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+Title: Info
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+slug: info
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+lang: en
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+## Info
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+
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+* **Who is organizing?**
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+Hackmeeting is a yearly meeting of a community that communicates
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+through
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+[a mailing list](https://www.autistici.org/mailman/listinfo/hackmeeting). There
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+is no distinction between organizers and users. Everyone can subscribe
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+and partecipate in the organization by visiting the site
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+[it.hackmeeting.org](https://it.hackmeeting.org) and entering the community.
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+
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+* **What is an hacker?**
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+Hackers are curious people, always eager to discover how things are
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+done. Whether it is technology or not, hackers reclaim freedom to
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+experiment, disassemble and reassemble things or concepts, to
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+understand how are they made, to improve them, and then to share how
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+to do it again. Hackers solve problems and build things, believing in
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+freedom and sharing. They do not like closed systems. Hackers' forma
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+mentis is not restricted to the field of software hacking: there are
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+people that keep the hacker mentality in every existing field, driven
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+by their creative impulse.
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+
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+* **Who holds the talks?**
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+Whoever wants to. If someone wants to propose a talk, he just has to
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+propose it on the mailing list. If the proposal is well received, it
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+gets on calendar. If there are some problems, the community will be
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+happy to help improve the proposal.
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+
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+* **What’s in there, besides talks?**
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+There is a LAN space, as to say an area dedicated to the net: everyone
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+can plug their laptop, forming a network with the other participants. In
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+general, this is the right place to meet other attendees, to ask for
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+help in installing Linux, to solve a doubt, or just to have a chat.
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+Hackmeeting is an open-air festival, a meeting, an hacking party, a
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+moment of consideration, an occasion to learn something together, an act
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+of rebellion, an exhange of ideas, experiences, dreams, utopias.
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+
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+* **How much does it costs?**
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+Traditionally, entrance in Hackmeeting is totally free: always keep in
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+mind that organizing the event has a cost. Expenses are sustained
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+through voluntary contributions, selling shirts and other gadgets and
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+sometimes through the earnings of the bar.
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+Please donate whatever you can, every small donation counts.
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+
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+* **Sleeping**
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+Hackmeeting will be held in a large open green area, so it is
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+**necessary** to bring tends and sleeping bags for camping. You can
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+park your caravan or camper-van not too far away.
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+There will **no** place to sleep inside, plan accordingly!
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+
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+* **Eating**
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+There is a self-organized kitchen, and we invite everyone to
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+participate. As for every year, alimentary restrictions of every type
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+will be respected, so there will be vegetarian and vegan meals.
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+We also try to respect any other necessity (gluten-free meals and so
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+on), if this is your case please write it in
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+the mailing list.
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+You should bring your own crockery/plates and cutlery (you are going
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+camping!). We have a few in place but they will not be enough for everybody.
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+
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+* **What shall I bring?**
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+If you want to bring a computer, take a power
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+strip too. Do not forget networking hardware (like Ethernet cables,
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+switches, WiFi access points). Remember to bring the hardware that
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+you will want to hack in company. We will try to get some internet
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+connection for everybody to share, but we can't really guarantee anything.
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+If you think that you need it, bring a 3G/4G stick with you
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+and the necessary to share it with friends! Try to be as independent
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+as possible regarding your hardware.
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+
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+* **May I arrive before Thursday?**
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+Do you want to arrive sooner? Wonderful! In the preceding days there is
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+always much to do (prepare web infrastructure, prepare seminar halls and
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+many other things) so any helping hand is well accepted.
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+Maybe just let us know in advance by sending a message in the list!
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+
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+* **May I take photos, make videos, post, tag, share, upload?**
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+We think that the freedom to choose the dimensions of one’s own private
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+sphere and public profile must be guaranteed to every participant: in
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+this spirit, photos and/or videos are admitted only if explicitly
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+authorized by every person that appears in the media. Nobody should be
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+photographed without knowing.
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+Many people at Hackmeeting really care about their privacy, please ask
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+before taking a picture.
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+
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+* **How are people expected to behave?**
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+Hackmeeting is a self-managed space, a temporary independent space and
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+whoever passes through is expected to behave according to the principles
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+of antisexism, antiracism and antifascism. If you are victim or witness
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+of an act of oppression, aggression, brute force, port scan, ping flood
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+and other non-consensual DOS and you do not know how to react, always
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+count on the community’s support and do not hesitate to attract
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+attention and ask for help.
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+
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+### The location
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+The area where Hackmeeting will be held is split in two by a two-lane
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+road with car traffic.
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+One side is called “Borgata 8 Dicembre”, and it has been defended from
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+destruction thanks to the popular struggle, and it is now managed and
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+offered from the Venaus town-council administration. There will be
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+rooms there for talks and seminars to be held.
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+These rooms will be have to be locked at night (after we have finished
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+all the talks and seminars).
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+On the other side of the road, called "presidio" of Venaus, there will
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+the sleeping area for tents, camping, caravans, and trailers, as well
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+as a "relax area", the kitchen, toilets, showers, the LAN space, and a
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+bar.
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+In order for you and everybody else to have an enjoyable experience,
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+you should follow some simple rules:
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+
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+* **respect the environment**
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+Do not light fires and do not leave around any type of waste or
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+rubbish.
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+
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+* **respect the local people**
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+If you have a walk in the town, do not write on the walls of houses
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+(as you will see by looking at the big highway pillars, in this valley
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+we try to do so where it has the most meaning). Do not steal from the
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+small shops (they are often run by families who support the popular
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+struggle of the valley, not by big multinational companies). The same
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+holds for the kitchen gardens you will find along the road.
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+
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+* **respect people around you**
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+Please do not smoke in the closed areas where the talks will be
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+held. You can smoke outside.
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+
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+* **do not bring pets if you can't control them**
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+If your dog/parrot/horse/cat/turtle comes along with you, remember
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+that the area where the event is held is split in two by a road, which
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+does not have much car traffic but does have some, so take care of
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+your pets and/or children.
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+
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+* **children**
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+We do support parents who are growing up the new generation of
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+hackers. If you want to bring your children, be aware that you will
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+have to take care of them as you do every other day of the year. Also
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+remember: Hackmeeting is also a festival, so do not pretend the
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+lights to be turned off at midnight, or that people refrain to use a
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+language that you might judge inappropriate.
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