Jamie and I went to HIP97 and had a blast. Yet Another Cool Conference
to go to guys ;-)
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From: Gerrit Hiddink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: announcement: Hacker's conference "HAL 2001"
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 15:22:04 +0100
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Press Release
Enschede, The Netherlands
March 5th, 2001
Hackers At Large 2001: debating the future of the Internet.
>From August 9th until August 12th, the campus of the University of
Twente will feature a congress that is unique in its kind: Hackers at
Large, or HAL 2001. The congress expects to receive thousands of
guests from all over the world and from many different disciplines to
debate issues ranging from advanced technical issues regarding some
obscure aspect of the Internet to easy-to-understand lectures on some
of the dangers of the information society, as well as many, many other
topics. But more than debate, the guests at HAL2001 take ample time to
get on-line, relax, build and discuss cool stuff, and engage in good
old analog interfacing.
The congress is unique in that the participants bring their tent and
their computer, which is connected to a large high-speed outdoor
computer network that provides high bandwidth Internet connectivity
for everybody. On-site power generators provide all these computers
with the necessary power: more than 1.5 mega-Watts.
Some of the people that are organizing HAL 2001 were also involved in
the former hacker movement in The Netherlands: those responsible for
the late hackers' magazine Hack-Tic and for setting up the first Internet
Service Provider in The Netherlands called ``XS4ALL''. But also many
people from Dutch universities, companies and other Internet Service
Providers participate in making this event possible.
The HAL2001 convention is the fourth in a series that has been running
every four years since 1989. Quite a few of the participants at "The
Galactic Hacker Party" (1989), "Hacking at the End of the Universe" (1993)
and "Hacking in Progress" (1997) have been instrumental in bringing about
the changes that are upon us today.
HAL2001 is for those that can truly celebrate the Internet and embrace new
technologies, without forgetting their responsability to tell others that
all these wonderful new technologies come with new risks to the individual
and to society as a whole.
Sponsors:
The HAL 2001 organization would like to thank the sponsors for making
this event possible:
XS4ALL Internet BV www.xs4all.nl
XS4ALL foundation
University of Twente www.utwente.nl
NLnet foundation www.nlnet.nl
USENIX www.usenix.org
ITSX www.itsx.com
GorillaPark www.gorillapark.com
Board of HAL foundation:
Cor Bosman
Jaco Lockhorst
Rop Gonggrijp
HAL-staff:
Gerrit Hiddink
Eric Slachmuylders
Contact Information:
URL: http://www.hal2001.org
Gerrit Hiddink
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
tel: (+31) (0)53-4892425 (please observe Dutch office hours)
fax: (+31) (0)53-4892452
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