
Hackers in Space - c3o
http://events.ccc.de/camp/2011/Fahrplan/track/Hacker%20Space%20Program/4551.en.html
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tonfa
FYI, it's a 3500 attendee camp. It is also almost sold out (presale
currently), so if you plan to attend and don't have a ticket, now is a good
time.

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gimpf
Thanks to emerging low-cost satellite launches (like from
<http://interorbital.com/>), fun projects like <http://sat.mur.at/> are
already in the real of being possible. I may be an hopeless optimist, but some
relatively low-bandwidth hacker-operated satellite network within 20 years is
not _totally_ impossible.

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eru
In twenty years, as long as you got something up, it will be high bandwidth
compared with today.

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stcredzero
_phase two: Put a hacker into orbit._

Phase 2.5: console widow, figure out how to get him back down. Alternate phase
2: send cat into space instead, start new meme and initiate hacker war with
PETA. (jk)

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pdelgallego
Phase 2 is already in progress.

Check out the Copenhagen Suborbitals guys, they launch succesfuly their first
suborbital rocket a month ago.

<http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com/>

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gimpf
Nice video on their page. I especially loved their "caution fragile" marker --
on a rocket!

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peterwwillis
Considering how most hackers build stuff at hackerspaces ("i don't know how to
build this, so let's go with trial and error and learn as we go!") this sounds
dangerous.

But cool.

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binbasti
By the way, we'll set up a Ruby village at the Camp. Come and join us:

<http://railscamp.github.com/ruby-village>

You can also just support our cause to spread some Ruby love with a few bucks
in our Pledgie, which is only 50% complete at the moment:

<http://pledgie.com/campaigns/15397>

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derrida
Other interesting projects include an attempt to have a transparent open
source leaking platform to carry on Wikileaks legacy.

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Joakal
OpenLeaks; "Instead of publishing the documents, OpenLeaks will send the
leaked documents to various news entities or publishers."

Wish I was kidding: <https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Openleaks>

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derrida
I agree this policy of OpenLeaks is a bit dubious. The project the Chaos
Computer Club are working on is called 'GlobalLeaks'. I cannot determine if it
is going to be respectable.

EDIT: Just saw that OpenLeaks are going to be at the conference. GlobalLeaks
is a group attempting to create open source leaking platform. It might be that
'OpenLeaks' = 'GlobalLeaks'

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bazookaBen
Are there going to be presentation slides / videos / ustreams? Would like to
cross the atlantic to come see but can't.

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rb2k_
They usually are recorded.

The last camp apparently was in 2007: <http://dewy.fem.tu-
ilmenau.de/CCC/CCCamp07/video/m4v/>

(More events: <http://dewy.fem.tu-ilmenau.de/CCC/> )

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pasbesoin
I can't be the only one with a sudden, fond memory of the Muppets.

Which I find, indeed, hackerish. Jim Henson and crew hacked an entire
presentation medium, mainstreaming an entire character type (the puppet,
formerly relegated to kids shows and ventriloquists).

I hope this combination of earnest endeavor and levity can escape our gravity
well.

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agentultra
Sounds like it might be a little more expensive than an arduino kit and some
free time.

Yet I remain optimistic that it might eventually only cost the same as a
transatlantic flight does today to get a 180lb human into orbit.

PCs were started this way...

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Joakal
The Hacker Space Program should tackle the next piracy: 3D printing (Formally
known as Reprap) [0].

[0] <http://reprap.org/wiki/EndOfIntellectualProperty>

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cyrus_
This is absurd -- the hacker movement is too small and undisciplined, and it
lacks substantial knowledge about engineering and physics, to make this its
central project for the next 30+ years.

I'm all for big projects, but the hacker community should focus on what it
knows how to do -- write software.

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ANH
Neat, but in order for me to take this seriously they have to at least spell
'satellite' correctly.

