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 four main halls live and in real-time. German talks are interpreted into English, and vice versa. Our work is streamed to the Internet and transmitted as audio-only streams in the halls, and recordings are published on media.ccc.de. We have another channel where we interpret into more languages, this is transmitted and …

Once again this year, the Chaos Mentors are joining the Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg!

Interested mentors and mentees can register on our Chaos Mentors platform until 25 November 2025, 23:59 UTC+1.

We’re excited to meet lots of new people who want to experience the colorful, fascinating chaos for the first time, maybe that includes you!

If you’re looking for a bit of support or a small group to connect with during your first Congress, you’ve come to the right place.

Who are the Chaos Mentors for?

Are you curious about Congress but not sure if you’ll feel at home there? Maybe you have …

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• Registration is open - register your extension in Guru
• Don’t forget to bring your phone (DECT, GSM, SIP)
• Remember to bring Batteries, Chargers und CCC SIM-Card
• Our public dialin number: +49 40 5730830 xxxx

2024. The brave new world has completely transformed telephony. IP telephony has replaced conventional telephone technology, including ISDN and all its components. Until 2017, we drove a truck to the Chaos Communication Congress on December 21. We spent days hauling, packing, pulling cables, patching cables, configuring, maintaining main distribution plans and fixing errors so …

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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, …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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• Azubitag auf dem 37C3 war toll!
• Wir machen das wieder.
• Wir freuen uns im August über Teamverstärkung.

Top Azubitag!

An Tag 3 des 37C3 fand der erste Azubitag auf dem Chaos Communication Congress statt. Es kamen 140 Azubis aus ganz Deutschland zusammen, um den Congress zu besuchen und den CCC kennen zu lernen.

Mit der Eröffnungsveranstaltung gab es eine kurze Einführung in den CCC, Hacking und wie eins auf dem Congress überlebt. Außerdem konnten wir mithilfe verschiedener zivilgesellschaftlich engagierter Organisationen ein Goodiebag mit Tassen, Druckerzeugnissen und Weiterem …