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July 24th July 2025

Three day tickets,T-Shirts, Zipper are available for pre-order

BalCCon2k25 Zipper is on presale until 10th August, after that date ordering won't be possible. There is limited amount of tickets and will be sold on first come first served basis. To avoid waiting in long lines we urge you to come in early in the day.. There is limited amount of Tickets/T-Shirts/Zippers/BalCCon Badges and will be sold on first come first served basis. To avoid waiting in long lines we urge you to come in early in the day.

You can buy or pre-order tickets on the following link:

We'll also sell them on site. Just show up at BalCCon2k25 and buy a ticket/t-shirt/balccon badges on the cash desk.

More info about Tickets you can find on Tickets.

July 24th 2025

Volunteers

BalCCon is organized by the community and appreciates all kinds of participation. We'd like to encourage you to contribute to this event by volunteering. The Congress would not be possible without many people donating their time bringing the Congress to life and dealing with all the challenges of bringing hundreds of hackers together in a congress center. The congress heavily relies on your help! Please consider volunteering at BalCCon2k25. See further details in the Volunteers tab.

June 22nd 2025

ASSEMBLY

On BalCCon2k25 we want to put also focus on groups meeting and discussing topics. For many groups it was hard to find a decent home base to discuss ideas and get new folks interested in their community. For interested hackers it became harder to find someone to talk to, as everyone was wandering around.

We have a solution for that: "Hackerspace" on BalCCon

We want to capture the camp's spirit in semi-open assemblies called "Hackerspace" ;)

So, if you are a group of hackers who like to work and hang out together, bring your toys, work on projects, have fun and let others participate in what you’re doing! How to reserve space

Please let us know what you’d like to do, how much space you’ll need, what you’d like to bring with you, how much power your gear will consume, etc… Keep in mind: The more you tell us about your plans the better your chances that you’ll actually get what you want.

send an email to orga (at) balccon.org with subject BalCCon2k25 Assembly

Be aware: Only Assemblies that were added until 10th September will get their own place! So we bring our projects and set up workshops and so on?

Yes, sharing your knowledge and showing other participants about your projects is central for everything going on at the congress. If people in your Assembly want to offer workshops or maybe lectures on a small scale, maybe there’ll be enough space for you to integrate a workshop area into your Assembly. For bigger workshops there will be a workshop room. Great, we will bring ALL THE THINGS!

Be aware that the space is limited. But assemblies are invited to bring their toys and also to decorate their spot at the Congress – as long as everything you bring with you does not block exit paths and is not flammable. These two requirements are important, and if your installations don’t fulfill them, we’ll be forced to remove them. Yes, we will do some workshops!

If you would like to have small-scale workshops in your Assembly, tell us what you’re planning and for how many people. Please be as specific as possible. We will probably not allocate extra workshop space for your Assembly, if you haven’t published something like a schedule on your Assembly page. For now it will be sufficient to list topics and speakers, later we’d like to see a timetable as well. How about a projector for our area?

We will not provide projectors, canvas or anything apart from chairs and tables, but probably you’ve got those anyway.