Many of us look forward to visiting a summer hacker camp, as an opportunity to immerse ourselves in some of the coolest and most stimulating stuff that comes out of our community. The names trip off the tongue, ToorCamp, CCCamp, EMFcamp, BornHack, and more.
There’s one major event that doesn’t trip off the tongue in the same way though, because though it’s one of the oldest in our calendar it doesn’t have the same name every time. Since the end of the 1980s the Netherlands has seen a sequence of hacker camps with three letter names such as HAR, OHM, and SHA. Every four years these events delight and amaze us, and every four years they need a new name. Do you think you can help them pick one for 2021?
There are a few ground rules to observe, for the would-be coiner of a new moniker. The tradition is of a three-letter acronym, usually one with a meaning somewhere in technology, and so far always containing the letter H somewhere to stand for “Hack” in some form. The idea is that it should somehow encapsulate the spirit of hacker camp culture rather than simply be three words containing “Hack”. HAR for example was Hacking At Random, OHM was Observe Hack Make, and SHA was Still Hacking Anyway. So if you can dream up a TLA within those parameters, there is a group of hackers in the Netherlands who might like to hear from you. We suspect that HAD is already taken.
If you want to know more about the Netherlands camps, read our review of SHA, in 2017.
Header image: [Renze]. “Met Elkaar Hacken” means something close to “Hack together”.
BOB… Break Old Barriers
BSOD – Binary Systems Obviously Dreaming
What about those who are non binary?
To clarify, the “together” in this case means together with other people, not putting something together from parts.
To clearify more:
Met = with
elkaar = each other
hacken = hacking
Or to put it into a correct English sentence: Hacking with each other.
When I visited Hackaday today I did not expect to find a name-contest, but let me give it a try:
HAM : Hack And Modify
HOW : Hack Our World
HYP : Hacking Yearly Party
HUE : Hack United Extraordinary
HAL : Hack All Life
HBO: Hack Before Obedience
HDR: Hack Digital Reality
HEX: Hack Electric Xylophone (well that one isn’t really useful unless it’s a hacker meeting focusing on musical instruments)
HID : Hack Interest Daily
DHL: Daily Hacking Lifestyle
You think of HOW but not of HTP (HackThePlanet)? *shakeshead* ;-)
BLT
“Bodge Life Transgressives”
To quote the wise old elf:
“We could Bodge it…. Yes, Bodge, that’s a technical term we use in the industry…”
phewww…wowee
HHH as a wink to the german counterpart?
Happy Harry Hardon?
chaos computer club …jeez anyone here from the good old phone losers of america/CdC/HOPE days?
I thought it was off the hook
These are the ones that have already been used: GHP, HEU, HIP, HAL, WTH, HAR, OHM and SHA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack-Tic
Hacktify
Hackaday
Hackerjokey
Phishacker
Draftacker
RSH(royal society of hacker)
SP(Sudo programmer)
Hiltrigger
HAH! Hacking and Humor
This is in DE correct? During summer? If so then – “LagerCon” or “KerbeKamp” / “KlepperKamp”?
The dutch need new names everytime.
The germans as creative as they are naming everthing CCC.
As long as we’re discussing CCC here too: Deadline for submissions is this weekend. Don’t slack.
BAH! Beautiful awesome hacks
Bah is the Dutch word you’d use to describe disgust for something dirty. Like eating candy from the floor, bah.
Thank you for the suggestion anyway!
I think it’s very commonly used as a word for disgust or disagreement. Therefore the irony works in its favor. :-)
DHC (Dutch Hacking Cows, as a play on Tweakers.net’s DPC (Dutch Power Cows, a group doing distributed computing challenges)
‘Hogan’s Hackers’ “We know a thing or two.”
Make that to read, … “We know everything.”
“I hack no-thing!”
-Sgt. Shultz
‘Haute Hackcourtier’
HOT – Hacking Our Technology
Whatever the name will be, please don’t be a comic sans criminal
Hacky McHackface
(SCNR)
SSH – Sh*t, sleep, hack
Think my first entry was removed due to the use of the S-word