Goulash programming night

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The Goulash Programming Night ( GPN for short ) is a four-day conference for hackers, technology enthusiasts and interested laypeople and with over 1000 participants the second largest annual event of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) after the Chaos Communication Congress . The GPN is organized once a year by Entropia e. V., the Karlsruhe branch of the CCC. The wide-ranging program includes specialist lectures, panel discussions and workshops on topics such as hardware and software development, IT security, open source and free software as well as data protection and network policy. In contrast to other comparable community events on the hacker scene, entry to the GPN is free. The event is financed without advertising and exclusively from donations. Since the first GPN in 2002, the event has grown steadily. In 2019, more than 1500 people last took part in the goulash programming night.

procedure

The GPN is open continuously for four days from the opening and is used by many visitors for the entire period. It is divided into two areas:

The lecture program is announced in the respective "timetable" and includes both demanding specialist lectures and beginner-friendly or humorous contributions, as well as workshops, show contributions and panel discussions on technical, political and social topics.

In addition to the lecture program, the GPN in the hack center and the adjoining rooms offers space for participants' own projects and activities. Infrastructure in the form of power supply, fast network access and an internal DECT telephone network is provided. Bringing their own hardware, the presentation of current projects and spontaneous activities by the participants form an integral part of the program and are expressly desired.

history

The first goulash programming night took place in the basement of the industrial estate in Karlsruhe . After the still young Entropia e. V. threatened to get into financial difficulties, the members organized the first goulash programming night between April 12 and 14, 2002. The name of the event should be taken literally: During these three days, several dozen young people programmed and ate goulash mainly at night .

In 2010, goulash programming nights 9 and 10 took place due to a planning error. Since the planned premises were not available on the planned date, the goulash programming night 9 was celebrated in a small group, while the goulash programming night 10 took place a few weeks later at the originally planned location, the HfG Karlsruhe .

Since 2009 the GPN has been taking place on the premises of the HfG Karlsruhe. The rooms of the neighboring ZKM Karlsruhe have also been used since 2014 . In 2017, for the first time, over 1000 visitors were present at the same time.

The supporters of the series of events include media artists and theorists Peter Weibel , Siegfried Zielinski and Michael Bielicky, who work at the ZKM and the HfG . As hosts of the goulash programming night, they enabled it to develop into an integral part of the German-speaking hacker culture .

Events

No. date motto Visitors Venue
GPN1 04/12 - April 14, 2002 no motto 20th Commercial yard in Karlsruhe
GPN2 05/23 - May 25, 2003 Freshly chopped Room factory Durlach
GPN3 May 22nd - May 23, 2004 The death Student center Z10 in Karlsruhe
GPN4 05/20 - 05/22/2005 The Return of the Living Bytes Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences (HSKA)
GPN5 09.06. - 06/11/2006 smack_my_bit_up HSKA
GPN6 01.06. - 03.06.2007 Protecting Your Private Bits HSKA
GPN7 04.07. - 07/06/2008 Chaos in the AKK AKK
GPN8 26.06. - 06/28/2009 no motto HfG Karlsruhe (HfG)
GPN9 06/05/2010 no motto 20th Entropia e. V.
GPN10 06/11 - 06/13/2010 Off by one 200 HfG
GPN11 June 23 - 06/26/2011 no motto 300 HfG
GPN12 07.06. - 06/10/2012 no motto 350 HfG
GPN13 05/30 - 06/02/2013 no motto 400 HfG
GPN14 19.06. - 06/22/2014 Tell you so 500 HfG and ZKM Karlsruhe (ZKM)
GPN15 04.06. - 07.06.2015 no motto 600 HfG and ZKM
GPN16 May 26th - 05/29/2016 Eat. Sleep. Code. Repeat 800 HfG and ZKM
GPN17 25.05. - 05/28/2017 Works as Intended? 1100 HfG and ZKM
GPN18 05/10 - 13.05.2018 Digital naives 1200 HfG and ZKM
GPN19 05/30 - 02.06.2019 Error 451 - Unavailable for legal reasons 1500 HfG and ZKM
GPN20 May 21 - May 24, 2020 - called off - called off - called off -
GPN21 May 13 - May 16, 2021 HfG and ZKM

particularities

The GPN is one of the largest community events for the hacker scene in Europe with free entry. In German-speaking countries, the GPN is the second largest annual CCC event after the Chaos Communication Congress . The event is mainly supported by donations from the participants and is completely free of advertising. Most of the organizational work is done by volunteers, called trolls at the GPN .

The free admission and the flow of visitors to the adjacent museums of the ZKM automatically result in a mixture of hackers , coders , artists and interested citizens. The Swiss multimedia artist and author Alex Wenger - known in the scene under the pseudonym Blueloop - exemplifies the intermingling of these areas during the goulash programming night: not only as a visitor, but also as part of the event, gave lectures again and again from the second to the sixth goulash programming night on topics such as digital radio or how LCDs work . It is this lack of separation between lecturers, visitors to the event, students of the university and visitors to the museums that, by mixing different and yet related topics, make the event what the organizers intend: every visitor is a guest, participant and source of inspiration at the same time. The goulash programming night offers everyone a platform to exchange ideas on the topics mentioned.

Web links

Commons : Goulash Programming Night  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christiane Rütten: "Hackerspace visit to Karlsruhe: Entropia / GPN" . Published in c't Hacks 2/2012, pages 10-19.
  2. ↑ 19th Goulash Programming Night: Chaos in the atrium. (PDF) In: Center for Art and Media. Entropia eV - Chaos Computer Club Karlsruhe, ZKM | Karlsruhe and HfG Karlsruhe, January 14, 2020, accessed on June 3, 2019 .
  3. ↑ GPN17 - timetable. In: entropia.de. Retrieved March 12, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Archive overview of past GPNs. In: Entropia website. Entropia e. V., accessed March 8, 2018 .
  5. ^ The Hackers Russia-Proofing Germany's Elections. In: bloomberg.com. June 27, 2017, accessed March 8, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Make: "Goulash programming night" in Karlsruhe has started. Accessed March 8, 2018 (German).
  7. ↑ Make: Goulash Programming Night 2013. Accessed on March 8, 2018 (German).
  8. ↑ goulash programming Eight: Chaos Computer Club Karlsruhe wants lectures and trolls . In: Linux magazine . March 17, 2014 ( linux-magazin.de [accessed March 8, 2018]).
  9. ↑ Goulash Programming Night (GPN) 2014. Accessed on March 11, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Goulash Programming Night (GPN) 2015. Accessed on March 11, 2018 .
  11. ↑ ka-news: Goulash programming night (GPN) 16 | ka-news . In: ka-news.de . May 25, 2016 ( ka-news.de [accessed March 8, 2018]). Goulash Programming Night (GPN) 16 | ka-news ( Memento from March 8, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ Wikidata on GPN16 . In: Wikimedia Blog . ( wikimedia.de [accessed on March 8, 2018]).
  13. ↑ Goulash, bits and colored lights: Entropia e. V. invites you to a hacking meeting . In: Karlsruhe | Blog . May 25, 2017 ( karlsruhe-blog.de [accessed March 8, 2018]).
  14. ↑ Goulash Programming Night (GPN) 2017 . In: zkm.de . ( zkm.de [accessed on March 8, 2018]).
  15. ↑ Goulash Programming Night (GPN) 2018. Accessed December 17, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Goulash Programming Night 2018: Chaos in the atrium. (PDF) In: Center for Art and Media. Entropia eV - Chaos Computer Club Karlsruhe, ZKM | Karlsruhe and HfG Karlsruhe, April 26, 2018, accessed on June 3, 2019 .
  17. ↑ GPN19 - Entropia. Retrieved April 18, 2019 .
  18. ↑ 19th Goulash Programming Night: Chaos in the atrium. (PDF) In: Center for Art and Media. Entropia eV - Chaos Computer Club Karlsruhe, ZKM | Karlsruhe and HfG Karlsruhe, May 23, 2019, accessed on June 3, 2019 .
  19. ↑ a b dates. In: Entropia. Accessed January 1, 2020 .
  20. ↑ 20th Goulash Programming Night. In: entropia.de. March 15, 2020, accessed March 16, 2020 .
  21. ↑ blueloop: MediaArtCooperative. In: entropia.de. January 11, 2009, accessed on March 14, 2018 (The highlighted link Alex Wenger redirects to the Blueloop user page .).
  22. ↑ Digital radio - what else there is to research besides WLAN. In: entropia.de. Retrieved March 13, 2018 .
  23. ↑ GPN5: lectures. In: entropia.de. Retrieved March 13, 2018 .