About the CCC Event Blog
This is the CCC Event Blog. It is maintained by members and friends of the Chaos Computer Club.
Blog
The blog is dedicated to information about the conferences and events of the CCC and friends. Being our most important event, the annual Chaos Communication Congress is usually the main focus, but we also provide announcements and background information for other CCC events – regional or international. We welcome contributions like the introduction of groups and crews as well as announcements of interesting activities during an upcoming congress or camp or announcements, CfPs, … for other chaos events. This is not limited to CCC or Erfa/Chaostreff events. Approach us to get your post published here!
For the Congress and Camp, this blog is usually accompanied by a wiki for each individual event that serves as your primary point of collaboration both with us and participants and visitors of the conferences.
Calendar
Next to articles, this blog also features a list of events by the Chaos community. You can find the calendar in the menu under “Calendar”. Also, selected events will appear in the right column as “Upcoming Events” a few weeks before they start.
Subscribe to the Calendar
The events on the calendar can be subscribed to as a digital calendar. They will be shown as “all day” events, without times of day.
The address to subscribe to is:
webcal://events.ccc.de/calendar/events.ics
URLs beginning with webcal may seem unusual. The data will in fact be retrieved via HTTP. Using webcal avoids the common error of retrieving the data once, saving it locally as a file and then importing from there. This would only include the calendar content of that time, automatic updates would be impossible. Common calendar software such as Thunderbird (on desktop systems), ICSx⁵+Etar (Free Software on Android, the links given here are their entries in the free app store F-Droid) and the iOS calendar software understand webcal.
If clicking on the link shows no reaction, the problem might be the operating system not knowing which software should handle webcal URLs. In this case, one option is to 1. copy the URL to the clipboard (webcal or https), 2. start subscribing to a new calendar in your preferred calendar software and 3. paste in the URL in the subscription dialog. But you might also be interested in registering your preferred calendar software as the one responsible for the webcal(s) scheme. For Linux, you can find pointers in the ArchWiki, via man xdg-mime or on StackExchange.
Submit your content
Find guidelines and templates for publishing your content at Contributing.
Contact
In case of questions or remarks regarding this blog you can reach us at blog@events.ccc.de. Feel free to contact us if you want to have your own event published here.