Chaos Communication Camp 2015 on CCC Event Blog

Lost something at #cccamp15?

Thu, 10 Sep 2015 18:52:54 +0000

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 you. Thank you!

Last chance to collect your pre-ordered CCCamp merchandise!

Sat, 15 Aug 2015 18:53:35 +0000

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.

Chaos Communication Camp Merchandise

Fri, 14 Aug 2015 15:29:46 +0000

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.

Chaos Communication Camp 2015 – Impressions

Thu, 13 Aug 2015 19:31:22 +0000

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.

Bus Transit from Camp to Gransee and vice versa

Tue, 11 Aug 2015 14:56:28 +0000

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!

Follow the White Rabbit

Mon, 10 Aug 2015 15:56:19 +0000

followTheWhiteRabbit()

class Crash {

    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 > day4) {
			exit program
		} else if (now < tag1) {
			do something useful
		} else {
			if (me.like("<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol">C2H5OH<a name="hack"></a>") && me.compareTo("<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_Ludens">Homo Ludens</a>") > 0.5) {
				if (Crash has started) {
					Crash.play() || doShitAtTheCamp()
				} else {
					download app at "https://toto.io/"
					start Crash
					// find the crashed escape pod
					// [optional] ask at BER for help
					Crash.play() || doShitAtTheCamp()
				}
			} else {
				doShitAtTheCamp()
			}
		}
	}
}

Thank you!

Join the Chaos Communication Camp!

Last chance to pay for your preorder

Sun, 09 Aug 2015 20:40:47 +0000

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 yet, go to the ticket shop right now and redeem (and pay for) it.

If you have a cancelled preorder because you failed to pay in time, you do not have a valid ticket reservation anymore (regardless if you transferred money or not). Please do not travel to the camp site as you will be denied entrance.

Please be aware that there will be no ticket sale on site at all (no full tickets, no day tickets, no night tickets)! If you don’t have a preorder, do not travel to the camp site.

If you have a preorder which is marked as unpaid but you did transfer the money (and are able to prove it) and didn’t care to solve this issue in advance, you may travel to the camp site but you may have to wait up to several hours before we can solve that issue.

Camp CTF

Fri, 07 Aug 2015 14:05:29 +0000

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 provide some on-site challenges for you totinker with. Despite this, the CTF is open to online participants as well.

Please register here 1. It is also considered best practice to join #campctf on hackint IRC. Details on where you can meet us on-site and when presentations are scheduled, will be published soon. We hope to see you and enjoy our challenges. The CTF starts Thursday, 18:00h and we’ll schedule presentations on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Happy pwning,
Stratum Auhuur

1 https://campctf.ccc.ac/

Video and audio streaming during #cccamp15

Wed, 05 Aug 2015 23:55:44 +0000

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 streamdumps there, in case you missed a lecture. We’ll experiment with multicast streams, check back with us at https://streaming.media.ccc.de/multicast/ for more information. After the event, all recorded lectures will be available in better quality on https://media.ccc.de. Beware of lectures marked as „optout“ in the schedule – we will neither stream nor record them!

As a special service for the villages and their participants who’d like to broadcast, we will also provide a free audio-streaming infrastructure. It’s for everybody on the Camp site, who wants to transmit music, sound or noise to the world wide webs. Those streams will appear side-by-side with the main video- and audio-streams at https://streaming.media.ccc.de. If you would like to publish one or more such streams, please visit the corresponding wiki page. We’ll publish more information there, once the service is up and running.

If you are interested in our activities or just want to visit, you can find us on the campsite in our container next to the big lecture tent „Project 2501“, or follow us on twitter.

Start #cccamp directly in Berlin

Wed, 05 Aug 2015 22:50:00 +0000

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 another time, we will try to arrange that for you. Please drop us an email to the main orga address once there are more than 30 people signed up for one date.

Ticket system re-opens Friday, 2015-07-31, 22:00 CEST

Thu, 30 Jul 2015 19:58:45 +0000

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 dearest verpeiler-friends. There won’t be many of those tickets available. Also you need to be very patient waiting for a reply. Please try really hard to order your ticket on Friday, 22:00 CEST! We are sold out!

We had a pretty difficult time now: so many messages from so many people wondering if there are any tickets left.

We felt we couldn’t break all those hearts and have managed to increase the number of available tickets a tiny bit. That way we won’t have to turn as many of you away; but this also means we’ll need to share the resources amongst more people – less camping space, less time in the shower, less electricity for everyone at the camp. Please keep this in mind – especially once you arrive – build your tents as close together as possible and consider merging spaces. Sharing is part of the Camp spirit!

Let’s have a camping Fahrplan!

Thu, 30 Jul 2015 12:14:29 +0000

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:

There is a new track: Failosophy. Read more about it in the Call for Papers.
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 the campsite. (However, there may be a self-organized session going on elsewhere)
There are still other gaps which will be filled magically within the next days till camp. Please come back on a regular basis to get the new talks.
There are Fahrplan Apps. Please move on to the Fahrplan-App wiki-page to see which are available.
For our pleasure and your curiosity we have a naming scheme for the releases of the Fahrplan. Maybe it is to easy, maybe to hard to figure it out. Let’s see what you can do with it.

Enough said – have a look at the first public available Fahrplan (Version 0.8 first and last and always) of the Chaos Communication Camp 2015.

We will meet each other in Mildenberg!

Camp tickets sold out? Not entirely….

Sat, 25 Jul 2015 02:15:13 +0000

– 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 friends and upgrades, before dropping unpaid tickets that passed the due date.

If you have paid more than 4 business days ago, but your ticket is still marked as unpaid, please contact us and provide identifying information about your payment: your IBAN, account holder’s name, payment reference, payment date, etc.

If you ordered your ticket and the due date already passed, you are lost. Go and get a ticket once we put yours back into sale.
SEPA transfers until Sunday might still reach us in time. Non-SEPA international transfers definitively will not! Every payment made after the weekend will neither!
It causes us a lot work if you pay too late, cause we have to bounce your payment manually. Please help each other out with the payment, and distribute this message within your friends&families. Also think about directly pinging usual suspects that you want to see at camp to make sure that they get their ticket!

and ourselves, the usual suspects.
Or: “wir kennen doch unsere Pappenheimer… aeh… Verpeiler!”

Lightning Talks

Fri, 24 Jul 2015 18:43:23 +0000

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 you’ve never given a talk on stage before, speak at conferences for a living and MUST BE HEARD at the camp or live somewhere between those two extremes–the Lightning Talks are for you! There’s no curation, it’s just a matter of following directions. Slots are assigned first-come, first-served basis.

Registration is now open for the Lightning Talk sessions at the camp. As with anything around here, get your talk in before there’s no slots left to give!

Power – Distribution

Tue, 21 Jul 2015 20:04:33 +0000

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 current planned design is documented at the corresponding wiki page. There is the electrical distribution plan as well as a list of available outlets:

The dots in the orange boxes are the individual generators. The related boxes in purple/red /blue with the letter + number (e.g. C5 ) are each distribution boxes. The legend at the bottom left indicates which distribution box type has exactly how many outlets.

In the list some outlets are already occupied by infrastructure or other villages.
This list is “work in progress”. For example, it still lacks lighting, sewage pumps, decoration and others.

Now you come into play: Have a look at the electrical distribution plan for the distribution box near your village location. Add a comment to the sockets you want to use to the list. Ensure that you have given a contact mail address at your village wiki page.
If somebody else reserved the socket you wanted to use and you really need that socket, contact the other village and try to find a solution together.

Also go through your list and check again whether your devices are really essential and if you can not go without something.

Certain devices are not allowed in general:

air conditioners
large electric kitchen appliances (stoves, refrigerators, freezer, hobs, dishwashers)
electric heaters (yes even pool heaters)

If your devices are rated for power consumption greater than 2 kW, prior send a message to camp15@c3power.de.

In general:
Adding a entry to the list of available outlet and registration of your equipment is still not a license to do everything you want. Depending on the network load, it may be possible that we have to take loads from the grid or even don’t allow them to be connected.

After you registered your equipment you will get feedback with the chance of a connection for the device. Since we still don’t know how busy the grid will be in certain places we can’t give you any guarantee on connections.
If a connection isn’t allowed, we will inform you directly of course, so you don’t need to bring the device.

Finally, we want to call everybody for a fair dealing with the power division among themselves.