More than 5,000 young people are mentioned in the tenth edition of the largest gathering of Internet users in Europe, opened by British physicist video.
Play. Down. 'Chat'. For many, these three verbs listed yesterday at noon at the fairgrounds parking and Francesc Alberto Valencia, summary succinctly and explicit the objectives of their participation in the Campus Party. The two, aged 19, from the town of Olot Girona, reached what is considered as the largest concentration of Internet users in Spain . The event, now in its tenth year, it opened at midnight Stephen Hawking by videoconference.
British physicist made an account later , was of 1 to 10, for the traditional lighting of displays, luminous tree that marks the starting point of seven days of computers, gaming, virtual competitions buy fifa coins online and different simulations.
"The fact that I can greet you today is due to the unique ability that counts the human race," Hawking said from the screen. "The basic biological units of which we are made, the DNA of our genetic code, is 98% identical to that of our ancestors, and it is this crucial difference of 2%, which has the power to communicate with us , which we have led to where we are, "he added. In his brief speech, just four minutes, claimed the dialogue as a means of human development.
"The great achievements of mankind is talking and reached the greatest failures by not talking," he said. "We are rapidly joining network to be part of a global consciousness .'s a new world order. Keep talking ", summoned a respectfully silent buffs.
Quote national foreign presence in the Campus is just anecdotal, 0.44%. Most are from Valencia , but the rest of Spain, in Madrid , Catalonia and Andalusia , provide good percentages.
From the latter came the brothers autonomous Romero, with some friends, after leaving his native Malaga at three-thirty in the morning. Adrian, 23, is the veteran. His sister Patricia, 19, debuted in the computer jungle. And he did it thoroughly to be an exception. "I warned," said Adrian. But she ignored.
Only 15% are women
Another of the few women present at the meeting, constitute about 15% of the attendees, is Susana Miguel, a 22 years. Campus At no parity, but she does not feel discriminated against. "The people are very friendly," he insisted in the middle of a circle of backpacks. " Son of my clan . We left at five o'clock in Madrid in order to have a space for everyone. way we will be together, "he explained.
For Alejandro Fonseca, 26 year-old from Merida, "on Campus not it comes to flirting. For that you go to other places," he added. Exhausted, drenched in sweat but smiling despite the eight-hour trip in his Peugeot 206, commented at the gates of the Fair, with all their belongings distributed computing in a shopping cart, which was in Valencia for "down, down and down " , ie: copy, copy and copy.
Glory for it is almost an unwritten rule. "I brought 220 DVD", smiled while others flaunted pirate flags and letters of marque with legends such as "information sharing is respect creation" as well as messages to the SGAE, transcript of what was the Spanish empire for the privateers English. The ease of copying in the Campus Party is based on a connection of 3.7 Gb / s . Broadband that represents 15% of the country. And the star of the TV series are downloads.
A Atomium
The 'modding', the decoration of the hardware , is another common slogans. One of the most spectacular is run by a group of young people from Madrid, Planet Express Klan, who have played the Atomium that André Waterkeyn created in 1958 for the Brussels Expo.
His model, scale 1:36, houses the guts of six computers in their areas transparent. They all connect to a single server in a metaphor that "unity is strength" . Valencia To carry all components, the group split. On one hand, the model traveled in a van with five members of the Clan. On the other, the rest in private vehicles.
Others chose images of mass culture, such as R2D2, of 'The Wars'. And others, like Javier Sirvent, announcing his intentions. "This year I brought a camera blimp that will be the bomb, but today there is much pussy" commented walking through Fair with his red sled motor. Six Campus behind, warned: "The entertainment area will be mixed, and that is going to turn into a pussy, will fill with people", clarifying the meaning of the word.
The RPGs are some of the stars of the game. A name was repeated yesterday in the mouths of many: World of Warcraft. Carlos Augusto Perez of the generation of 71, those who were initiated in the hands of Spectrum, was among those who had between competing priorities and that included WoW. "I like RPGs, but arcades succeed," he acknowledged.
The Campus Party organizers have launched nine content areas ranging from astronomy to robotics, to digital creation, creating arcade, strictly speaking, the simulation, the 'modding', the software Free and film. They are "small campus in the Campus", an expression of the director Belinda Galiano.
Satisfied, busy, taking the last walk through the fairgrounds, five hours view of the inauguration commented that since 4200 had been credited youth who have to take part in the meeting. And selling the virtues of the new field devoted to R & D, in which Rudolph Giuliani participate tomorrow.
The spearhead of an event that has Ragageles Paco backstage, admitted that they had initiated contacts for the next guest is Bill Gates. "We have groped the possibility," said, "but still no response." For now, your company, Microsoft itself has responded. Last night, ultimate team coins after switching on screens, were treated to a presentation of Halo 3 and also showed the new version of Flight Simulator X .
The campusero sketch of talk of late adolescents, but there is variety. since a retiree aged 70 to 11 year old girl with her mother and even a baby of 20 days. All bombarded by advertising, fast food tents, televisions, computer and phone companies that compete to attract the expert navigators cyber Turtle Island where the rum is an RPG.
