The Hackaday team clearly miss the camaraderie and adventurous spirit of bygone hacker camps and want to see more of it in the current events.
They feel that the culture has changed - for the worse - into something more like a generic festival where people go to get entertained.
The old model, say the authors, was more village-based, limited in numbers, with a bring-a-hack ethos.
To counter this, the authors suggest smaller, more numerous events that actively discourage passive spectators, and split bigger events into smaller ones when they get too large.
Some cynical readers, however, say that the premise of the article is itself a form of privileged worse-than-thou activism, and that the old “village” model wasn’t open and accepting enough.
Either way, seeing the old days Again would be great.
