Press Room

For the press

Dear journalist, we have a couple of ressources available for publishing. Please note that syn₂cat is written with the 2 in subscript and read as "syndicat".

All our graphics are available for download, so are the press releases as plain text or pdf downloads in french, german or english. Should you require any other information, please feel free to contact us by e-mail.

Press Releases

• First press release (Fall 2008) - Hackers on a House Hunt
• G.R.L. Press Release (January 2009) - MNHA goes Graffiti!
• Strassen Opening Press Release (September 2009) - syn2cat hackerspace in Strassen and On Air in September

Graphics

This is our current logo:

• PDF file (12kb)
• SVG file, vector format, (67kb)
• PNG file, web format, (5kb)

Presenting syn₂cat

• Presentation (v1.2) for CarréRotondes
• Presentation (v1.3) given to LiLux
• Presentation (v1.4) held at the barcamp during Hack.lu '08
• Presentation held on the inaugural meeting in February 2009

Presenting Hackerspaces

• Presentation held by mAcfreAk in Strassen 1st of September 2009 (hackerspace location discussion)
• Presentation held by Steve @ Defcon 17 in August 2009
• Presentation 'Difference between C3L and syn₂cat' held by Kwisatz in Strassen, February 28th, 2010

Other Hackerspaces' Press reviews

• Metalab Vienna

In the press

Written Press

La Voix du Luxembourg

• GRL on MNHA on Monday, October 12th, p.1
• Charline Lebrun: Partager son écran et sa créativité on Monday, October 12th, p.5
• Christelle Raineri: Bienvenue chez les geeks (pdf, 267kb) on Thursday, October 8th, p.2

Luxemburger Wort

• Cases: Kriminelle Sicherheitsexperten? (pdf, 211kb) on Friday, October 2nd, p.24
• „syn2cat Hackerspace“ on January 30, 2009
• Louis Reding: Hacker kämpft gegen Cyberkriminalität - Steve Clement stellt seine Talente in den Dienst der guten Sache on Saturday, March 6th 2010, p. 26
• Eric Hamus: Hacken erfordert Kreativität on Saturday, July 24th 2010.

Tageblatt

• Akim Schmit: Ein Ort für „Geeks“ und „Nerds“ on October 13, p.30
• Akim Schmit: Kunst trifft Hacker on March 31, 2009, p.19

Others

• Le Nouvel Observateur: Hackers, pirates, cyberpunks: la résistance du web. (Includes video interview with Steve) on August 5, 2009
• Station.lu
• ITNews
• 352 Magazine Media:352-2008-no247-20081002.png on 2008-10-02
• ITNews November 2008 (8mb) - Grays only (872kb)

We (Steve and David) would like to stress that the contents of this article do mostly reflect the author's interpretation and are in no way a one-to-one representation of our statements.

Blogs

• cheer10s.com underground syndicate
• Security4All
• Fireball's Weblog on LaserTagging2009
• eveant video report on LaserTagging2009

Online Magazines

• Brian Power: "Impenetrable fortress?" in Paperjam, published 03.03.2010

YouTube

• 25C3 syn₂cat Hackerspace.lu Presentation

Radio

• Interview with Kabel and Klenge Feitz on station 100,7, broadcasted Friday, February 6, 2009: Listen (mp3)
• Interview with Macfreak109 on the G.R.L. L.A.S.E.R.-Tagging event by graffiti.lu's Joël Adami: Listen (mp3)
• Sendung iwwer nei Technologien wou iwwer Hackerspaces an Sécherheetskonferenzen geschwaat gëtt: Listen (mp3)
• Gunstick on RTL Mikrowell on April 21st 2010, talking about the Chocolate Keyboards for Télévie 2010. [1]