It started as an inside joke: ‘Why don’t we have a Halloween party with the tech we don’t want?’ We could talk about bugs, bad code, closed and proprietary stacks, disappearing dependencies, PDFs, things we generally hate.

The idea got people excited. And then we thought, ‘Why not open it up to anyone who wants to come?’

So we asked some AI we hate to create a poster (which turned out awful). And here we are.

Next Thursday, October 31st, 11:00 CEST, bring your scary tech story and celebrate Halloween – or Buggyween – at this open meeting with the Open Knowledge Foundation team. We’ve just been inspired by last week’s The Tech We Want Summit, and thought it would be a great opportunity to unload all the worst we see out there in a session opposite.

Let’s make a toast with bad coffee and sweets to the technologies we don’t want (like Zoom!).