Sure. But I'm guessing that the organisers of this thing have proposed the obligatory first night presentation in an attempt to filter out know-nothing blowhards. You know, the guy that always criticizes everything, using all the latest buzz-words, without ever really coming to grasp with why you chose to implement something without using Struts, or Rails, or Ajax, or whatever tomorrow's buzz-word turns out to be.

But I agree with you - I don't think I would be sufficiently interested in belonging to a group of hackers to put myself in the situation of risking public criticism, or having to kowtow to the sensibilities of others that may have a very different philosophy of life to me. I reserve that risk for things that I actually consider worth it, such as making lots of money :-)