c-base

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Interior of the c-base

The term c-base refers to both the association c-base e. V. in Berlin , the club rooms maintained by this club as well as a crashed space station of the same name that was located under Berlin-Mitte according to its founding myth . Originally founded as an "extended living room " by the 17 founding members on August 12, 1995, the c-base now sees itself as a focal point of the Berlin hacker scene and is seen internationally as one of the nucleus of the hackerspaces .

society

C-base start-up board

The c-base e. V. is a non-profit association that is maintained by its paying members as well as donations and other income. The association does not receive direct grants from public funds. The purpose of the association, according to the statutes, is advanced training in the areas of hardware , software and networks , which is achieved through training courses , lectures , workshops and cultural events of various kinds. The participation in these mostly non-members and rarely allowed with costs. Association membership is possible for natural and legal persons of legal age .

Club motto

With the motto “ be future compatible! “C-base demands (among other things) a view of the future and the alignment of thinking and acting in favor of a positive one.

Club rooms

c-base from the inside

The somewhat more than 700 square meter large club rooms in the Mitte district of Berlin were brought closer to the appearance of a space station through installations and conversions - the club calls this "reconstruction work" with reference to the founding myth. The c-base offers event rooms for club members and for other initiatives. As a hackerspace, the rooms are in principle open to all groups for meetings or events who can identify with the goals of c-base. The c-base sees itself as a space station, as a place that gives space to the creativity of the community .

Past

Founding meeting of the Pirate Party Germany (2006)

The c-base was the filming location for the Tatort episode 430 Tödliches Labyrinth (first broadcast on December 12, 1999 on ARD), which dealt with the death of a young hacker who fell from the roof of the Forum Hotel in Berlin - now the Park Inn. A scene from the scene of the death of a grasshopper (first broadcast on March 16, 2008 on ARD) was also shown in the rooms of c-base e. V. rotated. In addition, scenes for the eighth episode of the second season "Lasko, die Faust Gottes" and the first season of the series " You are Wanted " were partly shot on the premises of the c-base.

At the turn of the year 2002/03, the BerlinBackBone project was founded here with the aim of providing free, public access to the Internet via free wireless networks in Berlin .

The founding meeting of the Pirate Party Germany took place here on September 10, 2006 .

From September 14 to 16, 2006, the fourth edition of the Wizards of OS , an international conference on the topics of free software and free knowledge, was held in Berlin for the first time in cooperation with c-base e. V. organizes.

During the demonstrations under the motto Freedom instead of Fear , Radio 1984 was regularly stationed in the rooms of the c-base to report live on the protest actions.

From 2003 to mid-2010, c-base organized a weekly musicians' meeting, the so-called Cosmic Open Stage , at which well-known and unknown musicians performed or held jam sessions .

The Metalab got its inspiration from the c-base.

Regular users

Wikipedians in the c-base

Several round tables meet on the c-base, such as a 3D Stammtisch , freifunk.net , Ubuntu Berlin, AK stock , Android developers, Drupal -User Group and others. From 2004, regular meetings of the Berlin Wikipedia community were held in the club rooms of the c-base . In 2012 the monthly "Internet Political Evening" of the digital society was added.

Once a year the @ c-terra offers an overview of the disciplines and interests gathered in the c-base.

additional

In addition, a large number of different (partly external) events (presentations, theater performances, music performances, art exhibitions) take place in the club rooms, from lounges to the Chaos Communication Congress , events from Ubuntu Berlin and regular accompanying events to the transmediale , the c-base Cup , to towards the Mozilla add-on workshop , the Maemo Summit 2008 and participation in the OpenMoon project .

Space station as a founding myth

An important part of the club life is its founding myth . According to this, the rubble of a space station that crashed billions of years ago and whose antenna in the shape of the Berlin television tower protrudes from the ground , would lie under the city center of Berlin .

Even if the association does not expect this, its members communicate as if this myth were reality - this is documented separately on the association's website.

History of the "space station"

According to the “findings” of the club members, the space station c-base once got into a time gap and crashed to earth from a distant future due to the sudden changes in conditions. A number of highly technical developments and as yet unexplored forms of life were on board .

In today's Berlin there are allegedly numerous "evidence" for the existence of the space station. Above all, the antenna of the station, which is now used as a television tower, has been widely visible in the cityscape of Berlin since it was exposed by scientists from the GDR and the Soviet Union . Other locations, such as the “multi-module station” that was blown off in the crash (currently the current location of the association), are just now subject to extensive “research”.

The current knowledge about the c-base is recorded in the so-called Allmanach , which is currently only available in printed form. As an online encyclopedia, c-pedia tries to make the accumulated “knowledge” available on the Internet, but it is still at the beginning. In addition, the "reconstruction of artifacts of the c-base" is being promoted.

For the 20th birthday of c-base, a 208-page book on the history of the space station was published in August 2015. A Kickstarter campaign was able to finance the first edition of the c-booc with 1000 copies. The book was published under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International.

Structure of the "space station"

The c-base is a system made up of seven concentric rings. The rings can be shifted against each other and are therefore to be understood as individual modules with precisely defined areas of responsibility. The rings are called (from the inside out): core , com , culture , creactiv , cience , carbon and clamp .

The innermost ring is core , the energy center of the station, fed from the Möbius strip generator , which once supplied the c-base with an infinite supply of energy. Today c-beam , the central computer of the c-base, is active exactly at this location .

The second ring com housed the space airport, hangars and communication facilities, including the interstellar communication module of the c-base. He was discovered by the Chaos Computer Club under the name Blinkenlights .

The other rings - culture , creactiv and cience - serve facilities for cultural and creative activities as well as scientific research. In cience ring also houses the Arboretum . The carbon ring accommodates the carbon-based life forms of the station, and the outer ring clamp ultimately forms the stabilizing outer ring construction of the “space station”.

Linguistic particularities

The station traditionally maintains its own written form of the German language , called c-lang (spoken like "slang").

After c-lang , the space station is always written with lowercase letters and a hyphen: c-base

Other activities

For several years, c-base has been represented externally at the events of the Chaos Computer Club - such as the Chaos Communication Congress and the Chaos Communication Camp - mostly as part of the Art & Beauty track . Members of the c-base took part in the World Children's Day 2003 and demonstrated robot technology and 3D design to the young visitors .

Web links

Commons : c-base  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Linux Magazin: 25c3: Hackerspaces - Meeting Points for Hackers as a New Movement (December 29, 2008)
  2. ↑ Golem: Hackerspaces - an idea conquers the world (December 27, 2008)
  3. ^ Articles of Association c-base e. V. (February 8, 2009)
  4. ↑ Pirate Party Germany: Foundation ( Memento from December 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (September 10, 2006)
  5. ↑ On Air. (No longer available online.) Radio 1984, October 10, 2008, archived from the original on July 19, 2011 ; Retrieved June 4, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / radio1984.de
  6. ^ Metalab Vienna: Inspiration (April 24, 2006)
  7. ↑ Reality check. (No longer available online.) Berlin University of the Arts , archived from the original on December 28, 2010 ; Retrieved June 4, 2017 .
  8. ^ Transmediale: Snow Play
  9. ↑ Dorkbot
  10. ↑ Tennis friends Berlin. (No longer available online.) A MAZE. Festival, formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 4, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / amaze-festival.de  
  11. ↑ Mozilla: MAOW: Mozilla add-on Workshop 2009
  12. ↑ Maemo: Maemo Summit 2008
  13. ↑ c-base Open Moon
  14. ↑ c-base: Find history
  15. ↑ c-base: Seven Rings
  16. ↑ c-base websites
  17. ↑ Kickstarter campaign c-booc
  18. ↑ c-long

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 47 "  N , 13 ° 25 ′ 11"  E