tripu

When? Fri 9 – Mon 12, Oct 2009.
Where? CSOA Patio Maravillas (Malasaña, Madrid).
Who? these people, for the moment.
What? FOSS, dreadlocks, net neutrality, Debian folks, film sessions, cryptography, tetrahydrocannabinol, political hackivism, squatters, NLP, leftism, copyfight, stray dogs, lounges, modded devices and more.
How much? €0.

I attended Madhack back in 2002 (when Labo03 in Lavapiés still existed) and it was definitely worth it. Not only did they put together a great set of talks and workshops (I remember especially txipi talking about Linux kernel hacks, a teenager dissecting security in FreeBSD and a fascinating talk about the lysergic counterculture of the 60′s in California) but the atmosphere was friendly and relaxed, and there were lots of different topics and initiatives going on all the time. Those were also The Days Of The LSSI (do you remember that?), and one day we all took Lavapiés on a colourful demonstration against the new law.

On the other hand, I also remember the somewhat chaotic organisation, the lack of salubrity in the Labo03 and the absence of toilets and showers for those who, like me and my friend, were sleeping in the squat (ironically, it was a nearby branch of El Corte Inglés and some other hateful capitalist corporations that provided the basics of health care and hygiene for me during the Madhack 2002).

Judging by the number of participants so far and the list of “nodes”, i.e. talks, this edition seems smaller and less ambitious. Still, I plan to be around Friday and part of Saturday.

If you’ll be there too, tweet up to tweetup.