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Month: August 2023

Chaos Communication Camp 2023

Chaos Communication Camp 2023

photo: Otter

Helsinki Hacklab has returned from Chaos Communication Camp 2023, after a week long hacking, creating and partying in Germany with our friends from hacklab.fi, CitySec, Salmiakki Village and the whole Cold North Cluster. The cluster is our village friends from from all around the Nordic countries and beyond. Nice to see all the familiar and new faces joining the area! The cluster keeps the doors open for new participants in the future as well.

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Oulu took a big role in the logistics again, with their patent pallet crate full of all important stuff for the proper camp experience. We had multiple people from Finnish hackerspaces in Salmiakki Village alongside with infosec people and others. Cold North cluster was the most successful of all the camps so far, even if the planning was a bit fuzzy in the start. Thanks for everyone taking part in the communications making it the greatest so far, even if the village did not have a sauna this time. We’ll fix that for the next Dutch camp in 2025.

Some of the cluster highlights: the open area in middle of the cluster and shade from sun, Omega’s tesla coil, Anderstorp’s party booth and playlist, BornHack’s sticker collection, daily cluster meetups and DJ open decks by rambo. The communications channel is now established better than before, so we’re set to sail for new camps and congresses. Such as the new Mastodon feed we set up!

Big thanks also to all the visitors in our cluster and for those ones brave (and fast) enough to get the taste of salmiakki, and our apologies if you were left out due to high demand.

photo: rambo
Member letter for late summer 2023

Member letter for late summer 2023

This is a short summary of the email letter we sent to members

1 The board has updated the general rules how to use the workspace / code of conduct. The new addition underlines the statement in our official rules that our organisation is for hobbyists. The new addition requires that the terms of non-hobbyist use of the space are negotiated and do not disturb hobbyist use.
https://helsinki.hacklab.fi/in-english/code-of-conduct/

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2 The club organizes a course in DSP and SDR. The course is arranged in Finnish and you’ll find all relevant info about it in Discourse chat:

https://discourse.hacklab.fi/t/softaradistikurssi/1306

3 The board arranges a new type of open meeting for the members and their questions. The agenda is open and the subject can be anything related to the organisation and its operation. Members are invited to join the meeting on Sunday 2023-08-13 at 14.00.

4 How to keep your items, projects and materials safe and in your own use: by following these steps you reduce the risk of items being put into the trash or common use:

  • store your projects in key member boxes, if you’re a key member
  • in other cases negotiate the storing and the terms of storing items with trustees of work rooms
  • add your contact information on the project and mark the date of last progress on the piece
  • make progress in your projects so that the progress is also visible, a new change in the last date marking is not enough