QHC
Quadrennial Hacker Camp
Is a collective name to list the Dutch quadrennial hacker camps that consist of an ever changing three letter acronym with a variant of "Hack", "Hacker" or "Hacking" in it, is organised since 1989 and includes:
- 1989 Galactic Hacker Party (indoor)
- 1993 Hacking at the End of the Universe
- 1997 Hacking InProgress
- 2001 Hackers At Large
- 2005 What The Hack
- 2009 Hacking At Random (the hackerspace revolution)
- 2013 OHM - Observe. Hack. Make. 2013
- 2017 SHA - Still Hacking Anyway 2017
- 2022 MCH - May Contain Hackers 2022 (deviated by a year due to COVID-19)
- 2025 WHY - What Hackers Yearn 2025
Also see:
| List of known hacker conferences | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| country | name | type | frequency | note |
| DE | Chaos Communication Camp | camp | quadrennial | since 1999 |
| DE | Chaos Communication Congress | congress | yearly | since 1984 |
| DK | BornHack | camp | yearly | since 2016 |
| LU | HaxoGreen | camp | biennial | since 2016? |
| NL | Hacker Hotel | hotel | yearly | since 2018? |
| NL | eth0:Atumn | congress / hostel | yearly | also see previous Eth0:Summer and Eth0:Winter editions, since 2007? |
| NL | QHC | camp | quadrennial | Since 1989 |
| UK | Electromagnetic Field | camp | biennial | since 2012 |
| US | Hackers On Planet Earth | congress | biennial | since 1994 |
| US | black hat briefings | congress | yearly? | since 1997 |
| US | Toorcon | camp | yearly | since 1999 |
| US | DEF CON | congress | irregular | since 1993 |
| US | ShmooCon | congress | yearly | |
Also note: there is a Congress everywhere page to live stream a conference in the space.
