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we got to do this in English right
because this is an
English this is an English one hello and
good afternoon in Civic temp in Civic
functions we're here on Friday afternoon
it's day four on the stage of Norse X
and we have a little talk and
introduction into how to sticker and how
to do it right and with love from SED
stock this is Manu this is Marie and now
I'm Gonna Leave You All to it
[Applause]
enjoy thank you hi I'm Marie some people
know me as Shiro as well um I'm based in
Berlin and one and one of the first
things I did when I joined this
community was to make a sticker because
I wanted to be part of it and because I
didn't really get a lot of stickers so I
had to print my own and and um I've been
designing And archiving stickers to this
day and I run an archive that keeps
growing I have one and a half Ikea Shelf
full with tickers by now yeah and uh I'm
Manu uh I'm an alien from odenberg and
uh I've been at chaos events uh for
quite a long time by now but I've only
been uh active in the community for the
last few years uh I've been uh doing
stickers before though so I've got a
little bit experience of that as well
and yeah the sticker thing got me into
volunteering with a few other groups as
well like Dart and Scher for
examp yeah and we'd like to start with a
little story about how and why there is
a sticker operations center um I don't
know if you remember but in Hamburg at
Congress yeah that's like very grandma
is but there was like a lot of tiny
sticker boxes and hacker spaces would
just have a box on the table and you
take some stickers and You' like roam
around and find a lot of stickers and
then we went to light and everything was
really big and confusing and for us it
started with this giant queue if you've
been in leig you maybe remember you had
to stand in line for one hour to get a
few stickers and there was a sign that
said this is the end of the queue and
you're really happy if you could pass it
to someone else because that meant
you're not the last person anymore and
when you arrived at the table someone
had like German style sorted all the
stickers which meant also like the good
stickers were coming immediately because
there was no like commitment to
searching people just take whatever was
glittery and it was gone immediately
there was Nightmare to get stickers with
kids for example you can't ask a kid to
queue for an hour uh it was Nightmare
for people who don't have the commitment
to stand in line for one hour to just
decorate their laptops so uh we decided
that we'd fix that um and at I think it
was 35 C3 I don't know why were 36 um we
decided to do something about it I got
in touch with a few people including
Manu and we made a signal group and we
talked to a few people at CCC who knew
about how stickers were distributed and
who brought which
stickers we made a logo and we printed
some flyers which maybe was a bit over
the top but we thought we needed to
explain what we're doing and um some of
us were so committed that we immediately
had hoodies before it had
started um I mean we merch people right
and we printed tons of stickers and
brought bags to make sure it was
distributed every day and that was the
results we had a lot of sticker boxes
unfortunately these pictures are not the
best because we took the pictures before
the boxes were filled which was not
clever um and the way it worked was that
we worked with caos post and you could
bring your stickers to cpst cpst had a
collection of the zip bags and each had
the name of an assembly on it and the
cpst angels would just put all the
stickers in all the bags and we'd ensure
um even distribution of stickers like
this of course people could put their
own stickers but the idea was like at
that point we were like basically saying
we're activity Pub for stickers and
we're federating all the
boxes CP had been like growing a bit
bigger from Nick far's little thing and
Nick was happy to help us make it happen
and um basically the caos post
volunteers made sure that our ID worked
what was a lot of work for us is that
you may not know that at Congress uh two
EUR pallets of stickers get delivered um
and those are all for free and they're
like hidden in some place so nobody can
steal them and they're uh distributed on
day four because they're scared that
people stick them on the walls if they
distribute them too early and we had I
think 4 hours of just sorting those to
create as many sticker boxes as there
were leges and it was a bit crazy
because we made like this big pile of
stickers that we wrapped and we wrote no
not stickers on it which obviously
didn't help um and we had like five
volunteers guarding the piles of
stickers while walking through the holes
and moving everyone to the side to then
drop the boxes and people go like and
all like jump on the sticker boxes it
was one of the most fun things we
did and yeah that was the results the
sticker boxes with absolutely no queue
and we're super happy and we thought
we'd do this again and people attack us
to get the stickers again and we like
fight it off and it's going to be super
fun yeah so uh we were really excited to
maybe scale it up a little bit and do it
again the next year but um the next year
obviously was no Congress because of
some pandemic or so
and sorry where are we now I I need my
notes I'm sorry
yeah um so we couldn't uh have uh any
physical sticker boxes of course but
um I was really missing Congress and I
wanted to have at least something and I
think a lot of uh people who bought some
uh new devices laptops also over the
year would appreciate if they had
something to put on it because we all
know Hardware stickers uh make Hardware
better and a little bit faster I heard
so um I've uh taken inspiration from the
street art community um there is
actually um uh kind of global street art
community you can imagine it a little
bit like uh pen pads who are exchanging
stickers and sending photos back and uh
such and I thought maybe we could do
something like like that as well so
people could send us uh stickers and we
would just uh mix them up and fill them
in the uh return envelopes uh which was
a good solution because um we also don't
have to store any personal data for that
um we just drop it back in the uh maybox
and we're done
and um yeah I already had a PO Box for
collecting those and um I knew I would
have to do it alone because uh Shiro
didn't have time to support me so uh I
just went ahead and did it it because
how bad can it really be
right yeah
uh
the feedback was pretty good uh it was
accepted pretty well um the top left uh
picture over there um that's uh the the
content of the P box for one day was
pretty pretty close to the deadline
already but uh one day still um I didn't
take very uh good photos from then uh
because I thought why documented that's
a oneof thing we don't uh we won't do it
again um yeah but it was a good
distraction from uh not having a
Congress and I think for the first
attempt 930 envelopes sent back to
people with stickers in them is not that
bad so yeah people really liked it as
well um we got a bit of uh donations for
Mar and some people put even chocolate
or tea or something in there some uh
little notes and um for some reason I I
had the idea to just um create a stamp
with um uh saying like the the talk is
named uh from C Thief stock with love so
people would immediately know what's in
their
mailbox and yeah that was also received
pretty well I think and yeah people were
generally really
happy and
yeah but we are also happy that we could
also have um actual sticker boxes again
the next year
right no exactly that also didn't uh
didn't happen so um we did it uh all
again we were discussing a bit and she
was able to help this time so um we were
uh doing it in uh Berlin collectively we
um set up a PO Box in Berlin and uh got
uh room from cbase to sort the stickers
in and as you can see um the donations
also were quite uh generous so we could
uh send the community or could send a
lot back to the
community and yeah a bunch of learnings
from last year got lost because we
wouldn't think uh we'd have to do it
again and yeah the number of envelopes
we sent out was about as many as the
year
before and now we can do a sticker uh
box thing again right not
again uh this was a really hard
discussion because it's actually a lot
of work to do um uh to sort all the
stickers and to fill the envelopes um so
we pretty much did the same thing as the
years before but in a more comfy place
and with a bunch of more Helping Hands
at that time the stickers we received
were plenty and also the donations enabl
us to not just eat fast food all the all
the days and uh just get something
proper and uh yeah the stickers people
send it were really really uh
amazing and um yeah we got still got
lots of stickers and um donations
uh uh
in uh remaining so we could print
stickers for this camp on and just drop
them uh if we have them left
over
um yeah those this is just for rough
estimation uh how much work that
actually is this was the second year I
think which we carried uh
to uh the uh the post office um and this
time we definitely decided to not do it
again even if there would be no Congress
uh this year so uh we we're done with
that it was fun but um we're not doing
that again although we would uh like to
provide some help or tips for people who
would like to do
so yeah so now you know why we exist uh
next time at Congress in person please
um and so you can do that we'd like to
tell you a bit more about how to print
your own stickers because we don't see
ourselves as a group of people who print
stickers we do that as a side project
personally but we do distributions which
need means we need stickers and we need
you to print cool stickers uh we're not
professional we're not designers uh
we're just two nerds who started making
stickers and learn how to do it uh
there's probably stuff that could be
done better but um that's what we
learned by uh doing uh C stock for like
four years now and um we'll start with
design and I'm sorry I know this is
really stupid to start like this but
there is no absolute rule um I'm not
going to tell you this is how you make
the perfect sticker and how you're sure
you're going to do it a sticker really
depends on the message on the community
some Styles fits some type of stickers
uh but generally I've brought you um
pictures of stuff that doesn't work well
um how we Define doesn't work well is
they get send back to the next exchange
uh that's generally a good sign um
they're left in boxes at the end of
events that's also generally a sign um
and it's a bit rude and we like the
projects here but those stickers
generally not the best
idea um it's provocative I did this on
purpose I didn't want to [ __ ] on Tiny
projects um the reason why this doesn't
work well is that it's stickers that are
just logos they're not funny they don't
really have a message they're actual
advertising for something and generally
that looks quite sad it's not very
creative it's not fun um the reason some
of these are beloved is not because the
stickers are good it's because the
project they stand for are good and so
these projects have fans for example I'm
sure you'd like have that Lo brunett
politic sticker that Debian sticker on
your laptop but actually the sticker is
not good it's just because you like the
community which means if your project is
not famous yet and you that sticker
nobody will know what it stands for and
nobody will take it so this is not the
way to use your sticker to get
visibility this only works for big
projects um I need to be rude to myself
too this is my job prototype fund we
have these two stickers uh the above one
is just a p it doesn't say what it is
also it comes on that blue sheet so
nobody understands it's a p and the
other one says super user with very neon
colors the one that we still have piles
off is our logo and the one that we need
to reorder some from next week is the
super user one um although it doesn't
say anywhere it's prototype fun I see
people at boxes saying Ah that's the
Prototype fun sticker because it's so
good that people remember it and to be a
bit more positive with the projects I
did before this is next next ploud and
net politic stickers that I had on the
list these are the good ones these are
the ones that are like taken out of the
boxes they're funny they have jokes on
them they like make fun of certain types
of logo that's what
works another thing that doesn't work
and I'm switching to a back dark
background to show the problem is white
background stickers sometimes there's a
reason to do white background sticker
because it's just part of the corporate
design of that thing but if you just
like take whatever sentence or logo you
have and you put it on black that's what
on white that's what it look on a dark
laptop and most laptops are dark also
those will get very dirty so people
don't like them um transparent can also
be a problem if you don't print
expensive transparent because there's no
white underlay so you don't see them on
dark
laptops and these are just too big this
is a normal laptop 30 in you can fit
three stickers on that laptop with that
size people have a lot of stickers after
an event they'll want to put as many as
possible on the laptop print small
stickers you think it's less visible but
at least still be on the laptop
so there's exceptions to that these
rules as I said the lbet politic sticker
disappears immediately when it's uh
taken it has a wi background some of
them are giant and uh it's just a logo
so it really depends you can make
exceptions but if you're starting on
stickers if you've never done them maybe
avoid these things
um and for the rest we just recommend
look at designs see what you like and
maybe don't copy but let your be
inspired by these designs and for that
we brought you a few stickers that we
particularly like as examples of what's
good to do yeah that's an uh example I
brought uh it says B please touch uh
it's um a play on the uh traffic light
signal for pedestrians and I just like
it because it's simple um it's easy to
understand and it um encourages
interaction with the surroundings at an
event or at
uh your hacker space or whatever and um
yeah usually you would put this on
things you wouldn't encourage anyone to
touch like I probably less harmless
parts of a machine just as a joke though
if it's protected from people actually
touching it or uh I don't know you could
use it as a weird way to give consent
for things or whatever and yeah that
kind of play um uh with yeah with the
things uh surrounded uh that you are
surrounded with uh I just really enjoy
so that's why I brought this
example I uh brought a classic um
everyone has looked for that sticker in
a box after Snowden at some point if you
were at Congress at that time it's the
NSA monitor device sticker sticker it's
still being printed it's in boxes at
this Camp again uh we didn't do it like
the different people from the community
Do It um it's a great example of a style
where you take something that exist the
NSA logo and you make a joke based on it
you change something about it that can
be like just a nerdy joke or also a
campaign thing um we've seen a lot of
those in the community um it's easy
because you also need don't need really
design skills you just need to figure
out how to change the logo but you don't
need to invent something um there's also
the whole n Dunka atom craft n Dunka
with everything stickers and that kind
of similar uh Vibe and um this also has
been printed in silver but I had to
photograph the yellow one because
sticker silver stickers don't print well
um but look out for the silver one it's
really
cool if you want and can to invent
things though um I uh would like to show
you this example uh that's an original
artwork by mulana um it's I think it's
just a good artwork and it's
Incorporated a political message uh for
uh net
nutrology uh I don't know if you can
read that it says uh Liberty uh let's
all live in Liberty equality and net
neutrality or something close to that uh
wording and yeah it's also a play on a
well-known phrase like the French
Revolution theme or motto and uh another
reason uh I like this design is because
it's uh licensed on a creative common
license like you can just go to mil's
website and download it and uh use it
for your own things and it's also a good
bad example for this uh particular one
because uh it's super large I don't know
if you can see it but uh this is
actually uh stuck to my wall at home
because it's so large small ones now yes
I know she brought small ones now and uh
they are actually pretty pretty small
like uh like something like 3 4 cm so
you can perfectly put them on your
laptop and still have plenty space for
other
stickers
um not everyone is a genius at drawing
like mulana so this is a more simple
example of something you can do this
says the internet is [ __ ] uh it's
just a simple gradient which always
elevates a sticker like that's the thing
you can do if you don't want that wide
background it's like a lot of attention
has been um put in the font the
lettering it's not even clear if it's a
font because letters look different
depending on where they stand I love the
minimalism this is a beginner sticker
it's not made by a beginner it's made by
a professional design designer called
Molly but um it's what you can do if you
want to do a sticker with a message um I
like that it's a little poetic it's not
even political we don't need all the
stickers to be political um and it's not
trying to sell anything it doesn't have
a logo it doesn't have a URL it's type
of stickers that disappears in stickers
boxes really quickly when they're there
yeah just like the next example uh this
is also pretty hard to see but it's also
pretty hard to take a good picture of uh
believe me I've tried uh that's a small
holographic sticker with a black print
on it which is a negative print of the
fairy dust rocket it's also pretty
simple uh and pretty small but uh it's
shiny and it has a fairy dust on it and
uh I like it
so um not everything has to be politics
uh just small bits like these uh work as
well and the last example we brought is
this it's just series series of stickers
are so fun you make one design you make
different word things this is B it was
very very beloved in the 2014 15 years I
really want them to reprint them or do
new in the series um people still like
them I've got a few left people always
want to have them uh it's a great way to
do something where you can play over the
congresses and camps for example you can
make a new design every time um making
series as refund we've also seen some
people can play with series but just
like sticker one from 16 two from 16 and
you can chase them all there's like
really fun place with series happening
right now um if you want to make your
stickers you also need to know some
technical stuff so that's what we share
now yeah usually people don't really
know where to start when they have an
idea for a sticker design so um that's
also how it usually works you first have
the idea and then um try to figure out
how to actually get it
into uh uh physical uh sticker uh
sometimes you already have a format uh
in mind like if you want to imitate
another sticker or warning label and uh
that's uh when it uh makes sense to go
ahead and uh check some uh sticker
printers for if they provide that uh
that format or uh that size or whatever
otherwise uh usually makes sense to just
start with an empty canvas and uh just
go um we obviously uh biased towards
free and open source software here so uh
we can't really tell you uh much about
proprietary software that's often used
for things like that like Photoshop or
in design or I don't know and uh yeah
keep keep in mind we're not
professionals as well we're figuring
this uh uh out as we do it ourselves and
uh there's a few things you have to keep
in mind uh if you are creating a sticker
uh there's um there's different kinds of
designs
um there's uh vectors vector graphics
for example which is good for
um uh for logos for for simple flat uh
designs uh that uh don't have anything
more than a gradient going on scales uh
into Infinity which uh without uh
increasing in size very much and uh
um are limited in the way that you
cannot really um use it to display
photos or uh paintings or uh whatever so
that's something you need a bit map for
um which uh gets uh large and five size
really really quick uh but uh enables
you to do things you cannot do with
vectors
um yes also if you want to use a photo
um of uh some event or something you uh
need to work with uh with uh bitmap um
there are three main tools we are aware
of and we use ourselves more or less um
usually we are inkscape users which is a
vector graphics tool it's open source
works on Windows Mac OS Linux and
probably a few more and
yeah that's what we use most of the time
I think and uh if we have to um edit a a
bit map a picture a photo uh that we
want to include in that design we
usually do that um modification in [ __ ]
the new uh image manipulation uh program
and then uh references all embedded in
the um design file um creature is
gaining popularity uh Rec recently I
think it's able it's mostly used for
digital painting if you have a graphics
tablet for example but you can use it
for other uh pixel manipulation and uh
it also provides a set of vector tools
as well but uh we are not experienced
with that um we're just aware of it that
is probably a good uh choice for
Designing
stickers um there's also few things you
shouldn't forget uh when you send your
design to a printer once it's finished
uh screens and printers mix colors
differently and if you just convert it
from one um color space to to another to
another um the color that uh results
from that usually looks a bit off so it
um ends up looking weird or completely
different in some cases depending on the
on the color and you usually want to
adjust the color once you converted it
um inkscape for example does not um
really provide good support for
exporting or saving files to cam YK
which is what printers use um so you
usually have to um use some extern toes
uh scribus is one of them for example
you can just open a PDF VI uh exported
from scape and map the colors on there
that works pretty well um another thing
that's oh and K also can do steam R
fights out of the box so that would make
it easier as well um for some reason
it's always complicated in open source
tools I don't really know why that's a
thing proprietary sare does really
really well um you also also should
include uh either the fonts in the in
the PDF if you make a PDF for prining
because uh you probably or likely use
some fancy fonts which not everyone has
installed on their computer what you
also can do is just convert it to a path
so it's just handed like a regular
shape and you should also make sure the
res uh the resolution is uh good and not
U some I don't know photo from a digital
camera like 10 years ago except of
course you want to use that as a design
element um resources where do you find
resources you can include in your
stickers um that's a few um platforms
you can look up if
you um want to include some commonly
used uh uh Imaging uh uh images like
icons for example there's a creative
comment search for uh photos you can
easily reuse there's um platforms for uh
looking up uh SVG files or icons or
Microsoft Word clip arts from I don't
know how many years ago and um a lot of
ideas emerge from events or hanging out
with friends though and I encourage you
if you have an idea when talking with
your friends for what would be a funny
design
write it down so you might uh be able to
reiterate it
later and
yeah another really really important
thing when uh printing stickers is get
feedback um there's designs uh that had
obvious flaws that uh I designed before
um which I just didn't see so uh it's
important or a good practice to ask
friends for feedback maybe uh that
design is of could be read or
interpreted as offensive in some kind of
way maybe there's misspellings or some
things look just weird and you don't
really want to spend a bunch of money on
stickers that uh you are the only one
who uh who enjoys or uh finds funny or
understands although that could be funny
in itself as
well so now we're coming with uh
Printing and I'll try to be fast so we
have time for uh questions and to do the
whole talk um so first don't print
stickers on your label maker unless
you're at like at the event and want to
make reaction stickers that can be fun
but generally um those labels don't look
nice uh they're not good in sticker
boxes they break in sticker boxes then
it makes clumps of stickers stickers
that stick to each other um also don't
buy label label style stickers from
printers uh that's like generally the
cheaper option at printers like fly
alarm or uh the rolls of stickers uh you
have to cut them by hand they'll break
in the sticker boxes and they're mostly
R off quite quickly uh we don't want to
advertise for printers uh research is
key it depends on your budget some are
more ethical but maybe you can't afford
them um it also depends on uh what you
need like for example special papers and
it depends on your location we just want
to say for your information these really
cool stickers that you see everywhere
with the official Congress and Camp's Lo
logos and a lot of like right now we
have the we are lizard we can do
anything stickers or like the is does
the Ste relevant all that stuff is given
away for free by a company called stigma
uh so they're really used uh to doing uh
stickers for congress um and we've been
working with that them quite a lot but
um that's just like almost the official
Congress sticker printer there's a lot
of other STI uh
printers um generally go for outdoor
prints those are more resistant uh some
of the others uh scratch off rub off
quite quickly but be careful that the
outdoor quality is not only um a UV type
of uh layer that just makes sure it
doesn't Fade with the sun uh they really
need to be scratch resistant generally
it's vinyl stickers um if you're uner or
a tiny batch that means you plan aead uh
and check that batch try to scratch it
off with your nails and see if it
resists
a bit thicker are good uh around 90 M
micrometer is generally good and of
course fancy prints are expensive
sometimes you can find them for okay
prices if you do your research I'm
thinking holographic stickers glitter
stickers all that stuff people really
love it it gets taken from boxes
immediately they don't even care what
the messages it's shiny people are like
kids at Camp they want the holographic
stickers um and sometimes making a tiny
exclusive batch either like as
appreciation for Community or like just
to hide a few in sticker boxes can be a
really fun thing and what's really
important is that you should read the
specs every printer will write somewhere
um how to prepare your files for
printing that means like margins for
like them to cut the sticker correctly
that means uh special colors that stuff
um in Germany it's mostly called dtin
blood at fly alarm for
example um you'll make sure that uh you
have to read this correctly other we've
seen a lot of stickers where you have
the black outline in the sticker or like
you have a part of a sticker missing and
that's like very disappointing you work
so hard for your sticker and then it
comes two days before the event and it's
not as you wanted another thing is um
how long in advance you need to order
the sticker generally they say weekdays
and then they say yeah but the night
from this from from the first night it
doesn't count and all that stuff always
at three days on top of whatever they
say to make sure you get your sticker in
time we see so often hey sticker
Operation Center we ordered our stickers
but they're not coming in time what do
we do and we can't change that either um
then there's a question of how many um a
lot of people ask us how many sticker do
you print um there's not one size no one
siiz fits all if you go for the fancy
print maybe printing 100 is also a
really fun thing um depends on the
sticker If it's a sticker for one event
or one campaign it's going to be
obsolete by the next event if you just
doing the internet is [ __ ] you can
like put that in boxes for 10 years and
people will still be happy um um depends
on the side of your community if you're
like just started to produce a very
Niche open source tool maybe you don't
need 10,000 stickers but if you're
printing T project stickers 10,000 is a
good thing because everyone wants
them um and in general we say less than
thousand is not a lot just think how
many people come to Camp how many people
come to Congress if your sticker is
really fun and really General uh a lot
of people are going to want it uh go in
the thousands it's also much cheaper per
sticker except if you're doing like the
special sticker for example if you help
at sticker Operation Center you get a
holographic uh sticker Operation Center
sticker um hint hint um and that kind of
stuff can be really fun to do in your
community yeah uh then the last part
once you got your sticker is uh only
just how do I get it to the people and
the obvious uh solution is bring it to
events even small on doesn't have to be
Camp um could also be you're just
hanging out at a hacker space in uh in
another city or uh are just traveling
around in general
um mind uh the um the the existing
sticker boxes uh though maybe they are
sorted in a specific way or uh it's also
never nice to just add uh throw um into
a sticker box that that's maybe uh 50
stickers in it like uh the Thousand
stickers you printed all at once so
people have to um to fetch them out
again anyways u a little bit like the
chaos Mar Chula stickers which are good
design but there's just sometimes a
little much of them and you could yeah
just get try to get a feeling for what's
appropriate and also have in mind that
uh other people might have other uh
other
um um ideas of what appropriate means
um yeah what was I going to say yeah
don't flood
boxes yeah that's basically
it um oh that's you yeah um so in person
at CCC um first we'd like to say we love
you um without you we'd be um we would
be idiot with empty boxes without you so
like stickers only work our exchange
only works because there is a community
and people actually make stickers bring
stickers and it's so awesome um what we
normally do is not what we've done at
Camp normally uh we do that chaos po
thing we told you about earlier um that
worked really well and we hope to do it
again at next Congress um if you want a
participate in sticker Operation Center
with your village which we would love um
you need to make sure that you have a
very large box
not a deep box it's it's really hard to
dig into deep boxes and you break all
the stickers get a large box you know
these boxes that go under beds that
slide out of plastic they're perfect for
that maybe you brought your material in
one of these boxes it's much better than
card box where like the stickers go
under the flaps
um there was also at the last Congress a
table it was awesome they spent months
working on it it had led strips it was
really called three c36 for sticker
exchange which people were confused
about you maybe remember it and it had
one big issue it was backlit so the
light came from behind the stickers and
you couldn't see the stickers anymore
because you're Blended by the table and
people are like what's that sticker is
that what I Want U make sure you get the
light from above not from
below um and for the remote exchanges we
say if you want to do something like
this it's really cool people love it do
it but come to us ask us everything we
did wrong everything we regret Ed doing
and um try to learn from our mistakes
it's a lot of Works uh both the packing
of the sticker envelopes takes time and
um the preparation you need to
constantly be talking to people you have
to set up clear rules and deadlines um
we would set even more rules and
deadlines and people hate us for that
but the reality is that you deal with
all formats of envelopes all type of
stems where you can put different
weights you need to sort that then it
comes from different countries and you
have so many variables that you can't
work quickly because everything needs to
be so custom and then like 10 to 20% of
the people will send you a letter being
like hello sticker Operation Center
great you're doing this please please
give me more stickers than the others or
I want only stickers about
whistleblowers and we're like how do we
do that by doing each envelope custom so
like do it in a very standardized way
like one type of weight one size of
envelope is the better way to do this um
you don't want to sort it at the post
office if you have six bags of them yeah
we showed up with six bags with
different types of envelopes and the
post office were like well we would need
this them sorted by stamp amount of
money of the stamps and uh we spend an
hour in a post office starting envelopes
in front of very grumpy people who are
used to work with business people who
just brought like these business crates
and were like sorting stickers on the
floor two days before the Christmas
break or something like this learn from
our mistakes talk to us and remember you
provide a community service uh clear
communicate your boundaries for example
I'm not doing this after Christmas
anymore it's over if you're late you're
late um because that's your
right yeah there's also um a few
projects uh that are related uh to
stickers um like uh Ms for example he's
uh been starting to collect uh sticker
designs for reprinting and uh remixing
and just to keep track of what the
community is doing and also the the
hacker archive who is um trying to
basically do the same thing but not also
uh not only for stickers also for uh
other documents and uh things so um if
you'd like to
um provide your your designs so others
can build upon it as well just um feel
free to submit it to one of those
projects and another thing that's really
important to me at least is uh if you're
printing stickers create your own own
archive you want to uh be able to go
back and uh reiterate or remember uh
what you did before maybe where you got
it printed uh in what quality how it
ended up looking and sometimes it's just
fun to revisit everything especially if
you've done it for a few years or more
um we not really aware of more projects
related to chaos or hacker stickers um
yet so if you know of any or run any or
I don't know uh feel free to contact us
um we are we do like to um contribute as
well oh I'm sorry I'm not a good public
speaker I'm getting used to this as I'm
doing it right now um so uh what we did
at this Camp was basically a very very
light version of what we did at Congress
um we don't have the central drop uh off
point at chaos post um we just try to
um watch out for sticker boxes so they
are roughly um uh filled all the time
and not too full and don't Jo Mt as well
um I've seen a lot of Amazing Security
designs uh Super Creative uh once and uh
I really love to see uh what you've been
doing uh for the last uh two years or
more um I also uh really enjoy the many
secret boxes that popped off uh popped
up everywhere and also the way it was
communicated like people are announcing
them publicly I've even seen some uh
angle this te news like the volunteering
system has a news for where the sticker
boxes are and uh yeah I think you have
one day left for hunting and collecting
stickers so
uh I hope you have a lot of fun doing
that and uh yeah I think we want to
close with the thank you right yes um
we're on stage we are generally running
State Operation Center but we had many
volunteers over the years people have
helped sorting stickers people have
helped organize stuff uh chaos post has
helped a lot so thank you to anyone
who's helped us if you want to be part
of the sticker Operation Center at
Congress we're probably going to need
some helping hands to sort stickers in a
secret location for a few hours if that
works again um cpst is going to need
people to carry stickers and not only
envelopes if they accept to work with us
again which we have not checked yet I'm
not going to announce anything and uh
thank you to all the people Mak sckers
distribute them we have so much fun
still digging in boxes although we are
swimming in stickers all the time uh we
still go hunt and come to each other and
go like have you seen this one it's so
cool uh please keep doing that um and
get in touch with us um if you'd like to
help if you need tips about how to run
exchanges uh we will publish uh these
slides we'll make them public after Camp
uh we both broke our computers so we're
like a bit in uh issues which also means
why we have not finished our blog post
we're going to write a how to um make
your own sticker which will be published
in time for you to make your Congress
stickers with links and everything that
was just a rough overview um and we'll
do it in writing and with even more
details thanks everyone
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all right um I think we have time for
one or two questions at Max so who is
interested in having a
question perfect the two of you get
questions the rest is
out thank you very much for what you're
doing um do you have big boxes of
stickers then from one year to the other
if you just collect everything at the
end of the year um so at congress with
our old system we don't do that we tell
whatever Village runs a box can take it
home for their hacker space and if they
don't want to we try to distribute it to
the community uh between the exchanges
we had stickers at home which we don't
want because we have flats with limited
space like everyone else and we also
think uh they can like take dust at our
place or be in a hacker space box so we
brought 90% % of what we had left from
the exchanges to camp and the rest will
go to Congress uh we like I have the
archive which is like a few of each
sticker but we don't have like big
boxes hi thank you for the talk um do
you have experiences with actually
making the stickers on your own like
buying the vinyl and then doing like
stickers with spray paint or SE printing
or so uh a little bit yes uh that's also
really fun to do and that's uh probably
a good uh section for the howto as well
uh it's just uh little bit harder to get
uh started with it in especially if you
want to scale it up except for maybe
screen printing if you're experience
with that so I I don't know like
painting by hand or stenciling stickers
uh I don't know uh if I would put
something like that on my laptop if I'm
honest um yeah also I did it myself but
um yeah that's uh also a a way to do it
if you like and last thing if we have
hacker passport people here we have our
stamp if you'd like to have your stamp
passport
stamped all right that was it for SE
from love
with with love from C3 stock finally um
thank you Marie thank you Manu what an
enlightening talk
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