2026-03-16 –, Room Auditorium
Do you dare to visit a space-station under Berlin?
Do you want to visit Germanys oldest Hackerspace?
Do you want to enjoy decent food and a mate with fellow FOSS Backstage attendes?
The join us!
We will send an expedition team from FOSS Backstage to explore c-base and meet the local population.
10.000 years into the future humanity will venture into the wide realm of space. In order to terraform planets other planets c-base was constructed as an orbital multivoltine space-station. Due to a Flip-Flop of the Asimov-Constant the cybernetic quicksilver reactor failed. Instead of materializing in the orbit of Gliese 12b c-base was thrown back in the space time continuum by 4.5 billion years and crashed on the surface of earth and slowly sank into the Brandenburg sand.
That or something like that is what it´s crew members claim to be the origin story of c-base. Founded in 1995 it is Germanys and probably the world oldest hackerspace run by the NGO c-base e.V.
Following it´s creed "be future compatible!" c-base understands itself as a space that allows nerds, geeks, hackers, dreamers and data travelers to gather, converse and discuss how to think and act to make a better future possible. Whatever that may be.
In this spirit it not only hosted Lounge of the Chaos Communication Congress when it was held in Berlin. Both the "Förderverein für freie Netzwerke e.V." (2003) german first Freifunk chapter as well as the german Pirate Party (2006) were founded at c-base and the very first BerlinBuzzwords (2009) took place there.
To end the first evening of the FOSS Backstage, we offer a tour of c-base. Followed the opportunity to enjoy ending the evening at one of it´s recreational modules with a cold beverage at Sprees waterside with a view of c-base center axis know as the Berliner Fernsehturm to the uninitiated.
c-base can be found at Rungestraße 20 close to Jannowitzbrücke.
Gregor - Little Detritus - Bransky is a c-base member and german digital rights activist.
Core of his activist work is striving for public intrest tech that impowers people instead of surveiling them, for the last five years he has been trying to find buisness models for public digital infrastructures.
He will guide you through the 700 square meters c-base accessible to humans. He works on privacy preserving digital platforms and infrastructures which empower users to make data-based decisions.