During the 22C3 conference, taking place in Berlin from December 27 – 30, LinuxTag Association invites all friends and supporters of Free Software to an informal get-together, looking back to events and results of 2005. Doors open at 8 o’clock p.m. at newthinking store, Tucholsky Str. 48, 10117 Berlin on Wednesday (day 2 of 22C3). Drinks and some finger food will be provided. The is no cover charge. All friends of Free software are welcome. Prior registration is not necessary.

The party venue is some 15 minutes from Alexanderplatz (where 22C3 takes place). Take the S-Bahn to Friedrichstraße …

The BlinkenArea crew is currently developing a new, open-source Jump’n’Run game “BlinkenSisters: Hunt for the Lost pixels”.

If you want to help our effort, we still need volunteers for the following jobs: Level-Design, Graphics and Sound. Please contact CAVAC in the BlinkenArea (the guy with the iBook and the yellow “Pesthoernchen”-Shirt).

Bluediving was just released today on 22C3. It is a Bluetooth pentesting suite, which implements attacks like Bluebug, BlueSnarf, BlueSnarf++, BlueSmack and features like bluetooth address spoofing and more.

Comment by the editorial office: This may explain our warning Bluetooth use at own risk!

Quite a lot of posting pop up regarding 22C3. Please help us collecting links in the Press Review section in our 22C3 Public Wiki. Thanks.

Everybody who is passionate in python hacking is invited to participate at the Python Coding Contest. The shortest python class for solving the following problem is wanted.

“Subject of the contest is to code the shortest possible python module that converts decimal numbers to the seven-segment display format.” For more details look at the job description or ask Sol. The contest will be open until Friday. The winner can select between two nice keyboards.

Although a computer scientist, Constanze Kurz is mainly active in the cultural enrichment of the 22c3: At midnight of day 1 and day 2 (so just at the moment when day 2 and day 3 begin) cultural aspects of current hacker issues are explored in lecture hall 1:

• Tonight Conz will show us how biometrics play a role in Sci Fi films (some of the material is in German, so we have announced it as a German lecture, but even with little knowledge of German, you can follow the lecture, because some of the clips are in English or from well-know films);
• Tomorrow Conz’s audio drama team (from Humboldt …

On the 22C3 Conference Streaming Homepage you can get information, how to receive the audio and video streams of the conference. The audio streams are offered as OGG and MP3. The video streams are being produced in a number of formats. As well, there is a streaming-relay outside, featured by the Streaming Crew of the Forschungsgemeinschaft elektronische Medien (FEM) Ilmenau, which uses the Windows Media Video format. There you can get some videos on demand already.

If you have trouble while watching the streams, check out the newest version of your media player, e.g. mplayer or VLC.

An easy way to find blogs and blogger writing about the 22c3, besides our weblogs site in the wiki, is using technorati.com. In addition to our collection of photo-galleries (add your gallery there), don’t forget about all the pictures on flickr.

Not on the 22C3 – but at this time of the year still around: The championships of the lockpickers, organized by the Sportfreunde der Sperrtechnik actually takes place in Hamburg. tagesschau.de reports about.

Unexpectedly, there are some bluetooth-hackers out. They are very good. The first person had to send his or her phone to the service of its manufacturer. We recommend you to switch of bluetooth at your mobile phone off or at least to use it in the non-discoverable mode.

If you are a speaker, please check in at the conference organisation team. Its office is located in room B03, which you find at the end of the B-Ring (ground floor), opposite the conference rooms. There you will get an introduction, the golden rules for speakers and a copy of the proceedings if you submitted a paper in time.

It’s done. The FTP Search is online:
http://ftpsearch.congress.ccc.de/ffsearch/

Have a lot of fun!
(This year the ftp search is powered by sun :)