Hackaday is coming to Europe in April. The world’s most superb conference on hardware creation starts with you. Please submit your proposal to present a talk or workshop at 2016 Hackaday | Belgrade, Hackaday’s first-ever European conference.
Put it on your calendar: Saturday, April 9th in Belgrade, Serbia. We have a lineup spanning from 10am to 2am, and we’re building on the best of the inaugural SuperConference we held last November: a single track of hardware talks which will run concurrently with a set of hands-on workshops. The surprise hit from that conference was badge hacking, which will be expanded and extended into the wee hours of the morning. While that is in progress, a party with two stages will spin up with performances by Infinite Jest, Grupa TI, and DJ sets.
Tickets go on sale the first week of February. Voja Antonic, who does amazing work with PCBs and badge designs, is building the conference badge. The cost of the admission will be just enough to cover the cost of the badge. We’re keeping the admission cost so low to help offset your travel costs. Belgrade is gorgeous in April, and getting there from other parts of Europe is very affordable. This event will sell out so get organized and make sure you and your fellow hardware hackers get tickets early.
Many of the Hackaday crew will be on hand. We’re likely to have a less-formal meetup (hangover brunch?) on Sunday. Check out the Hackaday | Belgrade planning page to discuss this and learn more about the conference as it comes together. See you in Belgrade!
You guys should seriously consider a Hackaday-day in South America for this year!
Cool, I’d love to go to South America! I take it this the time of year to go, right? Summer in southern-hemi?
And what about London?
I 2nd London prefer Scotland but that aint gonna happen :p
Are you going to emfcamp.org this year?
Yep! But since there is no winter (snow and the like) at all, you guys could pick virtually any date to organize a SuperConference down here!.
Just don’t get Zika. Remember, it’s an STD as well as a microcephaly-inducer.
Presumably no coincidence that this immediately precedes Resonate http://resonate.io/2016/
It’s not a coincidence :)
WTH!?
Not London? Paris? Berlin? Hell I might even be interested if it were in Madrid, Rome or even Prague.
But Fricking Belgrade!? You Might as well hold it in Kazakhstan.
We just decided to change the location, based on your incredulity. Which one do you want? Can you put a deposit down today?
I vote for London or just outside, there is a massive hackspace and tons of maker spaces, I would be happy to be a contact there is is needed.
Anything wrong with Beograd ?
And please: the use of word “Fricking” is reserved to HaD “authors”. Preferrably together with “laser”.
Belgrade is a part of Serbia which existed long time before America was discovered. Our battle from year 1389. saved Europe to become Islam state. If you continue to have so much prejudice I’ll request from moderator to remove you for good. Btw, Tesla, the God of Hackers, Waterpolo, Basket team, Volleyball are all from Serbs. Ask yourself who is Number 1 and be happy to come to Serbia to try our food: Pljeskavica, Ajvar i Kajmak.
I am guessing you have never been to Belgrade and your only association is with it is a war from a few decades ago. BTW the Kazahstan is a country not a city and I am actually planing to visit it next year when they will be hosting Wolrd Expo on Future Energy. London is expensive as fuck. For the price of taxi fare from Heathrow to London you will have a night in a nice hotel in Belgrade since turist seaston is mostly in the summer and arround new year as a party destination for young people. With the river full of boats nightclubs with difrend kinds of music.
Well, so much for attending for me. No direct flights from the Netherlands. And the two options i have are either way, way too expensive (1000 euro’s) or way way too slow (12hour trip including a six hour stopover…)
Looking at Air Serbia website:
Amsterdam – Belgrade (direct flight) is around 110 euros each way.
Disclaimer: living 400km away, it’s a car drive for me.
Seruously guys???!!?!1 Belgrade???!?
Spain has the weather, the people, the fiesta…
As Stu said “you might as well hold it in Kazakhstan”
wow, seriously considering to present something.. but what on earth would be interesting to hear about? and what is the level?
You should submit a proposal. You’ll never know until you try.
I am not a Serb, but I still find it cool, that it will not be in a West-European cliché capital.
Yay! It’s very close to where we are located (Bulgaria), but… Serbia is not EU member yet, this means no low cost flights for people from EU destinations and *expensive* rooming (IIRC EUR 5-6 per minute) and internet for people with EU cell phone sim cards. Anywhere in EU people can talk and use cellular internet for cents (ruled by EU regulations), but the greedy telecom operators just watch you to step in non-EU country to slay your head :) Few days without phone and internet will be pain … :) so overall odd place to choose to make European event, probably will end up more like local Balkans countries event
^ This. It’s weird to choose a country that isn’t even part of the EU yet
“you might as well hold it in Kazakhstan”
Whats wrong with: UK, Netherlands, France, Belgium, Germany, Spain or Italy? :)
To say what’;s wrong with all those countries would take quite a few pages to describe ;)
And get quite heated, and many of us banned, and not from HaD but from the internet altogether I fear..
Wow that’s far away.. why not a more known location / more frequently visited location? (as said before: england, germany, spain, france, italy, etc.) . it seems HaD just threw a pin at a map and hoped it didn’t land in the sea.
Would you all whine the same if they had choosen Switzerland for example?
I mean who cares.
Yes Switzerland would be a poor choice really..
Actually, it would be a rich’s choice :-p
I second/third/fourth everyone criticising the choice of location! Nothing against Belgrade personally, but it would surely have made more sense to choose a better-placed city.
For some reason, it reminded me of this from Tinker, Tailor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbSt5FXdyzg
Why not Finland? Finland is part of the European Union so it’s easier to travel here from other EU countries.
How many tickets will be available? Will the event be cancelled if (god forbid) not enough/all tickets are sold?
I’m considering booking a flight and hotel in advance, but I consider it to be a waste of my time and money if the event is cancelled.
This *is* happening :) Tickets are there just to cover the cost of the badge, but the event itself is not a function of number of tickets sold. The venue has space for 250-300 people. If you’re booking in advance, just leave a comment on https://hackaday.io/project/8672-hackaday-belgrade and we’ll make sure to save a ticket for you.
Great, thanks! I’m gonna sleep on it for a night, but I’ve got a good feeling about it :)
Why not Poland? ;(
Why not Dublin?
Cheap flights from anywhere in Europe and the closest country to the US.
Plenty of Oz connections too so we could get Dave Jones over.
WAIT. Why not Mars? Guys, c’mon. The weather is great, there is TONS of room and the hacking scene is unbelievable (100% of people who thought they would be permanent residents did some crazy science to escape the planet).