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 …

In Dresden finden das Symposium Datenspuren – Privatsphäre war gestern statt. Die zweitägige Veranstaltung behandelt datenschutzrelevante Themen vom Informationsfreiheitsgesetz über Videoüberwachung im öffentlichen Raum bis hin zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung.

Zur Veranstaltung eingeladen sind alle “selbst denkenden Wesen“, der Eintritt ist frei.

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.

Vom 6. bis 9. April findet das traditionelle “workshop weekend” des Chaos Computer Clubs statt. Der CCC Hamburg lädt anlässlich dieser vier Workshoptage zum Mitmachen, Fachsimpeln und Entspannen ins Eidelstedter Bürgerhaus ein.

Das 7. Easterhegg als traditionelles “workshop weekend” des Chaos Computer Clubs wird vom 6. bis 9. April in Hamburg im Eidelstedter Bürgerhaus stattfinden. Auf der Webseite gibt es weitere Informationen.

Zur Planung des Dauer-Frühstücks wird um eine vorherige Anmeldung gebeten.

We finally made it. Again, way too much time passed to finish off the complete set of recordings due to a technical problem on day one which forced us to re-capture and re-edit a quarter of the recordings. It always good to have backups.

But now we can provide you with the complete set of recordings in both audio-only and the complete video version. All videos are sized 640×480 pixels and are superbly encoded featuring very low bitrates and an unusually good video quality at the same time. All files can be played back on the iPod. Thanks to the 23C3 video crew of FEM Ilmenau and CCC Ulm for …

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, …

We have very nice propaganda material for the upcoming Camp for you. Use it.