Electromagnetic Field (festival)
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Electromagnetic Field 2014 at Night
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Status | active |
Dates | August/September |
Frequency | Biennial |
Country | England |
Inaugurated | August 2012 |
Founder | Jonty Wareing, Russ Garrett |
Most recent | August 2014 |
Participants | 1500 |
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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 is scheduled to be held on August 5th-7th, 2016 at Loseley Park, Guildford. [12]
References
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- ↑ 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
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- ↑ EMF Camp, megabits to a farm
- ↑ EMF 2014 Programme
- ↑ EMF wiki, Villages
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External links
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