Chaos Communication Camp 2019 Kidspace Kitchen Gear Fund Raising
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tl;dr: andreasdotorg is raising money for Kidspace Kitchen. Send funds
to IBAN NL51BUNQ2207896269.

It's this time of the every four years again: Chaos Camp is approaching quickly.
And as hacker demographics is shifting, we have more and more parents with kids
attending CCC events. And then there's those considering coming, but being
scared of the logistics of camping with kids in the middle of nowhere.

In 2015, we had many people join forces to make sure kids and their parents felt
welcome at Camp. Orga provided a spectacular location and magnificent tents,
but in the end, it was also the dedication of many of the parents that made the
Family Village a success.

I remember considering going with the family, and the Wiki said the space would
be "self-organized." Which to me meant: people need to take responsibility,
or nothing at all will happen. And since I like cooking, I decided to offer
my help in getting food to the families. We ended up supplying about 200 kids
and parents with food, and I did a lot of the organization and my due share of
cooking, together with many other volunteers.

So, here I am, thinking, I would like to do this again. And I know of a lot of
people thinking likewise. Let's make it happen!

One of the learnings of last time is that you need a bit of gear to cook, and
if you don't plan ahead, it might become expensive. We had that glorious plan
of using a clay pizza oven and some brick rocket stoves to do all of the
cooking. And while the pizza oven was a success, we had a bit of an incident
with the rocket stoves. Contrary to rumors, we actually had an agreement with
the fire brigade to light them and see how they do, but in the end, it turned
out they emitted too many sparks to be safe to operate.

It ended up with someone alerting the fire brigade, and they did a very
spectacular performance with their historical fire engine, fire fighter
uniforms, and a lot of water. The kids enjoyed it a lot.

But we also then had to rent a couple of stoves on a very short notice, and
in retrospect, for this kind of money, we could as well have bought them.

So this time around, I'd like to plan ahead, and acquire gear in advance, that
we even might be able to re-use for other Chaos events in the future.

And this is what I started collecting money for.

The plan here is to provide a complete food supply for kids and their parents,
at a clost of €10 per day for adults and kids 14 years and older. Kids between
2 and 6 years old would be €3/day, between 7 and 13, €6/day. This would include
breakfast, lunch and dinner. Dinner will be a warm meal, with both a carnivore
and a vegetarian option (with an attempt to provide a vegan option too).

I'm not collecting that money yet. This here is all about providing an extra
opportunity to chip in for the equipment, especially for those who can afford
to provide a little extra in order to make the experience a better one for
all of us.

So, how much money do we need? The answer to that is flexible. The minimum
requirement would be two stool cookers and two large pots. That's about €600.
But the more pots we have, the bigger the flexibility in terms of cooking
a variety of dishes. Five days of eating soup would be a bit boring. Also, it
would make a lot of sense to upgrade to a field kitchen on a trailer, so that
instead of a loose collection of items we have one neat and transportable
kitchen.

The next level thus would be a Progress 57/4 field kitchen (or comparable),
such as this one:

https://www.ebay-kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/gulaschkanone-feldkueche-progress-57-4-tuev-3-2020/1035659209-276-19906

They're running between €1500 and €2000, and come with two pressurized
cookers with 90L and 170L each, plus a pressurized frying pan of 45L. All of
them have a double wall with glycerin inside to prevent the food from burning.

The ultimate in field kitchens, at least within reasonable civilian
availability, is the TFK 250:

https://www.militaerbestaende-schult.de/Anhaenger/Anhaenger-Feldkueche-Kaercher-TFK-250.html

Starting at €5000 for used in a reasonable condition, they come with 2x150L
pressurized pot, 2x55L pressurized frying pan, 2x28L hot water pot, and
2x78L oven. This would allow us to cook a great variety of dishes.

Now there's probably work that needs to done to get this into a good condition,
so this is where extra money would go into. You can get them fully restored,
modified to work with liquid propane instead of Diesel, towable by a regular
car instead of a truck, painted in a friendly white instead of camo, for
around €16000, which is a lot more money than I would expect to be able to
collect, but hey, maybe one of you is rich and wouldn't mind helping us out
big way. We might be able to arrange to make the donation tax deductible for
larger chunks of money.

So, what do we do with the gear between Chaos events? Obviously, there's more
than just Camp: ICMP, GPN and Easterhegg would come to mind, as well as
Congress of course. If it's just a couple of pans and pots, we just put them
into storage. If we make it to a field kitchen, the plan would be to strike
a deal with an organization such as THW Helfervereinigung: they would take care
of storage, maintenance, license plate, insurance etc., in exchange for the
right to use it themselves when we don't need it.

So, if you like to support Kidspace Kitchen, please send money to either
IBAN NL51BUNQ2207896269, or https://bunq.me/andreasdotorg if you happen to
have iDEAL (don't use Sofort, they'll ask for your banking PIN. Bad style!)

I'd like to close financing end of March, so that there will be plenty of time
for proper planning an acquisition.

If you have questions, feel free to reach out to me on twitter, @andreasdotorg.
This is not an official Chaos thing, I'm acting all by myself, with a promise
to do everything in the best interest of Kidspace Kitchen.

P.S.: We might get a clay pizza oven again!