2004.12_Linux Beer Hike-Hacking and Hiking at Lbw 2004.pdf

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Linux Beer Hike 2004

Linux Bork Hike

Around 80 people from all over the world met in the tiny village of Schin op

Geul in the Netherlands from 16th to 22nd of August to hack, experience local

culture, and go on hikes. BY HEIKE JURZIK

derung” (LBW)[1]) took place in

the south east corner of the Nether-

lands, close to Belgium and Germany. The

hike attracted geeks from many different

countries: UK, Germany, the Netherlands,

USA, Belgium, Ireland, Slovakia, Russia,

Canada, Sweden (including the Swedish

chef!) and Austria.

LBWs are always a nice opportunity to

meet Linux and Free Software enthusi-

asts from far away. The combination of

talks and hacking sessions, pub meet-

ings, and hikes makes this event so

special. This year’s LBW took place in a

classic 17th century timber barn that has

been converted into a community hall

with two bars, sleeping facilities, and a

large industrial kitchen, which came in

very handy when a load of geeks were

set loose preparing food for the interna-

tional potluck later in the week.

of the highlights was the excursion to the

Max Planck Institute’s 100-meter radio

telescope in Effelsberg [3], Germany.

The institute provided an interesting lec-

ture on the astounding telescope, which

is one of the world’s largest fully steer-

able instruments.

The international potluck, which was

held for the second time, was a huge

success. The idea of the potluck is that

people bring food or drinks that are typi-

cal of their home countries. Following

the instructions on the mailing list (“For

the British – tea bags are a no-no!”), we

had pierogies, black pudding, calf’s

brain, Christmas mead, roast beef and

Yorkshire pudding, Belgian chocolate,

German Reibekuchen, American stuffed

pizza, spam sandwiches, and of course,

fried food from the local snack bar.

Figure 2: The international potluck was a huge

success.

on a variety of subjects, such as “Jobs

for Techies,” “Practical Cryptography,”

“How to design a satellite for 100 EUR,”

and “Domain Name Server Compari-

son.” Geeks being geeks – the fact that

there were lots of other things to do did-

n’t stop us being on IRC all the time, to

the extent that when the “Wardriving

with Kismet & GPSdrive” talk was

announced, it seemed perfectly natural

for someone to ask, “Do we really have

to listen or can you do your talk on IRC?”

Somebody actually transcribed the talk

to IRC for those LBWers who were not

present this year.

Virtual Life

Constant IRCing seems to be bad for

your sanity. During one of the nightly

sessions somebody started imitating the

Swedish Chef and everybody joined in

the borking. Under the influence of quite

a few borks that night, the website slash-

bork.org [4] was set up. Luckily this

effect is short-lived and nobody suffered

any lasting side effects or went borking

mad. I really enjoyed this year’s Lin-

uxBorkHike and will be happy to bork

geeks again next year!

Musical Life

As people tasted the various dishes,

background music was provided by a

folk session. In keeping with the interna-

tional food, we had an interesting mix of

Irish, Slovakian, and Russian folk. Musi-

cal experiments continued all week with

the production of our own adaption

of Baz Luhrmann’s

song “Sunscreen,”

extolling the virtues

of firewalls. We used

Audacity to record

and mix various

tracks consisting of

percussion on empty

bottles and tea cups,

choral and violin

backing tracks, and

spoken lyrics.

Real Life

We enjoyed several hikes during the

week, including a ride on an old steam

train and a trip to the “Three Countries

Point” at Vaals [2], where the Nether-

lands, Germany, and Belgium meet. One

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INFO

[1] LBW Info:

http://www.lbwand.org/

[2] 3-country-point and Moresnet:

http://home.hccnet.nl/c.damen/engels/

index_en.htm

[3] Radio Telescope in Effelsberg:

http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/div/

effelsberg/index_e.html

[4] slashbork.org:

http://www.slashbork.org/

Figure 1: About 30 geeks traveled to visit the radio telescope in Effelsberg.

Geek Life

There were talks

throughout the week

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