We are proud to announce that the wiki for the 32nd Chaos Communication Congress is up-and-running, please go ahead and participate!
If you want to announce and coordinate your assembly space, please apply soon.
Please be aware of the deadline on 1st of December. This already is in three two weeks!
See you there.
(english version below)
Die Assemblies sind dieses Jahr in Themenbereiche eingeteilt, auf Basis von Erfahrungen und der Infos, die im Formular für die Orga eingetragen wurden. Damit wollen wir einen weiteren Schritt in Richtung mehr Dezentralität der Orga des Congresses gehen.
Die Assemblies bekommen diesmal nicht eigene Tische, sondern bilden mit anderen Assemblies mehrere Cluster. Ihr stimmt Euch also gemeinsam darüber ab, wie Ihr den Platz einrichtet. Auf dem Congress werdet Ihr im Bereich Eures Clusters einen Stapel von Assemblyschildern finden, den Ihr entsprechend aufteilen könnt. Davon ausgenommen sind wieder die “Shared Spaces”: Diese Tische sind nicht zur dauerhaften Besiedelung gedacht, sondern zur Benutzung für Workshops innerhalb der Cluster sowie für Teilnehmer und Teilnehmerinnen, die sonst keinen festen Platz haben.
Einige Cluster fassen auch Assemblies zusammen, die gemeinsam haben, dass ihr Themenbereich einzigartig ist. Bei anderen Clustern kann es natürlich sein, dass es thematisch nicht perfekt passt, wenn die Beschreibungen nicht detailliert genug waren. Wir hoffen, dass Ihr uns das nachseht und trotzdem miteinander einen schönen Platz gestaltet.
Leider konnten aufgrund der hohen Anzahl von Anmeldungen viele der über 200 Assemblies nicht den Platz bekommen, den sie sich wünschten. Aber: Alle haben einen Platz, niemandem musste abgesagt werden!
Bei der Zuweisung mussten wir priorisieren, wer wie viel vom angegebenen Platz zugeteilt bekommt. Das wichtigste Kriterium hierbei war die Sichtbarkeit: Der Congress ist dem Austausch und der Kommunikation gewidmet, und daher haben wir die Assemblies, die etwas zeigen wollen, zuerst bearbeitet.
Die Idee dahinter ist, dass sich diese Themencluster langfristig auch selber zusammenfinden, sich im Vorfeld absprechen und sich dann auch gemeinsam anmelden und ihren Bereich organisieren. Noisy Square und Chaos West machen vor, wie das geht: Unter einem Banner finden sich verschiedene Gruppen bzw. Hackerspaces zusammen und organisieren und gestalten gemeinsam ihren Platz auf dem Congress, z. B. auch mit gemeinsamem Platz für kleine Vorträge und Workshops, kuscheligen Ecken für Besprechungen und Präsentationsfläche für ihre Projekte.
(english version)
Assemblies are categorized by their topics this year, based on our experience and the info you gave in the form for the orga. We want this to be a further step towards decentralization of the organisation of the Congress.
Assemblies won’t get specific tables assigned, instead they form clusters with other assemblies. Space is assigned to the clusters. This means that you have to coordinate with the other Assemblies in your cluster, agreeing who gets which tables of the allocated space. At Congress you will find a stack of assembly signs in your cluster area and it’s up to you how you spread them in the area. As usually, “Shared Spaces” are the exception: These tables are not for permanent use, they are temporary space for workshops as well as participants of Congress who don’t have a permanent space.
Some clusters are a combination of Assemblies that share the fact that they all cover unrelated, unique topics. Of course, some Assemblies in one cluster might not have a perfect thematic fit, especially if the Assembly descriptions were sparse.
We hope you will look past our errors and nonetheless create a nice area together.
Unfortunately, due to the high number of registrations, we were not able to assign the space you asked for to most of the over 200 assemblies. On the other hand: We didn’t have to decline any Assembly requests!
When assigning the space, we had to prioritize. The most relevant criterion was the visibility of your assembly: Congress is a place for communication and exchange, so Assemblies trying to showcase something were assigned space first.
The long term idea behind the cluster concept is that we hope for clusters to form themselves before registering together.
Noisy Square and Chaos West show how to do so: Several different groups or hackerspaces connect, register, gather and organize a large area under one name.
This can include a shared area for talks and workshops, cosy corners for discussions and areas for showcasing their projects.
Did you think that the thrill of sharing your ideas in front of a huge audience at a C3 was something you’d never do? Do you work on a cool project and want to get the word out? Was your talk one of the hundreds that got rejected? Did you come up with an awesome hack that you need to share? Well, you’re in luck because there will be Lightning Talks at 31C3.
Taking place at 12:45 on Days 2, 3 and 4, these fast paced sessions are perfect for pitching new software or hardware projects, exploits, creative pranks or strange ideas you need to get out to a global audience. Even if you don’t have an awesome idea or project to share, a Lightning Talk is perfect for pitching your self organized session, assembly, or even a longer talk you’ll give at the speaker’s corner.
There will even be a special 180 second express round for those of you who don’t need fancy slides or a full five minutes to share your ideas.
Registration is now open for the Lightning Talk sessions at the 31C3. Act fast to reserve your slot. The last couple of times, lightning talk slots filled up on Day 1, so better hurry!
More Lightning talk information can be found at
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/wiki/Static:Lightning_Talks
The submission form is at:
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/wiki/Form:Lightning
“Vortrag auf dem Congress? Ich? Keine Chance.” Glaubst Du das? Arbeitest Du an einem coolen Projekt und willst es unter die Leute bringen? Wurde Dein Vortrag abgelehnt? Hast Du einen großartigen Hack, an dem Du uns teilhaben lassen willst? Glück gehabt, denn es gibt die Lightning Talks auf dem 31C3!
An den Tagen 2, 3 und 4 geht es um 12:45 Uhr los mit den Sessions, es dreht sich alles um neue Hardwareprojekte, Exploits, kreativen Unfug oder merkwürdige Ideen – vor einem weltweiten Publikum! Und auch wenn Du kein cooles Projekt vorstellen, sondern lieber eine interessante selbstorganisierte Session, ein Assembly oder einen längeren Vortrag in der Speaker’s Corner ankündigen willst, bist Du hier an der richtigen Adresse.
Es gibt sogar eine Extrarunde mit 180-Sekunden-Express-Vorträgen, wenn fünf Minuten Dir zu lang sind.
Die Anmeldung läuft, also registriere jetzt schnell Deinen Lightning Talk für den 31C3! Die letzten Male waren die Slots an Tag 1 schon voll, schnell sein lohnt sich also!
Das Programm und mehr Informationen zu den Lightning Talks gibt es unter:
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/wiki/Static:Lightning_Talks
Einen Talk einreichen kannst Du hier:
TL;DR: Please get to the CCH by 25th/26th with your assembly setup if possible
Beat the crowds and start building your assembly on the 25th! (Day -1). It makes loading so much easier for all of us and gives you time to make sure you have everything you need. Why get stuck in traffic around and inside the building? If you arrive early enough on the 25th, you may even be able to drive right into the unloading hall!
If you’re unloading a vehicle with equipment or other stuff you plan to use at the 30C3, put <a href=http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.563085&lon=9.985237&zoom=18&layers=M">Tiergartenstraße 2, 20355 Hamburg in your GPS.
Once you’ve arrived, have someone in your group head to the infodesk, who will let you know how to find your assembly. You can reach the infodesk via Eingang C, check there with the Angel or Security Guard inside for further instructions. Please use this entry only for loading and unloading.
Of course, please be sure to bring enough power strips and lamps for your assembly. Be extra neighborly and bring some for others to borrow as well!
This place is already waiting for you.
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 information about your group, the reason why you belong together and which projects you are working on. Very important are the information about self-organized-sessions you plan to provide at your assembly or in one of the workshop rooms, as those show how you want to be part of the idea to bring people together to share knowledge and develop new ideas. The “Free Text” field in the assembly form will be the body of the page, you can use normal wiki syntax there, write text, add pictures, provide links and so on.
(Picture of things that you want to bring: wizard23)
Assemblies are also very much invited to decorate their spot on the Congress, as long as everything you bring does not block exit paths and is not inflammable. Please specify those in the field “things we bring” or contact the orga directly if you are not sure. Also please specify what kind of location you would like to sit in: Please have a look at the newly invented field “specification”. The more information you give us on your preferred seating, the better we can look for a suitable place for you. The building will be used in a different way this year, so often an entry like “same place as last year” won’t work, but you can always add what you liked/disliked from last years spot, as any information helps.
(Picture of decorated assembly: wizard23)
Keep in mind that the size of the building is not infinite – so please just apply for as many seats as you really need (this is usually not more than 1/3 of the number of people wanting to attend). Please make sure that you get your entry submitted until next Sunday (December 1st), as we need to start to plan the seating then.
Looking forward to have you there!
(Picture: saschaludwig)
We want you to bring more of that Camp feeling to the Congress! The event suffered from stagnation over the past few years. This time you can shape the conference a lot more than you already did in Berlin. To start that transformation, there’ll be a new thing called Assemblies. Ideally, these should work much like Villages on the Camp, but not exactly the same way.
Up to 28C3 last year we’ve assigned seats and tables to projects that registered in the wiki beforehand. Space has been a very scarce resource, thus we had to keep a close eye on allocation. Hopefully, that will change for the better in the CCH. Naturally we can’t guarantee this, because we don’t know how many people will come there. It might turn out that we can realize only some parts of what we dream of. It is an experiment, and as such may as well result in failure.
So what exactly shall those Assembly things be?
In contrast to projects on past Congresses, which have been centered around the work that people do, Assemblies focus on social groups of people. Obviously there will still be projects, but they’ll rather be parts of an Assembly than stand alone. If you are a group of hackers who like to work and hang out together, you might consider setting up a home base on 29C3. Bring your toys, work on projects, have fun and let others participate in what you’re doing! That’s what an Assembly is all about.
Assemblies are also invited to decorate their spot on the Congress as long as everything you bring with you does not block exit paths and is not inflammable. These two requirements are important, and if your installations don’t fulfill them, we’ll be forced to remove them.
Last but not least, letting others participate in what you know – and what you’re doing – is central for everything going on at the conference. We want you to share your knowledge and thus we’d like to try something. If people in your Assembly want to offer workshops or maybe lectures on a small scale, maybe there’ll be enough space for you to integrate a workshop area into your Assembly. We will not provide projectors, canvas or anything apart from chairs and tables, but probably you’ve got those anyway. But please, don’t bring PAs or other sound systems, since your neighbors won’t like the cacophony of a dozen Assemblies around playing all kinds of different music.
If you would like to have small-scale workshops in your Assembly, tell us what you’re planning and for how many people. Please be as specific as possible. We will probably not allocate extra workshop space for your Assembly, if you haven’t published something like a schedule on your Assembly page. For now it will be sufficient to list topics and speakers, later we’d like to see a timetable as well.
So, that’s the general idea. Unfortunately, we won’t be able to reach that ideal inside a building. The place is big, okay, but still limited. As a consequence, we’ll probably be forced to monitor and adjust allocation of space to the individual Assemblies. So we need you to inform us about what you’d like to do, how much space you’ll need, what you’d like to bring with you, how much power your gear will consume, etc…
The conference wiki, which will go public soon, makes use of semantic wiki data. We’re currently still working out some aspects related to information about Assemblies, but once we’re done you should create a wiki page describing your Assembly and tell us all we need to know. The more you tell us about your plans the better your chances that you’ll actually get what you want. Even though you won’t be able to enter that information into the wiki right from the start, please start thinking about it now. We’ll inform you once we’re done with creating all those semantic forms and templates.
For bigger workshops there will be workshop rooms. So if you’re planning to work with a group of let’s say 20 people, you’ll probably want reserve a time slot there. We will soon post a howto on doing this.
You’d better start planning for your Assembly now. Participate and share with others! The Congress is made by you, so help making it what you think it should be.
