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39C3: Call for Angels

Sat, 22 Nov 2025 16:00:00 +0000

39C3 needs your help! No Congress would be possible without the many volunteers, called Angels (German: Engel).

Whether you’re participating for the first time or have already experienced many cycles, helping as an Angel is always a great way to meet new beings, get a look behind the scenes, and create unforgettable experiences for yourself and others.

If you’d like to help, register in the Engelsystem. After your arrival at Congress, come to the Angel registration on the right side of the entrance hall. There you’ll receive your Angel badge and can then freely sign up for shifts for upcoming tasks. Alternatively you can find Heaven in Hall X. If you already own a lanyard for your Angel badge, please bring it and continue using it. You can find more information in the Angel Guide.

For the buildup and especially for the teardown, we always need many helping hands. So if you can come earlier or stay a bit longer after the event, we look forward to your help. Help is particularly needed during teardown, especially from beings who haven’t already exhausted themselves during the buildup and Congress. The buildup begins on 20 December. From then until the start of Congress, there will be numerous tasks each day, especially distributing sofas, tables, and chairs. Please do not come before the 20th, tasks and infrastructure are only available from that day.

To help with the buildup, just come by starting on the 20th! Access to the CCH during buildup is (as usual) via the back side (Tiergartenstraße) through the entrance to Hall H. During the buildup you can find Heaven as Pre-Heaven directly in Hall H. We’ll announce any changes to the buildup information in the Engelsystem and on Mastodon.

Please remember during the event, especially as an Angel, to supply yourself with food and water. We’re happy to support this with Angel water at Heaven. Please bring your own refillable water bottle to save resources. There is also a possibility to receive warm meals. However, please note that the food is limited by the kitchen’s capacity and is primarily intended for Angels who have no alternatives. To coordinate this (and prevent a kitchen DDoS), digital food vouchers for meals will be issued this year via the Engelsystem. We’ll inform you about the exact procedure in the Engelsystem News.

This year the teams paid special attention to provide more detailed shift information. That way you can judge for yourself whether a shift fits you.

If you have further questions, we are there for you in Heaven.

Heavenly regards and see you very soon,
An Angel

More Information

continuously updated on the info pages
an overview in the Angel Guide
on Mastodon at @c3himmel@chaos.social
in the Engelsystem News

If you have any questions, feel free to ask them via email to ticket@c3heaven.de.

Image CC BY-SA 2.0 Leah Oswald

38C3: Call for Angels

Sat, 23 Nov 2024 06:00:00 +0000

In just over a month, the 38th Chaos Communication Congress will begin. That we will have a great time together again and find “Illegal Instructions” is only possible thanks to the many volunteers, called Angels.

Being an Angel is always a great opportunity to meet other beings and take a look behind the scenes. You don’t have to commit now – you can decide to help out during the event.

For Angels (German: Engel), there is the Engelsystem. Register there and visit Heaven when you arrive at Congress. After picking up your Angel badge in Heaven, you can freely sign up for shifts for upcoming tasks. You can find more information in the Angel Guide.

During build-up and especially teardown, we always need many helping hands. So if you can come earlier or stay a bit longer after the event, we look forward to your help. Help is particularly needed during teardown, especially from beings who haven’t already exhausted themselves during build-up and the event itself. The build-up starts on 20 December. From then until the start of Congress, there will be numerous tasks each day, particularly the distribution of sofas and the distribution and setup of tables and chairs. Please do not come before the 20th; if support is needed before then, we’ll announce it spontaneously on Mastodon: @c3himmel@chaos.social.

If you want to help, just come by – even spontaneously! Access to the CCH during build-up is via the back (Tiergartenstraße) through the entrance to Hall H. Changes to this will be announced in the Engelsystem and on Mastodon.

Heavenly greetings,
Heaven

More Information

continuously updated on the Info pages
overview in the Angel Guide
on Mastodon at @c3himmel@chaos.social
in the Engelsystem News

If you have any questions, feel free to ask them in the Engelsystem or via email to ticket@c3heaven.de.

Image CC BY Martin Müller

37C3: Call for Angels

Wed, 06 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Greetings, galactic life form,

there is not much time left until the 37th Chaos Communication Congress starts. Like everything we do, 37C3 only works if we make it happen together. If you want to help out at 37C3, become an Angel.

Volunteering as an Angel makes it easy to take some peeks behind the scenes and to become friends with other life forms. You don’t need to decide to volunteer right now. It’s possible to start volunteering anytime.

All you have to do to become an Angel is register in the Engelsystem and then come and get your badge from Heaven at the event. In the Engelsystem you’ll find open tasks and you can sign up to shifts on your own. Additional information will appear bit by bit on the info pages until 37C3 starts. There also is an Angel Guide again that contains all relevant information in condensed form.

For build-up and especially the tear-down we’ll also need your volunteering power. If you’re able to show up earlier or stay longer, we’ll be grateful for your help. Especially for tear-down help is urgently needed, also and in particular from life forms who have not yet exhausted themselves during the build-up and the event itself. The build-up probably will start on December 20th and from that day on until congress starts, there will be lots of different tasks every day, primarily distribution of couches and distribution and build-up of chairs and tables. Unfortunately we will not be able to provide accommodation for people helping during build-up and tear-down.

If you want to help, just come by! Access to the CCH during build-up probably will be via the back side (Tiergartenstraße), either via the porter entrance or the entrance to Hall H. The situation can also change dynamically during the build-up from day to day. As soon as we know more, we will publish the relevant information in the Engelsystem and on Mastodon (see below).

If you are fluently bilingual, please consider joining the translation team. Not every person interested in the content at 37C3 is able to understand German and/or English. Our mission is to remove that language barrier and make Congress available to an international audience. For more information, become a member of our mailing list (write to translate-subscribte(at)lists.ccc.de, respond to the double-opt-in mail and await confirmation) and then write to us via translate(at)lists.ccc.de. You can also reach us on Mastodon at @c3lingo@chaos.social.

Our speaker-desk team also needs energetic helpers with fundamental Chaos Events experience. In the interests of diversity and providing the best possible support for all our speakers, we would be particularly pleased to have more people who do not self-identify as male.

Follow us on Mastodon at @c3himmel@chaos.social and have a look at the Engelsystem news from time to time to stay updated.

If you still have questions, you can ask them in the Engelsystem or at ticket(at)c3heaven.de.

Regards, an Angel.

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

[rC3 2021 - NOWHERE] Call for Angels

Fri, 10 Dec 2021 19:00:42 +0100

TL;DR

The Engelsystem is up and running. If you want to help, create your Engelsystem account and get going!

rC3 Engelsystem

The end of the year is near and so is the second edition of the Remote Chaos Experience (rC3 2021). Many helping hands have been preparing everything for months now, so hopefully our virtual get-together will once again be a highlight of the year. After gaining some experience last year and spontaneously finding creative solutions for a lot of problems, this year we hope for an even better event.

But we cannot achieve this on our own. Like every year, we are again depending on the help of our great community with its many volunteers. Become an angel and help to make the Remote Chaos Experience 2021 once again an unforgettable experience for everyone! Additionally, helping out as an angel is always a great opportunity to meet other creatures and to take a look behind the scenes.

Please register an account at https://engelsystem.rc3.world.

Similar to presence events, we also need your help already before the event, although you do not need to be on premise for that. If you have registered an account in the Engelsystem, you will find in the news a constantly updated list of open tasks for which we are still looking for help. Feel free to check it out if you want to help in advance.

As always we need your support during the rC3 2021: As soon as you have received a ticket for the event, you can log in via the single sign-on with your ticket data and will automatically be marked as arrived in the Engelsystem. After that you can register for free shifts. Please read the description of each task carefully.

If you have any questions, we will be happy to answer them in the Engelsystem or via e-mail.

We are looking forward to a fantastic rC3 with you! Your Heaven