Dear sports fan,

traditionally, the MRMCD provide you with wonderful conference cups for your daily coffee as well as cool gadgets and an all-day breakfast, but also with a comprehensive set of workshops, talks and (this year) competitions.

In order to plan all these things, we need your help. If you’d like to give a talk or organize a workshop, please tell us via the frab system now!

The submissions deadline is the 9th of August. We will inform all speakers whether their talk is being accepted by 11th of August and we will publish the program soon after.

If you do not have a ticket yet, you …

• Unpaid tickets ordered before July 16th are dropped now. Do not pay for those anymore!
• There will be 250 tickets made available on Friday, 2015-07-31, at 22:00 CEST sharp!
• Please pay for your precious ticket immediately after you have ordered it! Ask friends to help you out!
• Once those 250 tickets are gone, you can create a verpeiler-friends-request.
• We all need to move closer together to have enough space for everyone.

Verpeiler-friends-request? If you don’t get your ticket on Friday, you have one very last, very tiny chance: Go to the ticket system and convince us that you are one of our …

There are only a few days left and we are late but finally it is here: the Fahrplan for the Chaos Communication Camp 2015. Due to circumstances we had some lags, but finally we made it!

Please note this safety advices by going through the Fahrplan to pick your sessions:

1. There is a new track: Failosophy. Read more about it in the Call for Papers.
2. Mind the gap between 12:30 and 16:00. This is siesta-time where no lecture will be held in the lecture-tents. We decided to do so as this timeframe will be incredibly hot and we do not want to constipate you in tents while the heats is rushing over …

We’re delighted by the immense public interest in the diverse activities at Chaos Communication Camp in Mildenberg. All lectures will be remotely available via live-stream and download. This way, we include community members that are unable to attend. Of course, media representatives are welcome as well, as is the team shooting parts of a documentary on site.

Chaos Communication Camp, CC BY-NC 2.0, via flickr/mseery …

– Yes, at this very moment you cannot order any tickets.
– There are unpaid tickets reserved, that we’ll put back into sale.
– We will tell you around 24 hours before.

There is a ten day payment duration. We know you(*), so we usually take this deadline fairly easy. As a campsite has restrictions in space and infrastructure, it is not possible to have more people than space actually available. 4500 Tickets have already gone over the digital cash desk, but we haven’t received the money for all of them.

Now we apparently need to take it less easy: We clean up all our ticket-related issues, like …

You got your ticket to the Camp.  Next question: What would you like to say?

If you can share your ideas, thoughts, hacks, projects, camp or quick entertaining performance in front of a huge audience in five minutes or less, you should give a Lightning Talk!

These sessions of short presentations are a great way to catch an overview of the amazing things your fellow campgoers are doing. While most of the talks focus on software and hardware projects or overviews of self organized sessions, there’s always an occasional creative prank or simply inexplicable moment you’ll want to see in person.

If …

As previously mentioned in the last blog post related to the topic, the power is unfortunately limited and each kWh is very expensive and not really environment friendly.

Our goal is to provide a basic supply for everyone present. The basic supply means: laptop power adapter, cell phone and DECT chargers.

Our generators produce about 1.8 megawatts. The above-mentioned basic supply is about 0.9 megawatts. We have to add power consumption of infrastructure, lighting, workshop tents, lecture halls, restaurants and other stuff. So there is actually not a lot of room for unexpected loads.

The …

Liebe Sportsfreunde,

wie immer gibt es zu den MRMCD auch Veranstaltungstextilien (ausschließlich!) im Vorverkauf. Damit ihr wisst, was euch dieses Jahr erwartet, haben wir eine kleine Vorschau gebastelt:

Bedruckt werden die Textilien im Siebdruckverfahren bei 7 Siebe, …

Join the Angels for the best Camp experience

Our Camp and our Chaos Communication Congress would not be possible without the great work of our volunteers, called Angels.

Your engagement as an Angel is the perfect opportunity to become a part of Camp and make it even more amazing for everyone involved. Apart from that, volunteering is a great chance to meet new people.

What makes being an Angel so special, you may wonder? Let us answer this with another question: Are you able to run an event with thousands of visitors, creative minds, eager to discuss, explore and most of all: create?

Join the …

Liebe Freunde,

leider ist unsere gute Freundin Sophie Veres, vielen auch eher bekannt als „szara“, am 10. Juni 2015 verstorben.

Sie hat viele Jahre mit uns geengelt, egal ob es der T-Shirt-Verkauf oder zuletzt der Dreh des Videos „Howto Kassenengel“ war. Sie war immer mit dabei, egal ob auf dem Congress, Easterhegg, Camp, den MRMCD oder den Fielddays der Chaoswelle.

Sie war für uns alle eine gute Freundin, hat uns inspiriert und bereichert und es schmerzt sehr, sie jetzt verabschieden zu müssen.

Vergangenen Montag wurde sie bei ihren Eltern in Brandenburg beigesetzt und ihre Familie und …

As we all know, the cost of large-scale endeavors is hard to predict. Sometimes, more costs come up unexpectedly. When we started the ticket sale, we presented you with an estimate of the costs at that time. Divide that by the maximum number of participants and you get an average ticket price we had to meet to cover those costs. Those costs were already calculated conservatively, but reality beat us to it (one of the reasons is that we are going to have to produce all the electricity ourselves, another is water).

Thus, the new required average ticket price is up to 228 Euros, instead of 211 …

After r0ket launching into the world of electronic name badges four years ago, this year we bring you rad1o.

We enjoyed seeing r0ket being used for all sorts of purposes, even years after camp, still in use with old and new ideas. With rad1o we want to go one step further and give you a Toy and Tool that will stay a huge, useful playground after camp.