“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 …

This weekend, the content team held the first round of talk selection. Some people had even gone to the pain of traveling to Berlin to participate. Kudos to them. We met, we were holed up for 17 hours total, much Club Mate was obliterated, benign (and evil) laughter and agitated shouts were echoing through the CCCB as we argued over which talks to accept, which to reject and for which to postpone the decision.
We managed to look at each and every submission we got – there were many funny and interesting submissions, and to all of you who submitted something: we thank you all for offering to …

Just a small status update: The deadline for handing in talks is over. Over 200 proposals await the content committee, which means we can unfortunately only pick about 50% of all submissions. Thank you for your work if you handed something in, it is very much appreciated. You will hear about the status of your submission on November 7th, 2008 or very possibly earlier than that. November 7th is also the earliest date that you should expect a published schedule for 25C3. And now: Back to work!

Imagine the following to be spoken in a deep, dramatic voice, not unlike the one of Laurence Fishburne:

This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You decide to NOT hand in a talk for 25C3 — the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe …

Everyone loves buildings that go blinkity blink. Following the long tradition of blinking houses, Blinkenlights comes to the North American continent for the first time ever this weekend.

Designed as a birthday present to ourselves for the 20th anniversary of the CCC, Project Blinkenlights was an interactive installation by members and friends of the Chaos Computer Club.

The CCC decided to turn the famous Haus des Lehrers{.linkfilter-urlfull} building at Berlin Alexanderplatz into world’s biggest interactive computer display. That was in 2001. For …

You still have lots of time to hand in your talks for the 25th Chaos Communication Congress, as submissions are due October 5th, 2008 (Midnight UTC). Then again, you may not want to wait too long.

We currently have about 70 submissions in our queue and there is definitely room for more. Some of the proposals for talks we received are very good and will probably make it into the final program of the Congress. However, some make us scratch our heads: With nothing more than a title and a name of a speaker entered, it’s rather tricky to decide if the submission is any good.

Please take your time …