The CCC is not that experienced in doing international events. The Congress has been a mostly german show for a long time – not surprising as it started 20 years ago and everything was far away from being a worldwide international scene doing daily electronic and non-eletronic communication. So it grew as a mostly national event with some english gum drops here and there. The good german language skills of our dutch friends allowed some expansion in non-german speaking territories and eventually told us a lot about „being international“ as Holland has always been an „international country“.

But today everybody at CCC wants to change this. The Camp is our international pilot project and for the second time we managed to go ahead and doing everything in english. We are aware of the currently existing language problems with the german crowd but there is not much we can do about it instead of pushing forward forcing us to do everything in english. That‘s what we do and I am sure we will see continuous improvement over the coming years.

The next Congress – celebrating it‘s 20th anniversary at a brand new location at the heart of Berlin (Alexanderplatz) – will be the next test. I think we‘ll try hard to provide a significant amount of english talks. I don‘t know if it is going to be 30% or rather 50%. It all depends on what talks will be offered to us and I want to encourage everybody from outside Germany to come and join and contribute and raise the language barrier even more.

In the end, all this will be an integrated process: more english talks will produce more english speakers. The young generation has less and less problems being bi-lingual – even in Germany which is a difficult country as every movie is dubbed and the language is of non-roman descent.

But I am pretty optimistic. The next open air event in Holland in 2005 will see many visitors from Germany and they all know there is not a single german talk for them. And many of the interesting talks at the next two Congresses will come in english as well. English is our our daily dog food anyway and being able to speak and write is as important as being able to install, administrate and program your computer.

The CCC is willing to improve as it is one of the organizations that brings the European (and non-European) context together. This is a good thing. And we should try hard to improve on that even more.

Boy, it is so obvious but then again charmingly surprising: the Google search field can be used as a calculator. Just enter a math expression. [Notes from my terminal]

We have dismantled 99% of the Camp right now and the Camp Crew will be dead and unresponsive during this weekend. We hope you had big fun at the Camp. I think, the atmosphere was amazing those who missed that are doomed to bite their nails forever for not being there.

A big, big thank you to all the ChaosAngels and everybody else who made the Camp possible. Free Hugs!

I am going to review certain aspects of the Camp in the coming days when I find the time.

The CampWiki system has returned to its original rack and is accessible again. Please feel free to drop your reviews, annotations, papers, storys, experiences and whatever you think might be worth knowing about the Camp.

Hi, this blog entry is meant to collect photo page links of the Camp. If you know a URL please post it as a comment. When the list is filled, I will add it to the finalized Camp 2003 web site. Thanks.

• http://www.ccc.de/camp/2003/photos/
• http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzkultur/0,1518,260896,00.html
• http://ccc:camp2003@koeln.ccc.de/~cefalon/
• http://n00.be/images/gallery/ccc2003/
• http://viadrina.euv-frankfurt-o.de/~sk/pics/camp03/camp03.html
• http://www.spruitje.org/ccc-camp/
• http://www.ashberg.de/camp/
• http://www.chaostreff.ch/camp-pics/
• http://camp.cw-services.net/Bilder/
• http://www.toppoint.de/~wklaebe/pix/camp2003/
• http://www.penisbruch.com/camp-pussys/
• http://www.puettmann.net/aps/photos
• http://www.bimseln.de/CCCamp2003/
• http://ipv6.rrze.uni-erlangen.de/cccamp/
• http://www.blackwing.de/gallery/cccamp
• http://www.teamidiot.de/camp/
• http://the-sicks.de/~smash/camp-pix
• http://gnuzifer.de/gallery/camp2003/
• http://www.avit.info/media/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=openairvit
• http://www.mediumart.co.uk/Lab3/index2.html
• http://wwwcip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~simigern/CCC/

Make it your guiding principle to do your best for others and to be trustworthy in what you say. Do not accept as friend anyone who is not as good as you. When you make a mistake do not be afraid of mending your ways.

Interesting site, is all true ?

The Camp has started. Somehow. We are a bit behind schedule with this and that but basically everything is fine. The crowd that is arriving is amazing. Tons of stuff, technology whereever you look. Gadgets. Devices. Modules. Everything.

The PhoneOperationCenter has done a tremendous job installing a fully functioning DECT telephone system at the Camp. Everybody can bring his DECT phone and receives a extension. So this allows a toll-free, slightly encrypted one-to-one communication everywhere on the camp site. It has already helped us a lot in organization and it is a boon to the participants as well. For instance, if you dial 5566, you can instantly listen to the SubEther radio station (which usually broadcasts via FM and via MP3 streaming as well). This is so fucking cool.

Our ambitious light installation is coming up slowly as well. The Hackcenter is already glowing and is about to get a Bushfire-style lighting on top tomorrow. And Blinkenlights is alive at the BlinkenArea as well. The is a whole bunch of Blinkenlights clones showcased, like the LittleLights, ArcadeMini and RotArcade and more. I think we need to have a BlinkenCon developers conference sooner or later :-)

The village concept of the Camp seems to take off as well. Right now there is a Wireless Village, the RadioVillage, the CryptoVillage, the BSD village, the MacHackers village and a couple others I forgot or haven‘t found so far. Many people are bringing big tents and we expect the place to be pretty crowded soon. But there is still space available and we have no doubt everybody will fit in in the end.

But the most amazing of all is the people who come. The hacker scene is so peaceful and respecting. No comparison to open air parties or computer fairs. Der Spiegel has called the Camp the „Cyber-Woodstock“ and I really feel that this is not the worst comparision you can make although this event is so different to everything else. Unique people, unique feelings. I am sure the coming days are going to be a more than extraordinary event for everyone of us.

The ChaosAngels are a big, big, big help for us. The Camp is a voluntary effort and it is so great to see that so many people are working so hard to make the Camp the success we all want it be.

This is it: this scene needs a place for meeting, discussing, testing, proving, questioning, designing, redesigning, engineering, reengineering, searching, researching, hacking, phreaking, brainstorming and understanding. The Camp is a place to do just that.

Thanks in advance to everybody who is contributing his energy to make all this happen. It‘s going to rock our world. At least a bit.

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