I do not have the exact number but around 1500€ of equipment was damaged or taken.

The good news, we can earn money and buy things back. The bad news, all community records of floor 1 are gone.

So to the person that took our stuff. Keep the devices but please give us our recordings and next time just ask, I'll lend you anything I brought. Sharing is caring, stealing appealing but only from the upper class. We rave down in the gutters, we are not posh.

This is where the 1% of shit happens. On day 1 some one emptied a drink on floor 2 over the mixer. From day 2-3 on floor 1 the recording device of @NikTheDusky was stolen and so was my whole suitcase in which I had spare cables,adapters, tools etc. Our equipment is/was labeled.
@miketango also had small installations in the hallways to the rave that where stolen.

It is very bitter and I still do not understand why. If you are in need of a suitcase - just ask.

The whole idea is to have a community event. We do the heavy lifting by bringing the decorations and technical equipment and even a few hours of music and then you all can take over and keep the party going. So we leave our equipment there 24/7 so that you can play, have spare cables, adapters, tools and a good sound system.

All of this is sponsored by us - the toilet party crew, a bunch of nerds that love music. We spend our own money on this.

So back to #39c3. We organized during the year, met a new independent rave crew on day 0 and decided that there is enough equipment and power for two floors. We helped each other during the build up and everything seemed to work out.
The idea of the crews was to open up the stages, fill a few slots and then hand the stage over to the community so that you can DJ for your friends and chaos family. No pressure, no commercial interest, just fun.

Since 28c3 I have been to congress yearly and GPN and smaller events were my holidays. I never took home my equipment during the nights. It seemed like every nerd had 1-n laptops anyways so stealing was not a thing. Except for 29c3 when a small projector from our assembly was stolen. It was turned off during the night - mine witch run visuals during the whole event was still there right next to it. But since nothing else was taken I brushed it away.

When people heard that Leipzig was over and we would move back to Hamburg, the idea of a toilet party revival came up. I had grown into the chaos family and had much more contacts then before, ordered 1000 FFP2 masks to the LOC and drove to Hamburg. So for #37c3 we threw together our equipment and managed to build up a floor out of trash and leftovers from the build up crew. As always a bigger sound system spawned on day 1 and we had a blast.

I played my first C3 set containing 4-5 songs on the Game Boy. Then people took over with laptops, brought lights and suddenly a whole PA spawned and the rave was ready to go. The "Sendezentrum" was not amused since the music clashed with the stage. But later that day @tasmo rocked the stage there. That's the first time I met him.
After that year we moved to Leipzig and fun went on. We partied in the elevators, outside, in the halls, you name it. All fun and games

First of all, Congress was a really nice event for me 99% of the time. In this thread I will focus in the 1% that went bad. But first of all background story time.

Storytime: My first toilet party at 32c3 was a wild unorganized event with a lot of sweat and not that muss base. Since I knew toilet DJs from the U60311 in Frankfurt, the idea of partying on the loo was kind of familiar. So for 33c3 I teamed up with the Spieleberatung and brought my Logitech Z623 ->

@viennawriter liebe Mama von Claudia, du hast eine wunderbare, kreative und zuvorkommende Tochter. Good parenting. Willkommen im Fediverse.