{"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":"https:\/\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just stumbled upon nushackers (formerly linuxNUS). Here are a group of people from the National University of Singapore, who organise weekly talks (Friday Hacks), as well as workshops (hackerschool). 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,1405],"tags":[103,309],"class_list":["post-2711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-malaysia-thoughts","tag-community","tag-singapore"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-HJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}