The HOPE team has launched two services for those of you interested in getting the latest news about HOPE Number Six.

The HOPE announcement list is sent to everyone involved in the conference – from speakers to volunteers to attendees – and it contains the latest updates on this July’s (21st – 23rd) conference.

The HOPE blog contains this information as well as an opportunity for you to give us feedback, ask questions, come up with ideas, etc.

To subscribe to the HOPE announcement list, simply do the following:

1. Compose an email to majordomo@2600.com.
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Langsam aber sicher nimmt der Fahrplan für die Datenspuren 2006 Gestalt an.
Hier der bisherige Stand, der sich unter Umständen allerdings noch leicht ändern wird:

Samstag, 13.05.2006:

Vorträge (im Saal):

• 11:00 Uhr – Eröffnungsveranstaltung (Keynote)
• 12:00 Uhr – starbug: Biometrie und Epass
  Vortrag über den elektronischen Pass und die darin verwendete Technik
• 13:00 Uhr – Pause
• 14:00 Uhr – Jörg Tauss: Das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz
  Der Bundestagsabgeordnete wird über ein Gesetz referieren, das es Bürgern ermöglicht, Einsicht in behördliche Unterlagen zu erhalten
• 16:00 Uhr – Prof. Dr. Roland …

Zum dritten Mal lädt der Chaos Computer Club Dresden (c3d2) zum Datenschutz-Symposium nach Dresden ein. Unter dem Motto “Datenspuren – Privatsphäre war gestern” diskutieren Experten und Interessierte zu einem Thema, das mit dem Einzug von Computertechnologie und neuen Medien längst in den Mittelpunkt der Gesellschaft gerückt ist. Viele Entwicklungen haben nachhaltige Auswirkungen auf das alltägliche Leben der Menschen, finden aber unserer Meinung nach in der öffentlichen Diskussion zu wenig Beachtung. Deshalb möchten wir mit unserem Workshop- und Vortragsprogramm nicht nur über Neuigkeiten im …

As you might have noticed, each lecture recording has an ID (three or four digits long) that is embedded in the file name and the introductory slide in the video itself. You also find this event ID on the 22C3 Fahrplan being used in URLs and such.

The more important information is that this ID will be unique over ALL Chaos Communication Congresses since 1998 (not everything is online properly but it will). So there is not only no clash with IDs used at 21C3, there won’t be one with 23C3 as well. And this goes for all events that have been planned with our Pentabarf conference planning …

All recorded 22C3 videos are online now (via BitTorrent and HTTP). Get the individual torrent files or get all torrent files in one tar.gz archive: 22C3-videos-complete-20050506.tar.gz (here are the checksums).

We still plan to provide complete torrent sets and extra torrent sets optimized for DVD-sized download chunks so that it is easier to archive that stuff. We are a bit distracted by other stuff currently, but we will bring you an update soon. Audio-only versions will follow soon as will the iPod-versions.

If you want to mirror the content, please use BitTorrent to get the files and …

We are coming along well. The recordings are on the server now and we are creating .torrent files now. Once ready, we will publish them so that you can use BitTorrent to download them. Once we feel that the first run is over, we will open direct HTTP access to the files. If we would do this from the beginning, I am sure the server wouldn’t survive it.

So now that we are able to give you what you want, there is something we want from you:

PLEASE PROVIDE FEEDBACK ON THE LECTURES!
USE THE FEEDBACK FORMS!

Each event has it’s own unique feedback URL, easily accessible on each event’s web page in …

Well, we can’t tell you anything specific about 23C3 at this time apart from that it is going to happen. However, if you already have questions or requests regarding the upcoming event, please use one of the following e-mail addresses:

• 23c3-orga at cccv dot de for general organizational requests
• 23c3-press at cccv dot de for press requests
• 23c3-content at cccv dot de for anything related to the conference program

So if you think you have a good idea or want to offer your support, don’t hesitate to contact us.

I uploaded the first official 22C3 video recording: it’s the recording of the opening speech and keynote. Unfortunately, the video quality itself is not good as this is one of the recordings that had to be recovered from the failed realtime recordings. Most other videos will be much better. Here it is:

22C3-390-en-private_investigations.mp4 (MPEG-4, 1.2 MBit/s)

A few notes on the format: this is a standard MPEG-4 encoded (audio and video) file in a standard MP4 container file. The native resolution is 720×576 pixels but as this is derived from video, it is a non-square pixel format. The file …

Yes we know, we suck. But rest assured a lot of work is being done to bring the 22C3 videos out. Consider it to be 95% done and we are pretty confident you will hear from us soon.

There has been a lot of talk on why things took so long (again) and although I won’t dig into the whole story here, it was a sequence of disasters that started with almost all realtime recordings being plagued by non-linear syncing of audio and video. So most of the material had to be recovered and re-encoded from DV backup tapes which took a long time (around 2 TB of data had to be moved to and fro).

As a few …

We just released the “2.0” update to the 22C3 Fahrplan which now includes most lecture materials (excluding just a few slides by some lazy speakers). There will be some minor updates in the coming days to add the remaining stuff and another update to point to the recordings once the audio and video files are online.

Die Anmeldung für das Easterhegg 2006 ist jetzt online.

We expected to be done by now but there is still work to be done. Main problem is that we have to manually rearrange around 50 sessions to fix the audio syncing which was garbled due to technical problems. But we are making progress, step by step and we are slowly reaching the end of the tunnel.

As the stuff is ready, it will be available both via BitTorrent and a podcast (podcast might kick in a bit later to wait for the main rush to flow down).

Thanks for your patience.