You got your ticket to the Camp.  Next question: What would you like to say?

If you can share your ideas, thoughts, hacks, projects, camp or quick entertaining performance in front of a huge audience in five minutes or less, you should give a Lightning Talk!

These sessions of short presentations are a great way to catch an overview of the amazing things your fellow campgoers are doing. While most of the talks focus on software and hardware projects or overviews of self organized sessions, there’s always an occasional creative prank or simply inexplicable moment you’ll want to see in person.

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As previously mentioned in the last blog post related to the topic, the power is unfortunately limited and each kWh is very expensive and not really environment friendly.

Our goal is to provide a basic supply for everyone present. The basic supply means: laptop power adapter, cell phone and DECT chargers.

Our generators produce about 1.8 megawatts. The above-mentioned basic supply is about 0.9 megawatts. We have to add power consumption of infrastructure, lighting, workshop tents, lecture halls, restaurants and other stuff. So there is actually not a lot of room for unexpected loads.

The …

Join the Angels for the best Camp experience

Our Camp and our Chaos Communication Congress would not be possible without the great work of our volunteers, called Angels.

Your engagement as an Angel is the perfect opportunity to become a part of Camp and make it even more amazing for everyone involved. Apart from that, volunteering is a great chance to meet new people.

What makes being an Angel so special, you may wonder? Let us answer this with another question: Are you able to run an event with thousands of visitors, creative minds, eager to discuss, explore and most of all: create?

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As we all know, the cost of large-scale endeavors is hard to predict. Sometimes, more costs come up unexpectedly. When we started the ticket sale, we presented you with an estimate of the costs at that time. Divide that by the maximum number of participants and you get an average ticket price we had to meet to cover those costs. Those costs were already calculated conservatively, but reality beat us to it (one of the reasons is that we are going to have to produce all the electricity ourselves, another is water).

Thus, the new required average ticket price is up to 228 Euros, instead of 211 …

After r0ket launching into the world of electronic name badges four years ago, this year we bring you rad1o.

We enjoyed seeing r0ket being used for all sorts of purposes, even years after camp, still in use with old and new ideas. With rad1o we want to go one step further and give you a Toy and Tool that will stay a huge, useful playground after camp.

Kabelknoten

The camp takes place on an area which does not provide a sufficient amount of electricity to cover our needs. …

To produce your orders in time to have them ready for Camp, we will close the merchandise pre-sale on Tuesday, 18:00h CEST.

Um eure Bestellungen zeitig produzieren zu können, damit wir sie zum Camp fertig haben, werden wir den Shirt-Vorverkauf am Dienstag, 18:00h MESZ schließen.

Sold out T-shirts have a long and sad tradition at CCC events.
We have always tried our best, but we seem to have a tendency to under-estimate the demand.

This is why we are offering a pre-sale for this year’s camp: If you select and pay your garment in advance, we’ll do everything in our power to have it ready and waiting for you to pick up at the camp site.

• Enjoy the camp with no fear of missing out on your favorite shirt, zipper or hoodie
• Much shorter queue, no need to juggle cash
• We’ll avoid the risk of over-producing

Last night, we secretly added an extra garment to the collection:
You …

As usual, the Chaos Communication Camp takes places in the middle of Nowhere. That means, quite all infrastructure for the needs of thousands of participants has to be carried out to the location.

The Ziegeleipark Mildenberg is connected to the local fresh water and waste water system. But it is not designed for that many people. So we have to store water for showers and taps. And even the waste water needs to be collected, so that it can be dumped in the night, when there is less usage from the villages around. Speaking of toilets: other than during past Camps, there will be no chemical …

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We all are very much looking forward to Camp 2015 – the new location makes things very exciting but such a new location also makes it very costly: We’ll need to get at least 950.000 EUR from ticket sales, which brings us down to an average ticket price of ~212 EUR.

When we moved the Congress to the new venue in 2012 we have been facing the same issue, remember?
Back then, we didn’t want to raise the price above 100 EUR and right now we don’t want to go above 200 EUR: We leave this, again, up to everyone of you to contribute as much as you can afford to – to make …

The Chaos Communication Camp 2015 approaches with giant steps! Whelp, it’s high time for a round of basic information, so you can plan your journey accordingly.

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It’s getting June, and August is coming fast. If you are not already totally into the planning of your village, we recommend to invite for planning meetings right now! We need your final numbers, ideas and plans in two weeks already!

1. Fill out and complete the village form!

Please note that we made some changes to the first version, so please re-check your entries! One important change is an unlucky wording: There is not the option of having „public“ bars or kitchen as in „you can sell things to the public“. With that question we tried to find out if you are providing space at your village …