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]
Members108[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

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

Founding

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

Second hackerspace

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

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

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"

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

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]

References

  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.