Captains Log

I just uploaded the rest of my images from the Chaos Communication Camp. So why don't you just head over to my Gallery and check out the Album?
And there is even one video.

The last day of the camp brought us two lectures we attended, " Camp Network Review" and "Camp Closing Event".

The first one was about the network infrastructure available on site, and some issues the NOC encountered during the Camp. Well, the Closing Ceremony is the closing ceremony of course. It's available for download.

Afterwards I went to C-Base again, they wanted to do another USB FM-Transmitter Workshop. As they prepared for the Workshop I went back to our tents, where the following conversation took place:

Dude: "They disconnected the network."
Me: "Okay, lets go home then."

And this really was it. I went back to C-Base to get my soldering irons, and to say goodbye to these fine people. Then we packed all our stuff, my tent and the paviliion. The plan was that I take the pavillion with me because I've room to store it somewhere.
The Dude and Mooglie still planned to stay until the morning, so I left them and their tent pretty lonely on our camp ground. I've still to check back with them if there have been some parties in the evening.

For me, the camp was an extraordinary experience. I met many great people, had lots of good chats. For me it was kind of assuring that I'm not the only one who dislikes the current way of german politics, and that there is some activism going.
I hope that there will be a camp taking place in two years in the Netherlands.

The last day of the camp brought us two lectures we attended, " Camp Network Review" and "Camp Closing Event".

The first one was about the network infrastructure available on site, and some issues the NOC encountered during the Camp. Well, the Closing Ceremony is the closing ceremony of course. It's available for download.

Afterwards I went to C-Base again, they wanted to do another USB FM-Transmitter Workshop. As they prepared for the Workshop I went back to our tents, where the following conversation took place:

Dude: "They disconnected the network."
Me: "Okay, lets go home then."

And this really was it. I went back to C-Base to get my soldering irons, and to say goodbye to these fine people. Then we packed all our stuff, my tent and the paviliion. The plan was that I take the pavillion with me because I've room to store it somewhere.
The Dude and Mooglie still planned to stay until the morning, so I left them and their tent pretty lonely on our camp ground. I've still to check back with them if there have been some parties in the evening.

For me, the camp was an extraordinary experience. I met many great people, had lots of good chats. For me it was kind of assuring that I'm not the only one who dislikes the current way of german politics, and that there is some activism going.
I hope that there will be a camp taking place in two years in the Netherlands.

Saturday morning started promising. Again I was awake at 7:30, which made me one of the first ones being active on the camp site. I later on had a nice chat with some fellow geek who told me that breakfast was available until 15:00.
Okay, I was having my lunch around this time.
Anyway, friday was the day the keysigning party took place. We met at the rocket. I brought my computer which turned out to be wrong. Obviously I just should've printed out the fingerprint of my key, including my details (Name, comment, email adress). Thanks to one of my french neighbour we fixed this pretty fast. And I wasn't the only one being not prepared, though.
The keysigning party is about establing a web of trust. You can create a PGP key with any name, so people can't know for sure that the person behind the key is really the person he or she claims to be.
Keysigning parties deal with this issue: People meet at one location, exchange their fingerprints and look at each others passport - or other ID cards. So you know that the person you just met really exists. To check the eMail adress you sign his or her key, and send it to the given email adress. The signed key can then be uploaded to any keyserver by its owner. This is how email addresses are verified.

During the keysigning party it started to rain. We entered the Art & Beauty hangar, and I met with some people cacert. They where around to assure people, which is the same like keysigning, just for website certificates.
At some point I noticed that I had an umbrella in my cargo trouser. Pressing the laptop hard to my chest I made it to our tent. Things looked different there: All the hardware had been shutdown, the server was standing on a chair. Bottles of water where acting as some kind of flood barrier. Our site was a mess.
As it stopped raining we learned that it hadn't hit us as hard as it had others: Our neighbours behind our tents went home, their site had been drowned in water. There was a small lake behind our tents, people started to play soccer there. It's kind of a miracle why the mood was still good.

Because of the bad weather I missed all the lectures. And because all my people wanted to attend Tits and bits I staid on watch.