hack-it 2002
This year the italian hacker meeting, hack-it 2002 was helt in Bologna. The speechs covered various topics from microcontrollers, over digital music, e-privacy to womenkind&computers. One highlight was a speech of Richard Stallman about "Copyright vs Community in the Age of Computer Networks". A transkript or an audio-file of the speech are available in the web.
The meeting took place in the teatro polivalente occupato (occupied theatre, a former porn cinema), which did certainly not reduce the flair of the event. The motto of the meeting was: "A hacker is someone who wants to govern himself and his own life, and who knows how to fight for this. Even if he hasn't seen a computer in his whole life."
 Trying to keep out photographers (21 June 2002) |  A refresh between two talks... (21 June 2002) |  ...or just a little snooze (21 June 2002) |
 The entrance of the ex-cinema gave the right flair to the hacker meeting (21 June 2002) |  Attention! Hole in the floor (21 June 2002) |  Announcing Richard Stallman (21 June 2002) |
 "We should not aim for the simplest and the most uniform copyright law, because that gives us a small number of extreme choices." (21 June 2002) |  Saint IGNUcius, saint in the Church of Emacs: "That is no computer disk, that is my halo. But it was a disk platter in a former life." (21 June 2002) |  "I would like to come back to Italy, but not to Milano, I don't like much their food..." (21 June 2002) |
 People exiting (21 June 2002) |  Hackers and dogs (21 June 2002) |