Let's go camping! 🏕️

TL;DR - We are partnering with Internet Archive to bring the extraordinary DWeb Camp to Berlin! Tickets are live now - join us there!

If you've been following along, you know the pattern. ETHBerlin one year, Protocol Berg the next. Hackathon, conference, hackathon, conference, and the monthly meetups at c-base in between. We did Protocol Berg v2 last year so ETHBerlin 5 should be next, right?

Plot twist: it's not!

Having attended and admired camps like the CCCamp, the desire to organize our very own DoD-flavored hacker camp had been growing in us for some time now. So, this year, we're doing something different: the Department of Decentralization is joining forces with Internet Archive to organize DWeb Camp 2026 in Berlin!

Don't get us wrong: Hackathons are still our favorite type of event. The amount of experiences you can create and the creativity you can unlock are priceless. But during our 2026 planning meetings we contemplated: How can we take this to the next level?

While we were ideating how a hacker camp organized by the DoD could take shape, the stars seemed to align: The DWeb team asked their community: "DWeb Camp is coming in 2026! Where should it happen?"

The Partnership

We reached out to the DWeb team at the Internet Archive immediately and brought up strong arguments for Berlin as a location but also as an active community in the decentralization ecosystem. We also activated our friends from the Social Dist0rtion Protocol, the Decentral Community, and c-base.

Quickly we realized that a collaboration would be a natural next step: Both organizations exist to foster and expand the open, permissionless internet, and we both believe that the best work happens when you remove the incentive structures that usually warp these spaces.

And today we are very happy to announce that we are partnering with Internet Archive to co-organize the DWeb Camp 2026 just outside Berlin!

The Camp

For those unfamiliar, DWeb Camp is a five-day gathering in nature for builders, dreamers and curious minds, working towards a decentralized web. It's organized by a team at the Internet Archive, and since 2019 it has brought together hackers, researchers, activists, artists and families to build tools for real-world problems: censorship resistance, data sovereignty, identity for the stateless.

This year, DWeb Camp takes place July 8 to 12 at Alte Hölle, Brandenburg, a collectively run venue set in an expansive forest about an hour southwest of Berlin. The theme is Root Systems.

Like forests, decentralized systems derive strength from what lies beneath the surface: dense networks of roots, sharing resources without hierarchy, and coordination that persists even when individual nodes disappear.

If you know anything about our values, and how we think, you'll understand why that resonated with us immediately.

So what are we actually doing there? What we can say: if you've been to ETHBerlin or Protocol Berg, you know what we bring to a room, so expect that energy, in a forest, with a few surprises. We'll reveal more details as the event draws closer, but for now keep an eye on our channels.

Tickets are available now at dwebcamp.org/tickets. Join our public matrix space at #dwebcamp-2026:getdweb.net to get involved.

See you in the woods! July 8–12, 2026, Alte Hölle, Wiesenburg/Mark, Brandenburg