ReHash Village
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Broadcasting at What The Hack and the ReHash Village
It is time to record our own history before it gets lost or we depend on others to tell our stories.
Daniel Ockeloen, Rico Jansen, Stefan Arentz - 2005-06-21
Village Description
The goal of the ReHash Village project is to collect media about WhatTheHack and all previous events and related topics into one big multimedia archive. Media can be anything; video, audio, stories, comments, memories, photos.
We will create both an online and offline village. The online village will be a web site where people can share media, write stories and add comments and tags to existing media. The offline village will take place at the event itself; we will try to bring back the previous events.
You can see the sessions recorded on WTH here
Important Note: There has been some confusion about whether we are also responsible for recording and broadcasting sessions from WhatTheHack. We are definitely not the team responsible for recording and broadcasting; we will just happily accept their media to add it to the archive in a proper format. There might be an overlap in people but with a different goal for each project.
Events we want to cover
We would like to cover as much as possible from the following timeframes. It is going to be an interesting excercise to find material from the first three events; these took place in a time when digital cameras were still special and DSL was something that only worked in the research lab.
| GHP | 1989-1992 | The Galactic Hacker Party (Paradiso, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) |
| HEU | 1993-1996 | Hacking at the End of the Universe (Larserbos, Flevopolder, The Netherlands) |
| HIP'97 | 1997-2000 | Hacking in Progress (Almere Buiten, The Netherlands) |
| HAL2001 | 2001-2004 | Hacking At Large (Enschede, The Netherlands) |
| WTH | 2005-2008 | What The Hack (Liempde, The Netherlands) |
Important Note: Why are these events are associated with a timeframe that spans a couple of years? The reason is simple; we would also like to add media to the archive which is related to the events. Think about companies formed because people met at HEU, friendships formed because you hacked on that cool project on HIP'97.
What will be the difference between the online and offline archives?
Online this will mean we will create a space for each time period where people can upload images/video/stories/scans of the time. What was the hackers world like then, what were the issues, what did everybody look like, what was the net like at the time.
Offline we will create a space for each timeframe where visitors can upload their content in a place filled with photo's and objects (if possible) to try to convey the vibe of the time.
The end result will be that we will leave what the hack with a huge memory in the form of a harddisk/webserver filled with content that the organisation will host for atleast the next 4 years but if all goes well can be a starting point for future events.
Lowtech rules, The above may sound to many that we will create some huge database with dynamic navigation tools and 3d interfaces and multiple layers of perl/java/php and any other language we can find. We won't since we want to make sure we can still watch/use the content several years from now all will be rendered to plain html into 1 huge directory, images in jpeg and video in mpeg. At the event we will use simple import scripts and tools so you can add your own content to the directory.
Some things on our preliminary todo list
This is a quick start of what we as a broadcast and archive team need to do.
- Record all the new content created at What the Hack and put it in the [ReHash Storage]
- Find old content, convert it in a proper format that will still exist in 10 years from now and archive it in the [ReHash Storage]
- Create tools so people at the event (or before) can add stuff to the archive
- Create tools so people can create interesting content on top of the storage (top10's, people pages, collages on a topic (example the hal2001 bill gates stone).
- Motivate people (you!) in the community to dig up old media that we can incorporate in either the online or offline archive
Some ideas we have for the event:
- Get some workstations so that people can connect their photo and video cameras to export their content (Macs with iPhoto / iMovie)
- Make simple business cards we can give away to folks who would like to contact us after the event when they have more content available
How can you help?
The most important thing you can do right now is to collect media from the previous events and be prepared to either upload that content to us upfront, or bring it during What the Hack.
We don't have the uploading infrastructure in place yet, but we will make sure that you can upload and tag your media very soon. Please do not already start sending us stuff. We cannot handle that right now as we need to figure out how to organize everything first.
