{"id":2711,"date":"2013-05-02T08:23:41","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T13:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2711"},"modified":"2013-05-02T08:23:44","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T13:23:44","slug":"when-hackers-gather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2013\/05\/02\/when-hackers-gather","title":{"rendered":"When hackers gather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just stumbled upon <a href=\"http:\/\/nushackers.org\/\">nushackers<\/a> (formerly linuxNUS). Here are a group of people from the National University of Singapore, who organise weekly talks (Friday Hacks), as well as workshops (<a href=\"http:\/\/school.nushackers.org\/\">hackerschool<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m totally inspired by what&#8217;s happening, it kind of reminds me of the CSSE Student Club I was a part of back at my alma mater. The extension to that was GAUNIX, in where we controlled a machine supported by the university and gave folk shell access.<\/p>\n<p>Great things happen when hackers meet up with each other. And here I&#8217;m referring to the hackers, not just the idea folk\/business people. Just people playing around with new things, tinkering, sharing about new technology, building stuff.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There used to be <a href=\"http:\/\/foss.org.my\/\">MyOSS meetups<\/a> in Malaysia. Now there is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/webcamp\/\">WebCampKL<\/a>, but this is a meld of people who are not exactly hackers.<\/p>\n<p>I reckon this is what&#8217;s missing in the Malaysian space &#8211; it needs to be fixed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20When%20hackers%20gather&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2013%2F05%2F02%2Fwhen-hackers-gather&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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