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What The Hack
Call For Abstracts
"What The Hack" Hacker Outdoor Conference
July 28-31, 2005 near Boxtel/Den Bosch, The
Netherlands
Every four years, the dutch hacker scene likes to
throw an outdoor
festival/conference/camp-out. At these events, the
visitors usually
stay in tents or other mobile living facilities on the
site of the
event, and much of the atmosphere is a strange mix
between both very
relaxed and vibrant at the same time. Major
developments in the world
of Internet (and God knows where else) started because
the right
people met at one of these events. The New York Times
likened the 1997
edition to a "Woodstock for Hackers".
The 2005 edition of this extravaganza is called "What
The Hack", and
the organizing committee is soliciting abstracts from
those who have
an interest in presenting something there. Topics
Like previous editions, the conference side of this
multi-facetted
event will cover traditional 'hacker topics' such as:
* Computer security
* The politics surrounding the net
* Freedom of speech
* Open Source software development
* Lockpicking
This edition, we would like to expand even further
into areas to which
the connection may or may not be immediately obvious,
but which are of
general interest to a technologically savvy and
politically awake
audience. Just to name a few, we would like to see
lectures and
presentations by people who can tell us something
fascinating about:
* The world's dwindling supply of oil
* Military hardware
* How Internet is used in Africa
* Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
* Drug politics
* Adbusting and culture-jamming
* How to become a politician and stay a hacker
* Bugs and wiretapping
* North-Korea
* Biometrics
* Economic issues regarding the Internet
* Renewable energy
* Biotech
* Corporate intelligence-gathering
* 3D-modeling
* Game theory
* All sorts of earth-orbiting satellites
* How to tap into underseas cables
* Climate change
* The Titan lander
* Nuclear physics
* Mass-media piracy
* Do-it-yourself pyrotechnics
* Electro-stimulation of the human brain
This is by no means an exhaustive list: it just goes
to show that we
are explicitly looking for both 'classical' hacker
stuff and for
topics further towards the, ehm, fringes of collective
hacker
conciousness, if you will.
Speaking in front of and interacting with an
international hacker
audience can be intellectually stimulating and great
fun. If you know
(of) someone that you think should present at What The
Hack, please
ask them to submit an abstract. If you're too shy for
that, then
please tell us so maybe we can ask them... Important
dates
Abstracts should be sent via E-mail to
speaker@???.
Abstracts are due 1 May 2005, and speakers who submit
before that date
will receive news during May 2005. The conference
section of the event
runs from 28-31 July. More general information on the
event can be
found on
http://www.whatthehack.org
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