Welcome to the first blog entry published from Lamu island! It took a while, but we’ll post some more during the next days. Enjoy!
In order to understand Hacker Beach a little better, let me share some fun stats with you. Hacker Beach brings together people from different countries and continents on a tropical island every year in January.
This year we had people from 3 continents and 12 countries join the party:
| Kenya | 4 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 |
| Israel | 1 |
| Canada | 1 |
| Netherlands | 2 |
| France | 2 |
| Germany | 3 |
| Austria | 1 |
| Romania | 1 |
| Greece | 1 |
| UK | 2 |
| USA | 3 |
(Hint: some people haven’t lived in their home countries for quite a while, so if we counted all countries involved we’d end up with a couple more.)
So this sets the bar for next Hacker Beach pretty high. Will we break the record next year?
Update: Turns out our visitors are as international as the participants. In the first 30 minutes since posting this, we’ve had