It’s getting cozy! Well over 400 assemblies with countless great projects and ideas have registered, and the requests for seats have reached a new record. Unfortunately, the CCH did not become any bigger last year and the requests exceed the available seats by 1.4 times. To make the colorful diversity of the congress possible, please understand that we cannot fully meet your individual seating requests.

Our appeal: move closer together, build shared places in your assemblies, coordinate with your neighboring assemblies, explore the congress and: be excellent to each other.

You can find your …

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Once again this year, the Heralds will guide through the 38C3 programme. There will be a few changes though.

Would you like to be a part of the Heralds team? Send an email to info@heralde.org by 24 December with the following information:

• Herald category (experienced Herald / mentor, Herald mentee, or community Herald)
• link to a recording of your moderation (if available)
• language skills (de/en/fr)
• favourite topics/tracks (e.g., Security, Hardware, Politics & Society, Art & Beauty)
• availability (day x, morning, afternoon, evening, night)

The Heralds guide through the 38C3 …

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• There will be two Lightning Talk sessions
• See https://cfp.cccv.de/38c3-lightningtalks/cfp for submission
• Further information at https://events.ccc.de/congress/2024/infos/lightning-talks.html

Lightning Talks?

Did you assume that the thrill of sharing your ideas in front of a huge audience at a C3 was something you’d never experience? Do you work on a cool project and want to get the word out? Was your talk one of the hundreds that got rejected? Did you come up with an awesome hack that you need to share? Go ahead and enter your Lightning Talk now!

The 38C3 Lightning Talks consist of two …

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• We categorize workshops, group meetings, short presentations, etc. as Self-organized Sessions.
• You can create self-organized sessions stubs now, but public room booking will only be possible from 17 December.
• An overview of all self-organized sessions can be found in the Hub.
• To register a self-organized session, use the Backoffice of the Hub.

The magic word is self-organization

You want to arrange a meeting of a group or a discussion about a specific topic? Give a workshop? Host a competition or a game? Organize something outside the building? Want to give a short talk or show a …

We have opened the 38C3 Public Wiki – which we generally call “Hub” by now. The hub is meant as the central place for getting information about content at Congress: It aggregates the events from the main stages (Fahrplan), community stages, assemblies, as well as self-organized sessions into one schedule which is then also used by the mobile apps.

You can view the registered and accepted assemblies in the Assembly list. Please note, the Assembly team has not yet processed all registrations and the list will fill up over the next few days.

If you miss your Assembly in the list, …

TL;DR: For 38C3 you have again the possibility to avoid long queues at the congress shirt queue by buying now. We are again organizing the merch presale as a forward transaction (Termingeschäft), so the merchandise must be picked up during the event at the CCH by December 28, 10:00 pm. So only buy if you already have a ticket for the congress! The presale closes on December 20.

In long form: The merch pre-sales of the last two events have turned out to be a practical way for us and you to secure your memorabilia in the cut and color of your choice from the comfort of your computer at home and …

How will accessibility be at Congress? We have learned a lot last year. There are improvements.

What is new or different?

• An issue with accessibility of the Congress Centre has been resolved: all induction loops should now be operable.
• The Accessibility Helpdesk at Infodesk is a place to ask questions.
  • Hidden Disability Badges will also be available at the Helpdesk.
• Using a wheelchair on 37C3 was difficult. Here’s a list of fixed and remaining issues.
• QuietQube has moved one door to the left. Navigation links will be provided soon. The Silent Room will once again be hidden. You can ask for …

Many thanks to everyone who filled out the halfnarp. Thanks to you and the many helping hands of the speaker desk and content teams, we can present the first version of the 38C3 schedule today!

The official program of the 38th Chaos Communication Congress comes up with 7 tracks containing 140 talks with 6625 minutes of program. There is definitely something for everyone! The 38C3 starts on December 27 at 10:30 with the Opening Ceremony and ends on December 30 at 18:00 with “Return to legal constructions”.

For those of you who have been counting by hand or even found the gaps in the program: …

Planning for Congress, unsure what to do there, interested in applying your impressive language skills? If you are multilingual and fluent in German, English and maybe other languages, please consider joining the interpreters team, c3lingo.

We interpret ALL talks in the three main halls and the two community stages live and in real-time. German talks are interpreted into English, and vice versa. Our work is transmitted live in the lecture halls, streamed to the Internet, and recordings are published on CCC sites and YouTube. We have another channel where we interpret into more languages, this …

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. …