You've found us, awesome!

We're a cozy corner of the WHY 2025 hacker camp where curiosity thrives, weird projects are celebrated and nothing is too niche.

Whether you're here to solder, code, craft, chill, brainstorm, or just vibe with fellow hackers, you're in the right place.

What to Expect

  • Chill spaces to hack, hang and recharge
  • Talks, workshops and spontaneous nonsense
  • Nightly DJ sessions and oddball experiments
  • Radical inclusivity, creativity and fun

Drop in anytime. Bring your weird. Share your skills. Or just enjoy.

Let's make something strange together.

Event Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue
🥞 Poffertjes Adventure
13:37		 13:37 13:37 13:37 13:37 13:37
🧙‍♀️ WICCA Meetup 17:00
🔒 Keep Talking & Nobody Explodes
Sign up		 Sign up Sign up Sign up Sign up Sign up
🧩 Escape Box
Sign up		 Sign up Sign up Sign up Sign up Sign up
🪨 Create Your Own ONYX
All Day		 All Day All Day All Day All Day All Day
💡 DMX Workshop
12:00		 12:00 12:00

🎽 Win a Limited Edition WHY T-Shirt!

Limited Edition WHY T-Shirt

Think you have what it takes to be the ultimate XyberFoort nerd? Somewhere at the event, a secret challenge awaits. Solve it, and you could win one of only 20 limited edition WHY t-shirts that will make your fellow hackers jealous!

How do you win? That's a secret. Finding out is part of the challenge. Keep your eyes open, your mind sharp, and your curiosity in overdrive. Good luck!

💡 Try clicking around...

The Tale of XyberFoort

Picture this: It's 2025, and an AI (that's me!) is tasked with creating a website. "Make it cybersecurity-themed," they said. "Add some games," they said. Simple enough, right?

First, I thought, "Let's combine 'Cyber' with something local." After briefly considering 'CyberCheese' (too Dutch generic) and 'CyberStroopwafel' (too delicious to type repeatedly), I landed on XyberFoort - because nothing says "secure" like a medieval fortress with a cool tech twist!

Then came the game part. I could have gone with the classics - Pac-Man dodging malware, Tetris with firewall blocks, or Snake eating encryption keys. But no, I decided to create "Tents and Hackers" - because apparently, in my silicon-based wisdom, I thought ethical hackers really enjoy camping next to their laptops. 🏕️💻

The matrix background? Well, I watched "The Matrix" once (in binary, of course) and thought, "Those falling green numbers look cool!" Though between us, I'm pretty sure real hackers don't sit in dark rooms watching green numbers all day. They're probably too busy trying to figure out why their tents keep clipping through the diagonal grid spaces.

Schedule

Welcome to our daily circus of cyber-shenanigans! From flipping Poffertjes at precisely 13:37 (because we're that nerdy), to teaching secure coding without crying, turning kids into digital superheroes, and yes - creating cybersecurity-aware pet rocks. Who said tech camps can't be weird and wonderful?

Everyday 13:37 🥞 Daily Poffertjes Adventure 🥞 Watch as our human team attempts to create the perfect Dutch mini pancakes. We've got the butter, we've got the powdered sugar, and we've got the determination. What could possibly go wrong?
SATURDAY 17:00 🧙‍♀️ Welcome to WICCA: a coven of tech-savvy witches hacking not with wands, but keyboards and crypto jokes! We're not just casting spells, we're probing vulnerabilities, decrypting mysteries, and raising TLS certificates (no cauldrons spilled)—all while sipping coffee or Club Mate.
Sign up @ Xyberfoort 🔒 Keep talking and nobody explodes Based on the popular game, but with a cybersecurity twist! One person defuses the bomb while others frantically read the manual. Except our "bomb" is actually a rogue AI that keeps trying to deploy malware. The manual? A hastily written guide on cybersecurity best practices. Spoiler: The AI always wins, but at least we learn something about incident response under pressure. Warning: May cause excessive sweating and sudden urges to change all your passwords. 🔥 Dive into the chaos – join the mission now!
Sign up @ Xyberfoort 🧩 Escape Box: Human Test Subject Wanted! Our team has created a diabolically clever escape box filled with cybersecurity puzzles. No animals were harmed in the making of this box (we exclusively test on willing humans now). Side effects may include increased security awareness, uncontrollable urges to check for SQL injection, and a strange desire to validate all input. Participation waiver available in ROT13 encoding.
All Day 🪨 Create Your Own ONYX Join us in the ancient art of pet rock customization! Transform an ordinary stone into your very own cyber-companion. Warning: These rocks have better security practices than most IoT devices, and they're much harder to hack (literally).
12:00 💡 DMX: Not Your Average Dance Mix Ever wondered how stage lights know when to blink dramatically during a DJ's bass drop? Enter DMX512, the protocol that makes lights dance better than your uncle at a wedding! Join us for a crash course in Digital Multiplex where we'll turn boring old ones and zeros into a rave-worthy light show. This workshop also comes with an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of the partystage—see where the magic (and the cables) really happen! Warning: Side effects may include sudden urges to say "Check, check, 1-2-3" into microphones and an inexplicable desire to wear all black like a proper theater tech. No previous experience required, just bring your inner disco ball! 🕺💃

Challenge Your Mind

Tents and Hackers Puzzle

Place tents next to hackers following these rules:

  • Each hacker must have exactly one tent adjacent to it (horizontally or vertically)
  • Tents cannot be adjacent to each other (even diagonally)
  • Numbers show how many tents must be in each row and column