CodeCon is a conference for hackers and technology enthusiasts. CodeCon is intended to be a low cost conference, with a focus on developers doing presentations of working code, rather than on companies with products to sell.
Bram Cohen and Len Sassaman are credited with devising and organizing the first conference at the DNA Lounge in San Francisco, California. After discussing what they saw as the various shortcomings of other conferences, they decided a much more hacker-friendly alternative was needed. CodeCon was the result of that discussion.
CodeCon 2002
The first conference was held at the DNA Lounge and hosted a number of projects that have received recognition since their unveiling. Some prominent examples include BitTorrent and Peek_a_Booty.
There were also panel discussions, including one about the legality of hacking, which focused on the actions of the MPAA and RIAA against peer-to-peerfile sharing networks.
CodeCon 2003
The second conference, in 2003, was moved to a new venue better suited for presentations and audience called Club NV. It attracted more participants than the previous conference.
CodeCon strongly encourages presenters from non-commercial and academic backgrounds to attend for the purposes of collaboration and the sharing of knowledge by providing free registration to workshop presenters and discounted registration to full-time students.
At my first CodeCon, a guard turned me away because I had no photo ID with me (although it happened that I was over 21, I had no reason to have ID and to this day am concerned about the routinization of identification).
CodeCon exists because Bram and I believe it is important, and we are willing to donate a certain amount of time, effort, and financial risk to see that it goes well.
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