From: Gerrit Hiddink <grit@dnd.utwente.nl>
Subject: Hackers congres "HAL 2001"
To: Gerrit Hiddink <grit@dnd.utwente.nl>
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 15:34:07 +0100 (CET)

Press Release
Enschede, The Netherlands
March, 2001

Hackers At Large 2001: debating the future of the Internet.

From August 9th until August 12th, the campus of the University of Twente
will feature a congress that is unique in its kind: Hackers at Large, or
HAL 2001.  The congress expects to receive thousands of guests from all 
over the world and from many different disciplines to debate issues ranging
from advanced technical issues regarding some obscure aspect of the Internet
to easy-to-understand lectures on some of the dangers of the information
society, as well as many, many other topics. But more than debate, the
guests at HAL2001 take ample time to get on-line, relax, build and discuss
cool stuff, and engage in good old analog interfacing. 

The congress is unique in that the participants bring their tent and
their computer, which is connected to a large high-speed outdoor 
computer network that provides high bandwidth Internet connectivity
for everybody. On-site power generators provide all these computers
with the necessary power: more than 1.5 mega-Watts.

Some of the people that are organizing HAL 2001 were also involved in
the former hacker movement in The Netherlands: those responsible for
the late hackers' magazine Hack-Tic and for setting up the first Internet
Service Provider in The Netherlands called ``XS4ALL''. But also many
people from Dutch universities, companies and other Internet Service
Providers participate in making this event possible. 

The HAL2001 convention is the fourth in a series that has been running
every four years since 1989. Quite a few of the participants at "The
Galactic Hacker Party" (1989), "Hacking at the End of the Universe" (1993)
and "Hacking in Progress" (1997) have been instrumental in bringing about
the changes that are upon us today.

HAL2001 is for those that can truly celebrate the Internet and embrace new
technologies, without forgetting their responsability to tell others that
all these wonderful new technologies come with new risks to the individual
and to society as a whole.

Sponsors:

The HAL 2001 organization would like to thank the sponsors for making
this event possible:

     XS4ALL Internet BV        www.xs4all.nl

     XS4ALL foundation		

     University of Twente      www.utwente.nl

     NLnet foundation          www.nlnet.nl

     USENIX                    www.usenix.org

     ITSX                      www.itsx.com

     GorillaPark               www.gorillapark.com

Board of HAL foundation:
Cor Bosman
Jaco Lockhorst
Rop Gonggrijp


HAL-staff:
Gerrit Hiddink
Eric Slachmuylders


Contact Information:
URL: http://www.hal2001.org
Gerrit Hiddink
grit@hal2001.org
tel: (+31) (0)53-4892425
fax: (+31) (0)53-4892452