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39C3 – Haecksen Workshops

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 08:00:00 +0200

Once again, the Haecksen will be enhancing the Congress programme with a workshop room! The Haecksen are a group of FLINTA people with an interest in technology, aiming to promote intersectional feminist perspectives within the hacker scene and STEM professions. The Call for Participation for the Haecksen workshop programme is already live. Now is the time to submit your concepts for workshops, discussion groups or evening events.

Especially FLINTA persons and marginalised beings are invited to submit their workshop ideas. For your inspiration, here are the four tracks:

Diversity & Inclusion
Skill Sharing
Community & Activism
After Hours

The full CfP with all info and the submission form is available on Pretalx.

The deadline for submissions is Saturday, 22 November 2025, 23:42 (Europe/Berlin, UTC+0100).

Lectures, music, art, punk: Join us at the 39th Chaos Communication Congress!

Sun, 28 Sep 2025 16:00:00 +0200

We invite you to enrich our programme with your lectures and the 39C3 with music, art, and punk. The call for participation in four fields is now online.

The Chaos Computer Club (CCC) is inviting to the 39th Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg at the end of December and is now asking for your ideas for lectures. You can also support the best hacker party of the year with your music and art performances and with punk.

Please read our Call for Participation carefully, before submitting ideas. It includes practical tips and guidance on how to best present your submission and how to avoid common mistakes.

We are planning presentations on four stages. We will therefore select around 130 presentations from your submissions, in the following tracks:

Art & Beauty
Chaos Community Creations
Hardware & Making
Ethics, Society & Politics
Science
Security & Hacking

Please note: We are publishing four different calls for participation today. If you submit proposals for stage presentations, music performances, art installations, or punk at our Späti, please do so via the respective calls.

The deadline for all submissions for the stages is October 24, 2025, at 23:59 UTC. We plan to notify accepted speakers by early November. 39C3 will take place from December 27 to 30.

Links:

Image CC-BY-SA 4.0, jannik

PrivacyWeek: Call for Participation

Mon, 10 May 2021 18:37:07 +0000

TL;DR

#pw21 “Sea of Data”
Date: October 25 to 31, 2021
Call for Participation: https://cfp.privacyweek.at/pw21/
Motto: Sea of Data
Location: online-only

The CfP is Open

The call for participation is now open! Enter your contributions for #pw21 with the motto “Sea of Data” here:
https://cfp.privacyweek.at/pw21/

How the world will look like in October, we can hardly predict. What we can do is, making an online PrivacyWeek happen that satisfies our requirement of being a safe harbour and a compass for everyone, who finds themselves lost in the vast sea of data.

As every year we organise a full week of talks, workshops, art projects and discussion panels around the topics:

privacy
digitalization
impact of technology on society
data protection
net politics

With your contributions, you shape the PrivacyWeek and we’re very much looking forward to it.

Like last year, #pw21 will be online-only. So your possibilities are:

talk or workshop as online livestream
talk as pre-recorded video with a fixed schedule slot during PrivacyWeek with live Q&A afterwards
your art project (e.g. movie) as as online livestream with a fixed schedule slot
your art project as pre-made online event that can be online for the whole week for time-sovereign discovery by the guests
your contribution to a discussion panel as online livestream

There will be no physical stage anywhere, so everything will happen from your couch or desk at home.

Submit your contributions here: https://cfp.privacyweek.at/pw21/

We’re very much looking forward to your contributions and to organizing another great event together with you.

Your PrivacyWeek team

rC3: Call for Participation

Thu, 05 Nov 2020 19:17:08 +0000

The Event

This year’s Remote Chaos Experience (rC3) brings together entities from all over the world in digital space. Between Christmas and New Year, we want to try out together what’s possible in cyberspace. We want to talk to each other, exchange ideas and learn from each other. We will talk about hardware, making, science, IT security, politics and whatever else.

Common CfP

The rC3 is a distributed event by us for us. Therefore, the different community stages in different cities play the decentral main role.
All community stages will have access to this CfP, so you submit your contribution to all of them. Of course, you can also directly submit to your community stage of choice.

Contributions can be lectures, workshops and panel discussions or the like. It is important that they are streamable and allow remote participation.

The following Thematic tracks are waiting for you:

Ethics, Society & Politics,
Hardware & Making,
IT security and
Science

If in doubt, simply submit your contribution to the track that fits best. In particular, we encourage submissions traditionally categorised as art and culture to do so.
A detailed description of the tracks can be found below.

Chaos Studios, Live-Streams and your living room

The rC3 will take place primarily on screens. But not everyone is comfortable to perform alone at home. That’s why there are several “Chaos Studios” where you can perform on a stage – if the situation allows it, even in front of a small audience. There we can either pre-record or stream live, just like at home.

This gives you the following options for your lecture or workshop:

Livestream from your favorite office, living room or similar
Livestream from a “Chaos Studio”
Pre-produced recording (e.g. if your Internet connection is too unstable for a live presentation or you are unsure whether you want to speak live into a camera).

In any case we would be happy to have a live Q&A with you after your presentation! Please note that the format is not limited to lectures or workshops. Your art project can take place as an online livestream with a fixed schedule just as well!

You don’t have to decide yet how exactly you want to participate. If your submission is accepted, the Recording Management Team will sort out all technical details with you. You will be asked for a quick way to contact you (preferably a telephone number) so that we can reach you on the day of the lecture independent of the internet.

If your contribution is accepted, there will be a technical rehearsal in any case. Please be prepared for a one-hour test run in December.

Schedule

November 20, 2020 (23:59 UTC): Submission deadline (no extension, sorry!),
November 30, 2020: Notification of submitters about accepted papers
1. to 20. December 2020 possible pre-production and setting up of the lecture possibilities
1. to 24. December 2020: Test slots with all speakers
December 27 to 30, 2020: Remote Chaos Experience

** Click here to make your submission.**

Info about the tracks

Ethics, Society & Politics

Track Ethics, Society & Politics focuses on the societal, ethical and political implications of technology, and on all aspects of digital life.
We especially invite talks with regard to:

Technology and Climate Change
Platform regulation
Civic disobedience in the digital sphere
Emerging technologies – let’s shape the unknown!
Activist, phantastic, solidaric, and non-commercial ideas, concepts and stories are very welcome. If you shape society and technology with positive energy, this is the track for you.
Click here to make your submission.

Hardware & Making

This track is all about developing and using things that allow the digital to make a physical impression.

On the one hand, our focus is on the whole process from architecture, planning, creation and debugging of things of all kinds ranging from textiles, musical instruments, robots, means of transporting people and mate, launching stuff into space, alternative energy supplies to medical tools – everything that actually requires getting our hands dirty.

On the other hand, we’re acutely aware of the need balance building hardware and sustaining a livable planet. So please tell us your stories about the expansion, repair, regaining sovereign use of technology and liberation of proprietary systems – from the decapped smart-card to the firmware of your toaster to a modified agricultural machine.

Of course, we’re open to surprises: hit us with all the things we can’t imagine yet – and of course rockets!
Click here to make your submission.

Security

This track is looking for content demonstrating the influence of security aspects on users and machines. We welcome technical submissions focusing on security problems and their solutions in both hardware and software.

If you want to share your discoveries with thousands of fellow security enthusiasts, if you have developed new solutions to previously unsolved problems, or if you have found new problems which we knew nothing about, we want you to present.
Click here to make your submission.

Science

The world is a complex place and improving our understanding of it is more urgent than ever. In light of pressing issues such as the impending destabilization of our climate, or technological developments that have the potential to disrupt our social, cultural, and economic systems, ignorance is clearly not an option anymore.

This track is looking for contributions that increase our understanding of these pressing issues from a scientific perspective.

If you happen to know the nitty-gritty details of, e.g., climate feedback loops, ecological or social systems, renewable energy, sustainable farming, artificial (general) intelligence, gene editing, city development, or if you think you can shine a light in other areas you feel that a broad audience needs to know about, please submit a talk that doesn’t stop at the basics!
Click here to make your submission.

Further information

Language

Since the Remote Chaos Experience is an international conference, much of the content is presented in English. If you do not feel comfortable with English, it is no problem to hold the presentation in German. We prefer a fluent, confident presentation over one with linguistic insecurity. If you want to give your presentation in German, your submission should also be in German so as not to confuse the participants.

Publication

The lectures will be streamed live and recordings will be published afterwards in various formats under the Creative Commons License, Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). For media, this license permits the commercial use of excerpts within the scope of their reporting.

Assemblies

In addition to lectures and workshops as groups or individuals, you can also help shape the larger social program. As a virtual assembly, you can create space for community content, projects, workshops and installations. Please see our Call for Assemblies.

Meet the 36C3 track team “Resilience and Sustainability”

Tue, 03 Dec 2019 23:23:36 +0000

We’re 36C3’s Resilience and Sustainability content team and want to show you just our bit of work that helped making this year’s Fahrplan as amazing as it has turned out.

Our team consists of hackers and scientists, tinkerers and PhDs and was formed for 34C3 when we felt that the conference was developing a blind spot between complete destruction of all the IT things and the fascinations for the resulting apocalypse. We wanted to give a stage to new and shiny useful technology for a better and more resilient world – with actual prototypes!

This year’s motto “resource exhaustion” added a perspective on sustainability to the track – even though the term is rather overloaded. There’s a plethora of conferences selling you on the most recent hypes about how machine learning, crypto currencies and the cloud will save the world, but we think that it is in the spirit of this community to question everything, think and focus on technology that will last for much longer – both physically and from a software engineering point of view. We found it fitting to see how the existing resources can be used and reused, who’s building resilient technologies that can help people in emergencies, oppressive regimes or off-grid situations, and – in a broader scope – how can we build the systems of the future not riddled by the problems of our generation.

Along the way, we hope we can make software developers think about the impact of their busy-looping JS, bad communication patterns and faulty software architecture – all of which are significantly contributing to climate change.

The concept of resilience itself – especially combined with sustainability – is rather interdisciplinary, part hacking and making, part science and politics. This puts us in competition with other track teams trying to catch the most interesting lectures for a given subject, but also allowed us to trade slots with those teams as well, once we were running out of our allotted time budget. ;)

Next year, we hope to collect the “haveyoursay” feedback much earlier so we can incorporate your feedback and follow your suggestions for valuable speakers and topics.

While we were quite pleased with the submissions we found once CfP kicked off, our curation process started way earlier: Reflecting on feedback we received after 35C3, we came together in IRC and RL, brainstormed about interesting projects we heard about in the past year, thought about relevant topics and identified speakers worth having.

Even then, the speakers we “invited” still had to go through our rigorous curation process. After all, our team received a total of 74 lecture submissions and had to narrow them down into only 15 hours (in 18 lectures) of 36C3 programme. We vetted each submitter, trying to make sense of their submission, read their papers, ask and answer questions and spend the remaining time meeting and coordinating with all the other track teams, before finally writing this blog post! If we add up all the time spent preparing our 18 lecture foot steps in the Fahrplan, we’re looking at one or two weeks full time work for each of us.

In the end we’re quite proud of the topics we could cover this year. Of course, we’re still not short of topics to cover next year :-) It’s time for more critical reflection of wastefulness within the computer nerd scene and how we can minimise the environmental impact of our C3s and Camps in the years to come.

36C3 content teams running full steam

Tue, 29 Oct 2019 16:58:41 +0000

Last Sunday at midnight the submission period for our Call for Participation ended. The last submission, by a Swiss, landed just in time at 23:59:20 UTC. Our content curation teams will now use the next two weeks to review, rate, sort, and ultimately decide on a large number of submissions. We intend to inform all submitters on November 11th on whether we found a place for them in our Fahrplan.

At the time of our coordination meeting on Sunday there were 690 pending submissions in our system. To put this into perspective: If you would want to just spend a minute to review them all, you would be busy for eleven and a half hours. Another way to look at the numbers is that nearly five percent of 36C3 participants have applied to present a lecture!

Among these submissions the most popular tracks are “Ethics, Society & Politics” with 237, the “Security” track having 194 and the “Science” track seeing 82 submissions.

The following table contrasts the numbers of submissions this year with the numbers of lectures accepted for 35C3. This means that (assuming a similar amount of lectures this year), some teams have to reject 82 percent of their submissions, sometimes heartbreakingly so. The sheer range and creativity of the submissions left us deeply impressed with the energy and wisdom that is sparkling within our community. All without us offering a single cent of speaking fees.

Track	Submissions	Slots
Art & Culture	49	18
Ethics, Society & Politics	237	42
Hardware & Making	49	16
Resilience & Sustainability	61	16
Science	82	21
Security	194	39

To complicate things further: You gave us valuable feedback on our haveyoursay interface, which helped us identify important issues not yet covered by submissions. Of the over 2,000 comments you sent us, around a third was constructive and helpful, with some of them pointing to things other than the conference program where 36C3 could improve. So in addition of the submissions already in frab, some of this year’s content will be filled by invitations by our content curators.

What this all means: Each lecture that makes it into this year’s Fahrplan has prevailed against tough competition and each presenter we could not accept to the conference can be sure that they belong to a group of high quality submissions that had to be turned down solely due to time constraints. We simply do not have more than four days and five stages. With all high quality rejections alone we easily could fill two more conferences. And while our teams often try to explain their decisions together with their rejections, the overwhelming number of submissions makes answering each and everyone of them a time consuming effort. Also, as stated above, the most common reason not to accept a lecture is the simple lack of space in our Fahrplan. So if you receive a rejection email with that reason, please don’t take it as a cheap excuse.

But who are those in charge of selecting 36C3 content? At the moment, lectures are curated by six teams with three to ten main curators and an extended set of reviewers – all in all around sixty people now eagerly working through all those submissions. Some of them have introduced themselves in this blog in the past.

Some team members have introduced themselves on their social media accounts and actively work on encouraging potential speakers to submit (just monitor #36c3 to find out who they are), while others prefer to just help anonymously. And a lot of work is needed: Starting even during CfP submission periods, around 250 lectures needed to be fixed up, their durations, event type or tracks corrected, questions answered by email, co-speakers manually added, and typos corrected. With those bureaucratic nuisances out of the way, all submission now have the best chance to shine by their merits.

Over the next two weeks, our curators will now have to dive into the actual details: analyse the substance, verify claims made in the submissions, clustering them by rough topics, researching presenters regarding their expertise and ability to present – and to verify they do not accidentally invite PR drones, intelligence service, or military personnel on stage. So if you see storms of visitors on your social (business) media accounts, just smile and wave at our curation teams. ;)

Our teams are made up of experts in their respective fields, sometimes working in their domains for decades, who can tap into their vast networks to help estimate a submitter’s history. We want the speakers to present their own work, we want them to present for their enthusiasm for the topic, not money. We want them to be role models, not rock stars. So it is important that our teams find out who the speakers have been working for in the past, where they have presented and how that turned out, and if the conduct in their communities might raise objections to having them on our stages.

In the end we need to find a balance between novelty and community traditions, presentation skills and domain knowledge, entertainment value and soundness, allowing newcomers and tapping into weathered experts, presenting utopists and realists, as well as topics with global impact and niche expertise we think will be important soon.

With so many knobs to turn, we know it’s impossible not to be disappointed with the outcome of certain promising choices, and in the end each 36C3 participant brings a slightly different set of interests, so it might very well be that you find parts of the Fahrplan uninteresting and some lectures worth being replaced with others that you might find more interesting. But keep in mind, there are 16,000 other attendees who might disagree.

One last thing: While the content teams curating the main stages have the longest traditions, they’re by far not the only teams working on content presented at 36C3: As usual there will be self-organised lightning talks, which you can submit at https://c3lt.de/ once its 36C3 section is live. Also there are at least three decentralised stages at 36C3 assemblies that await your submission now: Chaos West will be running a stage at their asssembly, you can submit to here https://fahrplan.chaos-west.de/36c3/cfp, the Freifunk community has kicked off their CfP here https://talks.oio.social/36c3-oio/cfp and, last but not least, ChaosZone just opened theirs as well https://cfp.chaoszone.cz/36c3/cfp.

Oh, and one more thing: If the stars align just right, this year there might be a Hacker Jeopardy again!

Image by Florian Kleiner, CC BY-SA 2.0

19. Gulaschprogrammiernacht

Mon, 15 Apr 2019 18:28:34 +0000

hello world

tl;dr: Let’s do the GPN warp again! Sign up join.gulas.ch, submit your ideas cfp.gulas.ch and bring your friends.

Long awaited and often requested—the time has come. We invite all of you to this year’s Gulaschprogrammiernacht.

Save the date:

GPN19, 2019-05-30 to 2019-06-02 in the HfG/ZKM, Lorenzstr. 15, 76135 Karlsruhe, Baden, Baden-Württemberg, Europe, Earth, Sun,** ?-Quadrant, Milky Way****, Laniakea**

More of the same

The Gulaschprogrammiernacht has everything for the discerning hacker: Talks, workshops, demoshow, flashing lights, lots of music (always both too loud and too quiet), two (!!!) hackcenters, enough Mate for all of us (some say it’s the years stock for Karlsruhe), tons of Tschunk, an epic lounge, and a fantastic outside lava-lawn (*lava not included). Oh, and as always: yummy goulash in a meaty and vegan edition. Once again, this is your chance for four days of collective hacking, talking, socializing, and chilling till the bytes come home. Everyone is welcome, from the ‘usual suspects’ to newbies as well as all other interested parties.

Talks/Workshops

The amount and quality of talks and workshops at the GPN depends on you! We are eager to hear about your submissions on all kinds of topics for all the different attendees. You can submit your talks and workshops at our Pretalx cfp.gulas.ch. If you don’t feel up to the task yourself but know of people you would love to see at the GPN, please talk to them and refer them to this call for participation and cfp.gulas.ch.

Please keep in mind that this event is attended by a wide range of people that may not be as well versed in your area of expertise as perhaps at a specialized conference. Please also try to make your talks accessible to the widest range of audience possible.

The talks will be recorded by the C3VOC and published on media.ccc.de. As a speaker, you can of course opt out of being recorded at any time.

Trolling

Like all other Chaos events, the GPN only works thanks to the help of many volunteers that keep everything running, from the info desk to the livestreams. Whoever wants to lend a hand is encouraged to do so and can (soon) register with the Trollsystem troll.gulas.ch.

While most tasks can be done by anyone, training for particular tasks will be provided to those who need it.

Important links

Sign up for GPN19 join.gulas.ch and submit your talks, workshops and gameshows cfp.gulas.ch and respect our code of conduct entropia.de/GPN19:Care

We are trying to reduce barriers at the GPN for all kinds of people. If you have suggestions, please share them with us at: entropia.de/GPN:Barrierefreiheit

Troll (with) us: troll.gulas.ch.

To stay in touch with friends and especially to coordinate with the orga during trolling we have established a DECT system that is based on ByoD (bring you own DECT). You can register your DECT at: poc.gulas.ch.

For any further information please visit the Wiki: gulas.ch

mini-FAQ

“How much does a ticket cost?” – There are no tickets and admission is free. The GPN is funded by your contributions, the prices for food and drinks are kept low. To finance further iterations of the GPN, we rely on and kindly ask for your donations.
“Why should I register if there are no tickets?” – We need some preliminary data to estimate how many chairs and tables to book, how much Mate and ingredients for goulash to buy. Textiles and other merchandise have to be preordered during registration. You are of course free to come to the GPN without prior registration, even though it would be extremely helpful for our planning and other preparations.
“What are trolls?” – Trolls are all people helping us run the GPN, they are very much the same thing as the angles at other chaos-events. Come to GPN and troll (with) us!
“Is there going to be a gym or other accommodations to sleep?” – Unfortunately, it was (and will) not (be) possible to organize a gym or other accommodations. If you need a place to sleep, have a look at the couch exchange in the Wiki entropia.de/GPN19:Unterkunft.
“I still have Questions!” – Please visit our full length FAQ! entropia.de/GPN19:FAQ If you can’t find any answer to your question there, send us a mail at info@entropia.de.

Pictures by GPN18 CC-BY 4.0 »Florian Köhler, cheatha.de«

What’s new in 35C3 Fahrplan?

Tue, 11 Sep 2018 15:50:18 +0000

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 changed our Fahrplan raster to sport 20 minutes intervals, making room for a default lecture of 40 minutes and extended lectures of 60 minutes with 20 minute breaks.

We will return to a scheme with two major breaks of ~45 minutes for you to relax, eat, and meet.

Double Features are gone

Double features just did not work out and introduced a lot of stress, so we skipped them.

Focus on Q&A

We will use the extra time and more relaxed breaks to allow for more Q&A. So the standard lectures are meant to be 30 minutes plus 10 minutes Q&A, the extended lectures 45 minutes plus 15 minutes Q&A.

Rooms

To make room for the more relaxed Fahrplan and our Foundation talks, we will open a fifth Saal in 35C3.

Helping hands with titles and abstracts

From this year on, our content curators will actively work with submitters to improve titles, subtitles and abstracts if we feel they will confuse our audience.

Invite Co-presenters

You can now invite other presenters to your lecture in frab, using the “Join event” button. You can see the required token (or a direct link) when clicking on “edit” for a submitted event on the bottom of the page.

35C3: Call for Participation and Submission Guidelines

Tue, 11 Sep 2018 15:50:08 +0000

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 on the interaction between technology and society.

We’d love to see your submission for one or more of these tracks:

Art & Culture,
Ethics, Society & Politics,
Hardware & Making,
Security,
Science und
Resilience.

Apart from the official conference program, the Chaos Communication Congress also offers space for community assemblies, developer and project meetings, art installations, lightning talks, and workshops.

Foundation Talks

Congress has grown, a lot. Many of the newcomers have a great thirst for knowledge in areas that may seem mundane and basic to others. This is why we will have a focus this year on talks that convey basic knowledge. These talks will receive a clear signifier, so they are easy to recognise. Foundations talks are not only about technical topics. They can be submitted in all tracks. Every track has a number of reserved talk slots for them. It is important that you have real expertise in the subject you want to talk about and have the ability to make it comprehensible for many people. Please note in the submission what approximate level of previous knowledge is required. Submitting a Foundations Talk will not diminish your chances to get accepted with another talk.

Dates & deadlines

October 15th, 2018 (23:59 UTC): Deadline for submissions,
November 12th, 2018: Notification of acceptance,
December 27th – 30th, 2018: Chaos Communication Congress.

Online submissions only

Please submit your lecture to our conference planning system at https://frab.cccv.de/cfp/35c3.
Simply follow the instructions there. If you have any questions regarding the submission, you are welcome to contact us via mail at 35c3-content(at)cccv.de.

Tracks

Art & Culture

This track awaits submissions that address, from an artistic perspective or with artistic means, the societal changes and contradictions caused by computers, the internet, robots, and general digitalization.

One can create art and beauty with computers: We’re also open to lectures that include art installations, performances, concerts, readings, etc., that involve past, contemporary, or upcoming technologies. We will try to help with the organizational side of such lectures as much as possible.

Ethics, Society & Politics

This track is dedicated to the societal, ethical and political questions posed by technology, networks and the digitization of all aspects of life.

What will our technologically enhanced future look like? What are the effects of machine learning, ubiquitous networks, digitalisation of every thing we do, automation, climate change and globalisation? How does society cope with the resulting social and political upheaval? What commercial and political interests are blocking the way forward to utopias worth living? How can we overcome them? Activist, phantastic, solidaric, and non-commercial ideas and concepts are very welcome. If you shape society with positive energy, this is the track for you. Please speak about your practical experiences!

Hardware & Making

This track is all about developing and creatively using things that allow the digital to make a physical impression.

The focus is on creating things of all kinds of (e.g. textiles, musical instruments, robots, alternative energy, medical tools, …), the expansion, repair, and liberation of proprietary systems (from the decapped smart-card to the firmware of your toaster to a modified agricultural machine), the sovereign use of technology, getting your hands dirty, and all the things we can’t imagine yet – and of course rockets!

Security

For this track we are looking for content demonstrating the influence of security aspects on users and machines. We would therefore like to request technical submissions focusing on security problems and solutions in both, hardware and software.

This year we dedicate some of our slots to beginners and people who are interested in the relevant basics. As part of this year’s foundations initiative, we are also looking for submissions with a loose connection to security. This includes topics from mathematics, networks, operating systems, web technologies, memory (mis)management, cryptography, programming languages, hardware design and other fields.

Science

The rapid development of science and technology is steadily changing our view of the world. But that doesn’t only mean that we’re profiting from new technology as a byproduct. We are also increasingly trying to understand the complex relationship between nature and society, in order to comprehend how our actions parameterize this whole system. We see science as a method of reverse engineering the world API and are interested in the newest diffs. No matter whether research centres, universities, or garage-driven science: if you explore and evaluate interesting and important developments from a scientific standpoint, then send us your submissions!

This year we’re especially interested in submissions regarding the phenomenon of climate change in its whole width and complexity. We are interested in everything from sociocultural effects to frost-resistant measurement technology, from the past to the near future, from the depth of the oceans up to the atmosphere. What are the actual effects of the technical and societal systems we have built? What will be the next Dieselgate, and which active approaches towards solving the problems are there?

Resilience

The world is developing at an increasing pace, and most of it involves computers and algorithms. Unfortunately, those developments do not necessarily equal progress. Some increase complexity; others require waiving freedoms. But many projects already incorporate recent research, like p2p gossipping networks (meaning less data accumulates at central points as everyone runs their own infrastructure), extended OS security (reducing persistence, new policies, virtualisation), or reorganised social frameworks intended to simplify life (by eliminating bureaucracy and sources of stress), and, of course, reduction of our dependency on human competition.

In the resilience track all submissions are welcome that lead to a world more worthy of living in – be they long-running projects or recent developments.

Classifiers

As a courtesy to reviewers and your audience, we would like you to also rate your submission by dynamic tags we call “classifiers”. Those help us to better understand the content and what your audience can expect. If, for example, your topics cover both hardware and security, you now can show us on a scale between 0 and 100 per cent – making the classic “tracks” much more fluid. You can also tell us what level of prior knowledge you expect your audience to bring.

Further Program at the 35C3

Lightning talks

Got something interesting to say but don’t want to submit a full talk? Consider doing a lightning talk instead. You will have five minutes to present your idea or project, or to do a rant. A formal submission through frab is not required; as usual, the lightning talks are organized via the public wiki. Lightning talks can be held in German or English and will be streamed, recorded and published (see below).

Assemblies

Assemblies are places where communities around a certain interest can meet, talk, exchange ideas and be inspired. Assemblies play a huge part in creating the special “congress atmosphere.” They are comparable to villages at the Chaos Communication Camp. We will have lots of space, so some bigger installations will be possible.

To further the exchange and the get-together of communities and groups, we will cluster the assemblies at the 35C3 along key subjects. We will link these key subjects to bigger workshop areas / stages / auditoriums which will be available for the assemblies connected to the subject for workshops, self-organized sessions or after talks discussion.

You and your community are interested in adopting a key subject, or your established assembly wants to take care of more space? Then write an email to c3-assemblies@lists.ccc.de and join the effort to create a great congress. Installations with up to 30m² big roofs are possible!

The usual application for assemblies will happen in due time at the public wiki.

For projects, installations, workshops, sessions hosted in assemblies and other fun stuff

A formal submission through frab is not required. There will be a wiki page to keep track of requirements for space and other resources. Simply start already considering now what you would like to make, bring, or show, and write it down once the wiki goes online. We are open to crazy and surprising stuff.

Submission guidelines

Please send us a description of your suggested talk that is as complete as possible. The description is the central criteria for acceptance or rejection, so please ensure that it is as clear and complete as possible. Quality comes before quantity. Due to the non-commercial nature of the event, presentations which aim to market or promote commercial products or entities will be rejected without consideration.

Since most participants find – or don’t find a lecture by its title, it’s important to keep it precise, accessible and comprehensible. Our teams will keep a keen eye on title and subtitle and make suggestions to change them if necessary, so please avoid insider jokes and stereotypes. It would be a shame if we would have to reject an otherwise excellent submission because the title does not tell much about the actual content.

As it is likely that there will be multiple submissions on the same topic, please show us exactly why your talk should be part of the conference. Remember that the teams are diversely staffed, and not every reviewer knows every submitter and their background. Please write something about yourself, your research, and your motivation. It does not matter if the talk has been held at another conference somewhere on this planet, as long as it is up to date and relevant.

Talks should be either 30 minutes long plus 10 minutes for questions and answers or 45 minutes long plus 15 minutes for questions and answers. Longer slots are possible if absolutely necessary, but should be an exception. Please take our limited amount of presentation time into consideration, check how much time you really need to bring home your points and then tell us the proposed length of your talk.

Language

Although the Chaos Communication Congress is an international event and a lot of content is presented in English, there will again be a translation team that will simultaneously translate most German talks into English. So if you are not comfortable with presenting in English, don’t hesitate to present your lecture in German. If your talk will be held in English, your submission should also be in English.

Publication

Audio and video recordings of the lectures will be published in various formats under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. This license allows commercial use of excerpts by media institutions as part of their reporting. If you do not wish for material from your lecture to be published or streamed, please let us know in your submission.

Note: As German law (and therefore the license) might differ from the law of your country, please let us know if you have any issues or questions regarding the exact implications. Unfortunately, we can’t guarantee a perfect translation.

Travel, costs & visa

The Chaos Communication Congress is a non-commercial event where neither the organisers nor the speakers are being paid. As an accepted speaker for a full talk, you get free admission, though. If necessary, we are able to provide limited support for travel costs. If you need help applying for a visa, such as an official invitation to present to the German embassy, please make sure to let the content team know well in advance. Please be aware that the visa application procedure may take up to six weeks.

Bild von HDValentin.

GPN17: CfP Reminder

Mon, 08 May 2017 19:38:48 +0000

Dear data-voyagers,

wow, we are impressed about the hundreds of registrations for the 17th. Gulaschprogrammiernacht (GPN) and we are looking forward to welcome you all here! Are you registered by now? The registration is optional, but it helps us to estimate the number of visitors for the event. You can register here: https://shop.entropia.de/entropia/gpn17/

Have you submitted a talk or a workshop yet? Your active participation in the event defines the GPN and makes it so memorable. We therefore ask you to make more talks, meetups and workshops! We will release the first version of our schedule shortly. Therefore submit your talk soon, best case now! https://frab.cccv.de/en/gpn17/cfp

You find further information at https://entropia.de/GPN17/en. We are looking forward to meet up with you guys from the 25th til the 28th of May at the HfG and the ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany.

Your Eve Entropia

GPN17: Call for Participation

Thu, 02 Mar 2017 19:30:16 +0000

Hello to all of you out there on the internet,

it was nice seeing so many of you at the 33C3, but for those who couldn’t make it or who haven’t had enough: The party continues in May.

Save the date:
GPN17 2017-05-25 – 2017-05-28 in Karlsruhe, Europe, Earth

In order to enable more of you to be able to come to us, we have moved the GPN to Ascension Day this year. In addition, we are looking to provide affordable accommodation for you.

The Gulaschprogrammiernacht has everything: Lectures, workshops, a big hackcenter, mate and tschunk, an epic lounge and the lava meadow. Of course, there will also be goulash – both with meat and as a vegan alternative. We welcome everybody, from the “usual suspects” to the wholly inexperienced.

This year there’s something new! We’ve developed an electronic badge as you may already know it from past events. The GulaschPushNotifier is an versatile IoT-Device. You can preorder it together with the t-shirts.

Works for me! But does it work as intended? What protects the code, the infrastructure and the applications we build from being used unethically? Whether it’s about Dual Use or simple misappropriation: Can we simply continue hacking without worrying about those possibilities? We are curious what you think and look forward to spirited discussions about a topic that gets harder and harder to avoid in an age of telltale social networks, internet-destroying toasters and robots designed to kill.

How many lectures and workshops will there be and how interesting will they be? Well, that depends on you! We look forward to lectures on a multitude of topics relevant to hacking and a jumble of workshops for all participants. You can submit your ideas in Frab. If you don’t want to submit a lecture yourself but know folks who might, please get in touch with them and tell them about our call for participation. We ask all contributors to kindly read our guidelines on inclusion and behavior and on accessibility. This greatly helps creating the relaxed and welcoming atmosphere that makes the GPN so awesome. The CCC VOC will be recording all lectures by default, but you can opt out at any time.

Can you help? Absolutely! Like every other chaos event, the GPN only works thanks to our industrious helpers. If you would like to make the GPN better, please register here.

Registration and preorders via this page

Submit talks and workshops through Frab

Mini-FAQ:

“What about entry fees?” – Entry is free and unlimited. The GPN is based on donations, prices for food and drink are low. If you can, please donate to make the next GPN possible.
“Why should I register?” – So we know how many chairs, tables and ingredients for goulash / cocktails or fancy attire we should get. But if you miss the registration, please come anyway.
“How barrier-free are you?” – Well, we are working on it to make it better. You can find reports of our current progress in our Wiki. If you have suggestions or spot something amiss, please let us know.
“What are trolls?” – That’s what we call our helpers, like the angels at other CCC events. Please come over and troll us.
“Is there a gym to sleep in?” – We’re working on it, stay tuned!
“I’ve got other questions!” – Take a look at our comprehensive FAQ and if you still can’t find an answer, write us an email.

Looking forward to seeing you there
Your Eve Entropia

Speakers: please support the translations, send us your slides!

Fri, 23 Dec 2016 13:06:01 +0000

If you’ll be giving a talk at 33C3 in Hamburg, you should know that your talk will be simultaneously translated from English to German (or vice versa) by our team of volunteers. The only exception is talks where we feel that a translation is likely not to do it justice, like plays or performances.

For the quality of the translations it helps a lot if we can prepare a glossary for each talk. It would be awesome if you could send us any material that may help us do that, such as presentation slides or a manuscript. We’ll will not share these outside our team of volunteers.

If you have any material that you can give us, please send it to us at speakers(at)c3lingo.org or use our very handy upload form at https://speakers.c3lingo.org/. You can also give us your materials in person at congress if you prefer – just let us know.

Call for Participation: 33rd Chaos Communication Congress

Thu, 01 Sep 2016 00:38:59 +0000

33C3 – 33rd Chaos Communication Congress
December 27. through 30. 2016, CCH, Hamburg

The Event

The Chaos Communication Congress is the annual symposium and hacker party of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC). During four days between Christmas and New Years Eve, thousands of hackers, technology freaks, artists and utopians get together in Hamburg 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 on the interaction between technology and society.

32C3 at CCH.

We’d love to see your submission for one or more of these tracks:

Art & Culture,
Ethics, Society & Politics,
Hardware & Making,
Security and
Science.

Tracks

Art & Culture

One can create art and beauty with any technology, including computers. This track awaits submissions that address, from an artistic perspective, the societal changes and contradictions caused by computers, the internet, robots and general digitalization.
We’re open to lectures that include art installations, performances, concerts, readings, etc., that involve past, contemporary or upcoming technologies.

Ethics, Society & Politics

We’re looking forward to submissions which address present and future societal, ethical and political questions that arise from the technologization and digitalization of all aspects of life. What will the future bring? Which commercial and political interests are in the way of an utopia worth living, and how can they be overcome?
Any activistic, fantastical, solidary and commerce-free ideas and concepts are welcome here.

Hardware & Making

This track is all about developing and creatively using things that allow the digital to make a physical impression. Reverse engineers, micro-controller developers and quantum physicists are all very welcome. Decapped smart cards and system-on-chips, sanded-down PCBs and reverse-engineered firmware should feel right at home, next to the cocktail-mixing 3D-printer and the hidden nuclear reactors you are secretly operating in your basement. The focus is on all kinds of hardware design, the expansion and liberation of proprietary system, getting your hands dirty – and of course rockets!

Security

For this track we would like to request submissions that show how hardware and software can be made either more secure or less secure. If you want to share your discoveries with thousands of fellow security enthusiasts, if you have developed new solutions to previously unsolved problems or if you have found new problems which we knew nothing about, then this is the right track for you.

Science

We have science to thank for our blinking computers, but not just that – nearly all progress in society and technology is facilitated by science in one way or another. This track features talks that look into progress from a scientific point of view and evaluate what has been achieved by science, whether it happened in research institutions, in universities, or in your backyard.
Besides topics in the social sciences, such as the history of secret services, research of alternative coexistence or economies, we are also interested in pressing questions of humanity’s growing need for energy, drug-resistant pathogens or access to drinking water. Furthermore, the big questions are also relevant: Are we alone in the universe? How does life work? How do I detect an infinite loop?

Submission guidelines

For talks

Please send us a description of your suggested talk that is as complete as possible. The description is of particular importance for the selection, so please ensure that it is as clear as possible. Quality comes before quantity. Due to the non-commercial nature of the event, presentations which aim to market or promote commercial products or entities will not be entertained.

As it is likely that there will be multiple submissions on the same topic, please show us exactly why your talk should be part of the conference. Remember that the teams are diversely staffed, and not every reviewer knows every submitter and their background. Please write something about yourself, your research and your motivation. It does not matter if the talk has been held at another conference somewhere on this planet, as long as it is up to date and relevant.

Talks should be either 45 minutes long plus 15 minutes for questions and answers or 20 minute long plus 10 minutes for questions and answers. Longer slots are possible in principle. Please tell us the proposed length of your talk at the time of submission.

For lightning talks

Got something interesting to say but don’t want to submit a full talk? Consider doing a lightning talk instead. You will have five minutes to present your idea, project, or to do a rant. The lightning talks will only be organised during the event. A formal submission is not required.

For projects, installations, workshops and other fun stuff

A formal submission is not required. There will be a wiki page to keep track of requirements for space and other resources. Simply start considering already now what you would like to make, bring or show, and write it down once the wiki goes online. We are open to crazy and surprising stuff.

For Assemblies

Assemblies are places where communities around a certain interest can meet, talk, exchange ideas and be inspired. Assemblies play a huge part in creating the special „congress atmosphere“. They are comparable to villages at the Chaos Communication Camp. The assemblies are organized in the public wiki.

Language

Although the Chaos Communication Congress is an international event and a lot of content is presented in English, this year there will again be a translation team that will simultaneously translate most German talks into English. So if you are not comfortable with presenting in English, don’t hesitate to present your lecture in German. If your talk will be held in English, your submission should also be in English.

Publication

Note: As German law (and therefore the license) might differ from the law of your country, please let us know if you should have any issues or questions regarding the exact implications. Unfortunately, we can’t guarantee a perfect translation.

Travel, costs & visa

The Chaos Communication Congress is a non-commercial event where neither the organisers nor the speakers are being paid. As a speaker you get free admission though. If necessary, we are able to provide limited support for travel costs and accommodation. If you need help applying for a visa, such as an official invitation to present to the German embassy, please let the content team know well in advance. Please be aware that the visa application procedure may take up to six weeks.

Dates & deadlines

September 30th, 2016 (23:59 UTC): Deadline for submissions
November 13th, 2016: Notification of acceptance
December 27th – 30th, 2016: Chaos Communication Congress

Online submissions only

Please submit your lecture to our conference planning system at https://frab.cccv.de/cfp/33c3.

Simply follow the instructions there. If you have any questions regarding the submission, you are welcome to contact us via mail at 33c3-content(at)cccv.de.

Picture: CC-BY-NC 2.0, Sascha Ludwig.

Call for Participation: 32nd Chaos Communication Congress

Mon, 14 Sep 2015 11:43:52 +0000

32C3 — 32nd Chaos Communication Congress

December 27th through 30th 2015, CCH, Hamburg, Germany

The Event

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

We’d love to see your submission for these tracks:

Failosophy
Art & Culture
Ethics, Society & Politics
Hardware & Making
Security
Science

Tracks

Failosophy

LOLWTF was yesterday. Today we learn from failures – both our own and those of others.

Failures are frowned upon and we don’t talk much about them. We’d rather cover something up, than to speak about it and share it. Many developers – regardless of whether their software is open-source or proprietary – don’t talk about their failures. This needs to change. Open-source developers who work on projects that affect everybody are usually ridiculed and criticized whenever security vulnerabilities are published. This doesn’t just hurt the community, but also the backers of the projects.

Software errors are unavoidable. This track is dedicated to those who have experience with failures, so that others can learn from their mistakes and experiences. Please speak about your shipwrecked projects and about your failures – you will be the bravest participants the event.

Art & Culture

We’re open to lectures that include art installations, performances, concerts, readings, etc., that involve past, contemporary or upcoming technologies.

Ethics, Society & Politics

We’re looking forward to submissions which (without citing Deleuze) address present and future societal, ethical and political questions that arise from the technologization and digitalization of all aspects of life. What will the future bring? Which commercial and political interests are in the way of a utopia worth living?

Any activistic, fantastical, solidary and commerce-free ideas and concepts are welcome here.

Hardware & Making

This track is all about developing and creatively using things that allow the digital to make a physical impression. Reverse engineers, microcontroller developers and quantum physicists are all very welcome. Decapped smart cards and system-on-chips, sanded-down PCBs and reverse-engineered firmware should feel right at home, next to the cocktail-mixing 3D-printer and the hidden nuclear reactor you are secretly operating in your basement. The focus is on all kinds of hardware design, the expansion and liberation of proprietary system, getting your hands dirty – and of course rocket!

Security

Science

Besides topics in the social sciences, such as the history of secret services, research of alternative coexistence or economies, we are also interested in pressing questions of humanity’s growing need for energy, drug-resistant pathogens or access to drinking water. Furthermore, the big questions are also relevant: Are we alone in the universe? How does life work? How do I detect an infinite loop?

Submission guidelines

For talks

As it is likely that there will be multiple submissions on the same topic, please show us exactly why your talk should be part of the conference. Remember that the teams are diversely staffed, and not every reviewer knows every submitter and their background. Please write something about yourself, your environment and your motivation. It does not matter if the talk has been held at another conference somewhere on this planet, as long as it is up to date and relevant.

Longer slots are possible in principle. Please tell us the proposed length of your talk at the time of submission.

For lightning talks

In addition, there are 5 minute short talks (so-called Lightning Talks) for small ideas, projects, or rants. These will only be organised during the event. A formal submission upfront is not required, but they will be collected in a wiki again.

For projects, installations, workshops and other fun stuff

A formal submission not required. There will be a wiki again where requirements for space and other resources will be kept track of. Simply start considering already now what you would like to make, bring or show, and write it down once the wiki goes online. We are open to crazy and surprising stuff.

For Assemblies

Assemblies are places where communities around a certain interest can meet and represent the core of the congress. They are comparable to villages at the Chaos Communication Camp. The assemblies are organized in the public wiki.

Language

Although the Chaos Communication Congress is an international event and a lot of content is being presented in English, this year there will again be a translation team that will simultaneously translate most German talks into English. So if you are not completely comfortable with presenting in English, please present your lecture in German. Please also use the language of your presentation for its title, so as not to confuse any visitors.

Publication

Audio and video recordings of the lectures will be published online in various formats under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 DE) license. This license allows commercial use of excerpts by media institutions as part of their reporting. If you do not wish for material from your lecture to be published or streamed, please let us know in your submission.

Travel, costs & visa

The Chaos Communication Congress is a non-commercial event where neither the organisers nor the speakers are being paid. As a speaker you get free admission though. If necessary, we are able to provide limited support for travel costs and accommodation. If you need help applying for a visa, such as an official invitation to present to a German embassy, please let the content team know well in advance. Please be aware that the visa application procedure may take up to six weeks.

Dates & deadlines

September 30th, 2015 (23:59 UTC): Deadline for
November 16th, 2015: Notification of
December 27th – 30th, 2015: 32nd Chaos Communication Congress

Online submissions only

All submissions of lectures have to be entered into our conference planning system, which is located at the following URL: https://frab.cccv.de/cfp/32c3

Please follow the instructions there. If you have any questions regarding the submission, you are welcome to contact us via mail at 32c3-content(at)cccv.de.

Call for Participation: Chaos Communication Camp 2015

Thu, 09 Apr 2015 05:24:38 +0000

The Chaos Communication Camp in Mildenberg is an open-air hacker camp and party that takes place every four years, organized by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC). Thousands of hackers, technology freaks, artists and utopians get together in a field for five days in the Brandenburg high summer – to communicate, learn, hack on things and party together.

We focus on topics such as information technology, digital security, hacking, crafting, making and breaking, and we engage in creative, sceptical discourse on the interaction between technology and society.

We’d love to see your submission for these tracks:

Failosophy,
Arts & Culture,
Ethics, Society & Politics,
Hardware & Making,
Security & Hacking,
Science.

Apart from the official conference program, the Chaos Communication Camp also offers space for community villages, developer and project meetings, art installations, lightning talks and numerous workshops (called “sessions”).

Failosophy

LOLWTF was yesterday. Today we learn from failures – both our own and those of others.

Open-source developers who work on projects that affect everybody are usually ridiculed and criticized whenever security vulnerabilities are published. This doesn’t just hurt the community, but also the backers of the projects.

Software errors are practically unavoidable if you don’t know how to prevent them. This track is dedicated to those who have experience with failures, so that others can learn from their mistakes and experiences. Please speak about your shipwrecked projects and your failures – you will be the bravest participants at the event.

Arts & Culture

We’re open to art installations, performances, concerts, readings, etc., that involve past, contemporary or upcoming technologies.

Ethics, Society & Politics

Any activistic, fantastical, solidary and commerce-free ideas and concepts are welcome here.

Hardware & Making

Security

Science

Besides topics in the social sciences, such as the history of secret services, research of alternative coexistence or alternative economies, we are also interested in pressing questions of humanity’s growing need for energy, drug-resistant pathogens or access to drinking water. Furthermore, the big questions are also relevant: Are we alone in the universe? How does life work? How do I detect an infinite loop?

Dates & deadlines

April 9th, 2015: Call for Participation,
May 17th, 2015 (23:59 CEST): Deadline for submissions
June 30th: Notification of acceptance
August 13th – 17th, 2015: Chaos Communication Camp at Ziegeleipark Mildenberg

Submission guidelines for talks and workshops

All submissions of lectures and workshops have to be entered into our conference planning system, which is located at the following URL: https://frab.cccv.de/cfp/camp2015.

Please follow the instructions there. If you have any questions regarding the submission, you are welcome to contact us via mail at camp2015-content(at)cccv.de.

As it is likely that there will be multiple submissions on the same topic, please show us exactly why your talk should be part of the conference. Remember that the teams are diversely staffed, and not every reviewer knows every submitter and their background. Please write something about yourself, your environment and your motivation. It does not matter if the talk has been held at another conference, as long as it is up to date and relevant.

Talks should be no longer than 45 minutes plus 15 minutes for questions and answers. Longer slots are possible in principle. There are also 20 minute slots. Please tell us the proposed length of your talk at the time of submission. In addition, there are 5 minute short talks (so-called Lightning Talks) for small ideas, projects, or rants. These will only be organised during the event.

Language

Although the Chaos Communication Camp is an international event and a lot of content is being presented in English, this year there will again be a translation team that will simultaneously translate most German talks into English. So if you are not completely comfortable with presenting in English, please present your lecture in German. Please also use the language of your presentation for its title, so as not to confuse any visitors.

Publication

Audio and video recordings of the lectures will be published online in various formats under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Germany (CC-BY 3.0 DE) license. This license allows commercial use of excerpts by media institutions as part of their reporting. If you do not wish for material from your lecture to be published or streamed, please let us know in your submission. Note: As German law (and therefore the license) might differ from the law of your country, please let us know if you should have any issues or questions regarding the exact implications. Unfortunately, we can’t guarantee a perfect translation.

Villages

Villages are places where communities around a certain interest can meet in the core of the camp. They are comparable to assemblies at the Chaos Communication Congress. We will have lots of space again, so larger installations will be possible. The villages are organized in the public wiki: https://events.ccc.de/camp/2015/wiki/Static:Villages

For projects, installations and other fun things is a formal submission not required. There will be a wiki again where requirements for space and other resources will be kept track of. Simply start considering already now what you would like to make, bring or show, and write it down once the wiki goes online. We have a lot of space and we are open to crazy and surprising stuff.

Travel, costs & visa

The Chaos Communication Camp is a great adventure for us, also financially. As we’re all there to have a nice time together, and split the costs, we cannot offer a different entrance fee for speakers, workshop organizers or angels. The camp is a non-commercial event where neither the organisers nor the speakers are being paid – thus, we cannot provide a free entrance ticket, even for speakers. If necessary, we are however able to provide limited support for travel costs and accommodation.

If you need help applying for a visa, such as an official invitation to present to the German embassy, please let the content team know well in advance. Please be aware that the visa application procedure may take up to six weeks.

Bild von antenne, CC BY-NC 2.0