Geek Alarm at Campus Party Berlin - is this us?

by lrock • 14 years ago

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rmoriz• 14 years ago

This seems to be a masterpiece of "how not to organize a technical event"

lrock9• 14 years ago

yeah ... 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.

shanelja5• 14 years ago

Even 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• 14 years ago

I 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• 14 years ago

Also, it doesn't quite look like a crowd of 10.000 people to me

Argorak• 14 years ago

Its quite telling that I know almost no one that got his ticket through "regular" channels.

stwe2• 14 years ago

Indeed. 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• 14 years ago

Wasn’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.

ig12• 14 years ago

How 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.

shanelja5• 14 years ago

I'm getting a 502 bad gateway, has being on the front page crashed the site?

keyboardsurfer• 14 years ago

Same here. Google doesn't have it in it's cache. Anyone with a mirror out there?

sp3322• 14 years ago

The page is just photos, so a text cache like Google's won't help here.

zalew2• 14 years ago

maybe, they're in beta. great service btw, I recommend checking it out when it's up again :)

shanelja5• 14 years ago

Thanks 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 :)

morsch• 14 years ago

I figured it's from Salon, ie. the magazine. It's not.

NickKampe• 14 years ago

Hope your geek alarms are going off for all the 502 bad gateway status codes your static servers are rendering...

daraosn• 14 years ago

i'm trying to find a ticket, does anyone have an extra one to sell/giveaway/rent/etc.? -> d@wehack.it thx

phreeza• 14 years ago

I don't think the tickets are transferable, as mentioned in another comment, they require you to upload a picture when buying/claiming the ticket...

axx4• 14 years ago

that 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.

biafra2• 14 years ago

You can print this:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/61624465/daypass_cpeu.png

and get a daypass.

BTW: Are there quotas on Dropbox traffic?

mntmn• 14 years ago

greetz lrock, hope you'll be able to handle the load! ;) maybe give varnish a try.

axx4• 14 years ago

It 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• 14 years ago

Or 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.

tobias3• 14 years ago

A 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_harassm...

FuzzyDunlop2• 14 years ago

My 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.

shanelja5• 14 years ago

A 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.

latj• 14 years ago

Dear 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?

creativityhurts• 14 years ago

That picture of the Facebook recruiter is also on the main page of http://salon.io/ as the most representative (?!) image of the event.

lrock9• 14 years ago

yeah! think about it!

stesch• 14 years ago

What is the problem with this picture? Am I missing something?

aw3c23• 14 years ago

I guess some clarification is needed here. The submitted page is a collection of photos by Stefan Landrock. Stefan Landrock runs salon.io. The submitter "lrock" would be Stefan Landrock (his e-mail address is lrock@...) unless someone is faking. While the account is old, this is the first submission and the first comments.

So I really do not get what this is about. The title sounds like some armchair hostility against ... whom? And people are reading some sexual harassment into the photos and blame the event instead of the photographer?

icebraining• 14 years ago

But who's "they"? Were these pictures taken by some official member of the party?

lrock9• 14 years ago

they were taken by a regular visitor who got a free VIP ticket and had to provide all his personal data including macbook serial number and biometrical photograph

dan00• 14 years ago

The focus of the one taking the pictures hasn't to be the same as the viewers one.

nicholassmith• 14 years ago

Site looks like it's struggling now, but when I looked there didn't seem to be many so maybe someone was paying attention and pulled them.

subsystem• 14 years ago

Were pictures removed? Because I don't see any creepy pictures.

lrock9• 14 years ago

No, nothing was removed.

rickmb• 14 years ago

Looks exactly like a common recruitment event.

Geek Alarm at Campus Party Berlin - is this us?

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