Hackers at Large 2001

Panorama of the 'back gate' looking at the main tent, the main road and some visitor's tents

HAL2001 pictures by Iljitsch van Beijnum. They are in chronological order, starting monday the 6th and ending sunday the 12th of august. The full sized photos (click on the small ones on this page) are 1280 x 960 or 640 x 480 (low light conditions) with sizes up to 200 kilobyte. You can use them in Web publications if you email me the URL, for any other use, please email first: iljitsch@xs4all.nl.

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Getting those fibers in the ground isn't easy. The university didn't like it this way, so the rest of it is above ground. Rop talking to a reporter. Monday, no power yet, so without a notebook with wireless there's nothing else to do than play Risk by the light of an oil lamp. Close up of the Risk board.
The main tent is still empty on tuesday morning. The rain doesn't show well on photos, but is was really raining cats, dogs and small farm animals on tuesday morning. Building the large tents. Still no power in most places, so let's charge our gadgets in the FHQ tent.
Sateh is looking friendly today. Big meeting of all the volunteers on wednesday, team leaders are introduced. Network team meeting is well attended. Crimping UTP cables is a nice change of pace for Marcel.
The main tent is ready for the crowds. One of the first computers in the main tent: an Amiga! Audience at the lawful interception lecture friday around noon. Paul Wouters talking about lawful interception of IP traffic in The Netherlands.
Brinkie backlit. Tents in the dark. More tents in the dark. Close up of tents in the dark.
Nohican tries to grok an Indy. Fabien doesn't know how to play this Amiga game from 1988 any more, but still loves the music. Roving Reporter Milly sets up her camera. Mark is thrilled about hooking up his ancient Z88 to a slightly less ancient Amiga 1200.
I have no idea what they were talking about. The audience is photographing us before the beginning of the AMS-IX discussion. Peter Peters (left) and Jaap van Till, ready to discuss the finer points of AMS-IX and other Internet Exchange failures. Mark enjoying a Jolt pancake. Inflation in The Netherlands is terrible: friday they were 2.50 guilders, sunday 3.50.

And then some HIP'97 pictures: