Paris Hosts the Second Hacker Space Festival 55
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."
Re: Cliché (Score:4, Informative)
Sorry to disappoint you but outskirt is the standard translation for French banlieue, which makes the whole thing less sexy.
On the other hand, if you insist on this side, I may advise you to have a look at this geek's girlfriend advise site [copinedegeek.com] if you read some French.
Cheers.
Re:What an eclectic group of topics (Score:3, Informative)
Plenty of 20 minutes slots for Lightning Talks (Score:5, Informative)
There are still plenty of 20 minutes slots for Lightning Talks to present your project:
http://www.hackerspace.net/lightning-talks
Re:HACKING (Score:5, Informative)
Actually, I think we're seeing a bit of a comeback. Hackerspaces are mushrooming [wired.com] around the world. (I like to believe the talk at the 24th Chaos Computer Congress in December 2007, Building a Hacker Space [events.ccc.de], helped provide impetus to this movement.) I also believe DIY culture is on the rise again, as spearheaded by Make [makezine.com].
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.
Re:HACKING (Score:3, Informative)