TL;DR: We have exciting tours to interesting locations in Hamburg. All details over at Hackertours!

Once again this year, the Hamburg team has found exciting places in Hamburg that will take you away from the dens of the CCH for a few hours and let you experience new and interesting things.

Tour highlights

This time we have 15 different tours! Here are our highlights:

Alster steamboat St. Georg

Round-trip on the Alster with a view of the night skyline on board the oldest and only real Alster steamer, the “St. Georg” from 1876. On this exclusive one-hour tour we sail from Jungfernstieg, via the …

In just over a month, the 38th Chaos Communication Congress will begin. That we will have a great time together again and find “Illegal Instructions” is only possible thanks to the many volunteers, called Angels.

Being an Angel is always a great opportunity to meet other beings and take a look behind the scenes. You don’t have to commit now – you can decide to help out during the event.

For Angels (German: Engel), there is the Engelsystem. Register there and visit Heaven when you arrive at Congress. After picking up your Angel badge in Heaven, you can freely sign up for shifts for …

We are calling for music nerds who want to perform for other music nerds at the 38C3 Chaos Computer Music Club and at the Chill Floor.

Whether you’ve built your own instrument, use technology in imaginative ways to express yourself with music, are a contemporary DJ emitting genre highlights far outside the mainstream, a band with a constructive political message, or anything in between, we are calling for you to present at 38C3 – from A like Ambient to Z like Zydeco.

Please note that 38C3 is not a music event and we can not pay you as much as you might usually expect to receive on the market. …

Soo, who wants to get a sneak preview of the colour and image splendour that the 38C3 is going to blow us all away with in December? The designer dream team of Euler Void and Robokid // Luis F. Masallera have really pulled a rabbit out of their hat and we’re now ready to hype you up with the result of their enthusiastic and skillful work over the last few months.

To help you dress your assemblies in matching outfits, colour-coordinate your lecture slides and shape your sewing and crochet projects according to the rules of this year’s design instruction, here is the first round of tools to help …

In what has become a cherished tradition, the 38C3 content teams want to take the pulse of our community and offer you a deal that’s really hard to refuse: You get an early look at what our teams think are the best talks and presentations that will make for a well-rounded 38C3 Fahrplan, and in return you allow us to identify clusters of talks that we should avoid scheduling at the same time.

All you have to do is 1) click on all the talks you want to see, 2) hit submit and 3) skip step three! We’ll take it from there and let the number crunchers generate a collision map that will magically …

Chaosmentors will be at the 38C3! Interested Mentors and Mentees please registers on our chaosmentors platform before the 10th of December at 23:59 o’clock.

It’s that time again - the Chaos Communication Congress is just around the corner! We are back in Hamburg this year and, as always, we expect many new people to consider attending the Congress for the first time. Are you among them? Maybe you could use a little support to get off to a good start.

Who are the Chaosmentors for?

Are you a hacker or a member of another underrepresented group and are unsure whether you will feel …

tl;dr: Register your assembly now at https://events.ccc.de/congress/2024/hub/backoffice/, but no later than Sunday, 24 November, 23:42 (CET).

Hacking and shaping the world together seems more important than ever in light of current developments. Show us how you do it in your Chaostreffs, Hackerspaces or in your basement at home. Get stuck in together in Hamburg! Develop projects, form networks, connect, prepare sessions and workshops … Use light and colour for wonderfully glittering sand in the gears of so-called normality.

Do you just need a few tables to hack on? Or would your assembly like …

tl;dr: The annual Chaos Communication Congress, taking place on 27–30 Dec 2024 at the CCH in Hamburg is looking for workshops, installations, performances, music and artists!

Congress centers and exhibition halls tend to be rather boring and dull spaces. That’s why we are looking for you to bring color, art and culture to the convention. We hereby call on you to participate artistically in the design. There is a lot of space in the congress center and we are counting on you to design it artistically!

Do you have ideas for installations, performances, workshops or other art forms that you …

Good news: Once again we were able to convince some nearby schools to let us use their gymnasiums as sleeping spaces. Tickets will cost 5 € per night. They will be sold at the cashdesk from day 0 until day 4, starting at 18:00. Each evening, tickets will be sold for the current night only.

We have reserved a special allocation for angels who have worked some shifts. Gymnasium tickets for angels will be available at Heaven at all times and for more than just the current day.

Showers and toilets will be available on site, you need to bring your own camping mat and sleeping bag.

Please note: …

For the three major stages at 38C3, the Call for Participation has just concluded. Many great talks have been submitted and the content team is already reviewing them.

As every year, we have had to consider how to curate the other two stages. We found a solution: habitats located around these stages will curate a program together. A team of volunteers has quickly formed to brainstorm tracks, adding their own unique focuses and accents.

The Community Content Team is now looking forward to your contributions – the full call can be found here. Please note that speakers in this part of the …

You are warmly invited to attend NooK 2024 in beautiful Lübeck! The Nights of Open Knowledge will take place on 8 and 9 November 2024 at the Audimax of the University of Lübeck. As every year, we offer a wide range of topics, from highly technical to non-technical.

NooK 2024 is the twelfth event of its kind in Lübeck. Over two evenings, there will be more than 30 talks, lightning talks, booths, and self-organized sessions. Of course, there will also be snacks, Mate, entertainment, and, as always, a giant coloring mural!

Once again, there’s the opportunity to learn soldering, with the THW …

We’re happy to finally announce the presale for this year’s Chaos Communication Congress. It will work slightly differently than last year:

Just like in the past, our presale aims to make sure that both the active core of our community and newcomers can join and shape 38C3. By “active core”, we mean the volunteers/angels who are dedicating their time to make Congress possible and awesome, as well as the many local and regional groups of the Chaos community who each contribute their own perspectives and interests to Congress.

This year, we’re returning to our system of replicating …