Campus Party
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Campus Party (CP) is a conference and hackathon.
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Quick Facts Location(s), Years active ...
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Location(s) | Italy Brazil Colombia USA Argentina Uruguay Paraguay Singapore El Salvador Germany The Netherlands United Kingdom Costa Rica Ecuador Mexico Spain |
Years active | 22 |
Inaugurated | 1997 (Madrid, Spain) |
Website | www |
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Founded in 1997 as a technology festival and LAN party, the event was first held in Málaga, Spain, and has since been run in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Paraguay, Singapore, Spain, the Netherlands, Uruguay and USA.[1][2]
The event has evolved into an annual week-long, 24-hour-a-day festival involving online communities, gamers, programmers, bloggers, governments, universities, companies and students[3] and covers technology innovation and electronic entertainment, with an emphasis on free software, programming, astronomy, social media, gaming, green technology, robotics, security networks and computer modeling.[4][5][6]