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FSCK 2026 – Episode IV in Backnang

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200

The Chaostreff Backnang proudly presents: FSCK 2026 – Episode IV

Overview

Start: 8 May 2026, 16:00
End: 10 May 2026, 18:00
Genre: Hacking & Networking Event
Venue: Kino Universum, Sulzbacher Straße 32, 71522 Backnang (OpenStreetMap)
Admission price: 56 €

Plot

Grab some popcorn and settle into your seat: FSCK Episode IV is coming to the Universum Cinema in Backnang on 8–10 May 2026! Enjoy exciting talks, hang out at the Hackcenter, and find out what goes on behind the scenes at a movie theater. Rumour has it there will also be an exclusive film screening …

You’ll have the chance to hack and network freely at the Hackcenter. You can also listen to talks in a real cinema setting – and you’ll even have the opportunity to deliver your own talk in style, right in a real movie theater. That way, your talk will be a huuuge success. Proposals can be submitted until 12 April 2026, 23:23 via the CfP. We also welcome workshop submissions!

Ticket Sales

Tickets for FSCK will be available starting 5 April 2026, 18:00 in our ticket shop.

Breaking news about FSCK will be posted on our event page and on the Fediverse.

We look forward to seeing many of you here!

FSCK 2025 in Backnang

Fri, 28 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

(Fanfare music) Dadada Dadadadadada …
The Chaostreff Backnang presents for the third time

Overview

Start: 9 May 2025, 16:00
End: 11 May 2025, 18:00
Genre: Hacking & Networking Event
Venue: Kino Universum Backnang, Sulzbacher Str. 32, 71522 Backnang (OpenStreetMap)
Admission price: 55 €

Plot

Chaostreff Backnang is going to stage a hacking event on 9–11 May in the Murr metropolis of Backnang, in the heart of Swabia. The guest list includes all tech-savvy hackers who have always wanted to spend an entire weekend at the movies. The further course of the plot depends on the protagonists. There will be opportunities for free hacking and networking in the hack center. In addition, lectures and workshops will feature throughout the weekend. For this purpose, a part of the cinema will be transformed into a hack center and a lecture hall for three days. You will have the chance to give your presentation in style in a real cinema hall. This way, your presentation will be a huuuge success. Proposals for this can be submitted via the CfP until 6 April 2025, 23:42.

Ticket Sale

Tickets for the FSCK are available in our ticket shop.

Breaking news about the FSCK will be posted on our events page and on our Mastodon.

We look forward to seeing you!

FSCK 2024 in Backnang

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 20:00:00 +0000

CC-BY-SA Chaostreff Backnang

Overview

Start: 3 May 2024, 16:00
End: 5 May 2024, 18:00
Genre: Hacking & Networking Event
Venue: Kino Universum Backnang, Sulzbacher Str. 32, 71522 Backnang (OpenStreetMap)
Admission price: 42 €

Plot

Chaostreff Backnang is going to stage a hacking event on 3–5 May in the Murr metropolis of Backnang, in the heart of Swabia. The guest list includes all tech-savvy hackers who have always wanted to spend an entire weekend at the movies. The further course of the plot depends on the protagonists. There will be opportunities for free hacking and networking in the hack center. In addition, lectures and workshops will feature throughout the weekend. For this purpose, a part of the cinema will be transformed into a hack center and a lecture hall for three days. You will have the chance to give your presentation in style in a real cinema hall. This way, your presentation will be a huuuge success. Proposals for this can be submitted via the CfP until 31 March 2024, 23:42.

Ticket Sale

Tickets for the FSCK will be available starting this weekend. If you want to attend but cannot afford the ticket, please contact us at events@ctbk.de and we will try to find a solution.

Breaking news about the FSCK will be posted on our events page and via Mastodon.

We look forward to seeing you!

Hacken Open Air 2::24

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 08:00:00 +0000

This year, the Hacken Open Air (HOA) will take place on 9–13 July 2024, again from a Tuesday to a Saturday.

The Hacken Open Air is finest hacker camping, hosted by Stratum 0. Together with you, we want to tinker, discuss and be creative in the middle of nature.

This year’s location will once again be the Pfadfinderheim [Scout centre] Welfenhof in Gifhorn, close to Brunswick.

Pfadfinderheim Welfenhof
III. Koppelweg 6
38518 Gifhorn
(OpenStreetMap)

The campsite has regular indoor showers and toilets, and we will offer open-air showers as well. In addition, we will provide area-wide electricity, DECT and Wi-Fi, so you are perfectly equipped for hacking and chilling. For campers, there is a limited number of additional parking spaces on the site. You are more than welcome to decorate the campsite however you like. If you need some space for artworks, please contact us at kontakt@hackenopenair.de.

A daily breakfast buffet and a dinner (vegan and non-vegan) will be included in the ticket price. Find details on food in our Wiki. Between meals, we will fire up the fryers. For your comfort, we plan to host a pool with a sauna and an adjoining campfire. There you may enjoy the evening with some drinks from the bar.

As every year, you will have many opportunities for self-organized talks and workshops. You are welcome to contribute by adding your topics to the Wiki. In addition to the hack center, we will put up a yurt as a location for workshops and talks.

There will be a lot to do before and after the event. As this is a community event, we eagerly await your help.

We are looking forward to see you!

More at hackenopenair.de.

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 – Presale

Mon, 29 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Finally, we have all the solid facts we need to kick off ticket sales. Here we go:

Dates

As announced previously, we’ll have three presale dates for admissions tickets. All times are in CEST:

Tuesday, 6.6., 21:00
Monday, 12.6., 15:00
Saturday, 24.6., 12:00 (noon)

The ticket shop will be available at tickets.events.ccc.de, and if we failed to answer any questions in the following post, we’re happy to help at camp2023-tickets@cccv.de.

As always: be on time!

Tickets

What are we even selling there? More than you’d think! Apart from the usual admission tickets at various prices, we also have:

Parking tickets. Parking your car will require a ticket this year. This way, we pass the costs for the parking area to those who use them, and hopefully encourage carsharing and a switch to other options. Since we don’t know the exact size of the parking area available at this point, the parking tickets won’t be on sale yet. Once they become available, we’ll notify you here on events.ccc.de, and will also send an email to everybody who has already bought a ticket. The price for a parking spot is currently planned to be € 40. For those arriving by train, we are planning to offer free shuttle buses to the train stations in Zehdenick and Gransee which will also stop at supermarkets. They will run at least during the event days and their schedule will be adjusted to the regional train lines. More details will be published once they are available.

Camper tickets. For those arriving with a camper van, there are very limited tickets available at € 100 per camper van. Since camping vehicles require us to build additional infrastructure and we only have very limited area available, camping vehicles without a camper ticket will not be admitted to the event site.

Badges. We’ll also have an electronic badge again! It’s can play music, blink, and it’s beautiful. We have fewer badges than tickets available, so there will be a maximum of one badge per person and the badge must be reserved online during the ticket purchase. The reservation price is € 32. The battery is compatible with the MCH2022 badge, and can be added for € 4.20. We’ll have more badge info for you soon here on events.ccc.de.

Prices

In order to break even, we need to reach an average ticket price of € 380. This will also be the price of our Standard Ticket.

There is also a heavily discounted ticket available for € 75 for people aged between 12 and 18 (children aged 11 and under do not require a ticket). Additionally, there will be an opportunity to apply for a Friends ticket if you are unable to afford the regular ticket. This option will be available during the announced presale dates, as long as there are tickets available.

However! These discounted tickets naturally lower our average ticket price. That’s why we kindly ask you, to consider purchasing a Supporter ticket starting at € 450 to help finance the discounted tickets, if that’s possible for you. You can also enter any other ticket price above € 380. We are also offering Business tickets again, priced at € 599 and € 899. We particularly encourage those who have their participation in the camp financially supported by their employers to support us with the Business tickets. Only with the Business tickets will you receive an invoice prior to the camp.

We will publish a graph of the average ticket price throughout the presale, so you’ll have the same information we do on how the presale is going.

Appendix: Pricing explanation

As you probably noticed, the ticket prices are significantly higher than at the last Chaos Communication Camp. This shouldn’t be too much of a surprise, looking at inflation levels over the course of the last four years, but we want to use this occasion to introduce more transparency in our pricing, and give you a little peek into the – very preliminary – budget.

As Camp is mainly run by volunteers, we don’t need to pay a lot of staff. The overwhelming part of our expenses goes into building the basic infrastructure that we’ll all take for granted, but that usually doesn’t exist at the Camp site. For example, 39% of the ticket price are used for sanitary facilities, power, and light. Another 23% go towards containers, tents, stages, woodworking, furniture, and construction machinery required for buildup.

Here are all current parts of our budget. The only parts that are not included are budget positions that are not financed through ticket sales but through separate channels, such as beverages or t-shirts.

Area	Amount
Sanitary facilities	437,663 €
Power	324,930 €
Containers and tents	244,696 €
Light	209,083 €
Decoration	178,907 €
Production (Staff, radio, travel, etc.)	174,090 €
Catering	150,000 €
Sound, stages	110,554 €
Safety (firefighter department, ambulance, security, etc.)	94,603 €
Woodworking	93,378 €
Vehicles (construction machines etc.)	83,038 €
Land (rent and utilities)	77,769 €
Waste	59,500 €
Furniture	53,594 €
Materials transport	43,800 €
Passenger transport	29,325 €
Other	126,656 €

Total expenses: 2,491,591 €

Camp 2023 – Prepresale

Mon, 08 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The Chaos Communication Camp 2023 presale is not ready to start quite yet, but we have some information for those who are eagerly waiting. Short and sweet:

We’re as impatient as you, but before the presale can start, we need a ticket price, and before we can figure out the ticket price, we need to get our budget planning done, so please bear with us a bit longer.
Tickets will definitely be more expensive than four years ago, to nobody’s surprise.
As always, there will be the option to apply for a Friends Ticket at a reduced price if the regular ticket price is not feasible for you.
The presale will be run as a simple open presale (no vouchers!). We will release batches of tickets at three different times.
The presale dates will be announced on this page, so follow the RSS feed!

You can reach us at camp2023-tickets@cccv.de if you have questions.

FSCK 2023 in Backnang

Sat, 08 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

CC-BY-SA Chaostreff Backnang

Overview

Start: June 2, 2023, 4:00 pm
End: June 4, 2023, 6:00 pm
Genre: Hacking & Networking Event
Venue: Kino Universum Backnang, Sulzbacher Str. 32
Admission price: 42€

Plot

Chaostreff Backnang is planning a hacking event from June 2nd to 4th in the Murr metropolis of Backnang, in the heart of Swabia. The guest list includes all tech-savvy hackers who have always wanted to spend an entire weekend at the movies. The further course of the plot depends on the protagonists. There will be the opportunity for free hacking and networking in the hack center. In addition, lectures and workshops will accompany the weekend. For this purpose, a part of the cinema will be transformed into a hack center and a lecture hall for three days. You will have the opportunity to give your presentation in style in a real cinema hall. This way, your presentation will be a great success. Proposals for this can be submitted via the CfP at cfp.events.hacknang.de until May 28, 2023 23:28.

Ticket Sale

Tickets for the FSCK are now available at tickets.events.hacknang.de. If you want to attend but cannot afford the ticket, please contact us at events@hacknang.de and we will find a solution. In order for our event to take place, we need to have sold the majority of the tickets by May 01. Breaking news about the FSCK will be posted on our events page and on our Mastodon.

Copyright Banner: Kino Universum Backnang

Hacken Open Air 2::23

Fri, 17 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This year, the HOA will again take place from Tuesday to Saturday (22–26 Aug 2023). Tickets are now available on tickets.hackenopenair.de!

The Hacken Open Air is best hacker camping, hosted by Stratum 0. With you, we want to tinker, discuss and be creative in the middle of nature.

This year’s location will once again be the Pfadfinderheim Welfenhof in Gifhorn, close to Brunswick.

Pfadfinderheim Welfenhof
III. Koppelweg 6
38518 Gifhorn
OpenStreetMap

For a peaceful atmosphere on the campsite and a relaxed arrival by train, we offer a small shuttle service from the train station as well as parking spaces nearby.

The campsite has regular indoor showers and toilets, in addition, we will offer open-air showers as well. In addition, we provide area-wide electricity, DECT, Wi-Fi and fiber-to-the-tent, so you and your tents are perfectly equipped for hacking and chilling. For campers, there are a limited number of additional parking tickets on the site. You are more than welcome to decorate the campground however you like. If you need some space for artworks, please contact us at kontakt@hackenopenair.de.

A daily breakfast buffet and a dinner (vegan and non-vegan) is included in the ticket price. Between meals, we will fire up the fryers. For your comfort, we plan to host a pool with a sauna as well as a campfire. There you may enjoy the evening with some drinks from the bar.

As every year, there will be many opportunities for self-organized talks and workshops. You are welcome to contribute, please add your topics to the wiki. In addition to the Hack center, there will a yurt as a workshop and talk location. Moreover, there will be a lot to do before and after the event. As a community event, we eagerly await your help. We will organize volunteer shifts in the Elfensystem.

We are looking forward to see you!

More at hackenopenair.de.

Photo by Shoragan