[[!meta date="Sat Aug 2 00:00:00 2014"]]
[[!meta title="Tails HackFest 2014, retrospect"]]
[[!tag announce]]

The first Tails [HackFest](https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/HackFest_2014_Paris/),
which took place on July 5-6 in Paris, was a great event: about 120 people
attended on Saturday, 70 people on Sunday. We shared some good workshops,
some very good food, and homemade beer in a nice and friendly atmosphere.

The slides of some talks have been
[published](https://tails.boum.org/promote/slides/), but there is more
to come.

The first Tails stickers were distributed and you can also make your
own! Just use [this SVG file](https://tails.boum.org/promote/tails-sticker.svg).

We are particularly happy that the HackFest attracted very different
people, so we were a quite diverse assembly. Probably thanks to our
[[anti-harassment policy|blueprint/HackFest_2014_Paris/policy]]
(thanks Genma for the frensh translation)...

Some people talked about the HackFest:
[jvoisin](http://dustri.org/b/tails-hackfest.html), and... more?
(please send links!)

Thanks to:

  - [IRILL](https://www.irill.org/) for the use of the place
  - [The Tor Project](https://www.torproject.org/), [Mozilla
    Foundation](https://www.mozilla.org/) and [Debian](https://www.debian.org/)
    for the sponsorship
  - Stefano Zacchiroli and Sylvestre Ledru for the organization help
  - and of course, all our fabulous attendees that made the event so interesting
and nice!

New mailing lists
=================

* <tails-project@boum.org>: public, archived
[mailing list](https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-project) to
talk about the non-technical decisions regarding the project.
* <tails-press@boum.org>: the new contact for journalists and people
wanting to promote Tails. Just write to <tails-press@boum.org>. You
can encrypt your email.
* <tails-ux@boum.org>: public, archived
[mailing list](https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-ux) to discuss
Tails website and software user interfaces.
