The network is all coming together now! We’ve worked hard over the past week to get top-notch connectivity to all corners of our huge campsite. Not everything is finished yet but it’s quickly getting there. The fibers are all in place, the core router is up and running and it’s already distributing the 10GE fiber backbone to various places at the site. Access switches will be placed inside the Datenklos today and tomorrow, so that everybody will be able to plug in soon.

Unfortunately we will not have as much …

As German news sites are reporting, the German train drivers might be on strike beginning next Wednesday. Please plan your travel to the camp site accordingly, up to date information are to be found at a special website, and there are two hotlines up, one for Germany (08000 996633) and one for foreigners (+49 1805-334444) which will provide more help.

Strike has been forbidden, don’t panic, everything is perfect.

Besides this issue, camp preparations are going very smooth – this posting was already written via the public wireless LAN at the camp site, and the weather forecast looks just …

You wake up in your room. You realize that the Chaos Communication Camp, a hacker conference near Berlin, Germany, is only a few days away. You have been preparing for this event for months, going over what to pack in your head a million times. You bought a tent and locked down your computer. However, you’re still wondering what you’re going to do at the Camp. Somehow you get the feeling that today is the day your mission will come to you…

This is how “Reconnaissance at Finowfurt” starts, a classic text adventure (“Interactive fiction”) that tells the story of the camp and the spaceship …

Good news, everyone! Looks like the camp site will be operational soon. Electricity and power is deployed, the POC (Phone Operation Center) people are almost done with setting up their network, and the last pieces of critical infrastructure are either being unloaded at the moment or are on their way on the autobahn.

The weather looks extremely good at the moment, beautiful and sunny, but without the unbearable heat of the Chaos Communication Camp in 2003. Let’s see if it stays that way for the next days.

So, what’s left for you to do?

1. Pack your things for the camp
2. If you can: come to the site …

Unsere Freunde von der Hacker Foundation, die den bereits an dieser Stelle erwähnten Flug “Hackers On A Plane” veranstalten, haben noch Plätze für den Flug vom Flughafen Düsseldorf direkt auf das Camp-Gelände (Flugplatz Finow-Eberswalde) frei. Der Clou: Mit dem Kauf eines Tickets unterstützt ihr den finanziell in Not geratenen famosen Berliner Hackerspace C-Base.:

12 von 38 Fluggästen und das gesamte Orga-Team von “Hackers on a Plane” haben auf ihre Sitzplätze bei einem Charterflug, der Geschichte schreiben wird, verzichtet, um Geld für die C-Base zu sammeln. Du bezahlst also nicht für einen …

The CERT is still looking for personal at the camp. You have a medical training (First Aid training or licence), are EMT, Paramedic or doctor? You are interested in medical health care? You are a firefighter? Feel free to contact sanifox : sanifox(at)cert.ccc.de or come to the CERT location at the Camp site. We got a shift plan so you won´t miss any lectures ;-)

There will be on every sunny day a tree climbing workshop. If you are interested, please sign up in the public wiki. If you have any climbing equipment (belt, ropes, carabiner) from rock climbing and would like to bring it, please note this in the wiki.

Disclaimer: THIS IS ALL DONE BY YOUR OWN RESPONSIBILITY. NO ONE BUT YOURSELF IS ACCOUNTABLE FOR ANYTHING.

For spontaneous short lectures there is the possibility to give a
Lightning Talk. On day 2, 21:30, as well as on day 4, 15:30 there will
be time for everyone to give a 5 minute talk. Please add your lecture
to the wiki page.

Also mail your slides in advance in PDF file format to the moderator,
hannes@berlin.ccc.de, to prevent the need of laptop switching during
the Lightning Talks sessions or bring them on a USB stick to the
event.

We all know that long-term weather predictions are not that accurate. However, considering the fact that the last report about two weeks ago matched very well the weather we currently have in Berlin, which is sadly cold and rain, the current long term weather report (German) promises perfect camp weather. It will become warmer beginning this Tuesday, up to 28°C Thursday, and they say that August will be warm and friendly with less-then-average rain and mostly influences of anticyclones from the Mediterranean Sea, according to their prediction. Doesn’t that sound good?

Camp preparations are …

We’ve talked about most basic human needs at the Camp, but not yet about Internet access! So here’s an update on that.

We’ve secured sponsorship from various kind companies and individuals. We will deploy a fiber-based backbone around the campsite at 10 Gbps. All around the campsite, Datenklos will be deployed, where you can have your own cable plugged into the network for easy browsing in your tent.

Also, a wireless network will be deployed for 802.11a/b/g access, especially in the lecture halls.

The uplink off the campsite to the outside world will be 1 Gbps.

Please don’t trip over the …

If you are travelling to the camp by train, please mark in the wiki when you are going to arrive in Eberwalde Hbf. We urgently need those numbers to finalize our shuttle schedule.

If you are going to fly to the camp, you will need a train to Eberswalde, too*, see our Travel instructions for details.

We currently plan to start shuttle services on August 7th, and we will charge a small fee for the shuttle. However, we are aware that quite a bunch of hackers will arrive earlier, and we will work something out for them, too. Further information soon in this weblog.

(*) This does of course not …

At the Camp there is no central workshop room/tent with a schedule at the door. But of course many people will organize workshops all over the Camp. If you are one of them and interested in other people knowing what you are up to use the template for workshops in the wiki. It is similar to the one for villages but a bot – the neinomat – crawls the wiki for these templates and generates a list of workshops from them. Have a look at the HyperHeroes to see how it works.

There will be no central workshop tent with mike and video projector but as the hardware geeks need some tools there will be a …