sito-hackit-16/content/pages/info.en.md

Title: Info
Date: 2015-03-13 12:00
Slug: info
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lang: en

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#### Entrance

As for every year, entrance at Hackmeeting is free, but always keep in
mind that Hackmeeting has a cost and subscriptions are necessary to the
survival of the event!

#### Who is organizing?

Hackmeeting is a yearly meeting of a community that communicates through
a mailing list. There is no distinction between organizers and users.
Everyone can subscribe and partecipate in the organization by visiting
the site www.hackmeeting.org and entering the community.

#### What is an hacker?

Hackers are curious persons, always eager to discover how things are
done. Be it technology or less, hackers reclaim freedom to experiment,
disassemble and reassemble things or concepts, to understand how they
are done and how to repeat and improve them. Hackers solve problems and
build things, believing in freedom and sharing. They do not love closed
systems. Hacker’s forma mentis is not restricted to the field of
software hacking: there are people that keep the hacker mentality in
every existing field, driven by their creative impulse.

#### Who helds the seminaries?

Whoever wants. If someone wants to propose a seminar, he just has to
propose it on the mailing list. If the proposal is well received, it
gets on calendar. If there are some problems, the community will be
happy to help improve the proposal.

#### What’s in there, besides seminars?

There is a LAN space, as to say an area dedicated to the web: everyone
can plug their laptop, forming a web with the other partecipants. In
general, this is the right place to meet other attendees, to ask for
help in installing Linux, to solve a doubt, or just to have a chat.
Hackmeeting is an open-air festival, a meeting, an hacking party, a
moment of consideration, an occasion to learn something together, an act
of riot, an exhange of ideas, experiences, dreams, utopies.
How much does the entrance cost? How is the event financed?

Traditionally, entrance in Hackmeeting is totally free: always keep in
mind that organizing the event has a cost. Expenses are sustained
through voluntary contributions, selling shirts and other gadgets and
sometimes through the earnings of the bar.

#### Where to sleep

Hackmeeting will be held near to an open green space: we suggest to
bring sleeping bags, mattressess and tents to camp. For those who
prefer to sleep inside there will also be the chanche to sleep
in some rooms, still sleeping bags and mattressess are suggested.

If you want to arrive before Hackmeeting’s beginning, see the call for
support.

#### Where and what to eat

There is a self-organized kitchen, and we invite everyone to
partecipate. As for every year, alimentary necessities of every type
will be respected, so there will be vegetarian and vegan meals,
gluten-free meals and so on. If you have some necessity, write it in the
list.

#### What can I bring

If you want to bring a computer, take a power strip too. Do not forget
web devices (like Ethernet cables, switches, wi-fi). Remember to bring
the hardware that you will want to hack in company, and do not forget
sleeping equipment (see “Where to sleep”). No Internet connection is
guaranteed during the event so, if you think that you need it, bring a
3G stick with you and the necessary to share it with friends! Try to be
as independent as possible regarding your hardware.

#### May I arrive before Friday?

Do you want to arrive sooner? Wonderful! In the preceding days there is
always much to do (prepare web infrastructure, prepare seminar halls and
many other things) so any helping hand is well accepted. See the call
for support to know more.

#### How are people expected to behave

Hackmeeting is a self-managed space, a temporary independent space and
whoever passes through is expected to behave according to the principles
of antisexism, antiracism and antifascism. If you are victim or witness
of an act of oppression, aggression, brute force, port scan, ping flood
and other nonconsensual DOS and you do not know how to react, always
count on the community’s support and do not hesitate to attract
attention and ask for help.

May I take photos, make videos, post, tag, share, upload?

We think that the freedom to choose the dimensions of one’s own private
sphere and public profile must be guaranteed to every participant: in
this spirit, photos and/or videos are admitted only if explicitely
pointed and autorized by every person that appears in the media.