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Camp 2023 – lost+found, BGP leftovers

Thu, 14 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Camp 2023 is over, most of the pallets are sorted and back in our storage facilities. But there is one thing left: Your stuff. Did you lose something at Camp? Did you slip up on collecting a parcel from the BGP? Did your parcel arrive late? No worries, here is how to get your stuff back:

Lost + Found

If you lost something, please write an email to camp23@c3lf.de Our friendly wardrobe team takes care of lost and found items and will be happy to help with your request.

BGP

If you forgot to collect a parcel or your parcel arrived late, please contact us at camp2023-pakete@cccv.de. Provide as much information as you can (BGP code is a good starting point ;)) to help us find your package. If we find your parcel, we will ask you for a DHL shipping label so we can send it to you.

Image CC BY-SA leah

Camp 2023 – Feedback

Sat, 26 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

While some people are currently still packing the leftovers from the camp on pallets and loading them into trucks, others are struggling with the post-camp syndrome. We hope that you all had a good time with wonderful people and that the good memories of exciting days and crazy nights prevail.

After the camp is before the next camp - so we need your feedback. What was really good? What didn’t work at all? Where do you see room for improvement? Did you miss something that you know from other events? We are especially interested in feedback on the info pages, the matrix event chat and the hub, since we used them for the first time at a camp.

On our feedback page you can let us know everything.

Certainly not everything went smoothly - which is hardly possible at an event of this size. So do us a favor: “Be excellent to each other” also applies to feedback. Please keep in mind that all volunteers have worked hard for weeks for this camp and have also spent a lot of time.

We are looking forward to your feedback.

Image CC BY-SA leah

Ende. Aus. Finito.

Sat, 19 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Everything has an end …

… unfortunately also the camp. On saturday there will be the closing with snoopy and leona at 8pm. On Sunday there will be the big departure wave. To make your departure as pleasant as possible we have worked out a dismantling plan.

Help with teardown

We urgently need help with teardown. Please consider staying a few more days. The more help we get, the faster and nicer everyone will get off the site. Please contact the Himmel.

Electricity and infrastructure

All sanitary facilities, except for those at the facilities at the Kidsspace and all dry toilets will be switched off during Sunday morning. The electricity will be switched off around noon on Sunday. Teardown of DECT and Wifi will already start at 09:30.

Getting off the site on foot

Gates 9 and 11 will be open for pedestrian traffic to the car park. At the entrance to the car park you can store your belongings and, if necessary, load them into vehicles.

Vehicles on the site

From Sunday onwards, vehicles are only allowed on the site with permit A38. This will be issued by the Village team as soon as your Village presents a pile of well-packed belongings. Pack up enough so that you have room to park outside the paths and can load up and drive out quickly. Paths must be kept clear.

The Village Team will be available on Sunday from 10:00. Contact the Village Team, DECT 8554 (VLLG), radio: channel 5, the team will also be onsite.

Entry is only possible (with permit) via gate 1; exit via gate 7 behind the LOC.

Bottles

Please bring your empty bottles and crates back to the BOC.

Furniture store

There are 3 drop points for your rented furniture. The opening hours are on Sunday from 9:00 to 20:00.

at Village UAVPNG
at Village Latech
at Merchzelt Please drop off all furniture cleaned at these drop points. Please remove all stickers. Then there will be a confirmation on your documentation sheet.

Dish Washing Tent

Dish Washing Service

The dish washing service will be active on Sunday from 8:30 as long as there is electricity at the dish washing tent. Dish washing angels are needed, without angels there will be no dish washing service.

Rented Plates & Cutlery

Please return the rented dishes at the dish washing tent. The return has the following opening hours (provided that angels are available!):

19.08. (day 5) 14:00-20:00
20.08. (day 6) 10:00-16:00 The return will be confirmed there on the documentation sheet.

Returning gas bottles

We only take back the gas bottles that have been pre-ordered by the Villages. Please remember to bring your documentation sheet (Laufzettel) and the red safety cap. The return will take place at the LOC Helpdesk starting at 10:00, if no one is available there in the meantime please call 4GAS (4427).

Deposit for Furniture, Plates and Gas

Deposits are paid out at the cash desk. Opening hours:

19.08. (day 5) 16:00-20:00
20.08. (day 6) 13:00-15:00 & 18:00-20:30

Recycling centre

There is a recycling centre at the Info-Desk with the following opening hours:

Saturday: 15:00 to 23:00
Sunday: 9:00 to 18:00

Any items that can still be used, such as working camping equipment, packaged non-perishable food, packaged drugstore items and working hardware (no craft projects) will be collected at the recycling centre for people in need. A list of requested items can be found here.

If you have bigger items that you would put in the bulky waste at home, please take them home.

Please drive sober and safe and get home safe!

Picture CC BY-SA psy

Camp 2023 – Awareness

Sun, 06 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0200

There will be an awareness team at the camp in 2023 again. c3awareness is there for you if, for example:

you have been harassed or discriminated against,
your personal boundaries have been violated,
you experience (personal or structural) discrimination,
you feel uncomfortable and need a person to talk to.

The most direct way to reach us is by DECT (113), but you can also contact us by mail, via Mastodon or Matrix. If you don’t have DECT, you can also go to the Infodesk or ask someone with DECT to call us. Or you can come to our contact point at CERT.

If you are asking yourself, “Can I go to the Awareness Team already?”, the answer is: Yes! We are there for you.

You can recognise us in person by our pink-purple glowing badges (see above).

How we work

We have a room available for confidential conversations if you want to talk. You decide what you want to tell us. And you decide how to proceed from there. We will support you in finding ways of dealing with the situation or taking action if the need arises. Everything we discuss is confidential, unless we agree otherwise. We invite you to also read our more detailed introduction.

If you have experienced something that you would like to bring to the Arbitration Board, we will be happy to accompany you or prepare this with you. The Arbitration Board is responsible if there is a serious violation of the principles of the event and formal measures are to be taken against a person. You can find more information and the rules of procedure on the page of the Arbitration Board.

If you have physical or medical problems, you can get help from CERT. For safety issues, you can contact the CrewCrew. The c3awareness team also works closely with both teams when necessary.

If the many impressions, flashing lights, lots of people or loud noises get to you, you can go to the QuietPlace. The c3auti team provides support for people on the autistic spectrum, their place is also for all quiet-loving beings. The c3auti team has also helped organise accessibility in general. For example, the helpdesk offers Hidden Disabilities badges as well as solutions if you can’t wait in queues. Detailed information about accessibility for visitors and Villages can be found in the wiki.

Principles and “Your Rights”

We would also like to point out the revised principles – which can be found on help.ccc.de. Let’s work together for a solidary and responsible community! One step towards this is to look at one’s own needs and limits. And to be aware that these can be different for other people. The “Your rights” posters are intended to encourage this.

Showers

The issue of showering was a major concern for us during the preparation phase of the camp. The challenge of showering together with others is different for different people. That’s why we’re letting you know what shower options there will be (if nothing goes wrong). Here is the plan – but this can still change, depending on the situation on site:

Family Village in the North

24 showers total
6 of these are single cabins including a dry area for changing clothes
6 showers next to each other for FLINTA (femmes, lesbians, inter, non-binary, trans, agender persons)
2× 6 showers next to each other for all genders

Shower Wonderland in the West

36 showers total
6 of these are single cabins including a dry area for changing clothes
2× 6 showers next to each other for FLINTA (femmes, lesbians, inter, non-binary, trans, agender persons)
3× 6 showers next to each other for all genders

Showers in the South

12 showers total
probably 6 showers next to each other for FLINTA (femmes, lesbians, inter, non-binary, trans, agender persons)
and 6 showers next to each other for all genders

It was not possible to get shower elements with individual showers. Therefore, we tried to get at least a few improvised single cabins.

Single showers

Not all beings are able to shower in open, non-lockable shower tents. The following alternatives exist:

Lockable individual shower containers: The Awareness Team and Heaven have access to lockable single shower containers (gray shower/toilet containers, map M9). Please contact them to gain access.
Wheelchair accessible showers+WCs: there are 3 wheelchair accessible containers with WC and shower. The CERT will give you access to the container north of the entrance (Map U13) and to the container directly at the CERT. Access to the container south-west of the Heaven (map M13) you get from Heaven. The wheelchair accessible containers are for people with physical disabilities.

Access will be granted without questioning your reasons.

We hope that this way all beings on the camp will have the possibility to take a shower.

Meet the Awareness-Team

You want to get to know us? Then come to our workshop! When? Unfortunately we don’t know exactly yet … But we will definitely host something as a self-organised session, which we will also announce via Mastodon. Otherwise, feel free to just get in touch with us if you want to arrange things in case you need us in any way or to have seen some faces beforehand.

If you want to be part of the team for upcoming events, you can give us your contact at the workshop or otherwise get in touch with us. We have been preparing for the camp together as a team for a few months now and will take people on only after the camp.

Kids and Teens

There will be many children and young people at the camp. That’s great!

For the first time, there will be a “Jugend-Village” (Teens Village) this year, organised by Jugend hackt and others. Jugend hackt has its own awareness structure, but we will also be in close contact with them. We as c3awareness are of course also available for participants from the Teens Village if needed.

Please pay special attention to (other) children and underage teens at workshops, talks, in your Villages and at the bars. Answer questions, provide support if needed, but also be aware of the special need for protection. The Protection of Young Persons Act (“Jugendschutzgesetz”) also applies at camp. Among other things, it regulates the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. People under the age of 18 are not allowed to smoke. Wine, beer and sparkling wine may be sold to people aged 16 to 18, but not schnapps, long drinks or similar.

You can recognise the members of the Jugend-Village by their additional wristbands. The wristbands for 14- to 16-year-olds are green, those for 16- to 18-year-olds are pink.

The Family Village already existed in 2019. It is an area at the back of the camp site that is especially suitable for children and their companions. You can read more about it in the announcement of the Kidspace.

Camp 2023 – C3VOC.TV / Mobile Recording Setup

Sat, 05 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0200

TL;DR:

We will have a TV Studio, and you can use it
We need your content and your help

This year, C3VOC and C3 News Show will be presenting their own content in the form of the C3VOC.TV project. Our goal is to capture all the small and big details that can be found outside of the large stages. Informational content for all on camp, around camp and even those who stayed at home will be part of the schedule. We’ll be building our own TV studio in the Feldbahnschau building. News, talk shows, games, interviews, cooking or everything else you could fit in a small TV studio is possible. Either recorded for later broadcast or live on air to our livestream. The studio will be available to everyone.

An editorial team will be collecting news, reports and other content to create a daily TV programme. At least one morning show and one prime time news show per day are in the making. We’ll have news gathering teams with cameras and audio equipment roaming the camp, on the lookout for interesting projects, situations and events. Either for longer format videos or to be included in our news shows.

Please fill us in on cool projects you brought to camp by contacting our editorial team, located near the studio, or just talk to us while we are roaming the site in our pink vests.

You are part of an OC and want to tell your inside story? You want to talk about all the infrastructure you built, in more depth than the usual infrastructure review could take? You’re welcome!

Mobile Setup

In addition to the studio and the news gathering teams, we will have a mobile setup. You can borrow this for a spontaneous talk or workshop recording at your village. The resulting video content can be used for C3VOC.TV as well.

Call for content and volunteers

You want to present your project, ideas or anything else on C3VOC.TV, want to help in our editorial team or want to record a show at the studio? Please contact C3VOC.

You can reach us via IRC #voc-lounge @ Hackint or via Matrix #voc-lounge:hackint.org.

We will always ask for permission before activating a camera or starting a recording. Accordingly, we’ll leave the lens cover on our cameras until all have consented to being recorded. We’re going to be on the lookout to prevent people from accidentally walking into frame.

Accidental filming can still happen and people might be unsure if they have been in frame. Just alert us there and then and we’ll review the footage together.

If you are on a recording and don’t want to be, let us know. We will not discuss your decision but respect it and solve the problem in the edit.

Camp 2023 – Fahrplan 0.9 release

Thu, 03 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

After many hours of reviews and haggling over the proposed entries, the content teams are proud to present you version 0.9 of the Fahrplan.

Find the schedule on pretalx

We and our awesome speakers and artists present you about 150 Talks, over 60 workshops and almost 50 performance gigs on 10 stages and areas.

For the Chaos Communication Camp 2023, we took a new approach to create this programme, with stages being run by multiple villages. We had to learn a lot while running this approach, so this first schedule comes pretty late. We would like to apologise for any inconvenience this has caused for our speakers.

We received more than 400 proposals overall. We want to thank everyone who submitted an entry. Feel encouraged to host a self-organised session if you did not get accepted. You awesome people submitted way more than we could accept. Deciding what we would have to reject was not easy.

Camp 2023 – Our content teams need your feedback

Mon, 24 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0200

Our content teams are about to draft the first release of the schedule for the camp. We have many exciting submissions and we would like to compile a schedule that allows everyone to attend every event he or she is interested in. To get close to that, we have created a content feedback tool where you can indicate your preferences and we will use your feedback to optimize our schedule and schedule events preferred by the same audience not in parallel.

Please go to https://contentfeedback.events.ccc.de/conferences/camp2023/ where you will see a list of confirmed submissions with their abstracts. View the events that sound interesting, give a thumbs up for those you would like to attend, a thumbs down for those you are not interested in and we keep track of that. Optionally, you may click on YES, save my state and then we will persist your progress in your browser and you can later on open the site again in the same browser and continue.

Camp 2023 – ISDN (and POTS)

Sun, 23 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

jolly and laforge from the osmocom team are planning to operate an experimental ISDN and analog telephony network at the Camp! This network will be provided for people to re-enact the good old telephony days, using anything as old as rotary dial phones, up to the 1990s ISDN experience. So if you still have your old wired telephones or ISDN equipment in a basement, feel free to bring it along and hook it up.

Types of interfaces

We can offer

analog POTS ports, exposed as classic 2-wire “ab” interface according to German standards
ISDN ports using Uk0 interface, using 4B3T according to German standards

What Equipment do I need to bring

For analog lines, you can connect any analog phone, answering machine, fax, modem, etc. Even rotary phones from Sweden and New Zealand (with their special pulse sequences) will work. For ISDN lines, you should bring your NTBA/NT1 (to convert Uk0 to S0) and then any ISDN equipment like phones, ISDN adapters, PBXs, … If you only have ISDN equipment for S0-bus but no NTBA, we have a few NTBA around that we can lend you, as needed, on a first-come-first-serve basis.

In addition, it will be wise to bring sufficient length of telephony wires so you can connect to the closest “Point of Presence”. You would need to run some telephony wire (or CAT5, if that‘s all you have) to one of our “points of presence”, where we will put V5_Access_Multiplexers. We are planning to deploy those at only a few (2–3) “Datenklo” (data loo) around the camp site. One of them will be in the vicinity of the POC tent, the other locations are yet to be determined.

What kind of services do you offer?

Our experimental analog + ISDN network will be interconnected with the POC/eventphone so you should be able to connect not only with other users of the analog/ISDN network, but also the POC DECT subscribers as well as the c3gsm GSM subscribers. There might also be connectivity with the OCTOI network, but we are uncertain if we can achieve that.

More infos will be provided ahead of camp on the info pages.

Camp 2023 – Your journey to camp 2023

Fri, 21 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Camp is coming closer and you should start to plan your trip soon. To help you with that, we are going to lay out some options here.

TL;DR:

Don’t come too early.
Take enough cash and fuel with you, read the survival guide.
There will be a bike repair shop and a parcel service.
Get a cheap event train ticket
There will be shuttles from Gransee and Zehdenick
Find groups for long distance shuttles or book existing tours with Bassliner.
If you come by car, get a parking ticket and offer ride sharing.

General advice

Do not arrive before the announced dates. If you arrive earlier than those dates, we might have to ask you to leave. We simply do not have the capacity beforehand.

Please keep in mind that the camp is cash only. There are no ATMs at the venue and the ATMs nearby will be overloaded if the whole camp tries to get money there. Plan to bring enough cash.

If you do not want to carry your luggage to camp, you can send it by mail. You will also be able to send it back home from camp. You can use the same service to order stuff to camp.

For a list of things to bring and not to bring take a look at the survival guide which includes links to a checklist.

Not only relevant to those arriving without a car: We organised a bus shuttle between camp and the two nearby cities Gransee and Zehdenick. The shuttle runs from Monday, 14 Aug to Monday, 21 Aug at least once per hour between 8:00 and 20:00 and it is free for all camp visitors. If you need something from the next hardware store and don’t want to walk all the way to the parking lot: Take the bus. It leaves directly in front of the camp entrance.

For a comprehensive and detailed list about traveling to camp and back home, look at our info pages. Please continue reading if you already read them, we are going to point out some important points in this blogpost.

By bike

We heard that some of you will arrive by bike or at least bring a bike to camp. Great! We organized a bike workshop to help in case you need to repair things. There might be a facility to safely store your bike as well, but we can’t tell for sure right now. Please don’t rely on it.

By train

Did you know there is a special offer from Deutsche Bahn for chaos events? If you arrive by train, there is a shuttle bus to camp from both nearby stations, Gransee and Zehdenick. The shuttles are scheduled to leave a few minutes after your arrival. For a detailed shuttle schedule please take a look at the info pages.

Long-distance bus shuttles

Travel to Camp together with all your friends, arrive directly in front of the entrance and avoid having to carry your stuff from the parking lot, protect the environment by emitting less CO₂? How about a bus tour?

Right now we only offer tours from Berlin and Hamburg, but we would love to have a few more bus users. All you need are at least 40 people for one tour and multi-city routes are also viable! So please use the wiki to find like-minded people or organize a fun tour with you and your neighbouring hackerspace. Depending on your starting point and the number of people the price will be between 50 and 70 € one way. Please contact bassliner until 31 July if you found enough people.

By car

Good news: After quite some trouble we finally found a place for the parking lot that is not too far away from camp. But it is not directly in front of the camp either. Depending on where your car is parked and where you put up your tent, you will have to walk about 800–1500 meters. We will have a few handcarts to carry your stuff but bringing an additional one is never wrong. If you need to drive onto the venue to unload your stuff, that will only be possible before and after the main event. Please have some patience as we can’t let many vehicles in at the same time.

Sharing is caring: If you have a spare seat, please offer your ride in the wiki.

Important: Whether if you arrive by car, motorbike, quad – if it has a motor and needs a driving license, your vehicle has to be parked at the parking lot. Parking on or around the venue is not possible and vehicles that do not comply will be removed. Parking tickets cost 40 € and are available online in the ticket shop as well as on-site (cash only!). Download your parking ticket beforehand and keep it ready once you arrive to speed up the parking process.

Please do not arrive with an almost empty tank and rely on a gas/petrol station close to the location to get back home. Those will be overwhelmed and run out soon, leaving you stranded. This was tested in 2019 and we would prefer to spare you from another case study. Please fill up your tank before you get close to the location, at best while still on the highway. The same applies for electric vehicles and empty batteries. Do not rely on charging facilities at the venue.

Photo CC BY-SA 4.0 psy

Camp 2023 – Crate Sale

Tue, 18 Jul 2023 09:00:00 +0200

TL;DR: Like last time, we offer you a possibility to buy drinks by the crate at cheaper prices than at the bar.

The camp is approaching fast, and we are excited! Most of us have already started planning, and a serious question arises: where do we get our Mate? If this question keeps you up at night, we have good news: you can buy your mate at the camp! For the duration of the camp , you can buy crates of cold drinks directly from the Bar-Team!
We provide Mate, beer, a variety of lemonades and cola.
We are also planning an ice cube sale this time.

All further information can be found on our info page (work in progress).

For the most consumed beverage types, we have set up a presale for you to facilitate our planning and to save you from bringing in larger amounts of cash.

https://tickets.events.ccc.de/camp2023-boc/

If you have further questions about drinks, feel free to contact us at camp2023-bar@cccv.de.

Camp 2023 – Camp Parcel Service

Thu, 13 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

TL;TR: You can mail your stuff by parcel to the camp site and back home again. An FAQ providing info on package delivery can be found on the info pages.

From your place to the camp

Has this ever happened to you? You’re packed and eager to bike to camp. But you must admit: three suitcases and two tents are like really bulky. So you scrounge grandma’s SUV and quickly click a parking ticket. Oh, they cost money, too. So you check for a cheap nearby parking garage, what it costs, how you’re going to haul the stuff to camp, and TOOT: Some train nerds are posting stuffed animals on trains again. Great. Because you’ve got no time left for the crocheting workshop because of all the hustle and bustle. You might as well just stay home then.

It doesn’t have to be like this!

Just send your stuff to the camp by parcel post with the service you mistrust least. They can deliver to postal addresses? We can accept it for you!

Via Hackerspace

Of course, you could also dump your stuff at your local hackerspace - Jane’s gonna transport all those 3D printers, 5U server racks and Mate crates to camp anyway. So quickly ask her if she has some space left on her truck for your stuff. Now all that’s left to do is to actually find that Jane again at the Camp site. Then go to the parking lot, and after only three iterations of dragging stuff back and forth between the parking lot and your tent, your stuff is at least in your tent’s vicinity.

It doesn’t have to be like this, either!

Our FAQ will help Jane drop your stuff at the BGP tent for you to come and collect it.

Via online shopping

Of course you forgot your towel at home. And the Flower badge might requires a certified USB-5.4 cable, but you only have a USB-2A one with you. And that friendly tent neighbor isn’t that friendly anymore after you absolutely need to borrow their stuff for the fifth time. Friendships have broken over less. So you want to overnight-express your own from $sustainable_webshop.

But what delivery address to use? Shipping companies tend to dislike addresses like “the blue tent next to brick kiln 3, CCCamp2023, Krautland”.

We can help with that too!

Our FAQ will help you generate an address to use in online stores.

From camp back home

After only five days camp is already over, so you want to travel back home. Sadly, your angel shirt, your 3D printed bottle tag, the hot camp merch and all the other awesome swag won’t fit into your crammed backpack.

Again: There’s a solution for this as well. Just leave it to your preferred parcel service!

Again: There’s a solution for this as well. Our FAQ will tell you the secrets of just leaving it to your preferred parcel service.

Leave the stress at home, travel by bike and train without exhaust fumes and lugging!

Your Border Gateway for Parcels (BGP)

Camp 2023 – Call for Angels

Wed, 12 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

After some years of forced interruption we are happy to organize a (larger) Chaos Event again. In order to make the camp a success, we need your help! Please consider becoming an Angel and support the event by volunteering!

How does this work?

TL;DR

We need you! Register as an Angel (volunteer) at Angel System (Engelsystem) and add your arrival/departure dates.
If you’d like to help with build-up before the 10.08., please contact us per Mail first and wait for our response.
Read the Angel-Guide, especially check our curated packing list.
At campsite, get marked as arrived at the Heaven tent.
Click shifts in the Angel System and help to make the event what it is - a community event.
Questions regarding volunteering? Send us a Mail.

General

Helping is really easy. In order to sign up for shifts, you need to be registered in the Angel System (Engelsystem). Through the Angel System, we - the Heaven - coordinate and distribute the workload among all the volunteers and helping hands. Within the Angel System you can indicate your planned dates of arrival and departure, which helps us with planning. On camp site, you just walk over to the Heaven tent and we’ll mark you as arrived to know you are there. After that you can click shifts and take over tasks. A recommended packing list and further information is available in our Angel-Guide. Please note that all angels also need a ticket for the event.

Build Up

During build-up we have limited generic tasks and shifts. Therefore, please, do not simply arrive early without having checked/discussed your arrival date with us. If you are physically fit and resilient, you like heavy work and the build-up experience, create an account in the Engelsystem, note your arrival date and contact us via ticket@c3heaven.de, so we can plan with your power accordingly. However, due to limited resources, we may refuse your help until a later date and therefore ask you kindly to arrive later.

IMPORTANT: Please, do not arrive under any circumstance before the 10.08. without approval from Orga or heaven. Otherwise, due to resource constraints, you’ll be asked to leave the venue! More important dates are available in Timeline.

During Camp

During the event we have a lot of diverse tasks for everyone, be it specialized jobs, which need some onboarding, up to very simple jobs, anyone can do right from the start. Angel shifts are also a good opportunity to make new friends and give you a great view behind the scenes of our events. Just check the Angel System for a free shift and assign yourself.

Tear Down

We need a lot of Angels also at Tear-Down, so we can revert the campsite back to its natural state. If you are available, stay a couple of days longer for Tear-Down and help us with “renaturation”. For this add your departure date early to your Engelsystem profile.

We are all giddy for Camp and to see you again or meet you for the first time! Without you, your projects and your help Camp would just be an accumulation of tents. Camp is, what you make of it, so let’s make something wonderful - together!

If you have any questions left, we’ll be happy to answer those via the Engelsystem or Mail.

Best regards, Heaven

Camp 2023 – Last Call for Camp Tickets

Mon, 10 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The most important bit up front: We will release more tickets, to be sold starting tomorrow, July 11th, 20:00 CEST!

After the last round of ticket sales, we had an unusually large amount of orders that were never paid. Combined with an average ticket price of EUR 376.29 that remained noticeably below our goal of EUR 380, we had hoped for both a fuller camp ground and a less uncomfortable budget. (Remember, we shared our budget and the reason for our ticket prices here.

If we don’t sell out completely on Tuesday, we’ll continue to run a normal presale until all tickets are gone or until Camp begins.

But we also have good news: Over the course of the three presale dates, we managed to increase the production of this year’s flow3r badge. The second and the third presale date therefore had sufficient badges available for everybody, whereas some people who bought their tickets in the first round couldn’t order a badge. These people will receive an email (some time today) with a voucher code that will allow them to purchase a badge, also starting on July 11th, 20:00 CEST. (Badges are of course still limited, so we can’t promise there will be enough for everybody who receives this email.)

Camper van tickets are still sold out.

Looking forward to seeing you in Mildenberg!

Camp 2023 – Village Reminder

Wed, 28 Jun 2023 22:00:00 +0200

Dear villages,

Since the third and last ticket round ended last Saturday, you should now have a good picture of how many people your village will involve. Also, you should have developed some ideas around now on what you want to do and what you need to bring.

Don’t miss the registration deadline

If you haven’t registered your village yet, it’s high time: Registration closes this Friday, 30 June 2023 at 23:42 CEST (UTC+0200). Don’t wait until midnight.

The original Call for Villages is here:
https://events.ccc.de/2023/05/30/camp23-call-for-villages/

Update your village registration

This is the perfect moment to give some love to your village registration. Please update your registration data and tell us what you want to to. Please fill in the “signup information” field as soon as possible. If you are using a pad or a wiki for the organisation of your village, we’d be happy to have that link. The more precisely the village crew knows what you intend to do, the better they can plan everything – which also benefits you.

Plan your presentation

Use this moment now to put content into the description fields “Öffentliche Beschreibung [de]” and “Description [en]”. This info will be available publicly on the event website later, giving you the opportunity to present yourself and to lure visitors into your village. Even if you’re not planning to attract visitors, these fields should be filled by day 0 at latest.

Order stuff in the shop

Camp takes place in the high season of outdoor events. Especially furniture and those ugly white standard tents have a long lead time for renting. Order these preferably no later than Friday, 7 July 2023. After that day, the chances that we can still get something for you will drop rapidly.

[NEW!] We’re pleased to announce there’s a new item in the shop: Cooling-as-a-service (CaaS), meaning shelf space in a shared refrigerated container, is now available for order. All details can be found in the village shop.

Questions? You can contact us at camp2023-villages@cccv.de or in the public Matrix channel #camp2023-villages:events.ccc.de.

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Camp 2023 – Village-Shop

Wed, 21 Jun 2023 20:00:00 +0200

After successfully registering your village (see Call for Villages) and having it confirmed by the village team, you will get access to the village shop. Here you can order a variety of things that will hopefully make it easier for you to build your village. The voucher code for the shop can be found with your registration in the hub.

All orders will be checked and released in the order of their submission.

Articles will be added and updated continuously, please check back regularly.

Deposit

Some articles require a deposit. This will be payable in the shop and will be returned to you in cash after you’ve given back the items at the end of the event.

Kitchen foo

You can order gas cylinders (11 kg), dinner plates, soup plates, and also IBC (Intermediate Bulk Containers, 1000 liters) for waste water. We will charge a deposit for each item.

You can also buy gas directly at the event. Further, you can pick up or exchange pre-ordered gas cylinders at any time so you don’t have to store them in your village.

Furniture

You can get exhibition tables (for closed tents and solid floors), folding chairs and beer tent sets (one table, two benches).

For all furniture items we charge a collective deposit of 100 €. This will be added to your order and returned to you in cash when you return the items at the end of the event.

Tents and sun protection

We offer a variety of stretch tents, sun shades and tents. Please read the descriptions and check whether the item suits your requirements. Stretch tents have no floor and open sides, which makes them a perfect and breezy sun shade. For a smaller maker space with a lot of tech, installations with side panels and a solid floor might be more suitable.

Tent orders have to be coordinated with our suppliers. This is why all orders will be checked and then confirmed individually.

Please order tents and sun shades as soon as possible. Our camp takes place during peak camping season, so at some unknown point in time we will no longer be able to meet all requests.