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Wanted Films in the Night Cinema

If the topic you're thinking of is already listed, show your interest by increasing the mod counter in front of their name.

P.S.: Please play them in their original Language ! (+22)

P.P.S. : Offer the other languages with an online audio stream ! (+4)

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Wanted Features

What are your wishes about 23C3's style and atmosphere?

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Motto

The Motto is already fixed ("Who can you trust?"). Feel free to add inofficial ones here.

  • since it's going to be the "23"c3 why not have it under some discordian theme? :) the price was fair for 4 days. the mate should be a little cheaper though (or drinks in general). I also had the problem with missing talks because there were to many good ones on at the same time, but it's just not possible to please everybody
    --Finn.

--> +0 -2 free entrance for anyone born 23 of ... .oO(of ... May? Maybe even in the same year the CCC was founded? >;) )

  • "The Time Traveller's Conference"
  • "For those who can tell the difference between present and future"
  • "Use more bandwidth" --Jab 23:22, 21 June 2006 (CEST)
  • "Give privacy a chance" --Jab 23:22, 21 June 2006 (CEST)
  • "Free data for free citizens" --Oni 17:55, 22 June 2006 (CEST)
  • "Free information for free citizens" --Oni 17:55, 22 June 2006 (CEST)
  • "Privacy is gone" --Oni 17:55, 22 June 2006 (CEST)
  • "Privacy gives freedome" --Jab 19:01, 22 June 2006 (CEST)
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Network

  • +4 Usable IPv6 would be fine...especially since the routing advertisements usually gave me an v6 address even when the v4 DHCP servers where down. But what is a v6 adresse if there is no name resolution :D --ankon
    • Others may announce their DNS server from resolv.conf via Bonjour.
    • We are planning to let you set your v6 forward (.congress.ccc.de) and reverse records via a webform this year. And v6 connectivity is definitely on our agenda. -- ZaphodB
  • +4 More 230V sockets in the conference rooms
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Athmosphere

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Place to sit down and have wired net / Hackcenter

  • I would like more places for sitting down and have wired internet next year. It was my first congress and is was very good. Just as i imagined it. Good Work!--anuron 16:47, 31 December 2005 (CET)
  • I still have the impression the Hackcenter tends to be "abused" as an area where people have seats+power+wired net which they use to "play around" mostly. Wasn't this supposed to dedicated for working on projects which are to be shown to other hackers?

    However I liked the idea of that Lounge since it offers a place to sit down & relax + power + net (all of them more or less) to everyone instead of just a bunch of people who got their seats for some projects I usually don't see much of. (you may prove me wrong)

  • Having more wired network connection really would be great. Actually, the only available place for those who didn't have a place inside the hackcenter was at the floor (flur), which was uncomfortable to seat at after an hour. (Don't wonder why the internet connection was never fully used.) What about some tables and chairs next to the network links at the floors?
  • In my opinion the complaints about the hackcenter (no projects to see) were mainly because it was so small (so not many projects there at all) and because of the crowded fahrplan (so everybody was at a lecture instead of sitting in the hackcenter). So please make the Hackcenter bigger again (there was still enough free space in the heacksen / workshop area) and check for "presentation" of projects in the reservation - process. (Even if this means I'm not getting a seat there next time).--Chaos99
    • no "developer rooms" so to speak. Rooms for self-organised events are better. same for the workshop area, if it is no room it goes psychologically wrong Elektro
  • The seating Area in the Hackcenter was a nice idea. How about another cosy seating area in the lounge where they serve food (as in 21c3)? Then all the project makers would not be disturbed by the hangarounds (although I don't mind hangarounds in the hackcenter, I actually think that adds to quality).
And hey, the non smoking request worked very well. It was nice seeing more than 2m :-)
The non-smoking request didn't work very well in the heacksen-area, specially the 4th day.
Keep it going and thanks --stormbringer 11:30, 6. January 2006 (CET)
  • More power sockets and switch ports in the lounge
  • I would strongly suggest that the hackcenter places are controlled better, i mean, that only people with an interresting project, which can be showed to people standing around, should be given a place. Maybee they should even be obliged to create a wikipage beforehand and/or some documentation lying around that can be looked at. I was very dissappointed by the hackcenter as the only group who actually worked on a project there and was willing to share information was the "Hack The X-Box (or was it Playstation) Team" in the corner. Everybody else was either never there or not interrested in conversation or just checking mails or playing CS or ...
    • You did not talk to me, so your argument is wrong.
  • Den hinteren Teil des Hackcenters koennte man wieder mehr fuer die Projekte verwenden, denn bei den Haecksen, Phenoelit und dem Workshoptisch war nicht so viel los, um so einen Platzverbrauch zu rechtfertigen. Das lockt vielleicht auch mehr Laufbesucher in diese abgelegene Gegend.
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Smoking/Air Quality

  • And not to forget: the "atmosphere" was better this time, meaning the smoking policy and the ventilation worked ;-) --Chaos99
  • when there's no smoking at 0°C, how about a smoking room? do not give us less bandwidth :). keep up the awesome work! --ILF 22:35, 5 January 2006 (CET)
    • don't forget the airlock ;-) --Volty 20:10, 17 October 2006 (CEST)
  • +4 Please keep the air as clean again, I think the system worked great!
  • +2 Rent some Fire-Mushrooms, so Smokers don't freeze their arses off, and stay motivated to go outside!
  • I do not think that there are enough rooms for a somking room, because projects are more important. maybe it is possible to create an somking area near to some windows. Like the inofficial at the wireless area :-).
  • how about using the door close to "Haus des Lehrers" to go out to a smoking area. You could put a fence on the outside and smokers could use the door as exit and entrance. The advantage would be, that the Engel wouldn´t have to check as many badges and the cigarettes wouldn´t be scattered on the floor between the now existing exit and entrance. --Äpex
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Food and Beverage

  • ProGast should have definitive more people especially in the bottle-return service. The length oft the waiting queue there was sometimes inacceptable!! Even as the prices for minaralwater there were defintivly inacceptable!! 2,50 Euros, am I crazy? In the Kaufhof Galeria some steps over the Alexanderplatz you can get two bottles of the most expensive (and definitivly better) mineralwater in germany for this price!!!
  • +1 Cold water to refill my waterbottle would be nice. The washbasins in the bathrooms are so sophisticated equipment they just spend you warm water, nothing to adjust (and we know hackers like to adjust). Maybe you switch off one of the heaters and mark that.
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Lectures

  • ppl should get their phones off during the lectures. breeen
Most of the people I saw had their DECT phone switched on because they needed to be reachable. There was only one guy I saw who did actually phone during a lecture, which should be avoided. In my opinion, having your DECT phone on during a lecture is ok, as long as you go out to talk. Pieth (Talk)
  • +6 speakers should get lapel microphone :)
    • Fully agree. We need to give these speakers the freedom to walk around while presenting to enable them to fully utilize their presentation skills. In the past years, some of the speakers were bound to sit (!) at a desk or stand behind a lectern all the time, or use one of the hand microphones that were intended for the audience to ask questions - all of which is a bit dull. --Volty 20:19, 17 October 2006 (CEST)
  • +1 Die Vortragstreams sollten vorher mit gaengigen Klienten getestet oder vorher Taschenzeitmaschinen verteilt werden, damit man nicht nur den Ton empfaengt, wenn der Vortragenden etwas sagt, sondern auch das Bild.
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Content

  • +8 More and more talks are becoming social/political diskussion (which maybe is intended), but also the technical talks are getting less good. Nobody seems to even dare to go into some technical details. That is something I find very unfortunate, 'cause thats an aspect of the congress I won't miss.--Chaos99
  • First of all, I did enjoy the congress. Thanks to the organisers. What I did not like this year, was that most of the talks were very poor in quality (at least the ones I saw, and I saw quite some). I identified three major problems:
    1. Content did not match topic: This can probably be solved by asking lecturers to submit an outline.
    2. Content was interesting, but the lecturer not good at giving lectures: Well, hard to solve if you don't know them. Probably when or before people submit papers they could get like "a short guide how to talk". But I know...
    3. Content was rubbish: A lot of lectures had very promising topics. But what the talks were all about was reading of some specs or presenting something that could be presented in much shorter time.
  • +1 What about discussion talks - put the three people mentioned above on stage and give them a chance to discuss (maybe predefined) topics. There should be some moderator though;)
I missed a little bit the "hacker spirit" in those talks. I don't want a talk like at a university. I would like to see that the guys are actually having fun in what theyre doing and they want to share. If one wants to share, but can not fill a whole lecture, how about a lightning talk? However there were very good talks, don't misunderstand me. There were just more good ones at 21c3. (Of course I did rate the talks)
--stormbringer 11:30, 6. January 2006 (CET)
It would be nice to have some debates, where people working in the same area but with different opinion/perspectives could participate, this format would also allow more interaction with the public that could pose questions to the speakers and challange their points of view. Also more time for questions/discussion at the end of each talk would be good, would make the public less passive. Allow/encourage more interaction with the public during the talks themselves.
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German vs. English

  • +2 -7 I think it would be better to have less english talks. In fact there were very little non-german people, but 80% of the talks were in english. Not that I haven't understood it, but especially in such technically talks just a bunch of not understood words make it hard to get the sense of some parts of the talk.
  • +4 -1 I don't agree with that opinion. If you have less english talks almost everyeone from outer europe will stay away from the congress like they did before the 21C3 when almost everything was in german. That means that the Congress will loose again about 20 percent of the visitors. You're request is almost like changing the wiki to IE only because 80% of the people still use IE and you can use 'nicer' features. I won't recommend it. BugBlue 14:59, 1 January 2006 (CET) [And please sign your message next time]
  • +2 -1 I also wouldn't agree with reducing the number of English talks. Both presenters and listeners should be able to speak English anyways, and having people from other non-German countries around was very nice. A lot of projects nowadays have English as their internal language, and the xC3 is a good place to meet these people. --ankon
  • +1 -1 Aber es macht uns einfach zu einer Konferenz zweiter Klasse. Der CCC war immer kool, weil er auf Deutsch gesetzt hat. Dieses ganze Englisch Weltsprache Missioniere der Gottschalkgeneration ist doch wohl endgültig vorbei. Auf deutsch bin ich produktiver und englische Konferenzen gibt es wie Sand am Meer, da muss man nicht unbedingt auf die radebrechenden Berliner setzen --Elektro.
    • +1 Chinese as a worldlanguage would be cool too. Unfortunatly I don't speek it yet. BugBlue
      • -1 Englisch ist ja gar nicht die Weltsprache. Nicht mal in Europa. Nur als Intermediärsprache auf dem Vormarsch.
  • a few minutes (15?) space between the talks, you need time to walk to the other rooms. yes, and less english talks where good for me. --Bigboss 22:27, 1 January 2006 (CET)
  • +3 It was great that a large number of the talks were in English, however some of the papers then published could of really done with proof reading, and minor editing to make them more clear. I'm a native english speaker, and I would be quite happy to help out with editing and correction next time. --tef
    • I'm more than willing to help proof-read this aswell

--BuZz 22:50, 5 December 2006 (CET)

  • Lectures in german if the speaker isn't an english expert. More tables & chairs on the 'Flur'--Master
  • +2 Talks in english are fine for me, but if you are a non-native english speaker please make yourself some notes!! Some speakers were so badly missing their words, the talk could have had twice the content in the same time if it would have been done in german. --Chaos99
    • full ack! Wer nicht wirklich richtig gut englisch kann, sollte es lieber lassen! Und es muss auch nich alles sofort auf englisch sein. Mann kann auch nachträglich übersetzten! Alle Programmpunkte kann man sowieso kaum live mitnehmen. Vielleicht sollte man schauen, das zu jedem Zeitpunkt deutsche und englische Vorträge gehalten werden. Man geht dann dahin wo man die Sprache versteht und den Rest hört man sich später als Aufzeichnung an und liest gleichzeitig die Übersetztung die irgendjemand schriftlich angefertigt hat. If you can't really speak proper English, don't do it! And it shouldn't immediately be in English. One can also later translate it! You can take along the program points live anyway. Perhaps one should look, which at each time German and English lectures are held. One goes then there where one the language understands and the remainder listens to one later than recording and reads themselves at the same time the translation the somebody in writing made. ) --Took 12:15, 7 June 2006 (CEST)
      • Guter Witz! Auto translated... Ist immer für ein paar Lacher gut. Vielleicht sollte man einfach vorm Vortrag in die Runde fragen, ob > 5% (z.b.) der Anwesenden kein Deutsch verstehen und den Vortrag dann (wenn man es sich zutraut) in Englisch halten. Ggf. sollte man Leo.org parat haben ;) --Riot 19:34, 18 Oct 2006 (CEST)
  • +2 I'm pro english talks, but i must admit, that lecturers who can not speak english should hold their lectures in german. Please, ask a friend or collegue who you trust to give you advise if you are not certain that you speak english well enough. (Also a short presentation workshop would do everybody, not just the lecturers, good.) Yolgie 01:52, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
  • +1 EN: Well how about having the 3 days of CCC as ist was, bi lingual, and adding a day before where specific german themes like "Videoüberwachung an deutschen Hochschulen", and so on are discussed in German ? With maybe an ending day at the end beeing exclusively French ? DE: Nun wïe wäre es 3 tage den CCC so zu haben wie er bisher war, zweisprachig, und dann vorne einen tag hinzuzufügen der spezielle Deutschland themen wie z.B. "Videoüberwachung an deutschen Hochschulen", usw. auf Deutsch behandelt ? Und vielleicht mit einem letzten tag auschliesslich auf französisch?
I like this idea very much, it would be very nice for people coming from far.
  • +1 I am biased, but as someone that has to fly all the way from the other end of Europe, it is frustrating to not be able to go to a good percentage of talks because they are in German. I am not a native English speaker either, but most(all?) people coming from outside Germany don't understand German and if a big % of the talks are in German it is just not worth the cost of going.
  • IMHO I think it doesn't make sense, if non-natives or non-experts in english try make an english presentation, because
    1. "it takes too much time" (look @Chaos99)
    2. guys at the congress are >80% Germans (please, don't compare with IE vs. Mozilla again.. I'm neither IE/MOZ)
    3. pupils (people under 18) and mid-ages (over 40) -Germans do not usally have good english skills (Sorry it's a FACT)
      1. Pupils which visit congress will normally at least understand english. Most people who are involved with computers (more than switching it on and starting games) are at least understanding english. Otherwise they have to learn it if they want to track the developement. --213.146.113.251 21:25, 10 June 2006 (CEST)
Everybody from any non-German-speaking country should try use english or german, but not this rule for Germans .. it's blöd. (tuergeist)
      • Most people who are involved with computers can READ (and maybe write) english quite well. But I have enormous problems to understand spoken english words. Mainly if the guy who holds the lecture isn't really able to speak english well... So as I said befor: Keep a good amount of lectures in german! There will be a lot of Nachwuchs (wich we will need in some few years) from all over germany(maybe Munich) in the age under 20 with yet non-good english skills. And they also had a long travel. Not only "the only guy from SouthItaly" or those who flew "all the way from the other end of Europe" has to travel far to get to Berlin... --Took 12:48, 13 June 2006 (CEST)
  • +1 Just take the congress as a chance to practice your English skills. --Frosch03 14:06, 13 November 2006 (CET)
    • I do :P

--BuZz 22:50, 5 December 2006 (CET)

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Schedule

  • The schedule imho wasn't perfect since a lot of interesting talks were just before midnight (which is good), all at the same time (which is bad), while the not-so-interesting talks were in the afternoon. In case this has been done intentionally, please change it. There's been quite some talks that I now have to watch on video (which is not bad at all as long as the videos are available, which seems to be the case. yay!).
  • a few minutes (15?) space between the talks, you need time to walk to the other rooms.--Bigboss 22:27, 1 January 2006 (CET)
    • Small intermediate breaks are a great idea -- to leave some room for chatting and meeting people. Martind 23:40, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Start at 11:00, make 5 min breaks between two lectures, move the second break (if it is necessary?) to 19:00-20:00 that you have the chance to go to the Alexanderplatz to buy something (e.g. food)--Master
  • +1 only guys which good englisch knowledge should give talks in englisch. All other should use their native language. I also agree with many others here to shift the break from 20:00-21:00 to 19:00-20:00 for getting last stuFF for surving the night. --DaN
  • do not start earlier than 12. leave it at least 4 days. make the hackcenter bigger again (use more bandwidth - with a laptop and wifi?).--ILF 22:35, 5 January 2006 (CET)
  • I think it would be good to offer some 30 min talk slots, although it makes some things more complicated. I feel that 60 min sounds very long to present something smallish for a potential talker. --cfbolz
  • I think some 30 min slots (maybee in the early afternoon) would also allow more people to talk about fun stuff who can not or don't dare to make a full presentation... I'd hope for more untrained but interresting people who actually show things of various aspects... more hacking, more hardware, more science and math, more useable stuff... (And i fully support the 15 min breaks between lectures in the later evening) Yolgie 01:48, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
  • move the break from 20:00-21:00 to 19:00-20:00, so that the visitors can go to shops outside.
  • Change the Standart length of 60 minute blocks. There are many talks/themes that would never fill an hour but are too long to be held as a lightning talk. And there are talks that definitively need some extra 15-30 minutes for discussions afterwards.
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All the Rest

  • I think it was very good organized. To have a bit more info BEFORE the event all the info wich came through the event over the blog or so (e.g. phone numbers, upcoming events, where become other infos, etc.) would be nice as well. --Wonderer 17:13, 1 January 2006 (CET)
  • It has been my second cccongress and I really liked it again. The hackcenter was quite cosy, the WLAN worked almost all the time and rooms were quite big this time. I disliked the price this time :-/ It would be nice to have some DECT Phones to rent or even buy.
  • @1st the organisation-team did a very good job! BUT ... video-recordings of the talks should be stored on public servers @ same day maybe directly after the talk. same to the presentation wich would be nice as pdf. it was sometimes stressfull to decide which talk to see (and hear) and of course impossible if the room was full. if you have an audience of (I think) 90% german it's worth to think about, that non native english speakers can talk in german ... but if you try to place the congress as an international one it needs to have a high number of english talks. TVs outside is a good idea. DECT was great also for hearing the talks. lan and wlan connectivity was great. wardrobe should be free - it's normal that you wear a jacket in winter, which is normaly not needed inside the bcc.
  • 1: Open the 23C3 wiki today. I mean, why are we having this conversation here? We should be having it on next years wiki ;) This would also help in handling someones complaint above about the need for local information (parties, places to eat, etc) before the conference. I would've added such information to the wiki a couple weeks before but there was no wiki to add it to. 2: The saal IRC channels were great, please do again. Perhaps consider logging and attaching them to each lectures page after the lecture finishes. Such logs should strip out usernames and remain anonymous. OR use the interactive edit system that the keynote address had (on joi ito's site) 3: More room in hackcenter if possible. 4: The price was fine for 4 days. 5: Send an open call for people to think of projects next year that can use the 16GB of bandwidth, have them detail on next years wiki (see item 1). 6: The streaming was excellent. In many cases I used this instead of going to a packed lecture room. It also allows one to evaluate different lectures easily. 7: The prices of food and drink were more than outside the conference center but I understand this since I imagine this is the only major source of revenue that the bcc gets from the entire event. I was fine with going outside for food. I would agree though that at least water should be reasonable. Or there should be tap water and cups freely available. 8: concerning the english vs german. I do not speak german. But I do not have a problem if with a 50/50 split. Whatever the percentage was last year was fine. I also think that presenters should speak in whichever language they are most comfortable with. Even if it is german and I cannot understand the lecture. Speakers that were not comfortable speaking in english were obviously so and it affected the quality of the lecture. It is both better for the reputation of the speaker and those attending that in these cases that the speaker speak in the language they are comfortable with. Obviously if they give the lecture in english it might have more exposure, both within the conference and outside (media or review of streams by others that could not attend). But the speaker needs to weigh how well they can speak in english. Honestly, I'm sure I have the wrong impression about several very smart speakers simply because I have trouble understanding their english. In the end though, it is their choice. Ultimately for the conference organizers I would suggest keeping at least as a ratio of english:german that there was at 21C3 but after this ratio is met I would give greater weight to the quality of lecture and speaker over the language it is in --Cyphunk
Dont forget that we have to prepare content, abstracts and so on. For non-native speaker contributing in a foreign language is more difficult and forces us to play the second fiddle. This year there were 93% German speakers but only few German talks. Quality in native language is higher.
    1. Regarding the breadth of things to do, to see and offered, it was the best organized conference I've ever been to - respect to the organizers, very, very well done leute.
    2. 4 days is too long
    3. The quality of the talks (me saw 28 of them) should be higher (!). I agree with strombringer that some people just presented specs or something like that. I think it'd be better to select less but better talks. Also sometimes it was quite painful to listen to non-native english speakers. Have merci on them and let them speak german.
    4. The food in the lounge was quite awful and the personel not very enthusiastic that they had an oportunity to work there

But overall a very goog CCConference --tpo

  • No doubt the congress was great, however I share some of the thoughts people pinpointed.
    1. People who are not comfortable with English, shouldn't use it for their talks if they share the same mother tongue with most of the listeners. Whenever the talk suffers from diction problems, extreme simplistic or even false speech, it is worth to think about which language to abus... err use.
    2. I agree to the criticism on promising talk titles yet shallow talks. Some people might like to dally over having docs read out by some guy, rather than reading it by themselves. I for one like to listen to stuff unmentioned in any docs or simply experience... whatever.
    3. IPv6 was good to have, however it was pretty useless, since there was no DNS for it. Rest worked fine.
    4. I wonder where all the bandwidth went. The 16Mbit were a complete waste, I tried so use something by firing up bittorrent, say upload some NetBSD CD images without hitting 1MiB/sec upload, which obviously is a poor performance for such an insanely great connection at the 22c3.
    5. Smoking at the "Haecksen" was nothing but annoying. People down there didn't care very much and the air was ... well tainted, mostly from the consumption of questionable things resulting in a very very very distinct smell. Too many people mistook the Haecksen as a room for partying, drinking, smoking, shouting.
    6. Please keep this event as international as possible and please don't let this discussion about keeping the conference German, rage out too much. I enjoyed meeting some people from outside Germany alot, so try to keep that.
    7. Keep a 10 minute break between the talks, just to give everybody the chance to get from one talk to another in good time or maybe fetch something for lunch/dinner.
    8. The water price was a joke, c'mon mates 2.50EUR... While ProGast didn't do a terrific job either, I deeply feel for their employees, since they seemed to work long and were hopelessly understaffed. --TomHu
+1 on all those points.
  • How about having a place where people can put their own VCRs and/or streaming devices. This way it might be possible to have the videos online a lot quicker. Roughly speaking one RF-port would be around 2 Euro, so it would be moderately affordable. You'd need a Hausanschlussverstärker and some way to distribute the signal. Perhaps someone can get lots of old antenna sockets, those would be near ideal for this. Each port should be able to drive a few "daisy chained" VCRs. Perhaps there could be DTMF-encoded talk numbers before every talk, as well as a "talk-end" signal. This would aid automated digitalisation of the videos.--Casandro 15:43, 10 March 2006 (CET)
  • Honestly considering a location change to some place with more space,better air,ect.
  • Session Video recording: for those lecture rooms that feature more than one camera (Saal 1), an intercom (headset) between the camera operators and control desk would be great. Reason: If the camera delivers a less-than-ideal picture e.g. because the operator is not so experienced, yet, the control desk operator can "request" correction. Also, last year I was missing the ability to request stuff like "can you get a closeup of xxx" or "zoom out just a little bit, that makes it easier for you to follow the speaker" or "you are on, please don't seek now". This primarily applies to the action camera in front of the stage. --volty 12:31, 13 November 2006 (CET)
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Wanted People

23C3 Lectures are - except some space for latebreakers - pretty much stable now. Feel free to add some more suggestions here, but they are probably too late.

If the person you're thinking of is already listed, show your interest by increasing the mod counter in front of their name. If you want to add a new Person, please create a modcounter with you in it.

  • +11 Danny Bruder (press officer of the c-base) - for a presentation of copycan
  • +2 - Danah Boyd
  • +1 Clay Shirky
  • +1 Dick Hardt
  • +1 Niklas Zennstrom (Skype)
  • +1 Yochai Benkler about his new book "Wealth of Networks"
  • +3 Somebody from the European Patent Office (e.g. Dr. Steinbrener) about patenting of software in Europe v. the U.S.
    • +2 Someone else high in the patent industry could be nice too (i.e. Arnoud Engelfriet)
  • +3 Somebody from Sony, talking about their DRM strategy and security (rootkit, etc.)
  • +3 - Mark Shuttleworth of Canoncial, the "Ubuntu company" about how to make money with FLOSS
  • - Somebody "high" from IBM about making money with FLOSS
  • +9 - someone from GEMA (or a related organization) for a discussion about Creative Commons
  • +22 - Bruce Schneier
  • +2 - Anyone of the living Computer Science Celebrities listed below... and uncountable more [list in alphabetic order, fell free to expand the list if I have forgotten somebody very important])
    • - Vint Cerf
    • - Jon Hall
    • - John L. Hennessy
    • +2 Douglas R. Hofstadter
    • +4 - Donald E. Knuth
    • - Peter Norvig
    • - David A. Patterson
    • +3 - Bruce Perens
    • +2 -1 Eric S. Raymond
    • +5 Guido van Rossum
    • +12 - Richard M. Stallman
    • +2 Bjarne Stroustrup
    • +1 Andrew S. Tanenbaum
    • +14 - Linus Torvalds
    • - Larry Wall
    • +1 Heinz Zemanek
    • +2 - Ken Thompson
    • +2 - Dennis Richtie
    • - Russ Cox
    • +1 - Rob Pike
    • - Hanna M. Wallach
    • - Henry Spencer
    • +4 - John Carmack [1] (to talk about the "amateur" space industry)
    • +2 - Kent Beck
    • KC Claffy (CAIDA)
  • +5 - Theo de Raadt and his blob!
  • +11 - Philippe Biondi and Fabrice Desclaux for their Skype security analysis (cf. their amazing Black Hat 2006 slides)
  • +1 - Niels Provos
  • +5 - Someone from the fsf or fsfe (e.g. Georg C. F. Greve)
  • +8 - Bernd Senf or Götz Werner, boss of DM-Drogeriemarktkette, about the idea of a "guaranteed minimum income" ("bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen"). More on Wikipedia en de taz 27.11.06
  • +2 - Brunnstein (Vermutlich ist Dr. Klaus Brunnstein gemeint. Ein artikel über ihn erschien in der Datenschleuder #54.)
  • +6 - Maxxuss (who ported MAC OS X to PC)
  • +2 - Fravia
  • +8 - Some SoC students telling about their experience & projects
  • +7 - Ilja van Sprundel
  • +10 - Dan Kaminsky
  • +3 Dr. Emmet Brown [invented the flux capacitor (which is what makes time travel possible)]
  • +9 - someone from the One Laptop Per Child project at MIT (formerly "$100 laptop"). Amazing on a technical level, and for its implications.
  • - some programmer from NASA about the usage of Lisp/Functional Programming in their projects
  • +1 Prof. Dr. Oskar von Stryk speaking about the Robocup and robots in common
  • Jesse Krembs - Agent X from Speaker page of notacon - one of the founder os the hacker foundation - "hackers of the world unite"
  • +1 Nick Farr - Nick Farr speaker page of notacon Treasurer of the Hacker Foundation
  • Jason Scott jason scott wiki page
  • +1 Mark Butler (Berlin) - social implications of computer games - virtual and real identities
  • Jaron Lanier about "Digital Maoism"
  • Jack Whitsitt/visual analysis of IDS data (check out his slides and video at RECON 2005)
  • - Jimmy Wales
  • +1 - Marc Ruef on his campaign against WEKA defending his GPLed code (see german news of 2006-07-18)
  • +2 Somebody from the OpenNet Initiativ e.g. Robert Faris
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Wanted Topics

What are your wishes about topics we should cover at the 23C3?

If the topic you're thinking of is already listed, show your interest by increasing the mod counter in front of their name (please, if you add a new topic don't add a +1 counter).

  • +6 -2 - how about some nice discussions on (WMs/OSs/OSS/Security/...tbc)
  • +13 - Hardware Hacking: More.
  • +1 a panel bringing together the different movements (FLOSS, free hardware, CreativeCommons, irights.info, etc.) about "digital freedom"
  • +21 - Cryptography and Crypanalysis: More, but not just beginners stuff please.
  • +8 -1 - OS Security: What about three talks in a row? one guy from Microsoft, one Linux, one *BSD. They can give a talk about future development (regarding to security) focused on the OS they represent. -- John Lambert?
  • +16 - Computer Forensics / Computer-Forensik: Should be a nice topic. And in Berlin is at least one guy who can give a talk;-) Maybe with live experiments?
  • +2 Talk about OpenWRT
  • +5 -3 - Search Engines: Someone from one of the large search engines (Google, Yahoo ...), someone from Nutch (for instance Doug Cutting) and one of the Yacy people for an interesting discussion on the future of search engines, privacy issues, hacking facilitated by search engines ... (-> YaCy: we will be there!)
  • +10 - Security Architecture and how guests are monitored in international hotels / Sicherheitsarchitektur und Gastüberwachung in internationalen Hotels
  • +18 -1 - Vulnerabilities of the Infrastructure (Electricity, Water, Internet, ...) / Angreifbarkeit von Infrastruktur (Strom, Wasser, Internet, ...)
  • +11 - How does air traffic control work? / Wie funktioniert Flugsicherung?
  • +5 -1 - Where does Germany's energy originate? / Wo kommt die Energie für Deutschland her? (European Pipeline System)
  • +10 - Aspects of decentralized energy production / Aspekte dezentralisierter Energieerzeugung (Greenpeace)
  • +5 - Introduction to Constitutional Law / Einführung in Verfassungsrecht
  • +4 - The European Arrest Warrant / Europäischer Haftbefehl
  • +3 - Water-traces-analysis of Stamps (Blackmailer found) / Wasserrestanalyse auf Briefmarken (Erpresser gefunden)
  • +5 -1 - Toll-System / Maut-System
  • +1 - German National Printing Plant - Data-Problem / Deutsche Bundesdruckerei - Datenproblematik (loose translation/freie Übersetzung)
  • +9 - Attacks on VPN's through Botnets (Latency!) / Angriffe auf VPNs durch Botnetze (Latenz!)
  • +4 -4 - Personal Rigths in the Wikipedia Project (Tron Affair) / Persönlichkeitsrechte in der Wikipedia (Tron Affaire)
  • +2 - Clearstream Wikipedialink
  • +6 - How does eBanking work on this planet? / Wie funktioniert auf diesem Planeten das elektronische Bankenwesen?
  • +3 - How does Frequency-allocation work? / Wie funktioniert Frequenzzuweisung?
  • +7 - The state of global IPv6 deployment (6bone expired at 06/06/06)
  • +5 -2 - Tech talks on future web technologies (W3C, Bert Bos?)
  • +8 -1 - Hacker ethics.
  • +12 - Reality check. How we can actually change the world - Introduction to (Web-)Campaigning
  • +9 - something about the GEZ (german organisation that collects money for public broadcast), how they work, how to fight, how they abuse privacy / Was über die GEZ, wie sie arbeitet, den Datenschutz missachtet und wie man sie bekämpfen kann
  • +9 - methods of complete harddrive encryption on servers
  • +6 -2 Free Content, Creative Commons, Wikipedia
  • +9 -2 "don't flickr your friends" - how to use Web 2.0 in a responsible way
  • +6 More about Digital Rights
  • +4 Free Culture Activism
  • +5 Introduction into the political system for beginners and starters
  • +5 2. Korb Urheberrecht
  • +2 Alternatives to the WEB
  • +2 Biotech/GM/Bioinformatics
  • +3 CORBA IIOP / WebServices SOAP/SOA - Security
  • +8 Information Theory / Dissinformation: Practical Instructions (Identity Management, Know what you tell, but also getting [the Information] you want and "The Art of Deception"); Real World Examples (WW2 (Enigma, Zimmerman, ...), 911 & Afganistan, .com Bubble, Insider Trading (Enron and many more...), Tron, Karl Koch, ... but maybee also this notion of Security and so on - "I am totally secure because I use WinXP-SP2 and Microsoft tells me its secure" or "I am totally secure because I use GnuPG/LUKS/dmCrypt/TrueCrypt/... and everybody tells me its secure" (I know, bad exampl - Note to self/anyone:find a better one); Womething in combination with crypto and plausible deniability
  • +3 Operating System Development -or- How to make the bootloader load your own code.
  • +1 -1 SELinux, how it works, how to use it, how to make sure the NSA didn't plant backdoors in it, etc.
  • +3 Spings, Splogs and other crap - How to detect and defeat web related spam and what we learn by observing it.
  • +5 -1 Anonymous file sharing and publishing systems
  • Bringing free computer culture and cloneable hardware to developing countries. A free computer system for the 3rd world.
  • +2 a lot about voting computers, maybe with a life demonstration of such a device (dutch nedap box?)
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