Chaosdorf
Chaosdorf is a hackspace operated by non-profit association ("Eingetragener Verein") "Chaos Computer Club Düsseldorf / Chaosdorf e.V." in the city of Düsseldorf, Germany. It is Düsseldorf’s Chaos Computer Club chapter. The association. Chaosdorf is operated by non-profit association "Chaos Computer Club Düsseldorf / Chaosdorf e.V." and is mainly financed by member fees and donations. A membership in the association is not required to take part in the mostly cost-free workshops and meetings. The purpose of the association is the creation of an environment for adult education, modern information privacy and socializing between communities. History. Founding . Chaosdorf was founded 24 April 2001. Their first rooms were located on Fürstenwall 232 in Düsseldorf-Friedrichstadt. Second hackspace. After a lengthy renovation process Chaosdorf moved into a new building on Hüttenstrasse that used to be a "rather sketchy nightclub" in 2011. The space itself consists of four rooms: A large lounge/hackcenter, a kitchen, a media room, and a workshop. Chaosdorf owns different kinds of equipment to help members fulfilling their projects and offering services. Nationwide awareness. Chaosdorf is known in the German hackspace culture for organizing "Easterhegg 2002" – the first Easterhegg event outside of Hamburg – and "OpenChaos: Hackerspace  Design Patterns". It gained mainstream attention in 2013 for organizing a large-scale street protest in Cologne demanding net neutrality after Deutsche Telekom announced to throttle web traffic. Chaosdorf gained even more widespread mainstream attention after Der Spiegel published a story about its non-commercial in-house "OwnBeer" microbrewery. On 30 December 2013 Rheinische Post, a major German regional daily newspaper, published a two page feature about Chaosdorf. The hackspace also supports friendly organizations such as Forum Freies Theater, Free Software Foundation Europe, Freifunk Rheinland e.V., and Sub-Etha by providing room for meetings, storage for hardware, or infrastructure . International awareness. In October 2013 members of the technology online magazine Hack a Day published a story about Chaosdorf – their first visit in a German hackspace. New hackspace "Chaosdorf 4.0". In 2020 Chaosdorf moved to a bigger building on Sonnenstrasse. The new space provides the following rooms: class room, electronic lab, wet lab, hackcenter, kitchen/lounge, and fab lab ("Werkstatt"). Renowned members. Among the members of Chaosdorf are a few renowned people such as former member of parliament North Rhine-Westphalia Marc Olejak of the Pirate Party Germany, visual artist Rachid Maazouz and the security researchers Ilias Morad, Alexander Karl , and Martin Dessauer.