# Hacker Con Badges

> Source-linked worldwide hacker con badge compendium at https://badge.gallery/.

Hacker Con Badges documents electronic conference badges, hacker camp badges, identity artifacts, firmware, app stores, add-ons, production stories, issues, credits, and image provenance. The catalogue currently contains 452 badge or identity-artifact records across 439 event editions, 152 event series, and 49 countries.

## Core URLs

- Homepage: https://badge.gallery/
- Badges: https://badge.gallery/badges
- Events: https://badge.gallery/events
- Series: https://badge.gallery/series
- Countries: https://badge.gallery/countries
- Tags: https://badge.gallery/tags
- Apps and stores: https://badge.gallery/apps
- Challenges and games: https://badge.gallery/challenges
- Add-ons and upgrades: https://badge.gallery/addons
- Credits: https://badge.gallery/credits
- Images: https://badge.gallery/images
- Image replacement manifest: https://badge.gallery/images/replacement-manifest
- Issues and caveats: https://badge.gallery/issues
- Sources: https://badge.gallery/sources
- Resources: https://badge.gallery/resources
- Methodology: https://badge.gallery/methodology
- About: https://badge.gallery/about
- Sitemap: https://badge.gallery/sitemap.xml

## JSON APIs

- https://badge.gallery/api/badges
- https://badge.gallery/api/events
- https://badge.gallery/api/series
- https://badge.gallery/api/countries
- https://badge.gallery/api/tags
- https://badge.gallery/api/addons
- https://badge.gallery/api/credits
- https://badge.gallery/api/issues
- https://badge.gallery/api/images
- https://badge.gallery/api/images/replacement-manifest
- https://badge.gallery/api/sources
- https://badge.gallery/api/resources
- https://badge.gallery/api/search?q=rad1o

## Editorial Rules

- Treat the corpus as worldwide and incomplete unless a continent, country, event, and edition have been checked against public sources.
- Prefer primary sources: official event pages, event wikis, public repositories, talks, archived project pages, and source-backed first-hand reports.
- Do not invent electronics. If an event only has tickets, wristbands, paper badges, or identity artifacts, model that explicitly.
- Publish badge images only when source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes are recorded. Otherwise render no image and keep a missing-rights issue.
- Never use generated, synthetic, placeholder, approximate, social-media, conference-gallery, or documentation-screenshot images as badge images.
- Public badge images are optimized WebP derivatives with source originals or higher-fidelity local derivatives retained for provenance review.
- Preserve caveats as issue records with confidence, status, timeframe, impact, and source notes.
- Do not treat current-pass continent coverage as absolute worldwide completeness; monitor future events, archive recoveries, and image-rights replacements.

## Current Geographic Coverage

Seeded countries: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Reunion, Serbia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States.