Hackers on Plant Earth - Hope with Mitch Altman and Greg Newby

Hackers on Planet Earth(HOPE), is a biannual volunteer-driven hacker conference that got started in 1994. On the hacking and phone phreaking's magazine 2600 10th anniversary. In this episode of Hacker Talk, we are joined by two hackers that are behind the curtain at the HOPE conference.  

Greg Newby and Mitch Altman are both two impressive Hackers, helping the  

HOPE conference be the amazing hacking conference it is today.   

In this episode we cover:  

How Hope has evolved during the years  

Greg and Mitch's journey's into the hacking mindset   

Problems with big pharma and the importance of biohacking  

HOPE moving location from Hotel Pennsylvania to Saint John's University     

Hackerspaces   

exploring technology   

Phone phreaking   

Life-changing events at HOPE   

Demoscene with original hardware from the 1980'ies at HOPE    

Making 8-bit generated art and music      

Running a physical hacker conference      

Hidden gems at HOPE   

How can you can run your own conference   

Logistics behind the HOPE conference   

Links:  

https://hope.net/      

https://petascale.org/   

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Altman    

https://2600.com   

https://archive.org/details/HOPE-3-The_Hacker_s_Code   

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene    

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_on_Planet_Earth  

The Hacker Talk team will be at May Contain Hackers which will take place   

in the Netherlands at the same time as the HOPE conference. Find us   

for some stickers and Hacker Talk swag!