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The General-Anzeiger Bonn has published an article about our recent activities, our search for a new location for our organisation, and the establishment of our hack workshop for children.

General-Anzeiger – The Teckids organisation is searching for new rooms

Yesterday, on Saturday, an article created during our preparations for Hack'n'Sun at [Jugendzeltplatz](https://www.jugendzeltplatz.de) was published in the [General-Anzeiger](https://www.ga.de), titled [The Teckids organisation is searching for new rooms](https://ga.de/bonn/hardtberg/der-verein-teckids-sucht-neue-raeume_aid-61982209), reporting on our recent ideas and challenges.

The article also refers to our new project structure and describes what we are wishing for in the future – even thoush very superficially.

Shortly after publication of the article, a cooperation offer was received, followed by a nice phone call. We hope that we can soon realise our plans for a bigger offer in the areas of informatics, data souvereignty, etc. for children and adolescents, but also for teachers and parents, in Bonn!

Teckids at the rC3

From December 27th to 30th, 2020, 13 members of Teckids e.V. took part in the virtual "Remote Chaos Experience" (rC3) as a replacement for the cancelled Chaos Communication Congress. Despite minor technical difficulties, it was seen as a sucessful and rewarding event by our participants.

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Group photo (© Dominik George)

<span class="filer_image_info"> <span class="title"> Group photo (© Dominik George) </span> </span>

In order to depict the Congress as realistically as possible, some elements of the event were made into a 2D map, so the participants could gather for the traditional group photo, for example. This also allowed for the creative use of WorkAdventure, the software used to implement the 2D map.

The rC3 also offered the opportunity to attend various talks and workshops, for example on the subject of encryption or software in public administration, but also on the digitization of schools. There was also the opportunity to exchange ideas about the school information system

<strong> Some comments from our members: </strong>

<em> Kirill Schmidt: </em> Two talks I found especially interesting were "Youngsters as contributors" and "Bye-bye, end-to-end encryption?". The latter showed the urgent need for the Freedombox session. I thought the idea of the rC3-World was cool. The system was glitchy, howewer, not only during our talk. I think the 36C3 was better.

<em> Lukas Weichelt: </em> I especially liked the rC3 because there was a world where you could meet up and talk via Proximity Chat. I also liked the talk on creating and modifying one's own Linux distro. It was about extracting the ISOs and integrating an installer.

Also, there were badges hidden in the rC3 world. We reverse-engineered the map in order to find the badges and submit them automatically. And I've learned how to extract strings from a file and how to download files using wget while automatically creating directories. Lastly, I've learned how to build maps for WorkAdventure, the software used for the rC3 world.

<em> Benedict Suska: </em> I liked the rC3, even if it could not replace an actual Congress. I liked the organisators' idea of realising some elements of the real congress as a 2D map, as the rC3 felt more realistic when you had to wait at meeting points.

Personally, I liked the talks which explained how the "Corona-Warn-App" works and how you can replace their function with an ESP. Also, the talks on the use of Office 365 in schools and the inclusion of backdoors in end-to-end encyptions were informative and interesting.