Byteweek 2019

Eight bits of awesomeness

Friday 25 January 2019, 19:00 to / till Saturday 2 February 2019

This event is part of series 'byteweek2019'

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What we did

From Friday 25 January to Saturday 2 February, Byteweek 2019 hosted 18 sessions over nine days: hackathons for GNU Radio and ZeroMQ, a Kubernetes warmup, workshops on LDAP, Odoo, Hugo, Lua, Selenium and Blockstack, a pentesting talk, DIY fuzzboxes for bass and guitar, amateur radio for hackers and a Processing Community Day. Bitnight on Friday and Bytenight on Saturday closed the week.

The week before Fosdem conference, HSBXL compiles ByteWeek.
Eight ‘Bitdays’ of hackatons, workshops and talks.
We end our week with the notorious Bytenight!

Friday January 25th

[20:30] make GNUwhine

Saturday January 26th

[14:00] Setting up Odoo and writing your first app

Sunday January 27th

[15:00] Pentesting: hacking companies & governments like a pro
[14:00] Web scraping with Selenium and Python

Monday January 28th

[10:00] Lua on a Stick (All day)

Tuesday January 29th

[00:00] Lua on a Stick (All day)
[20:30] Hugo Workshop
[19:00] Introduction to LDAP
[17:00] Processing Community Day Brussels

Wednesday January 30th

[00:00] Lua on a Stick (All day)
[19:00] Stompboxin’, DIY fuzzboxes for bass and guitar

Thursday January 31th

[00:00] Lua on a Stick (All day)
[20:00] Using GNU Radio for Analog and Digital Communications
[18:00] Amateur radio for hackers
[17:30] Panpanpan: demonstration v2
[10:00] pre-FOSDEM GNU Radio Hackfest (All day)
[10:00] ZeroMQ Pre-Fosdem Hackaton 2019 (All day)

Friday February 1st

[00:00] Lua on a Stick (All day)
[00:00] pre-FOSDEM GNU Radio Hackfest (All day)
[00:00] ZeroMQ Pre-Fosdem Hackaton 2019 (All day)
[21:00] Bitnight
[18:00] Pre-FOSDEM warmup with Kubernetes
[13:00] Blockstack Workshop

Saturday February 2nd

[18:00] Bytenight

Call for participation

If you want to have a talk, workshop or hackaton,
send a mail to contact@hsbxl.be with your proposal.

Food

We are serving fresh soup every day.

Aftermath

Byteweek was a BLAST!
Financialy we also did very well.

Costs

Costs Byteweek related are €1551,31.

18 fries/soup packages
95,99 deep fryer / fries / pizzas
55,50 pellets
13,5 pellets
21,7 pellets
190,56 colruyt
23,30 pellets
174,2 colruyt
440,56 beer
518 beer
26 broken chairs VGC

Revenue

Byteweek brought us €2851,5.

Profit

Which means Byteweek added €1274,19 to our warchest.

2026-10-24: List every Byteweek edition on `/byteweek` and recap what each year did (Adrian Pascu)
2024-05-03: Format files (Adrian Pascu)
2024-01-02: Cleanup byteweek (Adrian Pascu)
2019-10-08: bytewek slogan (betz)
2019-10-08: byteweek2020 (betz)
2019-02-10: broken chairs costs byteweek (betz)
2019-02-06: missing byteweek revenue (betz)
2019-02-05: byteweek revenue/costs/profit (betz)
2019-02-05: byteweek revenue/costs/profit (betz)
2019-02-05: byteweek revenue/costs/profit (betz)
2019-02-05: revenue byteweek (betz)
2018-12-31: show (all day) on events shortcode (betz)
2018-12-31: show event starttimes on byteweek page (betz)
2018-12-25: byteweek 2019 headers alter (betz)
2018-12-07: events shortcode option date filter (betz)
2018-12-04: typo (betz)
2018-12-04: food for byteweek (betz)
2018-12-04: define series start pages (betz)
2018-12-03: start front matter for byteweek2019 (betz)
2018-12-02: series mentioned on even page (betz)
2018-12-02: better time handling for hackeragenda.be (betz)
2018-11-28: better cfp description (betz)
2018-11-28: byteweek description and call for participation (betz)
2018-11-22: byteweek redirect (betz)
2018-11-19: byteweek title (betz)
2018-11-16: byteweek headings (betz)
2018-11-11: bytenight image (betz)
2018-11-11: coremeeting 11 (betz)
2018-11-11: bytenight redirect (betz)
2018-11-10: byteweek (betz)
2018-11-10: bytenight (betz)
2018-11-10: bitdays (betz)
2018-11-10: bitdays (betz)
2018-11-10: bitdays (betz)
2018-11-10: moved events to its own event folders (betz)
2018-11-08: move bytenight to its own folder (betz)
2018-11-08: projects (betz)
2018-11-05: 2 new events for byteweek (betz)
2018-11-05: bytenight (betz)
2018-11-05: bytenight (betz)
2018-11-05: byteweek desc (betz)
2018-11-05: byteweek desc (betz)
2018-11-04: better date handling (betz)
2018-11-04: byteweek image (betz)
2018-11-04: techtuesdays (betz)
2018-11-03: css, event dir, socialnetworks (betz)
2018-11-03: initial (betz)

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