News Archive

The search for a new hackerspace has been successful. We are looking forward to moving to our new location in July 2024.

Hermann Hüni, from gPlug.ch, gives a presentation on smart meters and reading data via their local customer interface.

Last Saturday, the Open Hackerspace Day took place. We are looking back at an exciting day with many new acquaintances.

On Saturday 2 March 2024 between 09:00 and 20:00 we will open our doors as part of the Open Hackerspace Day 2024.

On Thursday, the 21st of March, I will hold a presentation on how we use OpenTofu to manage our infrastructure.

In summer 2024, we will have to leave our hacker space. We are now looking for new rooms.

In addition to our XMPP server, we now also have our own [matrix] server.

The Chaostreff Bern now has an official fediverse (Mastodon) account.

An updated on the state of our sticker exchange in the year 2023.

On Saturday, the 25th of March 2023 from 14:00 until 22:00 we are opening our doors for the International Open Hackerspace Day 2023 - we are looking forward to your visit.

This event will be held in German. There is no translation into English for this page. Select the German language to read the text in German.

This event will be held in German. There is no translation into English for this page. Select the German language to read the text in German.

This event will be held in German. There is no translation into English for this page. Select the German language to read the text in German.

On Saturday, 2022-11-05 19:00 a talk about GNU Taler will be held in our Hackerspace

On Saturday, the 27th of August 2022 from 14:00 until 23:59 we are opening our doors on the day of open hackspaces 2022 - we are looking forward to your visit.

Invitation to our digital meeting: Tuesday, 2021-04-27 20:00

Demands on science and politics regarding the use of a contact tracing app

All events including regular weekly meetings are canceled

The executive board delays the regular general assembly for 2020

On Tuesday, 2020-03-17, the regular general assembly will take place.

We hold our next evening for tabletop an Friday, December 13th.

On Thursday, 2019-11-21 a presentation on advanced functionality of Gentoo Linux will be held. The Saturday after that, we will have a Gentoo install party.

Now that we have moved into our new hackerspace, the Chaostreffs take place there as well.

On Tuesday, 2019-06-04, an irregular general assembly will take place.

On Tuesday, 2019-02-12, the regular general assembly will take place.

There will be no public meetings until we officially open the new hackerspace

On Tuesday, 2018-11-20, an irregular general assembly will take place.

The Chaostreff Berns visits the CERN on 2019-02-09

All life forms are invited to visit our new Hackerspace on it's official opening on Saturday, 2018-03-16

We have found a new room which we can use as a Hackerspace as well as a location for our meetings

Announcement of Git Workshop on 2018-08-07 20:00

Workshop to create our own favorite kind of mate ice tea

Summary Diver Days 2018

The Diver Days will take place on the april weekend from 2018-04-20 to 2018-04-22.

On Tuesday, 2018-03-27, an irregular general assembly will take place.

The Chaostreff Bern is looking for a new location

For the 34c3 we got new T-Shirts printed, machting the congress' design guide.

The slides from the presentation "Machine Learning" by Dr. Felix Wichmann from 2017-11-18 are online

The general assembly of the Chaostreff Bern for 2018 will take place on 2018-01-23

Lecture about machine learning by Dr. Felix Wichmann on November 18th 2017 (in german)

The Chaos Computer Club Switzerland takes part in the referendum against the new gambling law. Thus, the Chaostreff Bern is part of the referendum as well.

The shirts of Chaostreff Bern are available for purchase.

A VIM workshop will be held on Saturday, 2017-05-20 from 14:00h.

The protocol for the Chaostreff Bern's general assembly 2017 is now online.

We've made a group order for OneRNGs, open hardware random number hardware generators. Now that they have arrived, here is some of what we have learned when installing and using them.

We now have a bank account where member fees can be paid to.

We have implemented the spaceAPI

Article about the Chaostreff in "DerBund",12.11.2016

Report on the formation of the association Chaostreff Bern on Tuesday, 2016-10-25

On Tuesday, 2016-10-25 we will turn the Chaostreff Bern into a formal association

Introduction to I2P, the network that should provide anonymity on the internet

We have consolidated all our Git repositories in one group. Also, the Git server can now be reached under new addresses.

A presentation on XMPP will be held at the Chaostreff meeting on 2016-07-19

The deadline for the BÜPF referendum is in just over a month. NOW is the time to protect our privacy, NOW is the time to go out and collect signatures!

Our website now features a collection of all the materials from past workshops and presentations

The national council has accpeted the revision of the BÜPF. All we can do now is to let the people of Switzerland vote on the matter in a Referendum. But for that to happen, we have to collect enough signatures.

The press announcement for the BÜPF Referendum

On Saturday, 2016-04-23 The Chaostreff Bern hosts the CCC-CH gettogether. The meeting starts 13:30 at the Güterstrasse 8. We invite everyone to get dinner with us beforehand.

With the original date for the Blockchain talk not working out, we now have a new date

After one year, we want to run another PGP keysigning

On Saturday, 2016-03-12 we organize a tinker day at the Güterstrasse 8

On Tuesday, 2016-03-08 the Chaostreff will take place at the Pfadi Patria

2_B has developed a new client for ACME, the protocol used by letsencrypt. He is going to introduce his client in a short presentation.

After a long periode of planning, the new meeting schedule is now going live: From now on, every other week, we meet on Tuesday at the Güterstrasse 8

Announcing an introductory talk on Blockchain technology

At the meeting on 12th January, we will have a workshop on Tails.

On Saturday, 2015-11-21 the RFID Zapper workshop took place. In this article, macmaniac who organized it, shares his experiences.

On Tuesday, January 12th 2016, the Chaostreff will take place at Güterstrasse 8.

The Chaostreff Bern's XMPP/Jabber server goes into production. New accounts can be registered directly on our website.

First design proposals for chaostreff shirts

The CCC-CH has a Schleuder. Hackers from Bern can join as well.

In this workshop, the participating hackers will construct their own RFID-zapper.

A tool to coordinate the collection of signatures for the NDG referendum in Bern.

The National Council has accepted the 'Nachrichtendienstgesetz' (law concerning the secret service). All we can do now is to let the people of Switzerland vote on it in a Referendum. But for that to happen, we have to collect enough signatures.

The Chaostreff Bern is in existence since February of this year. We have met a lot of interesting people and we have learnt many new things. It is now at the time for us to evolve the Chaostreff...

At last night's meeting, we've finally chosen a logo for the Chaostreff Bern.

From now on, the Chaostreff meetings will take place on a weekly basis.

We've been looking for a fitting logo for the Chaostreff Bern. We feel that the time has come to make a decision. We'll decide on the logo at the meeting on 2015-09-10.

On 2015-09-19 the next CCC-CH gettogether will take place in Bern in the denk:mal. The meeting will start at 14h. We also invite everyone interested to eat dinner with us before the meeting.

During the CCC-CH's Chaosversammlung at the CoSin 2015, the Chaostreff Bern got accepted as a member of the CCC-CH

The Chaostreff Bern needs a logo. We are looking for good ideas and ...

The Cosin is an annual event of the CCC-CH. This year, it takes place June 12th to 14th.

We would like to rent a big tent for the Swiss Village at the upcoming CCCamp15, but that won't be cheap

The Chaostreff Bern has a new website, written in Pelican

A short report from our keysigning party

We had our first meeting on February 12. With the large amount of visitors, we caused a bit of chaos