We have a huge problem: Couches. We need couches for the 25C3. The more the better. Everybody loves to sit on a sofa with his computer and there can’t be enough couches for all the computers.

But organizing couches is hard work. Buying them on the internet, scheduling the pickup with the former owners, finding nerds who are willing and able (!) to lift and carry them three flights down, storing them, … you get the picture.

Here is your chance to contribute: Bring your own sofa. If your sofa is somewhere in Berlin we can pick it up and bring it to our storehouse. After the 25C3 we take care of …

We’re now on version 0.2 of the schedule. However, there is still some shuffling that needs to be done, so expect more updates soon.

You should have noticed by now, but I think it was never mentioned on this blog: The design for 25C3 is complete. Now is the time to get your banners and desktop background pictures at the appropriate wiki page.

Jetlag Bargainer asks: “Which will I regret more, sleeping through everything that happens early in the morning or sleeping through everything that happens late at night?”

Fortunately, there’s no need to worry about that! At the 25C3, the first talks begin at 11:30, and generally wrap up by 0:00. This means you have plenty of time to catch lots of great talks, have an awesome time partying at C-base and get a good 8 hours of sleep.

However, if you’re feeling sluggish, you can always catch an hour long nap between 15:00 and 16:00 and between 19:30 and 20:30 each day. (Some folks choose to call …

“Digital Fabrication … is going to change the nature of how we design and produce items in much the same way that personal computers transformed software development and the way we transfer information. Its going to rock.”

If Zach Hoeken has his way, one day we’ll all be able to print 3D objects as easily as we print on paper today. Digital Fabrication is at the core of Objects as Software: The Coming Revolution, his talk at the 25C3.

Like other speakers in the “Making” track, he’s hard at work designing, building and evangelizing the tools and techniques we can all use to create our own …

“Hackers and crafters do the same thing with different materials. There’s a lot of awesome cross-breeding going on and it’s rad, but I think each community finds the other a little mysterious. Also, crafters are mostly girls. Hackers are mostly boys. Match made in heaven?”

From hacking on a knitting machine one minute to hacking code the next, NYCResistor’s Kellbot is hard at work bringing the worlds of Hacking and Crafting back together. She will be covering this convergence and helping encourage its growth in “Crafting and Hacking: Separated at Birth”, her talk at the 25C3.

Craft has been a …

The very first version of our schedule (we call it “Fahrplan”) is out. Have a look.

The conference will present talks ranging from eVoting, a discussion of Methods for Understanding Targeted Attacks with Office Documents, to an overview about RepRap in the talk Objects as Software: The Coming Revolution. Phones and micro controllers will be a very big topic this year, but not all talks are fixed by now.

You will see a lot of empty slots, but it basically means that these talks are not 100% confirmed. The good thing: You still have something to wait for in the next couple of days.

Like every year, assigning seats and table space for projects is quite challenging. We don’t want to be unfair and we’d definitely like to prefer activists working on cool projects much more than just assigning this scarce resource to people merely using it for hanging around and watching movies.

If you’d like to reserve space on 25C3, please have a look at the projects page in the wiki. We want you to document your project and tell us, how much space you need and what else is required. Therefore you’ll need to create a wiki page before Friday, December, 5th, containing at least a common …

“There is a special addictive feeling to manifesting the objects of your imagination. It’s a much more powerful feeling than acquiring consumer goods. It feels really good.” – Bre Pettis.

Bre Pettis wants you to make things.

You’ve seen his DIY videoblogging for Make: Magazine and Etsy. You shouldn’t miss a chance to see his History Hacker TV show. If you know how to make an LED blink, you’ve almost certainly seen the work coming out of his hackerspace in New York City, NYCResistor. If Bre hasn’t inspired you yet, he will soon!

At the 25C3, you can find out about his latest passion for …

In 1970, The Beatles published a song about microblogging on their swan song album “Let It Be” that described Twitter as “Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup, they slither wildly as they slip away across the universe” (the song was later covered by Slovenian avant-garde music group Laibach). This year, information on the 25th Chaos Communication Congress can be found flowing out endlessly on Twitter.

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Moin liebe Mitchaoten,

der Heidelberger NoName e.V. lädt ein zur RGB2Rv5.

Unsere Retrospieleparty “roots go back to the roots” findet 2008 nun zum 5. Mal statt. Wir spielen wie bereits seit der 2. Auflage im Forum 41 in Schwetzingen. Der Termin in diesem Jahr ist das Wochenende vom 28.-30.November 2008. Eine Anfahrtsbeschreibung findet ihr in unserem Wiki: https://www.noname-ev.de/w/Forum_41.

Das Progamm umfasst zum Jubiläum wieder jede Menge Spiel, Spaß und Action. Näheres dazu könnt ihr auf unserer Seite rgb2r.de oder in unserem Wiki finden.

Solltet ihr selbst noch Ideen und Vorschläge haben …

This year, the CCC will issue invitations to journalists and bloggers to attend the 25C3. We will send out all invitations from now on until a week before the event.

Of course, this doesn’t mean the 25C3 will be an invitation-only event: Every journalist who wants to participate is welcome, but there will be no accreditation process or special treatment except for name badges which will indicate that the participant is a member of the press.

There will be an exception for photographers and TV teams. Since we know that the event can provide interesting pictures but we don’t want dozens of …