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I’m a little late, but as the event is just under a year away I guess I’m ok.

Hacking At Random has been announced, and is currently in the planning stages. HAR is described as “four days of techno-anarchism, ideological debates, hands-on tinkering, and lots of fun.”, for the uninitated you could probably compare it to a Burning Man for techies (but many would disagree with me). The general themes that has run through the previous events are:

• Camping
• Massive on-site network
• Massive amounts of bandwidth
• New and interesting things

For a more detailed explanation of what goes on, check out the What The Hack Wiki. If your available in July-August 2009 then I suggest you sign up to the annoucement list and keep an eye on whats going on, It’ll be worth the trip.

Peter pointed out on the ManLUG mailing list that Liverpool will play host to a “micro-festival” on open source software in media production. The Open Source City festival is running from the 17th – 22nd of June at Mello Mello and various other sites across the city centre. This event has twigged interest from me due to the presentation on open source software from a speaker on IP from the Green Party, i’ve always known that the greens are very pro-open source but i’ve never heard it “from the horses mouth”.

So, my name is down and it’s booked into my calendar. Drop me a message if your also visiting.