Geek Alarm at Campus Party Berlin - is this us?

[axx]

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]

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]

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...

[FuzzyDunlop]

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.

[creativityhurts]

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

[subsystem]

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

[nicholassmith]

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.

[dan00]

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

[icebraining]

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

[rmoriz]

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

[stwe]

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.

[lrock]

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.

[robert-boehnke]

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

[shanelja]

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

[keyboardsurfer]

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

[zalew]

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

[rickmb]

Looks exactly like a common recruitment event.

[daraosn]

i'm trying to find a ticket, does anyone have an extra one to sell/giveaway/rent/etc.? -> [email protected] thx

[biafra]

You can print this:

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

and get a daypass.

BTW: Are there quotas on Dropbox traffic?

[phreeza]

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...

[NickKampe]

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

[mntmn]

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