Mid-Winter Hacker Camp In Civilised Surroundings
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But one of the best antidotes to February weather in the European hacker community was Hacker Hotel 2020. Around 350 people came from all the countries of the northwest of the continent to the comfort and hospitality of the Westcord Hotel de Veluwe in the eastern Netherlands, to experience a hacker camp with all the convenience and luxury of a resort hotel rather than a muddy field.
Our small party of Brits arrived a day early, on a damp Thursday morning ready to lend a hand with the set-up. Slowly an upscale business conference centre was transformed into a hacker camp venue, with conference rooms turned into lecture halls, lighting and video equipment in place and 3-phase power cables snaking along the skirting boards. A large hardware hacking area was set up in one wing of the building, then the EventInfra people came in and laid out a hacker-camp-grade wireless and wired network that delivered connectivity everywhere. The contrast between the two worlds is significant, but together they make for a unique experience.
The largest of hacker camps offer all the lights, robots, tschunk, and techno music you can stomach; they can be a blast but also overwhelming. I made my way eth0 over the past week weekend, enjoying the more intimate size and coming away having made friendships from spending time with great people at a large private camping hostel near Lichtenvoorde. This is in the far east of the country near the German border, to which in the company of a British hardware hacker friend I traveled in the tiny European hatchback. Netherlands roads are so easy to navigate!
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When the storm was expended we moved up the river, hoping tofall in with game. We, unfortunately, found but little on our course. When wehad advanced some twenty miles we halted. Our position looked threatening. Itwas mid-winter, and every thing around us bore a gloomy aspect. We were withoutprovisions, and we saw no means of obtaining any. At this crisis, six or sevenIndians of the Pawnee Loup band came into our camp. Knowingthem to be friendly, we were overjoyed to see them. They informed ourinterpreter that their village was only four miles distant, which at onceaccounted for the absence of game. They invited us to their lodges, where theycould supply us with every thing that we needed; but on our representing tothem our scarcity of horses, and the quantity of peltry we had no means ofpacking, they immediately started off to their village (our interpreteraccompanying them in quest of horses, and speedily returned with a sufficientnumber. Packing our effects, we accompanied them to their village, Two Axe, ofwhom I have previously made mention, and a Spaniard named Antoine Behele, chiefof the band, forming part of our escort.
To return to my narrative: Mr. Sublet, having left the campin company with my old companion, Mr. Harris, before we returned, had left aletter of instructions for Fitzpatrick, desiring him to remove our camp asearly in the spring as possible back to Cache Valley, and to repair to Weaver's Lake, where he would rejoin him. Sublet and Harris had parted for St. Louis,which they reached in safety after a journey in mid-winter. 2b1af7f3a8