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DiVOC: Call for Angels

Tue, 29 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Call for Angels

Dear living entities, we’re almost there: divoc 2022 will be opening it’s doors in a few days. So we’ll be needing the help of additional angels: heralds, signal angels, translation angels, welcome angels, but also stream watchers and chatroom observers. Please give us a short note under divoc@neanderfunk.de so that we know who’ll be coming to help us.

Thank you.

DiVOC: Call for Worlds

Sat, 19 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Let’s build bridges between our accustomed bubbles, places to exchange ideas, to meet new creatures or just to see old acquaintances again.

There’s more than enough space, and we hope that this divoc’s world will be as colourful as last year’s (at least!).

To bring some amount of cohesion to this chaos, we’ve decided to publish a styleguide on bb3-style.betalars.de

There’s also a Logo-generator on bb3.tils.pw

If you want to dock your map to our lobby, please send an email with the name of your assembly and a publicly-reachable link to a git-repository of your map to world@muc.hacc.space; we’ll come back to you with further information. All maps that reach us until April 7th will be part of the world. Processing of later submissions is not impossible, but will definitely be best-effort only!

As always, there are no limits here for your creativity — so go rebuild your hackcenter, create something entirely new, or carefully update the map you used at previous events (but please remember that the divoc is a far smaller event then e.g. the rC3, and — if applicable – scale your map down a little). Of course, we’d be especially happy about combined submissions by more than one assembly, or maps that build creative bridges to somewhere else, whether that means a window looking into a hackcenter or livestream to your local waffle-making session.

If you have an idea or a question, please let us know!

You can also find further information and hints in the wiki.

DiVOC Bridging Bubbles – Call for Expertise

Mon, 14 Mar 2022 08:00:00 +0000

tl:dr:

The CfP has been extended until 20.3.2022
We’re making Putins Ukraine war the topic for a whole day (Saturday 16.04.)
Looking for: qualified contributions about help for refugees, OS intelligence, fact checking, open flow of information, protection against cyber attacks, hacker ethics, reconciliation
Contributions to other serious and fluffy topics still welcome!

We are devastated by Putins military invasion of Ukraine. We could have never wanted our theme - bridging bubbles - to be as urgent. Because we will need to build bridges between Ukrainians, Russians and the international community; for the sake of every peaceful creature that has suffered due to the war.

This is why we will be dedicating Saturday, 16.04.22 to this topic.

We are looking for qualified reporting on the information and power bubbles that are shaping the conflict.

We stand in solidarity with out Ukrainian friends and the reports leave us restless. But many technical aspects are also on our minds.

We are a collective of hackers. What does that mean when there’s a war happening right at our doorsteps that is also being fought on the Internet?

What are constructive contributions we can make as civilian hacktivists for the people of Ukraine? How should we debunk propaganda? Can freedom of information help in the process of reconciliation?

If you can contribute a talk or a discussion on Saturday, we’d be happy for your proposal in Pretalx in track “Resilience and Education” or a mail to our content team via divoc@neanderfunk.de until 20.03.2022!

We are also looking forward to performances and works of art dealing with the topic. You can also contribute to an educational short on hacker ethics and debunking “cyber war”.

But by dedicating a day to this topic, we deliberately chose to not make it a theme for the whole event. There’s other subjects needing to be addressed and bunnies wanting to be illuminated with LEDs. These submissions will always be welcome.

Be excellent to each other! бути відмінними один до одного! Будьте замечательные друг к другу!

DiVOC Bridging Bubbles – Call for Participation

Fri, 18 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

tl;dr Talks, art projects and music for the stream of DiVOC bb3. Deadline for submissions: 13.3.2022, Event 15.–18.4.2022.

During the pandemic, the bubbles and echo chambers all of us inhabit seem to have gotten even tighter and more impermeable. We look forward to your talks about technology, science, politics and society. We’re particularly interested in talks addressing current social debates, questions of participation, accessibility, science education and science denial, and “fake news”.

And this time we would like to try out a new format: each day, we want to a have panel on a range of topics, with experts and different viewpoints. You are an expert and you would like to contribute? Or you have a suggestion for a topic and know people who are specialists? Then submit your suggestion, please!

Talks can have a length of either 30 or 60 minutes (plus a Q&A). If you have something special in mind, we can diverge from that. Art projects and music are coordinated individually.

All formats are streamed live and are recorded for later viewing; if you prefer, you can pre-record your talk. In any case, we would love to do a live Q&A with you. If the situation permits and you’re game, you can hold your talk from one of the participating spaces. We’re happy if you appear in front of the camera, but we’ll find creative solutions if that is not appropriate. We’ll discuss all details with you in time for Easter.

Submissions: https://pretalx.c3voc.de/divoc-bb3
Deadline: 13.3.2022
Event: 15.–18.4.2022
More Info: https://di.c3voc.de/bb3:en:start

DiVOC Bridging Bubbles – Call for Collaboration

Mon, 14 Feb 2022 10:00:00 +0000

tl;dr A hybrid event: online and in your hackspaces. Do weird things to coax people out of their bubbles and to connect them with others. Contribute on the Wiki and IRC #divoc-bb3, to help plan this. From 15.-18. April 2022.

During the pandemic, the bubbles and echo chambers all of us inhabit seem to have gotten even tighter and more impermeable. We want to interact and merge the bubbles. DiVOC has to replace Easterhegg for the third time, but this time around we hope that the situation allows for small groups to do things together in person. So let’s use the chance to network the bubbles worldwide. Hack the new normal!

Build a Jitsi corner in your club, stream a talk from your space (we’ll help with the technical setup), network with other spaces, connect Workadventure avatars to the real world. Add your ideas to the Wiki, discuss your projects on the Hackint IRC channel #divoc-bb3, and join our mumbles that we’ll host to help everybody coordinate. Let’s build a better world together!

In the usual DiVOC manner we’re relying on self-organisation. Use the wiki to promote your ideas and offerings and find collaborators. We’ll have a Workadventure you will be able to add your own map to, and we’re looking forward to your extensions to connect Workadventure with the physical world. And all the BBB and Jitsi servers at CCC and elsewhere invite everybody to have spontaneous or planned sessions and workshops.

We’ll also have a talk program and a lounge stream, but for now, we want to spur you on to create crazy and cool ideas for a hybrid event!

DiVOC Push to Talk: Submit your session now!

Mon, 20 Jul 2020 09:01:33 +0000

tl;dr Interactive Online Event, September 4 to 6. CfP: Submissions, Wiki with all info: di.c3voc.de

During the past couple of months, we have increasingly moved our lives into cyberspace, where chaos is digitally distributed. We have gone on-line for events, streamed content and clicked on talk recordings.

There was lots of lecturing—now we are looking for more interaction: instead of just watching a stream, let’s go do cool stuff together!

From September 4-6 we will have the third Digitally Distributed Online Chaos, this time under the theme “Push to talk”.

The event will be streamed on media.ccc.de and participation is free of charge. As during the first DiVOC, the VOC is at the ready with their infrastructure to stream sessions from anywhere and enable participants to engage in exchange.

Now we want to fill the program with talks, ideas, discussion panels, art performances or other submissions! With slots of up to 75 minutes, we can try new and more interactive things.

There is also space for shorter pitches: in slots of 15 minutes, let’s experiment with interfaces of all sorts, tell each other about interesting discoveries, present exciting projects, and extend invitations to self-organised sessions, or do crazy things we might come up with.

We are collecting the proposed submissions here until August 14th.

For any questions about the implementation we are happy to help via e-mail.

Additionally, Digitally Distributed Online Chaos truly comes alive through self-organised sessions and impromptu flashes of inspiration!

In the wiki for the “Push to Talk” event, we provide all the details, including communication channels to fellow chaos creatures, and we will publish the schedule in time before the event.
@diC3voc@twitter.com and @dic3voc@chaos.social in the fediverse are keeping us posted about current developments.

So let’s go, and be excellent to each other!

Hidden Service – A Digital Distributed Online-Chaos

Tue, 31 Mar 2020 19:26:35 +0000

TL;DR On April 11th und 12th, we’re doing a *Digital Distributed Online-Chaos* with many talks. More info at https://di.c3voc.de/en:start

April 2020, the hackerspaces in all of Germany are closed, and all events cancelled. Chaos is disappearing from shared spaces, workshops and craft corners, and retreats into the living room. The community can only stay visible through the hidden heroes of Chaos: the infrastructure. Mostly ignored and assumed to be a given, the decentralized, non-commercial, and tracking-free services allow Chaos to continue to be Chaos. These otherwise hidden services become more visible than ever. Video and audio conference systems allow hackspaces to be transferred to the virtual realm; pads, gits, and wikis enable us to continue to work together. It’s time to stay home, but no time to go into hiding.

We believe that our events can be run like this too, and want to try a digital distributed online Chaos. At least you should not be left alone over Easter! So we’re hiding an easter egg for you: on the 11th and 12th of April, we’re going to have the first Online Chaos – Hidden Services. The whole event will be streamed at https://media.ccc.de. All information and the schedule Fahrplan will be published shortly at https://di.c3voc.de/en:start and on Twitter @dic3voc and in the Fediverse at @dic3voc@chaos.social.

Together with the VOC, we have designed an infrastructure that allows speakers to stream their talk from home, or pre-record it. Viewers can ask questions, and heralds will accompany the talks. The schedule Fahrplan will be online soon, but you can already register your own self-organised session https://di.c3voc.de/sessions-liste.

All talks will be presented in German. Through the services of the c3lingo team, many of them will be translated into English, and maybe even additional languages. Check the schedule for the details. For the best experience listening to the translation, you should install a Mumble client on your system. Please see https://wiki.c3lingo.org/for-attendees for further details.

Let’s create a distributed conference together and learn a lot—not just for now, but for times to come.