#ntacamp

Check… Check... And we are live! 40Mbps internets in the camp, so you could say we are all set. So for all those who come here fist time, here’s a bunch of need to know before you come.

Stuff to take

Well, this is an open air festival, so take everything you would bring to any music festival. Also a good idea is to bring your laptop and any cool gadgets you have - I’m sure you will make a use of those. Here’s a short list for your convenience:

Tent, sleeping bag and other stuff of comfortable camping

Your laptop and gadgets

Extension cord

Router or any networking equipment if you feel you will need that (e.g. for LAN party)

Food for yourself and new friends

Water and drinks

Trash bags

Comfortable clothes

Bug repellent

Games if you have any

And of course, all the swag you can get ;)

Geting to the camp

NTA happens at camp Pusiasalis. The exact coordinates are: 54.657602, 24.984814

And these are your options to get there.

Just drive

Get your gang together and have a nice quick road trip over here. Also if you have spare seat in your car, don’t forget to check if you can take someone with you in Facebook event.

Remember you have to drive towards Trakai, then turn to Varnikėliai and on Rubežus take a stony road to Padumblė.

From there you will see our awesome NTA road signs. Once you reach the parking lot, you should leave your car there and continue to the camp on foot.

Note: if you need to bring heavy stuff to the camp, reach the Infodesk first and they will give you an access key to drive into the camp.

Green options

Bike or hike are always the best options.

You can get to Trakai via train and ride from there. Or if you are up for a challenge you may take a longer trip from Vilnius.

Agenda

Here is a rough schedule, what will happen at the camp:

Thursday Early birds are gathering on Thursday ;) You have entire day to chill at this wonderful lakeside. Godzilla and popcorns! Movie night in the evening. The first registrations are starting in the evening.

Friday Everyone comes and settles today! The official opening of NTA2018 will happen 17:00 First talks at stages start 17:30 We will have some performances and music concert starting 21:00

Saturday NTA goes hot. Talks and workshops starts 10:00 at all NTA stages.

Sunday Talks of those who couldn’t participate on Saturday. Workshops, panels and crafts continue. The major chillout!

Food

The entire point of the event is friendly camp, therefore everyone brings their own eats. And don’t forget that sharing is caring so we encourage to bring food to share with others and make new friends while grabbing a snack :)We will have a massive food court with public grills, so if you eager to have some sexy BBQ, bring your meats here. And grab all your grilling stuff as well if you have any.

Also there will be some public coffee/tea and some food on Friday evening and Saturday. The Avocado noodle bar will prepare us some delicious Wok and Tom Yum soup.

Important stuff

Hey, hey! It’s only 3 days left until the most amazing summer fest in 2018. 

This year we have almost 40 different workshops from lasers and scavenger hunt to sauna!!! You can find the list of all workshops and a activities here: https://2018.notrollsallowed.com/dirbtuves 

And here are some you can to keep track of.

Book club

Happening on Saturday Sunday. You have to register here if want to participate: https://goo.gl/forms/AHA6YPtzjRcCuZDG2

NTA Puzzle Hunt

Happening entire event. If you want to participate, you need to register at info desk. The winners will be awarded with special swag ;)

Quiz game (Galvodaužis 3)

Starts on Friday, 19:00 If you want to participate, you’ll have to gather team of 3-5 people and register online. The registration form will be announced on Event facebook page during camp.

More awesome workshops to keep track of:

A simple web-controlled Raspberry Pi robot (Duration ~2 hours)

Demystifying functional constructs: options, eithers, semigroups and monads (Duration ~2 hours)

CAD/CAM projektavimas (Duration ~2 hours)

TICK stack up and running (Duration ~2 hours)

Gamify your stuff: make a party fun again. (Duration ~2 hours)

Projection Mapping with the Raspberry Pi (Duration 2 days, 5 hours each)

Soldering exercises (Duration 2+ hours )

Introduction to modular sound synthesis (Duration ~2 hours)

Your first SPA with Vue and Laravel in 15 minutes

Drone from the nature

Discussions and panels:

How to define your wishes that they come true (Duration ~90 mins)

Why this is true? (Duration ~90 mins)

Woot Woot! Just a friendly reminder for Registration to No Trolls Allowed 2018.

If you don’t wanna miss the train and receive an awesome #nta2018 t-shirt, hop on a wagon and fill up the registration form here.

And if you don’t feel easy on doing the talk, workshop or volunteering, you can always ask your friend to do the this for you. Remember, everyone get’s to invite +1 or their entire family to the camp, so you can free-ride here ;)

Meet friends from Hostinger! They are new here, but trust me when I’m saying these guys are cool. Here’s what they have to say for introduction.  

So, what you are up to?

We help people succeed online. Since the early start of 000webhost - the biggest free web hosting platform in the world - we do our best to provide people with access to the power of the internet by developing top-notch web hosting solutions. It was a crazy ride since the early 2004, when Hostinger was founded in Kaunas. We do not plan on stopping, though!

What is so crazy about your company?

Everything. Our company was built from scratch and we were growing lightning-fast ever since. We always think outside the box. We act fast and deliver incredible results. For example: why produce expensive fliers to advertise our career opportunities? Let’s collect our budget in cash and give it away directly to students during Lan Party and then play some games instead!  #HostingerDollars :)

What is your greatest hacking experience in last year? Go nuts here ;)

We believe, that work is not only about getting shit done, but also about building relationships. That's why we developed AI-powered lunch bot - Hostinger Lunchmates, which pairs random people from random departments to go to a random restaurant for lunch every Friday. Our lunch bot takes care of reservations and bills, so people can focus on getting to know each other better and having a good time!

What is it about NTA camp that drives you to be our sponsor?

NTA camp is crazy. We are crazy. Let’s do some crazy stuff together <3

Do you have any experience at previous NTA camps?

It’s our first time. But we feel it’s gonna be a good one!

What kind of vibe you are bringing to the camp this year?

Remember Visma? As far as we can recall, they did stick around for the most NTA camps these past years. Last year they made an amazing bartender-bot and this year the gang are promising to surprise us with even more hype. So let them tell us more...

So, what you are up to?

Visma Lietuva is an outstanding crowd of geeky IT professionals who are passionate about the work they do. As a part of Visma - leading SaaS products provider in Nordics -  they create progressive software and provide high quality IT solutions that keep their customers one step ahead.  Being a part of Visma Lietuva family is never just about work – it‘s about love for quality, elegancy of code and having fun.

What is so crazy about your company?

The answer definitely will be people. Visma Lietuva is full of crazy people. They are crazy about technologies and their work, about learning and teaching, about creating robots, VR games or even singing in a band. They are crazy about creating the best IT company to work in.

What is your greatest hacking experience in last year? Go nuts here ;)

As we do not have office administrator sitting by the door, we built a Welcome bot - a bot which recognizes and welcomes us by scanning our faces while entering the office. He greets us in a chosen voice so basically you can be welcomed by Darth Vader now :)

What is it about NTA camp that drives you to be our sponsor?

It’s an amazing Burning Man experience at a cozy scale. 

Tell us what fascinated you the most at NTA

We are loyal attendees and have enjoyed too many things to list in a brief sentence. However, we do believe in knowledge sharing and see the camp as an inspiring environment where people inspire and learn from others. Not to mention how nice it is to continue discussions at bonfires, listening to live guitar melodies.

What kind of vibe you are bringing to the camp this year?

We have prepared something special for NTA camp participants this year. Let it be a small surprise from us :)

Guys, meet Estina crowd - one of the founding fathers of No Trolls Allowed. We love these peeps, because of their dedication and tremendous passion for this amazing camp. Here’s what they have to tell about themselves. 

So, what you are up to?

We call ourselves a research and product development company. We’re a rapidly growing team working on e-commerce and e-signing and e-identification solutions. For a while now, we’ve been living with two core projects: 8 years with Boozt — a leading and fast-growing Nordic technology platform selling fashion and beauty online — and 5 years with Dokobit, formerly ISIGN — the biggest electronic signature solutions provider in the Baltics. Never settling for less, we unite professionals who are eager to take responsibility, make great products and do other awesome things outside of work.

What is so crazy about your company?

Every company has its own craziness, so it really depends on how you look at it. For us, there are several crazy things. 1. We are committed to what we do 110%, both in work and in life. This makes us crazy because we don’t usually use our brakes to stop until we’re content with the result. When we’re onto something, we’re unstoppable. 2. We are a super social company (surprise suprise, we’re not 100% regular IT geeks locked in a basement :) ) resulting in many kicked off initiatives and communities: Symfony meetups and workshops, Vilnius PHP meetups and of course No Trolls Allowed. Apparently, when striving for 110% you can do a lot of cool stuff :)  

What is your greatest hacking experience in the past year? Go nuts here ;)

We don’t measure things in years, we measure the big picture. So our greatest hacking experience of all time is definitely No Trolls Allowed! Estina was the place where it all began. We somehow hacked our company’s supposedly small team-building into this huge hacker camp with 400+ people, all Lithuania’s geeks dream to attend. No Trolls Allowed to this day is like Christmas to us that we impatiently look for like a child looks for a Christmas morning to open the presents.

What is it about NTA camp that drives you to be our sponsor?

Everything! We’ve sold our souls to No Trolls Allowed and we’re not gonna hide it :) You know that feeling when you really really don’t want something to end cuz it usually means you have to get back to reality? Well, this is how we feel about No Trolls Allowed. Each year, seconds after we open our eyes in the morning after the last day of the event, the first thing that comes to our minds is “This was awesome, let’s do it again!”. And then we live in a deep deep pain for the rest of the year till next event comes! It’s such a pain in a neck to be addicted to something :(

Tell us what fascinated you the most at NTA

Each year we are amazed by the vibe of the event. Each year we go through this experience like it’s the very first time. Being a company that values people and team spirit, we are fascinated by the participants and content at the event. It’s an amazing feeling to meet so many people with different backgrounds and to see how all of them unite just for this four-day event, forgetting all the possible boundaries that may exist in real life, outside of this magical camp. And this makes it even more interesting to participate in such a variety of presentations and workshops, the existance of which might not even cross your mind! From tech soldering, LEGO robots, board games to singing next to the fire. At No Trolls Allowed, the sky is the limit. It’s incredible how small things can create a life-changing experience.

There is nothing more to say here - food speaks for itself. Please give a round of applause for NFQ gang!

So, what you are up to?

Our passion is web and mobile software development. Startups, agility, speed, flexibility, efficiency, automation, data science, data-driven BI advice, technology excellence – these are the keywords we live by.

What is so crazy about your company?

We work with great people and it shows! NFQ is a place where brilliant minds team up to make projects that set the standard for what’s possible, constantly raising the bar higher. People who are dedicated: to their personal reputation, to saying what they mean and meaning what they say, and to treating their promises as contracts. Team who constantly challenge themselves, daring to develop and push themselves, to make commitments and mistakes. People who dare to make impossible things possible, because a Can Do attitude is in our DNA.

What is it about NTA camp that drives you to be our sponsor?

Because it’s the first and only hackercamp in Lithuania! One of our values is sharing know-how. Thus we love the idea that every single participant should prepare a presentation of sorts. Because the value of knowledge isn’t information, but action.

What kind of vibe you are bringing to the camp this year?

Does food unite people? Very true, food has that power. So besides the vibe of sharing our know-how, we bring the vibe of good food - 360 WOK portions and 300 TOM YUM NOODLE SOUP to feed smart nerdy brains :) And, of course, free of charge Lavazza coffee.

These guys light up our entire forest with lasers and packs soooo much incredible NTA vibe! Here’s something they can tell about themselves.

So, what you are up to?

Helis is a 100-strong company building proprietary products for gaming and esports industries in Kaunas. We question the status quo of technologies, methodologies and industries one day at a time, and so we deliver successful projects to the forefront of the competition.

What is so crazy about your company?

HELIS in general is one big crazy place. Best description is taken from the lyrics of Gnarls Barkley:

“I remember when/I remember, I remember when I lost my mind/There was something so pleasant about that place”. 

Yup, that literally happens when you start to work here.

We think that our vibe and company culture belong to little family values (even though we are not little anymore). Craziness starts from each team member and every person brings into our company culture something special that previously belonged to them – but from now belongs to all of us. Care, support and healthy work environment -  that’s the thing we try to achieve every day.

And yes, we work hard (and maybe it can sound cliché) but we party harder. It’s crazy when you think that HELIS is not only cool place to work, but also a place to find lifetime friends. You cannot describe it until you start your journey here.

What is your greatest hacking experience in last year? Go nuts here ;)

Oh dear, just where do we start…?

From a DIY smart toilet to a methodology that allows to safely deploy on Fridays. From a virtual server farm in one laptop to a full scope project built and launched in three days. From withstanding a horde of gamers to governing a kingdom of distributed systems.

Let alone the business development hacks we do one day at a time…

It’s quite common for our teams to react to sudden challenges by building impromptu hacks and workarounds nearly in real time - sometimes at nights or during weekends. Not that we’re forced to - we’re simply passionate about what and how we do.

What is it about NTA camp that drives you to be our sponsor?

Some of our colleagues discovered and took part in NTA back in 2013 and continued to participate every year. They loved the idea where one’s content contribution works as a ‘ticket’. Though not unique on the global scale, this approach is something we expect from the Lithuanian IT ecosystem: it embodies proactiveness, enthusiasm, knowledge sharing and a ‘can do attitude’.

We understand that though priceless, content contributions can’t fully cover the organizational part of NTA. However, as a company that salutes and celebrates proactiveness and knowledge sharing, we would be more than happy to support the organizational side of the event so people in the know can concentrate on what they love. At the same time, our colleagues will also ‘buy’ their tickets in the form of speeches and workshops - this is what NTA is all about!

Finally, we partnered NTA last year and we loved in on many different levels.

What kind of vibe you are bringing to the camp this year?

Shouldn’t it be surprise? Last year we had laser tag in ze forest – and everyone loved it! This year we are going to bring some joy beyond our slogan - CHANGING THE RULES OF THE GAME. So, expect less - hope for the best! :D