Mexico beats the record attendance at Campus Party 2010

The second Campus Party of Mexico, which started today in Mexico City with tickets completely sold out, will include 6098 participants, a record breaking number of attendees at any of its editions in the world in 2010.
The number of people who, through Sunday will receive the fairgrounds Expo Bancomer of Mexico City, surpassing even to those seen in Brazil, Spain, Colombia, El Salvador, Argentina and the United States, said sources with the organization.
Its makers recall that the Spanish city of Valencia hosted once more than 8,000 "campuseros", but has not been the case in 2010, where attendance dropped by almost half (3,400) than seen in 2009 (6077 .)

For the "campuseros" Mexicans expect hundreds of hours - the program offers training 400 and 168 of interaction - as opposed to 6,000 Internet access ready for them.The agenda, suitable even for the public "most inexperienced", reserves space for fun but also for learning: with seminars that teach everything from how to install a processor to high-level programming.
All for one thousand pesos (about eighty dollars), which must be added the one hundred dollars (eight dollars) to pay those who wish to camp in tents provided by the Campus.Among the cast of "stars" invited to the campus include Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak, who attended and Valencia, and former hacker Kevin Mitnick, who, after being arrested by the FBI, left his role as "hacker "to become a computer security consultant.

The 6,000 rooms have access to a network with a bandwidth of ten gigabytes, but, since its first edition, the Mexican Campus highlights that 75 percent of its attendees come with their own laptop, something rarely seen in other countries.
Indeed, the event also marks the twentieth anniversary of the image editing program Photoshop, try to learn a little more to Mexicans by experiment named "Judgement Day", to be held among the participants through the social network Twitter.
Those who give it must respond with three words to ten different themes. Then participants will decide which statistics are more "Mexican" and which are more atypical.

The campus Party Mexico

There will also be able to leave the chair to participate in any of the competitions organized by the Campus, among which include a flight simulation, a musical video game Rock Band and other Age of Empires, as well as fights and soccer matches between robots manufactured by our own "campuseros."
As a novelty, this edition will offer its participants access to HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access), a fourth-generation network almost for smartphones and other portable devices such as Blackberry or IPhone, as connection speeds reach 21 megabytes.
The official opening will take place at midnight on Tuesday, August 10.