Chaosdorf

Chaos Computer Club Düsseldorf / Chaosdorf e.V.
Founded24 April 2001; 23 years ago (2001-04-24)[1]
FocusFree culture movement
Location
  • Sonnenstraße 58, Düsseldorf, Germany
Coordinates51°12′45″N 6°47′59″E / 51.2126267°N 6.7996479°E / 51.2126267; 6.7996479
MethodCryptoParties,[2][3][4] software development, street protests[5]
Members
108[6]
AffiliationsChaos Computer Club, Free Software Foundation Europe, Freifunk Rheinland e.V.
Websitechaosdorf.de

Chaosdorf is a hackerspace operated by non-profit association (Eingetragener Verein) Chaos Computer Club Düsseldorf / Chaosdorf e.V. in the city of Düsseldorf, Germany. It is Düsseldorf’s Chaos Computer Club chapter.[7]

The association

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Chaosdorf is operated by non-profit association Chaos Computer Club Düsseldorf / Chaosdorf e.V. and is mainly financed by member fees and donations. A membership in the association is not required to take part in the mostly cost-free workshops and meetings.

The purpose of the association is the creation of an environment for adult education, modern information privacy and socializing between communities.

History

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Founding

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Chaosdorf was founded 24 April 2001.[1] Their first rooms were located on Fürstenwall 232 in Düsseldorf-Friedrichstadt.[8]

Second hackerspace

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Sketch of the old Chaosdorf hackerspace on Hüttenstraße

After a lengthy renovation process[9] Chaosdorf moved into a new building on Hüttenstrasse[10] that used to be a "rather sketchy nightclub" in 2011.[7]

The space itself consists of four rooms: A large lounge-cum-hackerspace, a kitchen, a media room, and a workshop.[7][11] Chaosdorf owns different kinds of equipment to help members fulfilling their projects and offering services.[12]

Nationwide awareness

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A tile table made of iPads.

Chaosdorf is known in the German hackerspace culture for organizing Easterhegg 2002 – the first Easterhegg event outside of Hamburg[13] – and OpenChaos: Hackerspace Design Patterns.[14]

It gained mainstream attention in 2013 for organizing a large-scale street protest in Cologne demanding net neutrality after Deutsche Telekom announced to throttle web traffic.[5]

Chaosdorf gained even more widespread mainstream attention after Der Spiegel published a story about its non-commercial in-house OwnBeer microbrewery.[15][7]

On 30 December 2013 Rheinische Post, a major German regional daily newspaper, published a two page feature about Chaosdorf.[10]

The hackerspace also supports friendly organizations such as Forum Freies Theater,[3] Free Software Foundation Europe,[16] Freifunk Rheinland e.V.,[17] and Sub-Etha[18] by providing room for meetings, storage for hardware, or infrastructure.

International awareness

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In October 2013 members of the technology online magazine Hack a Day published a story about Chaosdorf – their first visit in a German hackerspace.[7]

New hackerspace "Chaosdorf 4.0"

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In 2020 Chaosdorf moved to a bigger building on Sonnenstrasse.[19] The new space provides the following rooms: class room, electronic lab, wet lab, hackerspace, kitchen/lounge, and fab lab (Werkstatt).[20]

Renowned members

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Among the members of Chaosdorf are a few renowned people such as former member of parliament North Rhine-Westphalia Marc Olejak of the Pirate Party Germany,[21] visual artist Rachid Maazouz[10] and the security researchers Ilias Morad, Alexander Karl, and Martin Dessauer.[22][23]

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Protokoll der Gründungsversammlung" (PDF) (in German). Chaosdorf. 24 April 2001. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  2. ^ "Düsseldorf (D): CryptoParty" (in German). unwatched.org. 22 February 1999. Archived from the original on 23 October 2013. Retrieved 22 October 2013.
  3. ^ a b "Nachbarschaften" (in German). Forum-freies-theater.de. Archived from the original on 23 October 2013. Retrieved 22 October 2013.
  4. ^ "CryptoParty in der GarageBilk" (in German). Coworking Space GarageBilk. 28 August 2013. Archived from the original on 18 May 2015. Retrieved 22 October 2013.
  5. ^ a b "Bündnis ruft zur Demo gegen Drosselpläne der Telekom" (in German). Heise.de. 10 May 2013. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  6. ^ "Protokoll der ordentlichen Mitgliederversammlung 2018" (PDF) (in German). CCC Düsseldorf. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
  7. ^ a b c d e "Hackerspacing in Europe: The Chaosdorf in Düsseldorf". Hack A Day. 20 October 2013. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
  8. ^ "CCC – Düsseldorf". ccc.de. 7 May 2007. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
  9. ^ "Chaos Computer Club Düsseldorf / Chaosdorf - Bautagebuch". chaosdorf.de.
  10. ^ a b c Dalkowski, Sebastian; Andreas Bretz (30 December 2013). "In Düsseldorf liegt Nerdistan an der Hüttenstrasse (online version)". Rheinische Post (in German). Rheinische Post Verlagsgesellschaft. Retrieved 7 January 2014.
  11. ^ "Clubraum" (in German). Chaosdorf. 21 February 2013. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  12. ^ "Resources" (in German). Chaosdorf. 6 January 2013. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  13. ^ Torsten Kleinz (3 April 2002). "Familientreffen unter Hackern". Telepolis (in German). Heise.de. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  14. ^ "OpenChaos: Hackerspace Design Patterns" (in German). Heise.de. 5 May 2012. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  15. ^ Von Judith Horchert, Düsseldorf (25 May 2013). "Hackerspace Chaosdorf in Düsseldorf braut sein eigenes Bier" (in German). Spiegel.de. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  16. ^ "FSFE Fellowship Meeting". Chaosdorf. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  17. ^ SkaveRat (14 January 2013). "Freifunkertreffen Düsseldorf" (in German). Freifunk-Rheinland.net. Archived from the original on 22 October 2013. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  18. ^ "Sub-Etha". Chaosdorf. 4 January 2013. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  19. ^ "Chaosdorf 4.0 – Episode 1: Aufbruch in einen neuen Hackspace" (in German). CCC Düsseldorf. 16 July 2020. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
  20. ^ "Map of Chaosdorf 4.0" (in German). CCC Düsseldorf. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
  21. ^ Landtag Nordrhein-Westfalen (20 May 2015). "Landtag NRW: Abgeordneter Marc Olejak". nrw.de (in German).
  22. ^ "Hacker haben Schwachstellen in älteren Überwachungskameras von Abus entdeckt". Der Spiegel (in German). 9 May 2019.
  23. ^ Pritlove, Tim (16 May 2019). "LNP301 Unzureichende Beschallung (1:34:00)". Logbuch:Netzpolitik (in German). Retrieved 2 September 2019.
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