ScavHunt

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Welcome to the eth0:2010 summer ScavHunt!

How it works

There are about 50 assignments you can carry out by yourself or with a group. For every assignment completed you'll be rewarded with a shiny achievement badge. Each achievement has an amount of points that will be added to your total. The person with the most points wins fabulous prizes.

Get started!

In order to join you need a wiki account. Fix that now if you don't have one yet! Go on, click the link at the right-hand top of the screen.

Then:

1. Log in, and fix your profile page. Make sure you put your personal achievements on your profile page (see below)
2. Pick a challenge you want to try to achieve
3. Build, hack, or organize whatever it is that the achievement description states
4. Find one of the judges to authorize your achievement and receive your points

Note: some achievements need a judge present at the time you are executing the challenge. These achievements are marked with a star ()

Special stuff

There are some special rules:

• Some challenges are better achieved working in a team. When this is the case, the awarded points are divided among the participating people.

Note: In order to work in a team, you have to register the team with a judge beforehand!

• (Attempted) Cheating or bribing will make you lose all your bases points
• The judges are always right. End of discussion :-)

Judges

The judges will determine whether or not you met the challenge. If they think you did well, the achievement will be awarded to you. Give them your wiki-username, and they will update your status on the wiki.

The judges are: Fugu, Will-Do, and diggie.

Judges must be treated as Gods at all times. Did I say that out loud? Hmm...

Prizes

TweakNews is sponsoring some fabulous prizes for winners 1, 2 and 3.

1. One year of TweakNews 60mbit with >300 days retention
2. One year of TweakNews 20mbit with >300 days retention
3. Six months of TweakNews 20mbit with >300 days retention

OMFG check out the assignments!!!!

Scavhunt Achievements!

"La-surr"

Build an anti-mosquito platform, which uses one or more lasers to "light up" any mosquito's flying by. Like the Starwars Mosquito Defense System

100 pts

Amber lamps

Get a picture of our own Amber Lamps, seen not caring about an epic event happening right in front of her. She may not be informed beforehand. However, she may be a he.

8 pts

Athlete

Run 5 laps around the campsite. Start at the reception desk, use the firelanes, and pass the reception desk each time. Must be in under 10 minutes.

10 pts

Backtop

Do 50 push-ups (on toes) with your laptop on your back, between your shoulders. Netbooks are NOT allowed ;)

10 pts

Big Momma

Cook for at least 10 people. Rice and chicken is preferred. 2 bonus points if you serve water-melon as dessert.

5 pts

Bored

Build an automatic nose-picker. Obviously it must be safe to use (you must prove that yourself)

10 pts

Brainteaser

Think of a creative way to stop, bankrupt, kill, and/or terminate Stiching Brein (the Dutch RIAA, or so they like to think...)

5 pts

Butler

Make a robot that knows who lives where on the campsite and that can carry stuff around using the firelanes and GPS.

25 pts

Camjo

Create a video-impression of eth0:2010 summer, of around 2 minutes in length.

10 pts

Carb-o-coma

Cook/bake something absurdly huge and full of calories. Eat with friends until nothing is left.

5 pts when it has all been eaten

Chef

Cook something that at least 4 people and a judge find delicious

5 pts

Coolface

Write face recognition software that replaces human faces with cool faces

32 pts

Dancing baby

Create the dancing baby in validating SVG, CSS3 and/or HTML5. No sprites allowed, must be real 3D with bones

32 pts

deep thought

Find the question to the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything

42 pts

Detective

Find the thief of Cinder's macbook pro

15 pts

Dishes

Do the crew's dishes. Really. We're serious :-)

2 pts

Dungeon Master

Host a classic RPG session (D&D, Call of Cthulu, Warhammer, etc.) for at least 4 people

15 pts

Environmentalist

Collect 10 recyclable things, and recycle them!

5 pts

Fat fingers

Build a huge 101-keys keyboard. It has work and be at least 3 times bigger than a regular keyboard.

15 pts

Firefly

Create something that flies and has pretty lights on it. Show it off!

10 pts

Forced meme

Start a new internet-meme. You need at least 250.000 visitors before Friday, Aug 13, 2010 - 18:00 CET

15 pts

Happy ending

Give someone a (proper) massage

2 pts

IP-what?!

Spread the word. Explain what IPv6 is to someone, and how to get it working

2 pts per 'victim'

Knowitall

Explain what matrelinial is (in a funny way) and give a lightning talk on the subject in the lounge, including at least 5 slides.

5 pts

Lost byte

Someone has lost their bits around the forest. Help them recover their lost byte. Starting coordinates: 52.885557,5.077293

25 pts

Lumberjack

Get campfire fuel (ie. dead wood in realistically sized portions)

1 pt per m²

Moar

Think up your own challenge. We will assign points. Surprise us!

(varies)

Monkey-chain

Make a chain of physically touching people touching both field towers

1 pt per participant

Morris Day

Add people from eth0 to your social network.

1 pt per 5 persons

Never gonna let you down

Carry someone from the lecture room to the far end of the field (or the other way round). The someone must be an adult.

5 pts

Not a lie

Give someone a *real* cake

10 pts

Object of Fascination

Create an organic Object of Fascination, which must captivate one person for at least 5 minutes. The subject may not be informed.

10 pts

Paparazzi

Get that nipple slip or buttcrack vista! Build a webcam tracker that can follow people around the campsite. The HD dome cams in the towers are available for this.

5 pts

Pedobear

Make a model of pedobear, in the family village

1 pt per foot

Pi

Calculate the value of pi using nothing more than pen and paper

1 pt per digit after 3,14

Point buy

You're buying! Have a drink with five random people in the lounge. All at the same time, or at different times. Doesn't matter.

2 pts

Pro-tip

Give a pro-tip to at least 3 noobs (on the subject) and enlighten them

5 pts

Radioactive

Collect 5 different glow in the dark items and wear them on your body all night for everyone to see.

2 pts

Rickroll

Realistically perform Rick's best songs and dance. In public. Loud!

10 pts

Smooch

Have someone hug & kiss you (no licking & don't force! ;-)

2 pts

Space Explorer

Build a manned rocket-ship

30 pts

The plot thickens

Build a plotter.

25 pts

Trashman

Empty 5 trashcans into the containers (next to the generators, at the entrance)

2 pts

Tree-dweller

Build a solid treehouse in the woods next to our campsite

20 pts

True story!

Tell a "true" story to at least 10 people at once. It must be interesting to all

5 pts

Undernet

Design a new technology, protocol, method or feasible theory for a network that is able to stay private and undetected on the internet.

15 pts

Veggielover

Eat a full "voordeel"-bag of supermarket-salad. No condiments are allowed..

2 pts

Volunteer

You choose the chore! Do it for as long as Pluisje sees fit

up to 10 pts each day

VR

Model / build the whole eth0:2010_summer campsite in Google Maps in 3D

50 pts

Waterboarding

Build a water or marbles driven computer (or calculator)

10 pts per nibble it can handle

Working code

Write some code that remote controls something on the field

5 pts

= Supervision Required

Sharing is caring! (or: how to put a list of your achievements on your profile page)

Proud of your achievements? Add the following tag to your userpage:

<scavhunt output="achievementByUser" username="YOUR_USERNAME_HERE" />

Example:

Scavhunt Achievements By Tancaliel!

Big Momma

Awarded points: 5

Authorized by: Will-Do

Dishes

Awarded points: 2

Authorized by: Will-Do

Smooch

Awarded points: 2

Authorized by: Diggie

Volunteer

Awarded points: 20

Authorized by: Will-Do

OMG my latest achievements aren't showing up...

Then just add ?action=purge to the url to purge the cached version of the page.

This is information about the Eth0:2010 Summer Edition.