Do you remember our camping trip to congress last year?

It was awesome. Never leaving the area, Congress 24/4. When getting tired we’d only have to take a couple of steps out of hall 2 and fall into our beds. In the morning we’d take a quick shower and were back into the fray.

What do you think? Should we do it again to 35C3?

The camping ticketshop is open right now!

You can find additional details in our FAQ. If you’re helping with buildup and teardown, you can use your ticket as of the 15.12. already.

Der Chaos Communication Congress ist in den letzten Jahren rapide gewachsen. Von 3.500 Leuten in Berlin hat sich unsere Teilnehmerzahl auf 6.000, dann 12.000 und nun 15.000 in Leipzig gesteigert. Während die Infrastruktur weitgehend problemlos mitgewachsen ist, mussten wir uns einigen neuen Herausforderungen stellen, die bei Veranstaltungen dieser Größe hinzukommen.

Wir stellen daher unser zentrale Anlaufstelle für Hilfsangebote auf dem Congress und unsere neue Schiedsstelle vor.

Feeling and being safe at Chaos Communication Congress

The Chaos Communication Congress rapidly grew in size over …

“Seidenstrasse”, the pneumatic tube system made from drainage pipe and vacuum cleaners, traditionally makes it possible to send capsules with cookies, hard disks and more. But the extent of it is dependent on the amount of help we get during buildup and especially teardown.

Last year basically 2-3 people did a large part of that work: hanging up and and tearing down the pipe.
That is a lot of work for a few people and has to be spread across more people. Hanging up and tearing down the pipe happens early during buildup in the week before and after Congress.

If you have a head for heights and …

It’s that time again – the Chaos Communication Congress is coming! It may be the second time in Leipzig, but this will be many people’s first visit the Congress – perhaps even your own! Maybe you need a little help to get off to a good start.

Who are the Chaos Mentors for?

You’ve always wanted to go to the Chaos Communication Congress and are interested in topics such as privacy, security, hardware hacking or network policies, but have so far had little-to-no connection to the community? Perhaps, you’ve visited Congress, but you have the impression that you are not one of these “hackers” and …

Tl;dr: Read at least the Important part and register your assembly on signup.c3assemblies.de as soon as possible, but not later than Friday, November 23rd.

Year after year we called for you to come, assemble, build, hack and to be awesome. Last year we asked you to assemble the assemblies to become one even more awesome creature. It was splendid. This year, it shall be created again and thus we call: Assemble, Launch, Go!

For now, most of the exhibition hall is void. Calm. Unwritten. It’s up to us to create spaces, to fill it with lights, sound and atmosphere, with hacks and gear and people. …

Auch dieses Jahr strebt der Chaos Communication Congress an, als Bildungsveranstaltung in einigen Bundesländern anerkannt zu werden. Damit sind Congress-Teilnehmer in der Lage Bildungsurlaub zu beantragen und müssen nicht ihren normalen Erholungsurlaub dafür verwenden.

Bei Fragen ist das Bildungsurlaubsteam via Twitter zu erreichen: @c3edu

Auf dieser Karte ist der …

Am kommenden Wochenende veranstalten der Berliner Hackerspace AfRA gemeinsam mit dem Deutschen Technikmuseum und dem Fachbereich Medienwissenschaft der HU Berlin das fünfte Vintage Computing Festival Berlin (VCFB). Auf dem VCFB dreht sich alles um historische Computer, Software und Peripherie. In Ausstellungen und Vorträgen präsentieren Sammler, Bastler und Museen ihre historischen Computer-Schätze und neu gebastelten Erweiterungen.

Fast alle Ausstellungen zeigen lauffähige Rechner, die auch selbst ausprobiert werden können. Das Thema der diesjährigen Sonderausstellung ist “Grafische …

It’s that time of the year again – we’re opening the presale for this year’s Chaos Communication Congress!

Again, there will be two phases, with the first one starting today.
During the first phase, we will to invite the core of our community to participate in the presale.
It will end as soon as no more tickets are left in the pool for this phase, but by 2017-11-07 at the latest.

During the second phase we’ll open the presale to everybody on a number of pre-announced time slots. These dates are:

• 2018-11-08 12:00 CET
• 2018-11-11 14:00 CET
• 2018-11-21 21:00 CET

We’ll offer all tickets for …

Wie in den vergangenen Jahren findet auch dieses Jahr wieder die RGB2R vom 26. Oktober bis 28. Oktober 2018 in Heidelberg statt, veranstaltet vom NoName e.V. (Chaostreff Heidelberg).

Die RGB2R ist eine Retro-Gaming- und -Computing-Veranstaltung. Jeder bringt Konsolen, DOS-PCs, Commodore, Atari, Amiga, etc. aus dem letzten Jahrhundert mit und verbringt die Tage in netter Gesellschaft, sowie mit viel Spaß und Erinnerungen an die Spiele der vergangenen Jahre und Jahrzehnte.

Für Verpflegung, Club Mate und andere Getränke ist gesorgt.

Der Veranstaltungsort ist, wie letztes Jahr, das Bürgerhaus im …

The Call for Participation for 35C3 is out now. For all of you just checking in to see the diff to 34C3 CfP.

Foundations!

Congress lectures usually cover a lot of bleeding edge topics, sometimes leaving the broader scope out of sight. This year we want to enable both newcomers to Congress and folks unfamiliar with recent developments to refresh their memories or get an introduction to the basics of the field – presented by experts in the fields. And yes, this might mean you!

Time slots

In order to accommodate for the larger venue and to correct for the overly compressed half hour lectures, we …

35C3 – 35th Chaos Communication Congress
December 27. through 30. 2018, Leipziger Exhibition Grounds, Leipzig

There also is a tl;dr-diff to the 34c3 CfP.

The Event

The Chaos Communication Congress is the Chaos Computer Club’s (CCC) annual symposium and hacker party. During four days between Christmas and New Years Eve, thousands of hackers, technology freaks, artists, and utopians get together in Leipzig to communicate, learn from each other, and party together. We focus on topics such as information technology, digital security, making, and breaking. We engage in creative, sceptical discourse …