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→Introduction to CampusParty Brasil 2011
Site: http://www.campus-party.com.br/2011
(Fabricio summary, contains some bias, simplifications, rants and personal judgements)
* Campus party is a week long LAN Party that happens every January in São Paulo - Brazil.
* People camp indoor and bring their desktop computers to use the fast internet connection that is provided by a big and hated telecom company that is the event's main sponsor.
** A good ammount of the audience are kids that wait the whole year for this opportunity to play games without lag and to download as many bittorrent movies porn and tv shows that they can get in four days.
* It is somewhat more chaotic than FISL and slightly less focused on the talks/conference side of it, although there are speakers and schedules for a bunch of areas, all related with technology
* Wozniak is the main international guest this year, in past editions the event had other big names like Lessig and Tim Berners Lee
* the thing is huge, 7k people or so, there are lots of bullshit, like any huge-corporate-sponsored-gig, like tents full of adverstisement, posers of all kinds, etc. However, once you filter the bullshit out, it is actually an important Latin America event to attend since the local communities use this time of the year in their schedule to gather and meet.
* bring your earmuffs! the noise is almost unbearable and even though the spaces reserved for the talks have microphone, you will sometimes have to yell to be hearded, or just wait until the group of random flash-mob kids that is passing by go away. there are no rooms for the activity, everything is under the same giant arena
== Campus Party General Organization and Support ==
