Quadrennial Dutch hacker convention

Driving force behind the event were people associated with the hacker magazine Hack-Tic, its editor in chief Rop Gonggrijp, Patrice Riemens, and Caroline Nevejan on behalf of Paradiso.

It was supported by a department of the University of Amsterdam, which supplied a permanent connection to the internet, a novelty at the time.

At the conference lectures were held on feminism and computers, models for artificial intelligence and on computer-human interaction.

The joint declaration of the conference started with "The free and infuttered flow of information is an essential part of our fundamental liberties and shall be upheld in all circumstances.

The main political topic of the conference was the fight against the DMCA and similar anti-hacker legislation under way in Europe.

Logistically speaking, the network structure was quite a feat, with approximately 15 km of category 5 cable for the ethernet backbones, as well as supplying power feeds for the tents' computers.

There was a technology-free zone, The Solaris Sl@ckers S@lon, named for the 1972 film by Andrei Tarkovsky, which is often thought[who?]

The only technology permitted in the place was a television, a DVD player running the movie, and a Turkish (electric) samovar for brewing tea.