Camp-preparations really are speeding up now.. The Fahrplan is pretty much ready to be published (actually, it is finished, but we still wait for some speakers to confirm their attendance), presale is up and running smoothly, and the Wiki is filling up quite fast. The next press release will be out next week, and first infrastructure for the camp is already arriving. Camp will be just great, promised!

Right now is a rather creative time: Most of our current work is somehow related to writing, to design, and similar stuff. There is help needed there, by the way – if you feel like you want to …

The fine folks over at the Metalab have organized an “all-inclusive” flight and luggage transfer from Vienna to the CCC Camp and back. If you haven’t booked your flight, there are still 8 Tickets left.

-> Campflug

As some of you may already know, the Camp will have a Temporary BookCrossing zone. For those who don’t, I’ll tell a bit about it here.
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For starters: what’s BookCrossing?**
BookCrossing is a worldwide grassroots movement by and for readers, aiming to turn the world into a library by sharing our books. And by books I mean the actual, fysical, dead tree kind.
The cool thing about BookCrossing is that it uses a mixture of old media (books) and new ones (the ‘Net): the books are registered into a giant database (currently containing over 4000.000 individual copies). They all get a number and are …

Fahrplan 0.1 is currently being prepared, using high-tech and complex modern algorithms:

Just some more days, stay tuned..

(please pardon the crappy mobile cam picture.)

We all have our time when we are just idling around next to some terminals, somewhat bored and clicking around through various weird websites or videos. If you are right now in such a mood, why don’t you head over to Wikipedia?
Most of the pages covering CCC events might really appreciate a cool touch-up – the page about the congress as well as the one about the camp. The same applies for the German versions (congress, camp), too. Besides, our location, the Luftfahrtmuseum does not even have its own page..

Thanks!

Good news, everyone – the presale for the camp just started, and will be up until 22th July. Please pay special attention to our supporters ticket and company ticket: If you or your company are willing to support the camp, please consider buying those tickets. The camp costs in fact more than the 150 € per participant we take for the default ticket – so our current prices are already only made possible by generous donations, sponsors and the business tickets. You and our sponsors are those guys which actually make the camp financially possible. Thank you very much!

The Company Ticket even …

Well, yes. Granted, presale still is not up and running – we have some minor issues we have to clarify in advance and this takes longer than intended. It’s the bureaucracy we are currently facing, which means nothing else that we are waiting for some phone calls from the local authorities. This sucks, especially because we are unable to speed it up. And yes, we are annoyed about this as much as you are.

However, rest assured that we work as hard as possible there, and this is something which is only relevant for the presale itself. The camp is getting closer and closer, and everything looks …

You want a tent with enough space for you and your 23 friends? Some place for your village to do workshops? Or just a tent that would withstand WTHish rain? A tent like the one below?

You can rent big tents and even chairs and tables from us. We coordinate transport of the tents, chairs and tables. Buildup and dismantling has to be done by you and volunteers under skilled guidance. You can find the precise conditions at the wiki.

We need your order until Thursday, June 14th, 10am CEST (UTC+2).

The Camp is an event that words can’t really describe. I can write about hackers from all over the world camping on an old military airport with power and ethernet in every tent.

But can you imagine it? Things like nerds barely awake taking a shower under a fire hose, some hundred of them sitting in a big hall hacking at their computers all night long, a rocket named Fairydust illuminated with a great light installation, nerds cooking lunch on a camping stove, switches put in (empty) porta potties wrapped in silver foil to protect them from dust, heat and interested hackers, hacker kids …

Die Gulaschprogrammiernacht des Entropia (CCC Karlsruhe) steht vor Ihrer sechsten Inkarnation und wir möchten euch einladen, zahlreich zu erscheinen. Neben Vorträgen, Workshops, Programmier- und Hardware-Projekten gibt’s eine entspannte Atmosphäre mit vielen LEDs, einer Monitorwand, müßig gefährlicher Laseroptik, Sofas, beruhigend-treibender elektronischer Live-Musik, noch mehr Sofas, kühlen Getränken und Gulasch aus dem großen Topf. Alles um euch bei der Entfaltung eures eigenen, kreativen Potentials zu unterstützen. Löten statt Töten!

Die GPN6 beginnt am Freitag, den 1. Juni 2007 und läuft …

Villages are a big part of the Camp experience. These places are more than just a bunch of tents put up together – here people tend to camp together under a common theme. While there are thematic villages, there are also villages with a regional focus.

It makes sense to travel together and set up a village of tents from one specific region. Being an international event, this means that you can experience a rich selection of samples of international cuisine at the Camp, as several hackers already announced to bring local food to the site.

You may want to start your day in the Austrian village, …

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 …