Summary

We are here to share our knowledge of food&drink preparations, bio techniques, experimenting wildly inspiring people by our creations! Our venue, which we open to the public, functions as an open lab where people can learn, experiment, discuss and do whatever seems fun around the topics mentioned above. You can come to our donation based workshops or run one of your own, make a meal with experienced chef or if you like just hang around talking and sharing with other likely minded people. This year our motto is "make our own" so we prepare as many ingredients like cheese, kimchi, beer etc. by ourselves documenting the processes. By supporting us you make this lovely international food, drink and bio hub happen, thank you!

Introduction, about “us”

Our group, Food Hacking Base (fhb) includes wide variety of people with taste ranging from highly "experimental rather crazy" to more conventional interests like DIY sous vide, beer brewing, cheese making etc. We have been promoting these activities on major hacker events for years functioning as a hub for people with similar passions. What we do we share as you can see on our profiles at our fhb wikies and blogs. For organization and further promotion check our mail discuss, IRC, Facebook and Twitter. We do like technology and coming up with new tools and devices to make cooking and brewing more fun is definitely on our agenda, as for example our project experimental incubator illustrates. Our motto could be summarized as "learning the ancient wisdom of traditional societies and merging our ancestors knowledge with today's scientific understanding&technology".

When the time of the event comes we are there open to all, after months of previous preparations of the core group. You can come to the donation based workshops, where no one is  turned away for lack of funds, to learn something new like how to make your own delicious sushi or rice beer, listen to or give a presentation on some interesting topic like “advantages of veganism” or just hang around talking to people with similar interests exchanging ideas. We build and run facilities which are supporting of all above including experimental kitchen, workshop venue, biolab, washing area etc, with your help! What we do we document and share with community as our contribution to the open source paradigm with the hope of changing the world for the better and "enjoying the ride!"

To find out more about what we have ready for CCC camp 2015 check the section -This project, bullet points-, for more detail information how do we function there, what are the money going to be used for etc. please have a look on -The Base in detail-. For the “up to date info” go for our FHB village CCC camp wiki.

Please spread the word and many thanks for your support, greets fhb folks!

This project, bullet points

What we have described above needs to become reality, this campaign will help with that creating place where people interested in experimenting with foods, drinks and bio can meet, talk and share. There will be workshop venues, experimental kitchen, bio lab, presentation desk and multimedia corner. As usually we need material for build up of the tables and working benches, tools and equipment (pots, pans, stoves), and of course food ingredients! Having this we will be able to make exciting experiments inspiring people to DIY as we did at OHM2013, the last CCC camp in Finowfurt, 28c3, 29c3, 30c3 and 31c3  congress and our tours.

Donations which we receive and do not use will be set aside for the future projects and events, and possibly for compensations of some of the travel and participation cost of people involved, we however minimize the later.

If you want to know more about how the FHB will be used, please read on at the next chapter -The base in detail-.

The base in detail

CCC congresses and especially the camps are an amazing events where foods&drinks play great role to bring people of variety of backgrounds together breaking the ice more easily. Fhb project does that in an active way focusing on learning, sharing and promoting these arts. To understand how we work, it is the best to pop in and see it. If you feel bit shy ask at first someone around if you can help with something, stay around for a bit and you will get it quite pretty fast, at least the basics. Don’t worry,  take it easy our “only rule” being “be excellent to each other”. We may be busy at times but we always keep some quiet corners to chill out. We want to improve what we have done at the last gatherings and in order to do so we need community of people like you to grow.

What will you than find as “facts on the ground” there? In short before we dive in it, there will be experimental kitchen, workshop venues, biolab presentation area, washing area, multimedia corner and chill out corners are mandatory.

Experimental Kitchen

As before we will build a decent experimental kitchen where you can food&beverage hack, suiting up to six people at time quite well. There will be again shift system to take care about preparing breakfast, lunch and dinner for 25-30 people max, four people at least taking care about that during the shift. After eight in the evening or so the shifts are over and free wild experimentations without any special requirements are on. Due to the business of the "main experimental kitchen" at previous events we want to make smaller alternative one suiting two people or so which will be available through out the day for free experimenting. 

Workshops

The workshop venue will be there again, this time actually we think about having two of them because we were quite out of space and time slots at the previous events. Each venue should fit up to 15 people for hands on experience workshops and around 20-25 persons for demonstrations and tasting events. All workshops are donation based, no one turned away for lack of funds. As examples of above think of kombucha brewing or cheese making workshop as hands on experience ones and cheese, homemade beer or whisky tasting as the demo/tasting events. You can therefore learn from an experienced people how to make variety of things and taste numerous samples to get an overview on given topic like cheese, wine, kimchi etc. so you can start to do this at home or at your local hackerspace having the basic knowledge to build on.

With help of other groups we would like to build up a biolab so we can have workshops including aseptic techniques like mushroom growing, pure strain microbial cultivation, pH measurements etc. more details on this section will be added after we coordinate with others but we can say already that this year it really looks promising!

Food Hacking

We provide all of the above to the community knowing that promotion of good food and drinks to our fellow hackers is very needy and important thing to do. It works like this: first we get the attention of the people by giving away delicious tasters. When we get their interest up we invite them to further "elucidate" themselves both theoretically and practically, learning during hands on workshops how to make their own kombucha, kimchi, growing mushrooms or building their own incubator, the topics are as numerous as people who are involved. We try to keep in touch and document our activities online, our fhb wiki portal is there for that. So it is really up to your preference, you can pop in, have look and hang out a bit but also experiment wildly and share with the community, we do our best to provide for all.

After the event

What we do starts at the events like this but goes way further. We aim to inspire, bring the people together around these topics building a network of enthusiast and interlinking them. When they come back to their homes and hackerspaces they continue with these activities supporting each other which definitely matters! This is making the hacker movement more social and "human soft" with the ancient art of food and drinks in it's core, keeping it up to date based on an open source paradigm. It has brought peace into the lives of our ancestors for thousands of years, let's cherish it too.

Sharing

As before we want to redistribute some of our equipment, tools and building materials after the event to the communities and people who want to use it, hoping that some of it will join us again temporarily at the future events, please get in touch if interested! We really don't like stuff laying around under the dust to the "next time", "now is the time to use it" sounds much better to us.

Financial

For further info about how we spend your money have a look to our FHB CCC camp wiki especially on the budget section.

Bitcoins - we are very happy to accept Bitcoins (more than any other currencies to be honest), please use this wallet!