Call for Participation

Open Community Projects association is co-organizing the stage and workshop program of the ‘Bits & Bäume’ village at the CCCamp 2023 in Mildenberg Germany.

Let’s boost our resilience

After four years of waiting and many online conferences (perhaps too many), the Chaos Communication Camp is back! Join us from August 15th to 19th in the village of “Bits & Bäume”.

As a village, we cover topics at the intersection of sustainability and digitalization, ranging from interconnected mobility and resource and energy consumption to data sufficiency, cooperative platform economies, sociopolitical emancipatory movements, decentralized networks, as well as issues of monopolization in the digital sphere.

Together, we are searching for solutions for a sustainable world that respects both nature and human rights. Let’s rethink our world and boost our resilience. Do you have insights, thoughts, and experiences to share? Do you know about sustainable technology use and provision, such as hacking or improving old devices, using solar or wind energy, or decentralized and community-based sustainable software and hardware projects for our future? We are looking for inspiring talks, hands-on workshops, community/developer/strategy meetings, or any other public, informative, or collaborative activities.

We will provide a stage and a workshop area. As the climate crisis is affecting people in the global south the most, we would especially encourage those individuals to share their ideas for a resilient technical world. We are looking forward to your proposals. We would like to actively encourage FLINTA* and Queer* people, BIPOC, and people from the global south to apply.

To apply, please submit your talk or workshop to the official Call for Papers from the Chaos Communication Camp by June 9th. Here, you need to choose the channel “Bits & Bäume”.

https://pretalx.c3voc.de/chaos-communication-camp-2023/cfp

Submit your proposal by June 9th

Our Topics

Free Software, Sustainability, Resilience, Peace, Social Responsibility, Citizen and Human Rights, Decolonization of the Digital, Emancipatory Movements, Decentralized and Anonymized Networking, Community Wireless Networks, Grass-Roots Internet Providers.

Who we are

The “Bits & Bäume” village is organized by a lot of different groups. We are Freifunk, Free Software Foundation Europe, Forum InformatikerInnen für Frieden und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung (FIfF), German Watch, KNOE, Gäst:innenhaus Jakob, Infra United, Open Source Gardens, pEp.Foundation und BUND (Jugend), Open Community Projects Association.