At last year's O'Reilly Emerging Technology conference, Danny O'Brien, Quinn Norton and Jon Gilbert invited ten people to come pitch tents in their nearby backyard, where there was WiFi, water, and electricity. They called it Emerging Man, a cross between Emerging Tech and Burning Man. They even had a geodesic dome.
This year, ETCON is being held in San Diego and the kids don't have a backyard to throw open to the public, so I suggested that they get in touch with the DachB0den crew, the hacker group who run the wonderful ToorCon, an astounding tech-security conference at which I spoke last year.
One thing led to another, and DachB0den has opened up its wicked hacker loft (here are my pictures of the space from the ToorCon afterparty in September) in downtown San Diego as a communal crashspace for some of this year's ETCON attendees.
The roster filled up fast, but as with the Emerging Man space, there's every reason to believe that the Dachb0den loft will become a social nexus for this year's ETCON, and there's also every reason to believe that there will be some dropping out and shifting around, so don't give up hope if you're looking for an ETCON crashpad.
There is, of course, a Wiki wherein the whole affair is being planned. I love watching this stuff come together.
(via Oblomovka)
