Project:UK Hack Camp

There's been talk for far too long about a hacker camp in the UK; let's make it happen. Europe has a great history of camps: Hacking At Random 2009. Chaos Communication Camp 2011.

Let's have one in the UK. Sod the Olympics, let's make this the event of 2012.

*Very* Provisional Plans

• Date options:
  • Saturday 25th - Monday 27th August 2012 (Bank Holiday Weekend)
  • Saturday 2nd - Tuesday 5th June 2012 (4-day bank holiday weekend)
  • Late June
• Capacity: 500 people

Get Involved

• Join the UK hack camp mailing list.
  • Please use a normal mailing list manager that doesn't require a google account!!!!
    • Email uk-hack-camp+subscribe@googlegroups.com. No need for a Google Account. Ms7821 11:55, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
• Drop into irc.freenode.net #ukhackcamp

What we Need

The biggest challenge is to find a decent site with the ability to get hold of a good (at least 100meg) internet connection.

Please add discussion and suggestions to the list of candidate sites.

Event Search =

• Candidate sites
• Sample letter to possible sites
• Site criteria for early negotiations: basic things we need to know for each site before we sign anything

Planning

See here

Here's some random stuff we picked up from CCC - maybe handy for the survival guide.