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Geek Alarm at Campus Party Berlin - is this us?
- rmoriz 14y agoThis seems to be a masterpiece of "how not to organize a technical event"
- lrock 14y agoyeah ... all talks take place in the same giant room ... you can hardly hear the speaker, projections are almost invisible because the light is too bright.
- shanelja 14y agoEven so, when I attend these events I go more for the people than the speakers etc, I would bet the people who went still enjoyed themselves.
- felixge 14y agoI was speaking yesterday, and I agree that the setup seems less than ideal when walking past the speaker areas. That being said, if you're taking a seat, you're entering the audio zone, and while not perfect, you could understand the speakers pretty well. The projections were unreadable I agree, but there were also big televisions that were readable when you were in one of the seats (given decent sized font, but it's the presenters fault if they use small fonts). Anyway, having dedicated rooms for talks would have been much nicer, no question about it.
- robert-boehnke 14y agoAlso, it doesn't quite look like a crowd of 10.000 people to me
- Argorak 14y agoIts quite telling that I know almost no one that got his ticket through "regular" channels.
- stwe 14y agoIndeed. This is a commercial event with too much security - quite the opposite from the usual hacker events in Germany. You need to give lots of info on registration including a passport style photo, your laptop serial number (because equipment is required to be tagged) and apparently bags are searched on entry and exit. It's ridiculous. That's why the usual hacker crowd in Germany totally ignores this event.
- arrrg 14y agoWasn’t this originally supposed to be in Barcelona and only moved to Berlin very late? You can’t just organize events like that in Berlin. There are already many other (broadly) similar events in Berlin, with more focus and better organization. It just doesn’t seem very attractive to me and it’s a total culture clash. Paranoid security theater? No alcohol? I’m sorry, but not in Berlin.
- ig1 14y agoHow would you handle security at a 10,000 people event where laptops are likely to be left unattended ? It seems given that scenario tagging laptops and checking them on entry/exit is probably the most effective solution.
- stwe 14y agoThese procedures trade my freedom and privacy for security. I always have someone keep an eye on my stuff, but I've also been at similar events (Chaos Communication Camp 2011) where keeping something unattended was not a problem at all. Treating all you attendees like potential thieves is simply a bad premise for a hacker event.
- ig1 14y agoAccording to the CCC FAQ Laptops have been stolen in the past
- biafra 14y agoYes. Of course. And there have been or will be stolen laptops at this event. The "security system" is easy to circumvent, if you do a little planning and want to steal something. The stickers are removable and re-attachable. You can register whatever, whenever you want. It is not done at the door. On my MacBook the serial number was taken from a screen, that I prepared. But even the CCC had several years of congress with this kind of "security". So I am not mad at the organizers. We even had one congress where every participant had his/her photo taken. This actually had a major uproar and wasn't done ever again. I think maybe the organizers will learn and do things differently next time. At least I hope if they do this again in Berlin. The most ridiculous things like not bringing lighters or no smoking outside the Hanger was removed from the Term & Conditions.
- shanelja 14y agoI'm getting a 502 bad gateway, has being on the front page crashed the site?
- keyboardsurfer 14y agoSame here. Google doesn't have it in it's cache. Anyone with a mirror out there?
- sp332 14y agoThe page is just photos, so a text cache like Google's won't help here.
- zalew 14y agomaybe, they're in beta. great service btw, I recommend checking it out when it's up again :)
- shanelja 14y agoThanks for the recommendation, mind telling me what the site is all about? EDIT: Can't reply to you so I +1'd you instead, thanks for a great answer :)
- zalew 14y agoa new way to quickly build beautiful photo/artwork galleries. you drag and drop your pics, set how you want them organized (with some customizing of size, spacing, etc) and awesomeness happens. great for portfolios but not only, I used it as my travel pics gallery. all powered by html/js and technically it's build as a single page app http://blog.salon.io/2011/08/27/salonhazbackbone.html http://blog.salon.io/2011/08/27/salonhazbackbone.html //edit: it's back, you can browse the galleries on the main page http://salon.io/ http://salon.io/
- morsch 14y agoI figured it's from Salon, ie. the magazine. It's not.
- NickKampe 14y agoHope your geek alarms are going off for all the 502 bad gateway status codes your static servers are rendering...
- kbronson 14y agoIf you are a 502, then yes.
- daraosn 14y agoi'm trying to find a ticket, does anyone have an extra one to sell/giveaway/rent/etc.? -> d@wehack.it thx
- phreeza 14y agoI don't think the tickets are transferable, as mentioned in another comment, they require you to upload a picture when buying/claiming the ticket...
- axx 14y agothat says enough about the organization. if there is a campus party 2013, i guess they'll require you to give them fingerprints, iris scans and your shoe size.
- biafra 14y agoYou can print this: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/61624465/daypass_cpeu.png https://dl.dropbox.com/u/61624465/daypass_cpeu.png and get a daypass. BTW: Are there quotas on Dropbox traffic?
- mntmn 14y agogreetz lrock, hope you'll be able to handle the load! ;) maybe give varnish a try.
- axx 14y agoIt seems to me that this event wants to be something it isn't. I think they want to get all the "cool nerdy people" and got marketing/twitter people and gamers that thought it was a big LAN Party. I heared about a guy who wanted to leave and the security kept his laptop, because they couldn't verify if it was his or not. nightmare! If you want a real "hacker" event, participate the 29c3 (now in Hamburg) shortly after christmas.
- adrinavarro 14y agoOr Euskal Encounter (euskal.org) in Basque Country (Spain). Quite good for scene, hacking (very good security contests), programming but also good if you want to play games, dance or whatever.
- cafebabe 14y agoI agree. It's a commercial top-down event. It is all about monetization. North Korea could not organize a better 'party'.
- tobias3 14y agoA few creepy pictures of the female gender there. Do they want even less of those participants? http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/08/sexual_harassme.html http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/08/sexual_harassm...
- FuzzyDunlop 14y agoMy first observation was that, of all the pictures containing women, pretty much most of them were focussed on their arses. I don't like the feeling that women are an attraction at these types of event. It's like, "OMG there are women here! Make the most of it, because this hardly ever happens!" Then everyone whips out the camera because the sight of another gender doing things is somehow surprising.
- shanelja 14y agoA second look through the images and I agree, almost every picture of a woman is focused on her bottom, with the exception of one at the bottom which is focused instead on the bosom.
- aw3c2 14y agoAnd of all the pictures containing standing men, pretty much most of them are focused on their breasts or backsides. On the nerdomat photo the photograph clearly took a position where the pixel man points his fingers to the crotch of the guys standing there.
- sp332 14y agoThe photos in the bottom 1/3 of the page reverse the trend. Guys from the back, women from the front and side. I think it balances out actually.
- latj 14y agoDear white knight fuzzy dunlop, You might be reading too much into these photos. There are some photos of women from the front and some from the back. In those cases you have decided that the photos are of their breasts or butt. I think this says more about you than the photos. From what angle should the photos be taken?
- rickmb 14y agoLooks exactly like a common recruitment event.