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by VortexLain 5 days ago
You could have told the guard you're going to a competitive programming contest.
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It was a non-competitive hackathon - different groups working on related project s get together to promote inter-group relationships.
Programming conference
Sure. I had something like that planned. But that doesn't change the title of the event.
The title might be XYZ Hackathon but the word Hackathon isn't really meaningful outside of that scene, so if asked what it is, you'd say a computer programming conference or something like that. When I tell people about Revision, I don't say "demoparty", I say "computer art festival", because that's not subculture jargon.
And if the border guard asks for the name of the computer art festival, to check if it exists?
it's called Revision and the website is https://revision-party.net