Hacker Beach
An Offline Camp passion talk from Sebastian Kippe
Sebastian Kippe, who attended our inaugural Offline Camp in the Catskills in June 2016, is no stranger to unconferences. In his passion talk at camp, he shared with us the origin story of Hacker Beach, a seriously spontaneous, self-organized, month-long gathering of open-source hackers and like-minded folks in a tropical spot each January. The adventure started in 2013 and has continued annually ever since.
“Hacker Beach came into being when 3 nomadic hackers discussed their plans for a warm winter getaway over some beers in Berlin. As we all love unconferences and spontaneous gatherings, we thought why not invite more people to stay with us, and elude the frosty temperatures in Europe for a month. So that’s what we did. We decided on rough dates, registered a domain and Twitter account, and told some people about our plan. But other than that, nobody organized anything until we actually met on Phu Quoc…” (HackerBeach.org)
Want to spend the month of January 2017 with some awesome folks on the Indonesian Island of Flores? Check out the plans (or proud lack thereof) for Hacker Beach 2017 on the website and follow the event on Twitter for updates.
