WTH: First day
July 28th, 2005 by teemowAfter a heavy thunderstorm in the early morning we survived in our tent without drowning. A great cold shower got us ready to start with the lectures today.
The keynote was held by Rop Gonggrijp and Eric Corley aka Emmanuel Goldstein. They gave us an overview about the camps which started 1989 and were held every 4 years. There was a lot of hacker spirit stuff and how everything became what it is today. By the way there is actually one cop on every 100 hackers here on the campside. But there is no criminal energy here. There was even a lecture about how to improve collaboration of the police in european countries.
Kevin Warwick talked about Cyborgs: Practical experimentation which was quite interesting. Best thing were the wires in his arm with which he can control another metal arm.
Fabienne Serriere is an expert in multichannel audio hacking. She does a lot of projects hacking and enhancing her techie toys for artistic live performances. She is even writing a new codec with a friend for multichannel audio over wifi.
There was also a freaky lecture about ubuntu’s derivative development model and how it is related to debian by Benjamin Mako Hill. Don’t use forks on that.
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August 10th, 2005 at 11:39 am
hi, nice to meet you and molly at wth! and thanks for linking me on your blog.
cheers,
f