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Chaos Computer Club 🚀 Camp 2011

The guys of Chaos Computer Club have done their job: there are no words to describe the Chaos Computer Club Camp 2011 (CCCamp11) -> the Camp was AWESOME!

Aircraft at night

Luftfahrtmuseum Finowfurt

Aircrafts Berlin Luftfahrtmuseum

Arriving at 9. of August, we (and especially the kids) were totally impressed by the big aircrafts and hangars of Luftfahrtmuseum Finowfurt.

Aircrafts Berlin Luftfahrtmuseum


CCC Camp Day 1

Everywhere around us busy people were carrying PCs, tents and other stuff to their places – I felt like an ant in a large geeky anthill of cables and tents.

Tents and Cables…

Day 1 Tents
Day 1 Tents

Most of the cables were buried underground – what a lot of work for all the Angel-volunteers!

Day 1 and Cables
Day 1 and Cables

The Camp and Nerd-Humor

Day 1 The Camp
Nerd-Humor

There arrived more than 3.500 Hacker-Nerds from 54 countries – fuuuuuuu 🙂

Nerd-Humor Passierschein 23a
Day 1 Tents

Only so called „Angels“ were allowed to go into the Camp with their cars.

The words „No pictures“ and „Privacy“ were everywhere around us for the next days.


R0ket Badges

After registering we had to assemble our r0ket.


R0ket Features

It’s incredible what features were built on this small r0kets in the next days – just a few ideas like A Wolfenstein-style 3D raycaster, Jülich: Pimp your r0ket and – of course – Games.

Camp Bar Jungbrunnen

We pitched our tent (2 hours!) and were ready for the first beer. The nearest Bar to our tent was „Jungbrunnen“ and one of our „Hot Spots“ during the camp. In the whole evening and part of the night Camp-Angels were running through the airplanes, trying to get every spot and fog machine to work.

Disco-Wood Night-Lights

My kids named it „Disco Wood“ (maybe you can imagine where my kids stayed every evening) – it was 3 steps away from the Bar, about 30 steps away from our Family Village.

Chill-out Areas

This Chill-Out-Area was 5 steps away from the Bar – wonderful!

The next morning was very hard, but I’m SEO: Work hard, Party hard.


Speakers

One point was/is important for all the attending Hackers on CCCamp:

Everyone in the world should get or have free access to the Internet – and it must be and stay free.


Explore the Galaxy

I bet we could go explore the Galaxy, if we could stop being dicks for like 5 Minutes.

Conference Hangar
Inside the Hangar - Explore the Galaxy

The Hangars look huge from outside and: they are. More than 500 people were in the Hangar…

Hangar Workshop
Explore the Galaxy

If you are interested: here’s the link to the Conference-Media CCC-Media

My favourites are:

R0ket at daylight
R0ket at Night

Organisation at the Camp

The longest chain were at the showers – every morning!

Family friendly shower rooms

Thankfully the showers were next to our Family Village and we had our own Family-Shower. Don’t want to think about how long it would have taken to discover and catch all three kids out of the Retro-Games-Tent etc. and wait 1 hour or longer with them. Big hug to the Organisation at that point!!!

Awesome Retro: Pac-Man


Infodesk: Lost Stuff

My daughter „lost“ her shoes and my son lost his purse.

On CCCamp is a very respectable codex:

You can leave your stuff everywhere, nothing will be stolen.

Infodesk - No pictures, please

The shoes were delivered by a unknown person to the Infodesk and I got a call because of the purse: a boy found it, my handy-number was inside and we met him at the coffee-bar in front of the rocket. All the money was inside. Great!


Camp-Game: Badge Assassin

Our R0kets were modified and we could radar each attendee on the Camp Base:

Badge Assassin was the funniest Camp-Game I’ve ever played!

Camp-Game: Badge Assassin

I got murdered after about 4 hours, but THIS 4 hours I felt like a secret agent and a assassin in the same person. I got a Adrenalin-Kick – undescribable. A never-seen-before boy traced me in the disco wood and tried to put a computer-cable around my throat. Of course he would not have pulled that tight together, but I instantly checked the Assassin-Situation and escaped as fast as I could. He chased me from the disco wood till the toilets, but he was to fat and I was very fast 🙂

Camp-Game: Badge Assassin

The funny thing is: afterwards I found out, that he had two persons at the radar and he focussed on the false person – me. So I thought I would know my assassin because he hunted me, but I was wrong. That was a bad bad mistake. My real assassin killed 4 players before me and then he located me. He talked to me while I was buying Pizza for the kids – I was dead before I checked what happened. But I’m looking forward to play Badge Assassin at the next CCCamp again.


Hackers Tent-City

Hackers Tent-City
Tent-City at Moon-Light

One morning I woke up in tent because my oldest son cried. I asked him what happend and he said:

„We’re leaving tomorrow, can’t we stay 14 days or 4 weeks longer here? I love it and I don’t want to leave!“

Yeah, me too – what could I say. I miss all the funny, nerdy, geeky, intelligent people we met.

We had a very, very great time at the camp an in 4 years we will be there again – I had to promise this to my kids.

CCC-Camp Berlin

Before we went there it was not obvious, that this „holiday“ would be the best (and cheapest) for me and my kids over the past 10 years.

A big big hug and special thanks to the members of C-Base of Berlin at this point!

Your Base was our real Base for these days!



P.S. Our new Puppy: R0ket

This is our new dog puppy and because she waited for us during the camp by her breeder, her name is now R0ket.

Our new Puppy: R0ket



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