You surely remember the two community stages at 38C3 and the great programme there, which was submitted by the community and curated by the habitats. There will be no community stages this year. Instead, we decided to add a new community track and a fourth stage to the main programme, and we also provide a further stage for talks in the context of Self-Organized Sessions.

Why did we make this change?

Short explanation: you were just too good!

Long explanation: The quality of the talks on the community stages was practically in no way inferior to those in the main programme. Looking back, we …