

It would also be good to point out that they owe a ton to Rop Gonggrijp, co-founder of the dutch ISP xs4all (one of the first ISPs in the world) and his publication hack-tic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rop_Gonggrijp

Mainly from all over Europe, but like any gathering - from all over the World ;-)

I'm flying from Asia.

There is a related event held in Germany, also every fourth year - but amusingly two years apart from the event in The Netherlands by the Chaos Computing Club.

I can say it's like UEFA European Championship and FIFA World Cup for Football (Soccer) :D

Additionally, in between the Dutch and German hacker camps, meaning every 2 years, there is EMF (Electro Magnetic Field) in the UK.

Actually, for many years in between the Dutch and German hacker camps, meaning every 2 years, there is Eth0 in the north of the Netherlands. http://eth0.nl/ They have a yearly 'winterlan' weekend as well.

Dutch hackers and entrepreneurs may also be interested in the Startup Weekend in Veenendaal in June:

http://veenendaal.startupweekend.org/

Not trying to hijack -- it's just great to see these events where I live.

I honestly didn't expect to see my hometown on HN! Checking it out right now, very cool.

Yeah, I seriously considered it, but didn't want to take the time away from my family.

I'm in Ede by the way, hi!

Yeah, saw it on your site. Small world!

I like the pricing options at https://tickets.ohm2013.org/:

250 - Overpriced ticket

180 - Normal ticket

125 - Budget ticket

from which you can choose your own price.

Even more, there is a business ticket for 1337€ that gets you a formal invoice! Oh, and you can pay in bitcoin.

"Can I buy a budget ticket? The budget ticket is an experiment, calling on common-sense of all potential attendees. The goal is a more fair distribution of discounted tickets, instead of the arbitrary distribution based on the moment a ticket is sold. There are no income-checks, instead the experiment relies on the fairness of the individual. Those considering the budget option should really consider carefully: "Can I really not afford the normal ticket, or am I taking the chance for some of my fellow hackers for attending by just being cheap?". A tough call, but do remember: there is only a set percentage and each budget ticket sold means there is one less in the overall pool."

Seriously considering going (with a normal ticket :)).

I'm speaking at this one, doing an extended remix of the "does it make any sense to run Free Software on hardware produced by Chinese prison labour?" (paraphrase) talk I did at the Athens Hackerspace in Greece.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsaSfUwOVkw

I suspect we'll build some hexayurts too.

There's a typo

https://ohm2013.org/wiki/Camping:Travel follow the sings towards "Recratiegebied Geestmerambacht". sings

It's a wiki

Nice, have been looking forward to another one of these. Last time 4 years ago was a blast!

Hope the 'Hackers On A Bike' effort gets some more traction again too.

You mean this, right? :) https://ohm2013.org/wiki/HackersonaBike

No, I actually meant this:

https://ohm2013.org/wiki/User:Rootman/HackersOnABike

Being a wiki, these pages should probably be merged.

Wow, thanks! I might just do that :)

If you're early (5-7 July) you could always try to visit the CCC conference "SIGINT13" (http://sigint.ccc.de).

I'll be going there this year. Can't wait! Hopefully there will be some Hacker News people there!

Who are you?

I'm definitely there to help out :)

Looking forward to the camp.

Oh this looks great!

That looks cool.

Should be good!

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