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Radikale Therapie hat alles was wir gut finden: Selbstorganisiert, hierarchielos, heilsam, radikal. RT ist eine sozialkritische Gruppentherapie, aufbauend auf Co-Counselling und Aspekten der Transaktions-Analyse. Statt einzeln zu therapeutischen Institutionen zu rennen oder unendlich lang auf einen Therapieplatz zu warten, trifft sich eine gleichgesinnte Gruppe in einem geschützten Rahmen, um sich selbstbestimmt über Machtstrukturen und kulturelle und soziologische Prägungen auszutauschen und Wege zu finden authentisch, frei und gut zu sich und anderen zu sein. Hier lernst du erste Methoden kennen und erfährst, wie du eine solche Gruppe finden und gründen kannst. Language: DE Translation: EN Recording: NO Are you tired of therapists who do not understand your worldview? Have you been unsuccessful in trying to phone your way through an endless list of therapists or are you lacking the success mindset of paying for your therapy as a private luxury? Or maybe you just want to exchange with cool, like-minded people in a safe space about the shit that is happening in our society, about societal and political power strutures, cultural and sociological imprinting as well as finding ways to be authentic, free and good to yourself? Then Radical Therapy (RT) could be your thing. RT relies on methods from co-counselling, expanding them with theory from the radical psychiatry of transactional analysis. You will have the opportunity to get a glimpse into elements of RT. Also, of course, you will learn how to find or start a respective group. Language: DE Translation: EN Recording: NO about this event: https://c3voc.de

Migranos ist eine migrantische, selbstorganisierte Initiative von Menschen mit Flucht- und Rassismuserfahrung im sächsischen Alltag, die die gesellschaftliche Teilhabe von geflüchteten Menschen, vor allem jenen in Lagern und im ländlichen Raum stärken. Sie empowern durch neue Vernetzungsformate und Vorträge/ Workshops (u.a. für Fachkräfte und solidarische Menschen). Ziel ist es mehr Sichtbarkeit für ihre Lebenssituation zu erreichen und langfristig eine breitere gesellschaftliche Solidarität zuerzielen. Language: EN Translation: DE Recording: YES Migranos is a migrant, self-organised initiative of people who have experienced flight and everyday racism in Saxony. Theywant to empower refugees to participate in society, especially those living in camps and in rural areas through new networking formats and raise awareness of their living conditions through presentations/workshops (e.g. for experts and supporters). The long-term goal is to achieve a broader solidarity in society. Language: EN Translation: DE Recording: YES about this event: https://c3voc.de

Mit dem Aufkommen von Social Media und Blog Posts erhielten plötzlich alle eine Stimme. Diese neue digitale Öffentlichkeit bietet aufregende Möglichkeiten zum Austausch und gegenseitigen Informieren. Gleichzeitig sind wir mit neuen Problemen konfrontiert: Digitale Hassrede und Beschimpfungen stellen etablierte soziale Normen in Frage. Was können wir dagegen tun? Vorgeschlagene Lösungen beinhalten oft Zensur oder Deanonymisierung im digitalen Raum. Aber gibt es vielleicht auch andere Wege, um den digitalen Dialog vor der Verrohung zu retten, und die digitale Öffentlichkeit wiederherzustellen? Am Netzpolitischen Abend erzählt uns Sophie Achermann, Leiterin und Mitbegründerin der Public Discourse Foundation, was es für einen gesunden medialen Diskurs braucht, und welche Rolle die Medienhäuser dabei spielen. about this event: https://www.digitale-gesellschaft.ch/event/netzpolitischer-abend-zu-hass-im-netz/

Team Leads give a short update about the current status of their planning. about this event: https://c3voc.de

Präsentation der Projekte anlässich des «Jugend hackt» Events vom 14 bis 16 Juni 2024 im Hackerspace «Bitwäscherei» in Zürich. In «Evolution City» können die Spieler:innen Kraftwerke bauen, um Strom zu produzieren, womit sie wieder Geld verdienen, um neue Kraftwerke zu bauen. Allerdings steigt der CO2-Gehalt in der Luft bei jedem Kraftwerkbau entsprechend dem Bautyp. Wer 10 Minuten überlebt, ohne zu viel CO2 zu produzieren, gewinnt. Mit «Sicherheit auf die 1!» wurde eine Alarmanlage entworfen, bei der ein Sensor durch einen Micro Controller ein hörbares Signal auslöst, wenn es in Kontakt mit Licht kommt. Das Signal kann über Internet weltweit über eine Webseite empfangen werden: «So kann man immer und überall wissen, ob jemand in den Raum eingetreten ist oder nicht». «trainCCI» - ein alternativer Weg zur Reiseplanung bei instabiler Internetverbindung. Dabei können Reisewillige Abreiseort, -zeitpunkt und Zielort über einfache Kommandozeilen eingeben und erhalten dann – einzig diese Abfrage bedarf Internetanschluss – die entsprechenden ÖV-Verbindungen. Bei «Quack Snacks» geht es schliesslich um gesunde Ernährung. Im Spiel können Gamer:innen in einem Restaurant zum Beispiel zwischen einem Burger und einem Salat wählen. «Wählst du den Salat, wirst du upgegraded, gesund und sportlich.» Nach der Wahl des Burgers erscheint eine Zuckerpuppe, die Diabetes darstellt, ein Schrei hallt durch den Raum, und es erscheint ein Grabmal: «Du wirst gelöscht und stirbst.» about this event: https://c3voc.de

Das IGERla geht zu Ende und wir blicken gemeinsam zurück, bevor sich alle wieder in der Weite des Universums verteilen. Auf Wiedersehen, werte Datenreisende! about this event: https://cfp.fairydust.reisen/iger-2024/talk/RLDUE3/

Wenn ihr beim Anblick des Titels instinktiv vor euch auf den Tisch geschlagen und "Was ist ein beliebtes Abendprogramm auf Chaos-Veranstaltungen?" (oder so ähnlich) gerufen habt, dann habt ihr alles richtig gemacht. Beim Hacker*innen-Jeopardy! müsst ihr schnell sein, wenn ihr die Lösung wisst, und euch auch noch richtig ausdrücken, denn es gilt "Antwort sucht Frage": Die "Antwort" ist hier vorgegeben; eure Aufgabe ist es, einen dazu passenden Fragesatz zu formulieren. Die backspace-Variante des Hacker*innen-Jeopardy! ist euch vielleicht schon von den vergangenen Intergalaktischen Erfahrungsreisen bekannt. Inzwischen gibt es eine neue Iteration der Software. about this event: https://cfp.fairydust.reisen/iger-2024/talk/MN89ZZ/

The ongoing digitization of the society and services call for a high availability of secure mobile networks, like 5G. Remote attestation can be a measure to maximize trust, security and privacy when using a mobile telecommunications network. In this talk, I give a rough overview on how a mobile network works, followed by some insight into ongoing threats the public mobile network is facing in the past years. As a solution to some of the threats, remote attestation is a heavily discussed topic in research, and even from the mobile equipment vendors. I give an introduction into the topic of remote attestation and how and where it can be used in mobile networks and how it might impact the performance. about this event: https://cfp.fairydust.reisen/iger-2024/talk/YCWG7K/

Du hast 5 Minuten Zeit, um über dein Herzensthema zu referieren. Wenn du schon immer einen Vortrag halten wolltest, aber dich nie dazu durchringen konntest, diesen offiziell einzureichen, hast du jetzt die Gelegenheit, einen Anfang zu wagen. Die Bühne gehört dir! vmann set! franzt archeologische prospektion martinm Primitives Asset-Management mit Textdateien p.t.flea Driftcart venti Lasers in (Hack)Space about this event: https://cfp.fairydust.reisen/iger-2024/talk/3SSJG7/

Ohne Weltuntergangspropheten zu sein, autarke Kommunikation finden wir schön. Noch schöner, wenn wir auch unter uns bleiben können. Und mit LoRa funken, das ist das i-Tüpfelchen! Über Ge- und Missbrauchsmöglichkeiten sprechen wir in Theorie und Praxis. Was ist ein Node, was macht ein Repeater und was haben Message-Queues damit zu tun? Wie sieht das aus, wenn ich von A nach C eine Nachricht schicken möchte, aber C nicht in Reichweite ist? Könnte ich damit eigentlich auch Sensordaten übertragen? Aufbauend auf Microcontroller-Hardware (ESP32) für lizenzfreien LoRa-Betrieb schauen wir Hard- und Software etwas unter die Haube und probieren aus, ob uns das gefällt. Wer schon ein oder mehrere Boards hat - bitte mitbringen! Einige Boards für 433 MHz haben wir auch vorrätig. about this event: https://cfp.fairydust.reisen/iger-2024/talk/W9PEDM/

Mobile Workshops für Kinder und Jugendliche im Landkreis zu Mathe, Informatik, Naturwissenschaft und Technik Das MINT-Mobil fährt bepackt mit Material von Graphitpulver bis VR-Brillen und Lernrobotern durch den Landkreis und veranstaltet Workshops zu Mathe, Informatik, Naturwissenschaft und Technik für Kinder und Jugendliche. Dieses Projekt möchte ich euch kurz vorstellen (an dem ich seitens der Uni Bamberg beteiligt bin). Dabei möchte ich einige von euch auch dafür gewinnen, in meinen IGERla-Workshop »MINT-Mobil und Experimentierkiste Informatik« zu kommen, um über Ideen, Erfahrungen und Verbesserungen zu reden. about this event: https://cfp.fairydust.reisen/iger-2024/talk/XLAAXV/

Computational Thinking und digitale Handlungskompetenzen kindgerecht vermitteln – FELI an der Uni Bamberg Die Forschungsgruppe Elementarinformatik (FELI) an der Uni Bamberg möchte informatische Konzepte über die Anregung von „Wie funktioniert das?“'-Fragen vermitteln und zudem Lehrkräfte dazu befähigen, dies mit ihren Schülys zu tun. Schon Kinder lernen Computer, Smartphones, das Internet als Konsumentys kennen, als ein Angebot, das sie weitgehend passiv nutzen. Wir wollen ihnen die Fähigkeiten vermitteln, diese Technik als Werkzeug nutzen zu können, ihre Ideen umzusetzen, zu gestalten. Dazu müssen sie verstehen, wie Computer grundsätzlich funktionieren, was ein Algorithmus ist, und wieso der Rechner nicht mit dem Drucker reden kann. about this event: https://cfp.fairydust.reisen/iger-2024/talk/T3VQVG/

KI ist der neue Hype und Schulen drehen durch. Was KI in der Schule bedeutet, und warum der ganze bescheuerte Futurismus dahinter die Zukunft gefährdet, erkläre ich hier.... Die KI ist da und in der Bildung drehen alle durch. Dabei scheinen die meisten Lehrkräfte und deren Vorgesetzte nicht zu wissen, was ein LLM eigentlich tut. Und das bedeutet, dass wir vor einer Schule steht, die eine Sache will und die andere Sache tun wird, wenn wir Nerds denen nicht sagen, dass das dumm ist. about this event: https://cfp.fairydust.reisen/iger-2024/talk/RTZBE7/

Das IGERla ist gelandet. Das IGERla ist gelandet. about this event: https://cfp.fairydust.reisen/iger-2024/talk/JW7KGQ/

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The ceremony in which we close the festival. Goodbye! about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/551-closing-ceremony

The Dutch hacker camps take place between editions of EMF. They have a long history and a bright future! In this talk the Dutch camps from the past will be visited and the state of the next camp, WHY2025, will be presented. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/474-heu1993-to-why2025-dutch-hacker-camps-from-the-past

Members of the EMF infrastructure teams (network, power, lighting, video, telephony) will talk about how we made the event happen this year. There will be graphs. Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/552-infrastructure-review

Music and animation, art and code, all come together in a demoscene tradition with a history of over 40 years. It's generative art, storytelling, creative coding and more, with contributors of diverse skill levels from across the globe. We're having a party on Saturday night, and we're going to have a prizegiving ceremony and recap of the winning entries on stage on Sunday. Prepare to be awed! You can take part too! Check out field-fx.party online to find out how. Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/378-field-fx-digital-art-demos-and-prizegiving

There's nothing good on TV, and streaming curses you with the Paradox of Choice. So why not be Elliot Carver for a day and run your own Cable, satellite or UHF TV station - or even a whole network? With a few low-cost computer boards (Raspberry Pi's work but others are fine too) and video modulators, you can recreate the wonders of 1990s Cable TV in your own home, flat, or living room. I'll also talk about going further and how I recovered and resurrected a General Instrument ACC-4000 headend controller PC and used it to configure a small fleet of cable boxes. Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/203-being-elliot-carver

Ever wondered about what's behind large advertising billboards? Interested in pretty blinking lights? Curious about electronics and circuit board design? This talk might be for you! Our hackspace recently got a donation of ~800 LED matrix panels (squares with lots of tiny LEDs on them), with little in the way of documentation. I'll explain how they work, how we got them to light up and display things, and how to make it fast enough to display 30fps video -- all with commodity parts that cost less than 20 pounds. We'll explore the weird and wonderful world of poorly translated datasheets and control software, marvel at the library of weird glitched-out images I ended up with on the road to success, and dive into the strange but extremely useful Programmable I/O block of the RP2040 microcontroller. If the stars align, you'll be able to see everything working on a real demonstration panel, too! Although we'll be going into detail on some bits, this talk should be accessible to most audiences. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/199-driving-fancy-led-panels-with-commodity-hardware

You have an object / art installation/auction purchase and want it somewhere else? What are the options of getting it there without breaking yourself? This will be a short, hopefully entertaining, overview of transport options, their financial and environmental impact and the time they take. This talk is based on examples of personal experience sending hacky art installations around Europe and the globe. By doing this many questions had to be answered for example: - how big are doors? - why acessability regulayions are great or not? - what fits in an elevator? - how much fits in a van? - what fit’s in a cargo aeroplane? There will be dragons! Along the way we’ll encounter customs officers, new excitement around rules for international road haulage, air freight and how astronomically long container shipping takes. Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/193-how-to-get-anything-from-anywhere-to-anywhere

A talk about the difficulties of geospatial analysis when the country you are interested is on the edge of the world map. We'll go over some background before showing what happens when you try and draw a box around this country and the issues this causes everyone from blury satellite views to navigation failing. And why it happens. The east and west edge of the classic Eurocentric world map, with the prime meridian down the middle, are both the same place, this causes some interesting effects. Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/96-a-country-you-cant-put-in-a-box

It has been 30 years since Private Eye released this biting satire of the privatisation of British Rail. Today, the railway system is now part public part private, leaving plenty of confusion for passengers. Who runs your local station? Who sets the rail fares, and who covers your refund? And where the hell does HS1 and HS2 fit into all this? I will take you through how the UK rail organisations are structured, who does and owns what, and how does this affect passengers? - What's the difference between Network Rail and National Rail? - How does split ticketing work? - What did Labour announce in April? And most importantly: Who should I be angry at when I'm crammed in sideways on a delayed Sunday afternoon train to Leeds? No knowledge of the rail industry is required to enjoy this talk, but experts will find it depressing. I may swear, mostly about MPs. Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/375-thomas-the-privatised-tank-engine-30-years-on

A talk about the state of the art with metal 3D printing, and how it can let you make rocket engines much more cheaply and quickly than ever before. I will briefly describe the anatomy of a rocket engine and why the extreme conditions it must endure make designing one hard, and then introduce powder metal 3D printing and how you print an engine. I work for a company in this field, and I will show various images and videos of our engines being fired, as well as the engines themselves so that people can have a look, and some samples with internal cutaways to show the internal structures that 3D printing technology now makes relatively easy. I will also discuss drawbacks and common failure-modes of 3D printing for rocket engines, and talk about where new advances in the field might take us, such as multi-metal prints, hybrid machining, and other exciting technologies. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/131-how-to-3d-print-a-rocket-engine

Most technical people hear about fusion power in the news or see it in games and movies, and are familiar with the joke that it's always 20 years away. Beyond this, it's surprisingly rare to find good information beyond the basic physics and the marketing promise of unlimited, clean energy. As an engineer working in the fusion technology sector, I give a primer on how fusion power works, why its benefits are so incredibly tantalising yet hard to achieve, what the latest exciting developments are, and how the UK is a surprising trailblazer. I outline some of the cutting-edge technologies involved in developing fusion power, including superconducting magnets, plasma control using deep learning methods, and hypersonic fuel injection. The audience is also given facts and figures to get a flavour of the unimaginable scale of what is being done: materials at nearly 0K adjacent to plasmas hotter than the cores of stars, gigawatts of power from teaspoons of fuel, magnetic fields multiple times more powerful than MRI machines, and neutron fluxes strong enough to transmute matter in bulk. Coming away from this presentation, the audience will have learned about the fundamentals of nuclear fusion and appreciate the key issues enough to put the marketing and news reports into context. They might even be excited and enthused about what's to come in this quickly growing technology space. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/471-unlimited-power

The talk takes a deep-dive into the Abbeystead explosion (using pretty much all available sources available on the subject), one of the worst civil engineering disasters in post-war history, through the lens of the HSE investigation. It looks at what the project was for, how it was designed, what went wrong, and why. Swiss cheese is a way of conceptualizing accidents, and the explosion is used so show how this works. Hopefully by the end, everyone will have heard about a facinating case study in bad project management, weird critical infrastructure, and have recieved a safety talk by stealth. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/97-explosion-in-a-tunnel-understanding-swiss-cheese

Robot Wars is a TV show that inspired a generation of engineers to take up the sport of "Robot Combat", but what drove success in the design of those competing? Looking at some famous matches and designs, this talk will break down the rock-paper-scissors of the sport, and try to provide an understanding of how this can help to educate a new generation of engineers today. Should the sport have a Meta, it will mean certain designs always win out over others - however should it not, then it may suggest it is not the design itself that determines success, but rather ones understanding of design. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/134-does-robot-wars-have-a-meta

The British rail industry publishes a lot of open data: there's at least 18 distinct data sources, plus the ones I'm forgetting. This'll be a whirlwind tour of most or all of those sources, with a view at helping people who would be interested in playing with train data but don't know where to start. You'll (hopefully) leave with some ideas for what you could build (if you didn't already have some), know what data sources you'd need, and have enough context to understand those sources' documentation. I will assume software experience (ie there'll be slides with JSON, XML, and various less pleasant things) but not rail experience. Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/397-so-you-want-to-hack-on-rail-data-whats-out-there

The canals of the UK have undergone transformation from industry to decay to leisure and in recent years to housing. In this talk, we'll go through some of the history of this modern day shanty town along with lessons for any budding boaters considering life on the cut. We'll cover the fundamentals of boat life including legality, work from home challenges, common pitfalls new boaters can face along with everything you need to know if boat life could work for you! about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/156-living-on-the-canals-of-the-uk-lessons-from-the-water

How do you get several three storey Cornish beam engines, a collection of Grade I listed buildings and a whole network of steam infrastructure on the path towards net zero? This talk is the experience of a volunteer on the practical challenges met whilst helping the London Museum of Water and Steam with several major projects. Expect tales of reverse engineering boiler control system ladder logic, interfacing raspberryPis to 100psi steam lines and working out the water/gas/steam usage to run 200-year old steam water pumps. Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/112-steaming-into-sustainability

“Could you crash the Moon into the Earth?” “If the Sun explodes, would we all get vaporized?” “What’s the weather like on Mercury?” Discover the answers to these questions (and many more!) at "Astrophysics for Supervillains"! Facts about space are all well and good but discovering that if you threw someone into a black hole, they would be spaghettified – stretched out long and thin before getting squashed smaller than an atom – is truly, fascinatingly gruesome. This quirky space talk will teach children about the solar system, galaxies, the universe, and, most importantly, the answer to the question “Which planet is entirely populated by robots?”. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/428-astrophysics-for-supervillains

In which the badge team have a natter about the tildagon badge, the hexpansion format, the development process, pitfalls and panics along the way. Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/449-badge-talk

"So what do you do?" Everything. ────────── As a kid I couldn't decide what I wanted to be when I grew up. I still can't, but over the past twenty years I've turned that into a superpower. In this talk I'll tell you how I hacked the idea of a standard career and managed to combine skills from different fields and specialties, leading to some unique roles and opportunities. If you love learning and constantly adding new tools to your intellectual toolkit, you’ll find that being a 'nerd of all trades' is not just fun—it’s the best way to live. The only downside? When someone asks "so what do you do" at parties, you'll never quite know what to say! Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/31-hack-the-plan

Technologists are wizards. Today, we wield the power to effect changes from a tent, a bedroom or an office the likes of which fifty years ago one might need the power of a small nation-state to accomplish. Having seen these systems from all angles - building the tech, researching digital consent academically, and fighting biased public sector algorithms in the media and the courts - I'm confident that we really haven’t adapted to that reality. In the choices we make in technical practice, we find ourselves paving the road to hell with our good intentions. Most of us aren't trained in ethics, policy or politics - so how do we manage the weighty burden of being responsible for people’s safety? What can we do – both as individuals and as a society as a whole – to try and stop algorithmic harms? And, how do we stop our robots from killing us? about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/355-dont-be-evil-by-accident-algorithmic-harms-and-ethics

Infrastructure Review & Closing of GPN22 about this event: https://cfp.gulas.ch/gpn22/talk/PXT8GR/

How does the most complicated machine in the world work? Why should we pay 16 billion euros to keep some physicists happy with a new toy? What has CERN ever done for us? What happens when you lose control of a beam the size of spaghetti with the energy of a full express train? This talk, delivered by a beam instrumentation engineer at CERN, will introduce CERN and it's accelerator complex, and discuss the technology required to deliver one petabyte of cutting-edge science per day to over 170 research facilities in 36 countries. The talk will also cover some of CERN's open source software and hardware contributions to date, and finally explore their science and technology roadmap for the coming years. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/181-cern-technology-following-the-white-rabbit-down-a-27km-hole

A presentational workshop with Q&A on getting started in Laser Cutting, diodes vs CO2, water cooling vs RF lasers. What is a Galvo Laser? Where to buy and what to expect? What different controllers are there? Which software exists and which to use for what? Including advice on taking your project from idea to finished item. Combining laser cutting and 3D printing. Materials types and finishing techniques. Laser cutter maintenance and good practice. Laser cutting in a shared workshop with multiple users and access control/issues/good practice What is the difference between an expensive laser cutter (£12k) vs cheaper (£3k). Laser cutting for profit/work. * Interests Disclosure - I service and repair laser cutters for a living and have been a contractor to a related software provider for 4 years. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/194-getting-started-in-laser-cutting

A look at the history and construction of Scotland's hidden network of remote dams, tunnels, shafts and underground generating stations. Not many are aware of how extensive, ground-breaking, enduring and socially significant the hydro infrastructure hidden under our Lochs and Glens really is. Come and join me for a healthy dose of BIG PIPES! about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/288-big-pipes-a-dive-into-scotlands-hidden-underground

A lot has happened at the other end of life since the last EMF camp; pregnancy, birth and adjusting to life with a tiny human. I am an engineer, so when two thin blue lines appeared and I found myself thrown into the chaos of pregnancy and parenthood, I discovered that the best way of dealing with it was to use the engineering approach that was already ingrained in me. “An engineer's guide to parenthood” if you will. Some bits worked (some less so!) and that’s what I want to share with you this year, following on from my 2022 talk, "An engineer's guide to grief". Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/60-an-engineer-s-guide-to-parenthood

This talk will describe the development process for a digital cartridge to fit any Super 8 home movie camera without any modifications required. There are a huge number of unused 8mm home movie cameras that have been languishing unloved for the last four decades since their owners were seduced by videotape. Many of them are built to a rather high quality, and best of all, they can still be found for not a lot of money. You can still buy the film, and it's a lot of fun shooting a real movie, but it's not cheap. Wouldn't it be great if you could drop in a digital cartridge instead for modern day digital video with a retro feel! This project started in early 2023, and this will be its first outing in front of a live audience. Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/431-bringing-any-super-8-camera-into-the-digital-age

Short 10 minute talks on any topic Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/549-lightning-talks-sunday

Der Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) legt Herstellern von Software und auch Open Source Communities strenge Regeln in Bezug auf IT-Sicherheit ihrer Produkte auf. Dieser Vortrag gibt zunächst einen Überblick über die Ziele und Inhalte dieses Gesetzes. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf den geforderten technischen und administrativen Regelungen und Verpflichtungen. Es wird erläutert, worauf sich Hersteller, Open Source Communities und Verbraucher einstellen müssen und eingeordnet, wie praktikabel und effektiv die Vorgaben möglicherweise sind. Mit dem CRA hat die EU-Kommission eine Verordnung auf den Weg gebracht, die die IT-Sicherheit von Produkten reguliert, mit der Motivation, die Interessen der Verbraucher zu stärken und die EU insgesamt widerstandsfähiger gegen Cyberangriffe zu machen. Dieses Gesetz legt Anforderungen für "Produkte mit digitalen Elementen" fest. Von Herstellern wird die Erstellung einer Cybersicherheitsrisikobewertung und die Bereitstellung von Sicherheitsupdates verlangt. Bestimmte alltägliche Softwareprodukte, wie Betriebssysteme, Browser und Password-Manager, werden als "wichtige Produkte" eingestuft. Diese werden auf die Einhaltung von grundlegenden IT-Sicherheitsanforderungen überprüft. Auch Open-Source-Software und ihre Communities werden von diesem Gesetz betroffen sein. Es wird gefordert, dass diese eine Cybersicherheitsstrategie vorlegen, welche unter anderem den Umgang mit Schwachstellen regelt. Ein Verstoß gegen die Bestimmungen kann mit bis zu 15 Millionen Euro oder 2,5 % des Weltweiten Jahresumsatzes geahndet werden. Des Weiteren wird die ENISA eine Meldeplattform anbieten, über welche Hersteller Schwachstellen melden. In Hinblick auf die Praktikabilität und Effektivität stellen sich eine Reihe von Fragen, auch sind noch nicht alle Details bekannt, z.B. die Spezifikation von SBOMs. *TL; DR: Neues EU-Gesetz, welches Hersteller verpflichtet (IT-)sicherere Produkte zu entwickeln.* about this event: https://cfp.gulas.ch/gpn22/talk/AUEQH7/

Ein wilder Ritt durch die verschiedenen Möglichkeiten Bilder von Menschen zu machen. Kann Spuren von Strahlung enthalten. Moderne Medizin basiert grossteils auch auf neuen Möglichkeiten Dinge sichtbar zu machen und seit der Entdeckung der Röntgenstrahlen 1895 hat sich eine Menge getan. Wir werden Versuchen mit einem Minimum an theoretischem Hintergrundwissen zu klären was diese Ärzte eigentlich meinen wenn sie von Echo oder Kernspin reden, warum "Röhre" nicht gleich "Röhre" ist und welche Vor- bzw Nachteile die einzelnen Verfahren bieten. about this event: https://cfp.gulas.ch/gpn22/talk/CUWDYV/

Die Grenzen von Diversity: Ist Kink noch Diversity oder nur eine persönliche Vorliebe? Warum sind eigentlich auf Hackerveranstaltungen so oft Menschen mit Seilen? Welche gemeinsamen Wurzeln verbinden queere, hackende und kinky Menschen und was könnten wir von einander lernen? Wir machen einen Ausflug in die eigentümlichen Regeln, Rituale und Etiketten der Kink-Szene, um herauszufinden, was davon für andere Lebensbereiche hilfreich ist. Egal ob klare Kommunikation, Awareness gegenüber Diskriminierung und Übergriffen oder die Suche nach Konsens: Viele der Herausforderungen begegnen uns auch in Projekten oder am Arbeitsplatz. about this event: https://cfp.gulas.ch/gpn22/talk/TMWFJ3/

Resistance, systemic change, and our sustainable future can – and must – be playful! To quote the activism artist group Guerilla Girls: “If you can make someone who disagrees with you laugh, you're in their brain, and you can change minds.” The speaker will begin by sharing her journey in social impact games and its landscape, focusing on activism initiatives in games. She will draw examples primarily from the UN’s Playing for the Planet’s Green Game Jam which includes ustwo games’ Monument Valley 2's The Lost Forest. Surveys from the jam reveal how games can spur positive actions in real life. Then we take action -- through play. In this RPG-lite / communal storytelling experience curated by the speaker, a few volunteers will take on special roles to battle a dragon turned to the darkside. We’ll meet in our imaginary tavern and adventure together to save the world! Let’s play and change the world together. Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/411-activism-in-games-plus-a-hopepunk-rpg-role-playing-game

In October 1971, Frieder Nake published an article in Page, the Bulletin of the Computer Arts Society, entitled "There Should Be No Computer Art", making the point that there were more important things for humans to work on together in the late Twentieth Century, than whether or not a computer should be allowed to make "art". In this talk, we'll take a journey together to look at one aspect of computer history - creative technology and art - and the ways in which it has been misunderstood and feared at different points in our shared history and culture. Along the way, you'll also hear about how I accidentally became an artist, after being laid off from my dream job with big tech; the story of building my own pen plotters; and, how you can make your own army of art robots! Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/302-where-is-the-art-pen-plotters

Festooning your clothes or costume with lots of glowy lights is fun. Making the glowy lights survive hours or days on end of dancing in sweaty raves or muddy festivals is harder. In this talk I discuss several ways of being a walking lightshow, the unfortunate lessons I learned over years of trying them out in the real world, and some attempts at avoiding these failures in future. [Specifically I will cover: chemiluminescence, electroluminescence, UV reactive materials, LEDs, things to consider when making light-up clothing, surprise 100v shocks and how to avoid them, and how to cheat at syncing to the music.] Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/416-practicalities-of-being-a-walking-lightshow

"Sag mal, du hast doch Informatik studiert - du kannst mir doch sicher sagen, wie ich meine Fotos am besten back-uppe?", fragt mich meine Tante neulich beim Kaffee. Wärend meine Tante mir ihre utopischen Anforderungen erklärt, und ich Erwartungs-Management betreibe, frage ich mich wie ich in diese Situation gekommen bin. Und schließlich frage ich mich als Person mit Lehramtstudium: "Was müsste ich meiner Tante beibringen, damit ich nicht nochmal in eine solche Situation komme und sie diese Entscheidungen selbst treffen kann?" Diese Frage, wie man Schüler:innen (und meine Tante) dazu befähigen kann, in Zukunft Entscheidungen über die Nutzung digitale Systeme selbstständig und informiert zu treffen möchte ich mich in meinem Vortrag diskutieren. Wir treffen jeden Tag Entscheidungen über die Nutzung von Digitalen Systemen, wie zum Beispiel Instant Messenger, Bezahlmethoden oder VPNs. Um eine solche Entscheidung informiert zu treffen, braucht der:die Entscheidende Wissen über die zur Auswahl stehenden digitalen Systeme im Bezug auf seine:ihre persönlichen Werte. Aber welches Wissen ist das? Und welche Werte kann man in Betracht ziehen? Und wie kann man das Schüler:innen beibringen? In meinem Vortrag möchte ich gemeinsam mit dem Publikum über mögliche Antworten und Beispiele diskutieren und in das Thema aus dem Blickwinkel der Informatik Didaktik einführen. Inhaltlich werde ich in meinem Vortrag darüber reden, was informierte Entscheidungen sind - und was informatische Bildung ist. Dabei werde ich auch auf Konzepte aus der Informatikdidaktik wie dem Dagstuhl Dreieck eingehen und diese einführen. Außerdem werde ich über Möglichkeiten zur Vermittlung sprechen. about this event: https://cfp.gulas.ch/gpn22/talk/8CWDWS/

Flightgear is an open source flight simulator, We take a look at it, how to get started flying and how to hack on it. Since the release of the Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, flight simulation has become a more mainstream genre. What flies past many is the existence of an open source flight simulator with a long standing history and way more flexibility in many regards. We take you on a flight through the world of Flightgear... In the first part we will take a look at the history, where the project is headed in the future and how you can make the first steps in the simulator, helping you get in the air. Now that we have an overview what flightgear is, we go on to the second part where we take a look how to interface the flight sim with your own hacked hardware and other systems. We will show you for example our first PCB design we're working on right now which will be a control interface for the simulator as well as similar projects from the community. about this event: https://cfp.gulas.ch/gpn22/talk/KUEALJ/