Electromagnetic Field (festival)
| Electromagnetic Field | |
|---|---|
 Electromagnetic Field 2014 at Night | |
| Status | active |
| Dates | August/September |
| Frequency | Biennial |
| Country | England |
| Inaugurated | August 2012 |
| Founder | Jonty Wareing, Russ Garrett |
| Most recent | August 2016 |
| Participants | 1500 |
| Website | |
| emfcamp.org | |
Electromagnetic Field (also known as EMF, or EMF Camp) is a camping festival in the UK, held every two years, for hackers, geeks, engineers and scientists.[1] It features talks and workshops covering a wide variety of topics.[2] EMF is a non-profit event run entirely by a team of volunteers.[3]
Attendees of EMF receive an electronic conference badge, funded by sponsorship, which in 2014 included an LCD screen, Arduino-compatible microcontroller, and a radio transceiver. [4]
History
The first Electromagnetic Field event was held in 2012 at Pineham Park, near Milton Keynes, and completely sold out a 499-person capacity. Each tent at EMF 2012 was provided with power and the internet, via a 2.5 km direct microwave link to a data centre[5] which provided 370 Mbit/s[6] to the campsite. Over 50 speakers gave talks, including Ben Goldacre. [7]
The event was held in 2014 at Hounslow Hall Estate, again near Milton Keynes. Over 1,200 tickets were sold.[8] As with the 2012 event, internet was provided by a direct microwave link which provided 436Mbps.[9] The entire event had over 100 talks, workshops and events with a separate track for children. Notable speakers included Tom Watson MP and Simon Singh. [10] In addition there were 45 'villages'[11] that ran their own workshops and events including silver smithing, wood turning and making stroopwafels.
Electromagnetic Field 2016 was held on August 5th-7th, 2016 at Loseley Park, Guildford[12] with an attendance of over 1,600. The 1 Gbps internet connection was provided by fibre, and the on-site network had a 10 Gbps backbone[13]
Synchronization with other events
In the years when Electromagnetic Field does not occur, Chaos Communication Camp (in Germany) and one of the Hack-Tic hacker events (in the Netherlands) occur alternately.
References
- ↑ Steadman, Ian (20 August 2012). "Inquisitive minds gather to camp out in the Electromagnetic Field". Wired. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
- ↑ EMF Camp talks
- ↑ About Electromagnetic Field
- ↑ Announcing TiLDA MKe, the incredible EMF 2014 camp badge
- ↑ BBC News: Geek camp comes to Milton Keynes
- ↑ EMF Camp, the site and Networking
- ↑ EMF 2012 Programme
- ↑ Shaw, Dougal (2 September 2014). "Electromagnetic Field: Can geeks get kids into science?". BBC. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
- ↑ EMF Camp, megabits to a farm
- ↑ EMF 2014 Programme
- ↑ EMF wiki, Villages
- ↑ emfcamp (10 September 2015). "We're very excited to announce the date and location for EMF 2016" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ↑ EMF 2016 Infrastructure Review
External links
Coordinates: 52°03′40″N 0°42′36″W / 52.061°N 0.710°W