This will be based on camping at a site that will also function as Hack The Lakes HQ. It will have WiFi, electricity, toilets, and showers as well as a covered space to work together and create. Onsite accommodation will be based on bringing your own tent and camping on the site.

Looking ahead, if we do run a full event in 2024, and with advance booking we should be able to to provide a range of accommodation from "bunkhouse" shared facilities through to family holiday cottages in the locality.

Connectivity

Good connectivity is key to any tech event and, when we started planning this event, a key driving factor were the advanced plans that  B4RN  had to provide symmetric Gigabit fibre broadband to the area. Sadly, late last year, it became clear that this has been scuppered by DCMS who have withdrawn the Project Gigabit voucher support for the area and placed it into the first round regional procurement.

We won't have gigabit fibre either at all, or until 2024-25 at the earliest. If this doesn't happen then we will likely have to buy Internet transit for the site on an Openreach EAD tail.

For the informal meets prior to 2024, we have two 80/20 FTTC circuits and a Starlink terminal onsite which will provide adequate connectivity for a handful of people hacking in a field. The Starlink should be interesting to work with as it may be the only connectivity which is available in the deployment environment for some of the rural technology we may be working on. Static IP addresses and local server hardware are available (both legacy "big" Intel hypervisors, and low power ARM devices).