WHY2025 (What Hackers Yearn 2025)
8 – 12 Aug 2025 - Geestmerambacht (near Alkmaar), NL
📅 When: 8 – 12 Aug 2025
📍 Where: Geestmerambacht (near Alkmaar), NL
💰 Admission: Sold out
🔍 What Is WHY2025?
What Hackers Yearn 2025 is a quadrennial outdoor hacker camp, the tenth in a tradition dating back to 1989. Organized by volunteers from the global hacker community, it's a large non-profit gathering focused on knowledge exchange, tech experimentation, and community building—blurring the lines between hardware hacking, software projects, and even culinary hacking .
🌐 Core Experience & Culture
For hackers, by hackers: This all-volunteer grassroots event emphasizes peer-to-peer learning, collaborative projects, creative exploration, and social connection.
Cultural milestone: WHY2025 continues the legacy of camps like GHP, HEU, HIP, HAL, and May Contain Hackers (MCH2022, which drew around 3,200 attendees)
Hands-on and immersive: Expect workshops, talks, hardware villages, network setups, campfire experiments—and even food hacking under open skies between computers and tents.
🎯 Why It Matters to Next Wave Zone Readers
Deep‑tech grounding: Unlike startup expos, WHY2025 surfaces low-level innovation—security tools, amateur satellites, hardware mods—that often precede commercial spin-outs.
Talent magnet: With thousands of skilled makers and coders present, including key profiles from Europe’s hacker networks, this event is a talent signal for early-stage scouting and prototypes.
Network ripple effect: The collaborative culture feeds startups, hackathons, incubators across Dutch and EU ecosystems—especially in security, IoT, embedded, and privacy-tech.
✅ Summary
WHY2025 isn’t glamour tech—it’s the invisible furnace where hardware-layer innovation ignites. Capturing its energy offers Next Wave Zone readers pure signal on Europe’s next-gen builders.
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