Why It Mattered
Including HAL2001 keeps the Dutch camp lineage continuous and prevents the compendium from implying that badge culture began only once electronic devices appeared.
Hackers At Large 2001 · Netherlands · 2001
HAL2001 Simple Badge
Early Dutch camp identity artifact
A conservative historical record for the simple identity-badge era around Hackers At Large 2001, where public badge histories do not describe a hackable electronic PCB badge.
SeriesDutch Hacker Camps
LocationUniversity of Twente, Enschede
CountryNetherlands
People
Attribution Gap
No public individual author, designer, firmware, or team credits have been seeded for this badge yet. Add named credits only when a primary badge-team page, repository, talk, or other source identifies the people or team behind the work.
Hardware
No sourceable public record currently supports a specific electronic HAL2001 camp badge. Treat the artifact as an attendee identity/pass record until primary photos or production notes are recovered.
Software & Apps
No badge software is currently documented for this entry.
Lore
WHY2025's badge-history page explicitly contrasts later electronic badges with earlier Dutch camps such as Hackers At Large 2001, which it describes as having very simple badges or none at all.
Lifecycle
Add-ons & Upgrades
Operational history
Issues & Camp Impact
historical scope
note
Public badge-history sources describe earlier Dutch camps such as HAL2001 as having very simple badges or none at all, and no sourceable public record currently supports an electronic HAL2001 badge specification.
The compendium includes HAL2001 as a lineage and identity-artifact entry while leaving electronics, credits, and images marked for primary-source recovery.
- Confidence
- public history page and event archive
- Status
- needs primary artifact recovery
- Timeframe
- retrospective
- Source note
- WHYcast history episode 41 and the official event archive.
missing rights-cleared image
note
No HAL2001 Simple Badge image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The Netherlands record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
- Confidence
- local project policy
- Status
- needs licensed original replacement
- Timeframe
- current catalogue build
- Source note
- badge.gallery image policy and early Dutch hacker-camp identity-artifact source trail.