Campus Party

Campus Party (CP) is a conference and hackathon.

For the album by the Rivieras, see Campus Party (album).
Campus Party
Campus Party
Location(s)Italy
Brazil
Colombia
USA
Argentina
Uruguay
Paraguay
Singapore
El Salvador
Germany
The Netherlands
United Kingdom
Costa Rica
Ecuador
Mexico
Spain
Years active22
Inaugurated1997 (Madrid, Spain)
Websitewww.campus-party.org

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.

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 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.

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