January 2008 Archives
2008-01-03
Annual Chaos Communication Congress, 24th edition
I spent 4,5 nice days in the german capital attending the 24C3. It was the second time i tried my new just-be-relaxed-strategy (First time was at the camp). Mickeyl would say I was throttling again, but I enjoyed it a lot. :)
The relax-strategy also, or better mostly, included to hang out with friends and fellow hackers, chatting, sharing ideas and just having a nice time. The goal was reached.
Some more words about the congress itself. With 4013 it was almost as crowed as last year with 4200 people. Luckily most of the time only the conferences halls were crowed and you were able to get a nice place with power, network and club mate in the rest of the building. That brings me to my last point. The organization of the annual congress has made a huge step forward over the last years. This was my 5th one and I see improvements all over the time.
Only 3% of the talk needed to be cancled. Talks were on time. Streaming of the talks was often working. Places to hang out were nicely prepared. A wide scope of not only programmers, but eletronic geeks, artist, spies, you name it.
Also nice to see is that people engage itself political again.
Thanks for all the fish and hopefully see you next year.