No.16301
> The Chaos Communication Congress is the annual symposium and hacker party of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC). During four days between Christmas and New Years Eve, thousands of hackers, technology freaks, artists and utopians get together in Hamburg to communicate, learn from each others, and party together. We focus on topics such as information technology, digital security, making and breaking, and we engage in creative, sceptical discourse on the interaction between technology and society.
Because we already had a defcon and Chaos Communication Camp thread, I figured we should have this one as well.
How many are planning on attending?
Should we set up a lainchan assembly?
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No.16303
I will be there. Will get some lainchan stickers ready to give away.
If we are enough lainons there, an assembly would be denfitily very comfy :3
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No.16305
>>16301Wish I lived in Europe, would absolutely attend this if I had the chance.
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No.16306
I will be there but already have an assembly, sorry
>>16303But we should at least organize a meet up,
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No.16307
Does anyone else see the irony in organizing Chaos
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No.16313
I was wondering if someone will start that thread. I would like to participate, but not sure yet if I will.
>>16307 World is full of paradoxes..
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No.16926
I'm in.
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No.16931
>>16307Read the principia discordia. It's presented as a joke, but has some interesting and sincere points to make.
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No.18115
>>16301which idiot ignored the "no photos with people on it" rule? it doesn't only count for nice people and no it's not okay if you pixelate afterwards.
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No.18124
So kind of like a European Defcon?
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No.18504
I'll be flying all the way from Los Angeles to attend this year. >_>
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No.18512
>>18115What the hell is wrong with OPs photo? I really don't see how you could identify anyone on it.
On topic: I wish I could afford to just go to Hamburg randomly.
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No.18513
>>18115>and no it's not okay if you pixelate afterwards.I bet you're the fat guy in the back of the picture, aren't you?
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No.18515
>>18115This picture obviously isn't pixelated well enough, but how is a pixelated picture really all that different from cropping? Is it because the picture has to be edited later and the original still exists?
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No.18537
How does one gain entrance or tickets to this event?
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No.18546
>>18537You can order them beforehand or buy day-tickets at the entrance.
Ticket sale has yet to open, thoug, and I have no idea when that'll be.
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No.18559
yess i'm totally cominggg this time its so awesome
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No.18561
I have been thinking about attending, since it isn't far away,
and I am definitely in the target group for this event,
but I don't really know what happens there, and what one does when there.
Can anyone explain the appeal of this event to me?
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No.18570
>>18561There are two reasons I can think of:
First of all, you can socialize with a lot of very cool and very smart people. I think most actualy come for that.
Secondly, there is also a "professional", for the lack of a better word, to it. There're tons of great talks, workshops and other self-organized sessions about pretty much everything discussed here on lainchan.
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No.18573
>>18561I would mostly agree to
>>18570 but not at all. It's not like theres a big split between the heros and the normies. It's more about the community and doing cool stuff together. Without the work of the helpers, the so called angels, the event wouldn't work. I would suggest you to become an angel so you are getting in touch with other people and could work like you want - selling drinks, watching the IRC for questions about a talk and so on. I'm always going for two reasons: the talks on the one hand and meeting some friends of mine on the other.
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No.18574
>>18573I didn't want to imply a split between those two.
Thank you for clarifying it.
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No.18576
Previous attendees, what's the coolest thing you left CCC with?
An idea, a friend, some code, whatever.
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No.18587
>>18570>First of all, you can socialize with a lot of very cool and very smart people.I don't really know how to socialize randomly, so I question if there is a purpose in going (for me).
Talking to people randomly seems kind of weird.
And even if I manage to acquire the courage to speak to just anyone after quietly being alone, wandering around, drinking;
"hey you, do you like free software or haskell?", seems like a weird way to open a conversation.
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No.18592
>>18587Well, I like free software and haskell and we'd definetly meet at the lainchan meetup if you came.
I think it also might be worth soley for the talks, workshops and selforganized sessions, that's my assumption, though.
Also, if you do angel stuff, you'll get to talk with other people doing it together with you.
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No.18593
>>18592I guess I am truly overthinking things,
I'll look some more into this event.
A lainchan meetup would be pretty cool.
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No.18595
>>18587I feel you. I don't feel confident in my social skills.
Never the less, I already bought a train ticket, so I guess I'll just go and see.
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No.18655
Well, since I've moved to Hamburg last year, I might attend. Could be fun.
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No.18844
I am trying to attend the 32C3. But i am not sure if i will be able to.
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No.18855
>>16301I guess Saint-Petersburg checking in
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No.19221
>>16301In what price-range are the tickets?
I might want to go there with a couple of friends, but don't really know whether we want to spend the money
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No.19542
The ticket sale has stared!
Get your tickets now.
https://events.ccc.de/2015/11/17/32c3-tickes-are-available-now/>>19221More like 90 Euros if you're an adult.
There also are friend-tickets, which are cheaper, if you can't afford that.
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No.19698
>90 Euro
I wanted to show up, but I really can't afford this.
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No.19700
>>19698There's also daytickets for 35€.
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/wiki/Static:TicketsBut I'm not sure wether that'd be worth it.
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No.19702
>>19698ask for a friend ticket then.
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No.19704
i always feel like too much of a noob to attend these meetings.
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No.19722
>>19704just come, the actual noobs are the normies who think it's cool to come because they're a hipster blogger just to increase their e-peen with "lol i'm so haxx0r"
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No.19723
>>16301i'll be there again.
there were only me and another guy confirmed coming last year (we didn't even meet). looks like this year there will be more people.
assembly would be too much, they have few space (and chairs) for assemblies already and it seems like too much for a handful randomly appearing people. Assemblies are for people who set up stuff and/or have people who stay at the assembly all the time.
but we could do a meetup in some discussion corner somewhere.
