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First time at Congress? The Chaos Mentors have your back at 39C3!

Sun, 09 Nov 2025 06:00:00 +0000

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 specific needs or you’re simply looking for insider tips, inspiration, and good conversations in a small group that matches your interests?

Then we’d love to welcome you and help you get started!

As a mentee, you’ll be matched with a small group of people who share your interests. Your mentor will be there for you even before Congress begins to answer questions, welcome you on the first day, and explore the CCH and 39C3 together with you.

Throughout the entire 39C3, we’ll also have a cozy central space where you can relax, meet others, and connect with fellow Chaos Mentors and mentees.

How does it work?

What brings you to Congress?
What are your interests?
Is there anything we should keep in mind?

The earlier you register, the easier it is for us to form suitable groups. Your mentor will reach out to you ahead of the event so you can get to know each other a bit before Congress begins.

Why we’re doing this

Many of us have been part of Congress for years, some for two, others for twenty or more. We all remember how overwhelming that first visit can be: so many talks, assemblies, people, ideas … pure chaos!

Congress thrives on diversity, curiosity, and mutual learning. That’s why we especially want to encourage people who may have felt that they didn’t quite belong – yet.

Of course, everyone who wants to help make Congress more open, welcoming, and diverse is invited to join!

Mentors wanted

You already know your way around Congress and want to help newcomers find their way? Share your knowledge, your curiosity, and your inspiration and become a Chaos Mentor! Register on the Chaos Mentors platform and support your mentees as they explore Congress: answer questions, share tips, and help make everyone feel welcome.

When you sign up, tell us a little about yourself and your interests so we can match you with a group that fits.

Thank you for helping make Congress more open and connected! 💚

A few last tips and notes

Register by 25 November 2025, 23:59 UTC+1: Use our Chaos Mentors platform and share a few details about yourself so we can create a good match.
Missed the registration? On day 1 and day 2 we can still assign a few mentees to groups on site. Just come to our assembly and talk to the Chaos Mentors. You’ll recognize us by our colorful propeller hats.
You need a ticket: Unfortunately, we can’t provide tickets. Participation is only possible with your own 39C3 ticket. Even if you don’t have one yet, feel free to register. We’ll check in with you before matching to confirm that you’ve got a ticket.
Do mentors earn angel hours? The Chaos Mentors aren’t part of the Engelsystem, so there are no angel hours for this, but we encourage you to volunteer together with your mentees!
How do I find the Chaos Mentors at 39C3? Shortly before Congress, we will appear in C3Nav – it will guide you straight to our assembly.

Any questions or just curious?

Find us on Mastodon at @chaospatinnen@chaos.social or drop us a short email at:

39c3-chaosmentors [at] cccv [dot] de

Excited and ready for 39C3, your Chaos Mentors 💚💛💜❤️

38C3: Hackertours

Mon, 25 Nov 2024 06:00:00 +0000

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 Inner to the Outer Alster and also take a look at some canals and tributaries. Details

Tour of the Giants

Experience Germany’s largest seaport from a completely new perspective. Port terminals around the world are secure areas – for the public, this means: No entry! Not for us. As a cooperation partner of Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA), the Tour of the Giants exclusively shows you the brightly lit Port of Hamburg behind the scenes at night. Details

Miniatur Wonderland

Miniatur Wunderland is the largest model railway in the world. It is one of the most popular and most visited attractions in Germany. We have secured tickets for you, as they quickly sell out during the holidays. Details

Alternative Harbor Tour

Port tour “Of treasure chests and pepper sacks” – The port of Hamburg within inequitable world trade. Where does our coffee come from, where would you find the world’s largest warehouse for oriental carpets and why does desperately poor Liberia have one of the largest trading fleets? A journey behind the backdrop of brick walls and container gantry cranes. It’s about coffee and cocoa, soybeans and bananas, jeans and weapons. Details

Old Elbe Tunnel

A look behind the scenes: The St. Pauli Elbtunnel connects the St. Pauli district with the island of Steinwerder. It was built between 1907 and 1911 and was one of the first road tunnels in the world. On this tour, Thomas Heidborn takes you up into the dome of the head-end building on the St. Pauli side and back to the time when it all began. Details

Train Museum Lokschuppen Aumühle

Vehicles from 150 years of railroad history around Hamburg have been collected and restored in the Aumühle Locomotive Shed Railway Museum. A light railroad takes you on a tour of the site and its exhibits. Expert volunteer members of the museum shed light on the history of the railroad vehicles, signal boxes and safety technology, track construction and many other aspects at several stations. If possible, we show everything in operation so you can touch it yourself! Details

Electrum

The electrum is Hamburg’s museum of electricity and technology. You can’t do without electricity – electricity has been part of our everyday lives for 130 years. Around a thousand technical devices from all eras can be found in the electrum, Hamburg’s museum of electricity in Harburg’s inland port. Details

How to book your tour

Go directly to the Hackertours Ticket Shop!

How do the tours work? Just have a look at our Hackertours FAQ for answers to all your questions! And follow @hackertours@chaos.social on Mastodon for the latest updates on the tours.

38C3 Chaos Computer Music Club

Mon, 18 Nov 2024 06:00:00 +0000

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.

We are also calling for workshops and talks! If you have an interest in something between music and hacking, and maybe you’ve always wanted to talk about it, we will be happy to hear from you.

To submit your proposals for DJ sets, concerts, talks or workshops, please head over to the Call for Music. If you already submitted to the Call for Art you do not need to submit again. We’ll forward your submission internally. The deadline is 30 November, 23:59 UTC+1.

If you have questions, feel free to reach out to the booking team at 38c3-booking@cccv.de

Image CC BY Thorsten Schröder

Are you ready to haaaaaaaaaaalfnarp?

Sun, 17 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

In what has become a cherished tradition, the 38C3 content teams want to take the pulse of our community and offer you a deal that’s really hard to refuse: You get an early look at what our teams think are the best talks and presentations that will make for a well-rounded 38C3 Fahrplan, and in return you allow us to identify clusters of talks that we should avoid scheduling at the same time.

All you have to do is 1) click on all the talks you want to see, 2) hit submit and 3) skip step three! We’ll take it from there and let the number crunchers generate a collision map that will magically make equally charged talks repel each other!

You can marvel at the miracle machine fuelled by your submissions in this time-lapse video:

/media/fullnarp_35C3.mp4

As a bonus, this collision map will be used back at halfnarp to help you find other talks that the community has deemed related to the ones you found interesting. Later it will even feed the “related videos” algorithm at media.ccc.de.

So, what’s not to like? Head over to halfnarp right now and hit submit!

Image CC-BY-2.0 by liza31337

Chaosmentors at the 38C3

Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:00:00 +0000

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 comfortable at Congress? Do you have specific needs that make it difficult for you to participate? Are you interested in topics such as data protection, security, hardware hacking or net politics, but have little or no connection to the community? Are you attending the congress but have the impression that you are not one of these “hackers” and feel like you don’t really fit in?

Then the Chaosmentors would like to welcome you to the Congress and make it easier for you to get started!

You’ve come to the right place and we want to help you have an exciting and enjoyable stay. As a “Chaos Mentee”, you will be assigned a mentor and a group of similar-minded mentees. The mentors are there to answer your questions in advance, welcome you on your first day and explore the site with you. Together we will find out where there are interesting workshops and talks for you and will be there for you as a point of contact. We will also be there to answer your questions, concerns, needs and wishes in the run-up to the event. We also have a meeting point during the congress where you can make yourself comfortable and get to know other Chaos Mentees.

How does this work?

Register before the 10th of December by signing up on our chaosmentors platform with a few details about yourself. Please register as early as possible, as we will start creating the groups before the 10th of December. Tell us a bit about yourself - for example, what brings you to the Congress, why you are contacting the Chaosmentors, what you are interested in and whether you have any specific needs. This way, we can find a suitable mentor for you and put together a group with similar interested mentes. Your Chaosmentor will contact you and your group before the Congress so that you can get to know each other. At the congress itself, you will be able to explore together.

Why are we doing this?

We ourselves have always had a great time at the Congress for 1, 2, 10 or 30 years. However, we know from our own experience how difficult the first step can be. Thoughts like “A big hacker congress, do I even fit in there?” are not unfamiliar to us - many Chaosmentors were once Chaos Mentees themselves. But don’t worry - once you’ve taken the first step, excellent people are waiting for you - and the opportunity to learn an incredible amount. But exchange is not a one-way street: the community at the Congress can also learn a lot from you and thrives on the diversity of the participants. That’s why we want to use the Chaosmentors to encourage people who wouldn’t have dared to come on their own. We are therefore particularly targeting people who do not belong to the strongly represented cis, male, white group. Of course, we do not exclude anyone.

Call for mentors!

Of course, we are looking for active support from friendly, experienced and reliable mentors again this year. If you would like to take a group of newcomers under your wings and look after them, please register with us. Tell us something about yourself and your interests so that we can find suitable mentes for you. Thank you very much for your support.

Please note

In order to help this year’s Chaosmentors succeed, please follow the following requests:

Registration by December 10th: Register by the 10th of December, we will not be able to consider registrations received after this date.
No guided tours: Please refrain from spontaneously referring people to us. We do not offer guided tours (persistent fake news!) and the programme is for those who have registered in advance. If you meet people who are looking for orientation and connection, first think about how you can support them yourself. Any hacker can also spontaneously become a chaosmentor!
For people on their own: Please don’t send people who are already connected to the congress environment and don’t belong to a minority group to the Chaosmentors just because they are attending the congress for the first time. Become a Chaosmentor yourself and rediscover the congress together!
No tickets: We cannot provide tickets. Please only become a Chaosmentor or mentee if you also have a Congress ticket
Arrival: Please let us know when you plan to arrive to the Congress so that your Chaosmentor can already be present at this time.
Registration: You can register on our chaosmentors platform

Looking forward to an amazing event!

the Chaosmentors

I remember doing the halfnarp!

Mon, 04 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The 37C3 content teams have been sorting, discussing, ranking, shuffling, haggling and hustling for more stage-hours and are proud to present you a preliminary look at the first 104 confirmed of around 125 accepted lectures and performances at this year’s Congress.

It’s been an exhausting process with 600 submissions in six tracks and a handful of invited presentations meaning that some tracks had to chose 1 lecture from 10 others not making it into the final Fahrplan. If you are among the ones getting a sad email, rest assured that you are in excellent company and encourage you to reach out to our teams managing the self organised sessions and workshops or invite yourself to one of the many Assemblies and share your knowledge there.

Still, we are really thrilled about the quality of this year’s submissions and want to allow everyone a first glimps on our Fahrplan in exchange for you helping us out with the precise schedule which is due to be planned next weekend: As seen in previous years and years, we also need your support for 37C3 telling us which lectures you want to attend. By mapping your anonymous list of lectures to these of your peers, we can create a conflict map as seen in the video below, that helps us reduce the amount of conflicts between multiple lectures you may want to attend.

/media/fullnarp_35C3.mp4

So hop over to the halfnarp now and let the community magic do its work!

Image CC0 by Stefan Kühn

Chaosmentors at the 37C3

Fri, 01 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Chaosmentors will be at the 37C3! Interested Mentors and Mentees please registers HERE before the 8th of December at 23:59 o’clock.

It’s that time again - the Chaos Communication Congress is just around the corner! After a three-year break, we are back in Hamburg 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?

Then the Chaosmentors would like to welcome you to the Congress and make it easier for you to get started!

How does this work?

Register before the 8th of December by signing up HERE with a few details about yourself. Please register as early as possible, as we will start creating the groups before the 8th of December. Tell us a bit about yourself - for example, what brings you to the Congress, why you are contacting the Chaosmentors, what you are interested in and whether you have any specific needs. This way, we can find a suitable mentor for you and put together a group with similar interested mentes. Your Chaosmentor will contact you and your group before the Congress so that you can get to know each other. At the congress itself, you will be able to explore together.

Why are we doing this?

For mentors

Please note

In order to help this year’s Chaosmentors succeed, please follow the following requests:

Registration by December 8th: Register by the 8th of December, we will not be able to consider registrations received after this date.
No guided tours: Please refrain from spontaneously referring people to us. We do not offer guided tours (persistent fake news!) and the programme is for those who have registered in advance. If you meet people who are looking for orientation and connection, first think about how you can support them yourself. Any hacker can also spontaneously become a chaosmentor!
For people on their own: Please don’t send people who are already connected to the congress environment and don’t belong to a minority group to the Chaosmentors just because they are attending the congress for the first time. Become a Chaosmentor yourself and rediscover the congress together!
No tickets: We cannot provide tickets. Please only become a Chaosmentor or mentee if you also have a Congress ticket
Arrival: Please let us know when you plan to arrive to the Congress so that your Chaosmentor can already be present at this time.
Registration: You can register here

Looking forward to an amazing event!

the Chaosmentors

Accessibility at 37C3

Sat, 25 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

To answer questions regarding Accessibility at Congress:

In short:

Our venue, CCH, is accessible
simply bring your assistants to the entrance
Hidden Disabilities Badges and quiet hacking at QuietQube
Silent Room access and more Accessibility info at Helpdesk
Please: wear a mask, get tested, don’t come while infectious.

CCH recently got renovated. Therefore it has good barrier-free access. For instance: a tactile guide system, captions in braille, induction loops and modern toilets. All places will be wheelchair-accessible. Including stages.

More info on accessibility at the CCH website

Tickets and Assistants

If you need an assistant, they can get into the venue for free. Simply bring them and your ticket to the entrance. Please bring an official disabled ID card.

Ask 37c3-tickets@cccv.de if you need to bring an assistant but can’t provide an ID. Also, please inform us if you have multiple assistants taking turns.

If the ticket shop is not accessible to you, please reach out, too.

Important Places

QuietQube
The QuietQube is a quiet social place for everyone. It is meant for socialising, hacking and chilling. There are couches, desks and cozy seating. A Code of Conduct will help in case of conflicts.
Helpdesk
The Helpdesk at QuietQube will provide accessibility info. You can also get a Hidden Disabilities Badge.
Silent Room
The Silent Room is a place to rest. Helpdesk will guide you to it.
Infopages and Infodesk
Infodesk and Infopages can answer many questions about accessibility.

Awareness

The Awareness Team will support you if you have bad experiences at Congress.

Preventing Diseases

We expect all visitors to take care of each other. So we ask you to help us out:

If possible, please wear a mask.
Please get tested before joining the event.
If you have a cough, sniffle or diarrhoea, please stay at home.

Unfortunately, some people will not respect this. This is a risk you need to be aware of.

We currently don’t know if there will be free tests or masks.

rC3 Call for Subtitlers

Wed, 06 Jan 2021 16:18:37 +0000

C3Subtitles?!

Have you been hit by lockdown, you’re bored and you are craving for more chaos event feeling? Are you sitting at home and watching recorded Talks from rC3 and past Chaos events?
Bring a little bit of rC3 to your home and help with improving quality and accessibility of the CCC recordings! You can work on the subtitles from the comfort of your home, as long or as short as you like to!

How does this work?
The transcripts are generated automatically by speech recognition software and improved and corrected by you. Since talks contain lots of domain-specific terms and may have speakers with heavy accents, this is very much necessary. The next step is again automated: aligning the subtitles to the audio. Again, the result of this process is verified by you. Afterwards, the subtitles are finished!

For a more in-depth description and how-tos, take a look at c3subtitles Wiki. You can find the current status of any talk in our database on c3subtitles.de.

If you have any questions, contact us via any of the channels below!

You need subtitles? Let us know which talks you are interested in!

What if I want subtitles for a different stage?

You are part of an organisation / Erfa / Hackerspace (Chaos-West, WikiPaka, ChaosTrawler, Chaoszone, Sendezentrum, Bitwäscherei Zürich, c-base, hacc München, OIO, Chaosstudio – and all the others) which recorded and published videos during rC3?
And you would like to improve accessibility of your talks via subtitles.
Send us a message via Rocket-Chat in #subtitles or another way, see below:
What do you need:

A contact person for us,
A file containing a Fahrplan-File,
Publicly available videos, and
Motivation to take accessibility into your own hands

(Spoiler: the faster you are, the higher the chance for automatically generated transcripts by Trint – we still have credits!)

By the way: With subtitles you can make the video content machines searchable! Search for this query on media: “war das perfekte Argument dabei..”! Media can already do that: Check 14 minutes in on media.ccc.de/v/rc3-11583-rc3_eroffnung.

Contact:

#subtitles in Rocket Chat
#subtitles in IRC
E-Mail: subtitles -!-at-!- die-orga.org
@c3subtitles on Twitter

Call for Interpreters: Translate #rC3!

Fri, 18 Dec 2020 11:04:30 +0000

If you are multilingual and fluent in German, English and maybe other languages, please consider joining the translation team.

We want to interpret ALL talks in the two main channels and content from other channels too, live and in real time. Our work is transmitted live in the streams, and recordings are published on CCC sites and YouTube. For each event we have two channels for interpreted content. In the first, German talks are interpreted into English, and vice versa. A second translation channel translates into languages other than English or German – what we do there depends on availability and on the interests of the group, and maybe on the specific event.

That is a lot of material to translate and in order to succeed, we need YOU. With the second channel, you have the chance to contribute in an even more special way if you can interpret into another interesting language (from English or German). We have mostly used French and Spanish up to now, but there were others and we are interested in variety, so let us know what you can offer – especially if you can bring along a few interpreters for the same target language. Sometimes we might even use the second channel for interesting things that are not (strictly) translations.

Don’t be shy. If you are uncertain whether you’re good enough, chances are that you’ll do just fine. We will try to look after you as best we can in these strange times.

Simply send an email to translate-subscribe(at)lists.ccc.de and write a quick intro to the mailing list after you’ve completed your subscription. Also sign up as a translation angel at https://engelsystem.de/rc3 and give the system permission to send you emails. Most importantly, join one of our online meetings.

You need a Mumble client to take part in our meetings and to do the actual work, so set this up as much as you can. Some details can be found at https://wiki.c3lingo.org/divoc. Then follow the mailing list for meeting announcements. This year we recommend that you join a meeting before day 0, but there will be an official kick-off on that day as well

So please, take this chance and help us bring rC3 to an even wider international audience.

Microposts can be found at on Twitter at @c3lingo and #c3t and on Mastodon at chaos.social/@c3lingo – but don’t expect quicker answers there, our social media team is virtually dormant.

We look forward to welcoming you!

Call for Subtitles

Fri, 03 Jan 2020 20:27:37 +0000

Have you been hit by Post-Congress depression? Are you sitting at home and watching recorded Talks from between the years?
Bring a little bit of Congress to your home and help with improving quality and accessibility of the CCC recordings! You can work on the subtitles from the comfort of your home, as long or as short as you like to!

For a more in-depth description and how-tos, take a look at c3subtitles Wiki.

If you have any questions, contact us via any of the channels below!

You need subtitles? Let us know which talks you are interested in!

IRC: #subtitles on hackint.org
Rocket Chat: Channel subtitles
Twitter: @c3subtitles

Resources exhausted: Tear Down

Sun, 29 Dec 2019 16:23:08 +0000

TLDR: Tomorrow its over, teardown starts at 18:15, don’t do anything stupid.

Dear life forms participating in Congress,

tomorrow, 36c3 will sadly come to an end and teardown awaits. For that, we need your help.

We ask all assemblies to start dismantling their installations after the Closing Event at 18:15 on December 30th. Please use gates Hall 2 – Gate 2.5, Hall 2 – Gate 2.6 and Hall 3 – Gate 3.6 for loading. There will be angels with pallet trucks to help to move your stuff to the gates. Entry to the premises has to happen via Gate Süd 1. We kindly ask you to first pack your stuff, move it to the gates and only then get your car.

After packing your stuff, please stack your chairs correctly sorted and leave the tables clean. Please do not remove said chairs from your assembly place, but stack them at the very location. Please do only tear down the Schuko part of the power distribution. We kindly ask you not to tear down stage elements, movable walls, tables or any other decorations unless you are asked to.

But tearing down the assemblies is not everything, we are happy for every helping hand. We are creating teardown shifts in the Engelsystem and ask you to sign up for them. After the Engelsystem will have gone offline, we will continue with teardown and Teardown Heaven will operate from Hall 4.

After December 30th, we will need much help till January 4th. Please come to Hall 4 between 10 and 22 o’clock and keep looking for further blog posts.

Your buildup and teardown team, known as LOC

36c3 Assembly Anreise

Wed, 25 Dec 2019 20:49:26 +0000

Dear Assemblies,

please be aware that you need to have your congress-wristband to enter the premises starting from 27.12. Furthermore we need the number plates of the cars with which you intend to deliver stuff. Please send them as a mail to 36c3@c3loc.de or call us at 0341-39294864, the gate will only let declared cars pass.

Entry to the premises has to happen via Gate Süd 1, from there you’re able to drive directly to the halls. You can look up which hall your assembly is placed in using c3nav. Please use the logistics area in front of Hall 2 – Gate 2.5, Hall 2 – Gate 2.6 and Hall 3 – Gate 3.6 to unload. There you will find Angels with pallet trucks which can help you transporting your stuff to your assigned space. Please occupy them as little as possible, a good many assemblies will arrive in short order.

Additionally do keep in mind that your vehicle must at most spend 45 minutes on premise, afterwards the Messe will charge you fees.

One last thing: you can find information about trash and broken glass on the Event Wiki Trash page.

Image Yves Sorge.

C3GSM wants you to test yesterday’s future, today!

Sun, 22 Dec 2019 17:42:02 +0000

tl;dr: we will operate our own cellular network at 36C3. Bring your
mobile phone(s) and C3SIM card(s). Check the Wiki for latest status and device support.

Like previous years at 36C3 the C3GSM team will run a local cellular
network for mobile phones, alongside the
POC’s DECT system and the NOC’s IPv4 and IPv6 systems. As core network
for our cellular network we use the open source projects osmocom (for
2G/3G) and NextEPC (for 4G). There will only be a very limited number of
SIM cards available to buy. However, cards from previous CCC events can
be used, so please don’t forget to bring them.

As always, we had to ask commercial operators for permission to use some
of their parts of the spectrum, which unfortunately has been completely
sold to very few commercial operators.
We got permission to use 5 MHz of the 850 MHz band, which we will use
for 2G/3G and 10 MHz on the 2600 MHz band for 4G (LTE).

That was rather unfortunate news, as we cannot use a 2G or 3G frequency
which is common in Europe. As 850 Mhz is a frequency commonly used in
the US, some of you will not have a phone which can be used for voice
calls as we don’t support voice over LTE yet.

This also means that contrary to our plans (and for a first time since
many years), this year will not see full 2G coverage of the venue, so
that some very old phones may not work in our network at all.

If you have spare old phones, you are willing to donate to the public,
you are encouraged to throw them in our phone dumpster near the GSM
helpdesk. Remember to wipe all your personal data before and attach a
power adapter if not usb-esque.

Looking forward to route your calls and mobile data in Leipzig! For
questions and support visit the GSM helpdesk Also, we would like to hear
your feedback. Even if things don’t work as expected. Maybe especially
then! ;)

Call for Angels for the 36C3 buildup and teardown

Sat, 23 Nov 2019 07:15:41 +0000

TL;DR

The buildup and teardown of 36C3 needs angels!

If you want to help with the buildup, you can come to Messe Leipzig from the 18th of December and show up in Heaven (CCL) or in hall 4 for info.
Bring warm clothes and solid shoes. Safety shoes, if you have some.
Be careful – buildup means the halls are construction sites! Take care of yourself and others. Stay in safe distance from vehicles and heavy machines and leave your pets at home. Please don’t bring children before the official start of the event if possible.
If you can stay a couple of days longer and want to earn eternal angel karma please help with the teardown! Teardown starts after the closing ceremony and goes on until the 5th of January, which means we have less than half the buildup time. So we need every possibly available angel. We will post more info regarding teardown on this blog soon.

For further info check the Event Blog for publications.
For concrete questions: 36c3@c3loc.de

Long Version

Like every year we need as many angels as possible for the 36C3 buildup so that the boring halls evolve to one shiny colourful Chaos Communication Congress.
This year’s buildup starts on the 16th of December. During the first two days there will be mostly just team arrival and bootstrapping before it all really takes off. After this more parallelized tasks will show up every day. The majority of tasks take some time to surface. Because of that we ask especially the non-Leipzig-locals to rest some days instead of arriving early and come to the buildup from the 18th of December. Don’t worry, there will be more than enough to do and more with every day.

What needs to be done?
There is a huge amount of variety in the tasks that need to be done so that everyone should find themselves a topic that fits them. Some tasks have been planned before but the majority of things happens quite spontaneously because we cannot anticipate everything very well beforehand. Especially the time tables are very fluid and can change quickly at times. Because of that there is no angel system or online shift planning used during buildup. Just come over and pick a task that suits you onsite. Please ask in Heaven, which is located in the CCL, what needs to be done at the moment or get yourself some info. If Heaven is not running yet come to the Preheaven in hall 4.

What else must be observed?
The halls are not heated during buildup. Bring some warm clothes that don’t mind some dirt and bring solid shoes, bonus points for safety shoes S1 or higher. We have some personal protective equipment (PPE) to offer but if you can bring your own working gloves, tools, $(safety-)gadgets you are more than welcome to do so.
Despite the often chilled atmosphere during buildup please remember and be aware that the buildup is a construction site! Take care of yourself and the people around you and keep safe distance from heavy machines, cars, forklifts, trucks etc.
Please don’t bring children before the official start of the event if possible. Children are an immense safety risk in the construcion areas – mostly for themselves. Please also leave your pets at home. An event with 16.000 attendees isn’t the right place for animals anyway.

And the teardown?
Teardown starts on Day 4 directly after the closing ceremony and goes on until the 5th of January.
Especially during this phase we need every help we can possibly get. Everything brought into the halls during the two weeks of buildup needs to be brought out again within six days – which is less than half the amount of time. We are thankful and happy for every angel who is able to spend some more days onsite and help with tearing down this huge event.
More info especially regarding teardown will be posted on this blog soon.

For further info check the Event Blog for publications.
If you have concrete questions please contact 36c3@c3loc.de

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