Camp is over since long, but some people are still working hard to get all the things back into place. There is still plenty of stuff in our storage that needs to get cleaned and stored back, to be ready for the next congress! One of those piles is the famous lost’n’found, you might have heard about it :)

All those things are idling now in Berlin, and waiting patiently to get back to you!

Please write to camp2015-lostandfound@cccv.de if any of the found items listed there belong to you. Please write us some details about your lost thing, so that we can be sure that the item actually belongs to …

Please seize the final opportunity to collect your pre-ordered shirts, zippers and hoodies:

Sunday, August 16th
from 16:oo-18:ooh (4 to 6 pm)

…at the Infodesk.

Today (Day 2) you can pick up your pre-ordered shirts starting from 18:00 at the merchandise store next to the Infodesk (crossing of Bardeen Boulevard and Shelley Street).

Furthermore non pre-ordered clothing will be sold!

Prices:

• T-Shirt: 20 EUR
• Hoodie: 35 EUR
• Zipper: 45 EUR

Cash only.

The first camp day is drawing to a close and we provide you with some impressions (mirror). Feel free to download, copy, reuse and share it. It’s released under Creative Commons. Enjoy.

There are finally more information on the timetables of the transit busses Gransee <-> Camp. We have published them here:

https://events.ccc.de/camp/2015/wiki/Location#Additional_Shuttles

To cover the travel expenses you will be asked for a donation of about three euros. It can be paid at the designated table located somewhere around the entrance. Thanks!

Attention: The busses only drive one-way!

followTheWhiteRabbit()

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    name = "Crash!"
	description = "Scavenger hunt (Schnitzeljagd) for space travellers"
	duration = 3h
	price = "Certified Mixer of the Pangalactic Gargle Blaster"

	function play() {
        if (won == 1) {
            print("Congratulations! You are now a " + price)
            exit program
        } else {
            solve next task and have fun
        }
	}
}

function doShitAtTheCamp() {
	enjoy the camp and be excellent to each other!
}

function followTheWhiteRabbit() {

	while (universe) {
        if (now …

For technical reasons, we’ll be unable to process payments or Golden Token redemptions after Tue Aug 10 2015 23:59:59 CEST. Please make sure that your order is marked as paid and your ticket is downloadable before that date.

If your order is not marked as paid yet, and you sent a SEPA transaction more than 2 days ago, please contact us ASAP. Be sure to include your transfer reason, sender IBAN and account holder’s name.

If your order is not marked as paid yet, and you did not pay already, go to the ticket shop right now and pay via credit card.

If you have a Golden Token that is not redeemed …

Dear Camp visitors,

As with most of the recent CCC events, there will be a CTF contest.  Past CTF competitions (C3, Sigint) have been designed to be appealing for experienced teams.  The Camp CTF will be different: The challenges will cater to beginners and hints and help may be provided during the competition.  To emphasize the educative character, participants are encouraged to present solutions to their competitors at scheduled times for extra points.  The possibility to present solutions will be open to on-site participants only.  Apart from classical exploitation challenges, we will …

As with most chaos events, c3voc and friends will cater for recording and streaming of the lectures in the two main tents. On the campsite you will be able to watch them on DVB-T channels 35, 40, 49 or listen to them on your DECT or GSM phone (numbers 8001 & 8002 and 8011 & 8012 for simultaneous interpretation). There will be programming broadcast on FM radio at 89.30 MHz and DAB at 211.648 MHz (channel 10B).

If you participate via the internet, you can enjoy our live streams using your favorite device at https://streaming.media.ccc.de. If all goes well, we will also provide ReLive …

There will be a bus-shuttle from Berlin directly to the campsite! 

Departure: Berlin Ostbahnhof (East-Station)
Arrival: Camp \o/

Getting there: 
– Wednesday, August 12th, 15:00 (3 PM) 
– Thursday, August 13th, 15:00 (3 PM)

Getting back: 
– Sunday, August 16th, 15:00 (3 PM)
– Monday, August 17th, 15:00 (3 PM)

Reservation opens today, Thursday 6th August, 12:00 (noon), please go ahead: http://bassliner.org/en/destination/ccc/

If you want to have a bus at another time, please gather enough people for that date via the wiki. As soon as there are more than 30 people interested in getting a bus at …

• Unpaid tickets ordered before July 16th are dropped now. Do not pay for those anymore!
• There will be 250 tickets made available on Friday, 2015-07-31, at 22:00 CEST sharp!
• Please pay for your precious ticket immediately after you have ordered it! Ask friends to help you out!
• Once those 250 tickets are gone, you can create a verpeiler-friends-request.
• We all need to move closer together to have enough space for everyone.

Verpeiler-friends-request? If you don’t get your ticket on Friday, you have one very last, very tiny chance: Go to the ticket system and convince us that you are one of our …

There are only a few days left and we are late but finally it is here: the Fahrplan for the Chaos Communication Camp 2015. Due to circumstances we had some lags, but finally we made it!

Please note this safety advices by going through the Fahrplan to pick your sessions:

1. There is a new track: Failosophy. Read more about it in the Call for Papers.
2. Mind the gap between 12:30 and 16:00. This is siesta-time where no lecture will be held in the lecture-tents. We decided to do so as this timeframe will be incredibly hot and we do not want to constipate you in tents while the heats is rushing over …

– Yes, at this very moment you cannot order any tickets.
– There are unpaid tickets reserved, that we’ll put back into sale.
– We will tell you around 24 hours before.

There is a ten day payment duration. We know you(*), so we usually take this deadline fairly easy. As a campsite has restrictions in space and infrastructure, it is not possible to have more people than space actually available. 4500 Tickets have already gone over the digital cash desk, but we haven’t received the money for all of them.

Now we apparently need to take it less easy: We clean up all our ticket-related issues, like …

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.

If …

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?

Join the …

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 …

https://tickets.events.ccc.de/

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.

The dates

Read more …

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 …

Please go ahead and create your village!

(picture from psi36)

(picture from cosmoflash)

What do we want you to do?

First of all, we want you to feel good and cozy in your temporary home …

The Chaos Communication Camp in Mildenberg is an open-air hacker camp and party that takes place every four years, organized by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC). Thousands of hackers, technology freaks, artists and utopians get together in a field for five days in the Brandenburg high summer – to communicate, learn, hack on things and party together.

We focus on topics such as information technology, digital security, hacking, crafting, making and breaking, and we engage in creative, sceptical discourse on the interaction between technology and society.

We’d love to see your submission for these …

On Saturday, 21st of March we’ll visit the camp site to have a first look and exchange ideas and plans.

Please come and join us if you plan to be part of a village or project that has special needs, e.g. regarding place and infrastructure. Also feel invited if you are part of a team and/or if you are willing to spend a good amount of your time to support us organizing the camp. If you plan to do anything special (like a really big tent or another temporary structure), where getting a feel for the site would make things easier, please feel free to sign-up for the visit!

We’ll meet either at 11 …