Well, yes. Granted, presale still is not up and running – we have some minor issues we have to clarify in advance and this takes longer than intended. It’s the bureaucracy we are currently facing, which means nothing else that we are waiting for some phone calls from the local authorities. This sucks, especially because we are unable to speed it up. And yes, we are annoyed about this as much as you are.

However, rest assured that we work as hard as possible there, and this is something which is only relevant for the presale itself. The camp is getting closer and closer, and everything looks …

You want a tent with enough space for you and your 23 friends? Some place for your village to do workshops? Or just a tent that would withstand WTHish rain? A tent like the one below?

You can rent big tents and even chairs and tables from us. We coordinate transport of the tents, chairs and tables. Buildup and dismantling has to be done by you and volunteers under skilled guidance. You can find the precise conditions at the wiki.

We need your order until Thursday, June 14th, 10am CEST (UTC+2).

The Camp is an event that words can’t really describe. I can write about hackers from all over the world camping on an old military airport with power and ethernet in every tent.

But can you imagine it? Things like nerds barely awake taking a shower under a fire hose, some hundred of them sitting in a big hall hacking at their computers all night long, a rocket named Fairydust illuminated with a great light installation, nerds cooking lunch on a camping stove, switches put in (empty) porta potties wrapped in silver foil to protect them from dust, heat and interested hackers, hacker kids …

Villages are a big part of the Camp experience. These places are more than just a bunch of tents put up together – here people tend to camp together under a common theme. While there are thematic villages, there are also villages with a regional focus.

It makes sense to travel together and set up a village of tents from one specific region. Being an international event, this means that you can experience a rich selection of samples of international cuisine at the Camp, as several hackers already announced to bring local food to the site.

You may want to start your day in the Austrian village, …

The Chaos Communication Camp is an international, five-day open-air event for hackers, builders, and makers organized by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC), to be held from August 8 to 12 on an old Russian military airfield near Berlin.

The camp probably is the best place for some of the most interesting inhabitants of the planet to meet, greet, and discuss. If you’ve ever wanted to meet some of the masterminds behind tomorrow’s technology and social structures while they’re sunbathing, cooking or launching a kite, this is your chance.

Till June 5th there’s still a chance to send in lectures or …

Due to weird technical issues with pentabarf, the deadline for our CfP will be rescheduled – you still can submit your papers during the weekend. The current problems with the software will hopefully fixed soon are fixed. Don’t panic.

What does it take to make the experience of attending a hacker camp taking place near an actual airfield perfect? Why, flying right in, of course. Approach for a landing, get off, have a short walk, and you’re done. Excited? Sounds too cool to be true? You’d think so – but for our American friends even that was still too bland and boring. So the Hacker Foundation has put together a package of nothing less than legendary proportions: For 1337 € (roundtrip from Europe) or 1337US$ (roundtrip from the United States) you get free entry to Defcon in Las Vegas and the Chaos Communication Camp, a …

The registration for your personal phone number at the Chaos Communication Camp is now up and running.

If you want to create a phone number for one of the upcoming events, you have to sign up first and give yourself a username.
You will get an email to confirm your account. Then you can choose a phone number for your cordless phone.
That is all you need to phone other people at the event for free. You can make friends or retrieve them, when they got spread over the whole area.
If you already have an account for eventphone.de you only have to click login.

Currently you can create phone numbers …

Well, yes. We know, we promised to have the final ticket prices up within April. To make a long story short: We wont make it – it will take another week, or something like that, and frankly, we are as frustrated about this fact as you are.
We are still waiting for some offers by companies supplying us with infrastructures, stuff like power, additional toilets, showers, fences, and so on. Their offers should be already here, but they apparently didn’t make it – and we are unable to make our final calculations as long as we don’t have these price estimates. It is a Chaos camp, after …

The Camp is divided into small villages that provide structure and give the participant to join a certain area of interest. A village might feature people doing extra workshops following their own agenda in their own tent. There is no central planning for this kind of events. If you are interested in a specific area, just place your tent appropriately and get in touch.

However: If you plan to bring big tents (more than 10 square metres), please mention this within the next two weeks in the Camp Wiki, using our Village Template (see this source for a sample how to do that), so we can plan space …

Missed the field excursion last week? Weep no more! Hacko made a great little preview movie showing some features of the new landing ground and we posted it to Chaos TV.

Thanks to Hacko for the video.

The Call for Participation for the Camp is online. Please spread the word and point interesting people to it, or, better yet, hand in your own presentation on topics like:

• flying and non-flying autonomous robots
• security, encryption and anonymity
• software projects
• technologies for the day after the climate change
• rapid prototyping and fabbing
• software and hardware for disaster-resistant infrastructure
• bringing broadband to the countryside
• politics and propaganda
• anti-crowd-control tactics and technologies
• lock picking
• alternative energy systems
• citizen surveillance, data mining technologies, …