You have children and attend 30C3?

This year we plan to have a big area of the Congress as a Kidspace, to give children of three years of age and up the chance to age-appropriately participate in the Congress. We have enough space in two big foyers to allow for a quiet space on one hand, and a more playful area on the other. The quiet one allows for relaxing with your children and to refuel with a power-nap. The playful area invites to play around, build caves, listen to radioplays on the Audiobox and have hands-on experience in child-appropriate electronics- or tinkerworkshops. And of course …

To all those interested in participating at the Congress for the first time

You are interested in technology, computers or net politics? However, you doubt whether you would fit into the Chaos Communication Congress, since you are neither a programmer nor an experienced hacker? But yet, you would love to learn about hacking, soldering, encryption, lockpicking or robots? 

Then you are more than welcome at the Chaos Communication Congress! We are convinced that this is just the right place for you and would like to encourage you to attend 30C3. Therefore we founded the Chaos Mentors. Feel free …

An assembly is your place at 30C3, the /home of a group of people belonging together, hackers who like to work and hang out. At bcc we had such groups around projects, but last year we invented the concept of assemblies as an experiment, that worked out great!

(Picture of assembly: maltman23)

You find background on the idea of assemblies in last years blogpost on this topic. In sum it is like the villages in the camp: Bring your toys and tools, show your projects and work on them, and just have fun – and let others participate in what you’re doing! Write a nice wikipage on your assembly, give …

Symbolbild à la Bahn: Hacker auf dem Weg zum Congress

As in previous years, the German railway company …

Last year Congress moved to Hamburg and it was great to have enough space for all of you! To ensure that this will be the case for 30C3 again, we booked some more space this year. Therefore we kindly ask you to choose one of our supporter tickets, as 30C3 will cost us much more than standard tickets priced at 80 EUR will pay. Supporter tickets are available for 100, 120 and 140 EUR.

In addition business tickets for 350, 550 and 750 EUR are on offer if you or your company want to make a larger contribution to congress, supporting congress and all the volunteers driving it. Please note that this …

This year, in order to better align the workload with the actual expertise of the reviewers, several topic-specific teams were formed. (More here.) Security related topics were staffed by a team of three to four core members. Additionally, six reviewers with differing security background were supporting the review.

Since in some cases the content of the actual presentations overlapped with the focus of more than one content team, submissions were shifted back and forth. Most of the overlap occurred between Hardware, DiY & Making, and Science & Engineering. Overlaps with Society, …

Within the next hours, everyone who submitted a talk or lecture (not: lightning talk or workshop) should receive their notice of acceptance or non-acceptance. Some of you will be disappointed, because talks that you considered important did not make it into the program. We would like to share with you how decisions were made and by which priorities, so everyone can have a better understanding of how the final Society, Politics & Ethics program came into existence.

First, we would like to give you some background on the content team process. In previous years, there was one global content …

The rocket is about to start and you can start preparing your congress. Add your assemblies, hacktivities and projects, contribute with most recent information on travel and accommodation – we are looking forward to have you!

Again the wiki is stuffed with semantic connection in between the sites, so please use the forms to make those connections happen!

It’s getting colder outside, and the summer is long gone. There are only a few months left before the next congress starts. So for us, it is time for us to start preparing congress and for you it might be the time to start planning your trip. To assist you with your planning, there is the congress wiki!.

For now its focus is providing information for your personal preparation:

• Looking for a nice accommodation for you and your fellow hackers? Have a look at this long list here.
• Again we will have the special offer for travelling by train for you, please have a look at the travel page in the …

Auch dieses Jahr veranstaltet der Kölner CCC wieder sein Jugendprojekt u23. Das u23 ist ein Projekt für junge Hacker und Haecksen bis 23 Jahre. An sieben Terminen werden die Teilnehmer gemeinsam mit den Tutoren die Grundlagen der Mikrocontroller-Programmierung erlernen und in kleinen Gruppen eigene Projekte auf dem STM32F4-Entwickerboard umsetzen.

Vom 19.10.2013 bis 25.11.2013 werden sich die Teilnehmer jeden Montag treffen und mit den Grundlagen der Programmiersprache C beschäftigen, um sich anschließend mit der Hilfe von präparierten Anwendungsfällen immer tiefer in die Materie der …

Dieses Jahr findet in Hannover die Hackover 2013 vom 01.11.2013-03.11.2013 statt. Dazu gibt es bereits eine Ankündigung im Weblog der Veranstaltung, wo sich Informationen zur Anmeldung finden.

Der Preis pro Ticket liegt bei 32€, darin enthalten sind

• ganztägiges Frühstück inklusive Brötchen mit Belag, Müsli, Kaffee und Tee (es wir auch von Grillsandwiches gemunkelt…)
• eine Tasse mit dem aktuellen Hackover-Logo
• eine bestückte Badgeplatine, die groben Spezifikationen wurden weiter hier schonmal beschrieben und stehen auch im FAQ

Des Weiteren gibt es natürlich T-Shirts und entsprechend der …

Wie in den vergangenen Jahren findet auch dieses Jahr wieder die RGB2R vom 3. bis 6. Oktober 2013 in Heidelberg statt. Veranstalter ist wie immer der NoName e.V. (Chaostreff Heidelberg).

Die RGB2R ist eine Retro-Gaming- und -Computing-Veranstaltung. Jeder bringt seine mindestens 10 Jahre alten Konsolen, DOS-PCs, Commodore, Atari, Amiga, etc. mit und verbringt die Tage in netter Gesellschaft, sowie mit viel Spaß und Erinnerungen an die Spiele der vergangenen Jahre und Jahrzehnte.

Für Verpflegung, Club Mate und andere Getränke ist gesorgt.

Der Veranstaltungsort ist, wie letztes Jahr, das …