A preliminary conference program has been posted to the What The Hack website. It shows a lot of promise and will definitely grow to an even more impressive line-up soon.

You might notice the visual similarity to the 21C3 schedule which has its cause: the WTH program committee is using our freshly developed software Pentabarf which is still in its infancy but is about to evolve to a full-blown web-based open source conference planning tool.

Also, the WTH crew managed to set up a public wiki for the participants. There had been a Plone-based wiki before, but now they’re using MediaWiki which is a much more mature system and much easier to use.

I fell in love with MediaWiki last year and since then it has been our primary tool for internal and public communication and documentation. For events addressing numerous participants a public wiki is just plain cool. So I am glad the WTH crew is following the same path we took for 21C3.

Captain! Incoming message: What The Hack Is Going On!

See you all in The Netherlands the end of July. This is going to be the party of the summer.

Jörg pointed me to an interesting spin. Maybe they just do it with their servers. Performance is an issue there and the market is totally different and wouldn’t affect the home user where the PowerPC still makes sense.

In the end, we’re all clueless. At least, these events start to radiate suspense again.

A dutch mayor considers the upcoming What The Hack open-air hacker conference a public threat and does not want to issue the necessary permit for the event that is about to take place at the end of July. Read all about it in the official press release at the conference site. You can read the letters so far online as well.

An accident has kept me away from everything for a while: broke my hand and had a more or less complicated operation. My recovery is now coming to an end as it seems. So everybody who had to wait for response will soon ehre from me.

Sven Neumann, renowned GIMP hacker and Blinkenlights software architect, has a blog now.

Hail Eris!

I am blogging a bit on my Sri Lanka experiences in my german blog, in case you’re interested.

I am going to be offline for a while. Depending on network availability in Sri Lanka, I might get back online sooner or later.