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34th Chaos Communication Congress (34C3) Tuwat

56 points by based2 9y ago

lispm 9y ago
Don't miss the Fahrplan, the timetable: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2017/Fahrplan/ https://events.ccc.de/congress/2017/Fahrplan/ Talks will be streamed. German language will be translated... Plan some extended viewing time, because there are lots of interesting sessions.
tuwat 9y ago
FAQ: What is the meaning of tuwat?
- d33 9y ago
  The motto of this year's edition of CCC, as shown here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Communication_Congress#Congresses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Communication_Congress#C... It will probably be explained in the opening talk. EDIT: also, maybe this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuwat_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuwat_language
  - lispm 9y ago
    German: Tu wat, tu was, mache was -> 'do what' -> do something, be active, change things 1981 the left/alternative scene in Germany was thinking about the use of computers in society (police, companies, ...). There was a TUNIX congress. The 'tuwat' note in the TAZ newspaper invited to a meeting, which was kind of the foundation of the Chaos Computer Club... which was the birth of the hacker movement in Germany. tuwat is the motto calling people into action and to change the society with projects, meetings, a club, a congress, ...
    - jojoo 9y ago
      And TUNIX has the double-meaning w/ unix and do nothing (nix is nothing in german slang)
- ahartmetz 9y ago
  It's a corruption of "do something" in German: "Tu etwas" -> "Tu was" "Tu wat" -> tuwat and an allusion to a very early conference announcement in the German hacker scene with the headline "TUWAT.TXT". https://berlin.ccc.de/wiki/TUWAT.TXT https://berlin.ccc.de/wiki/TUWAT.TXT "Do something" in German has ~the same connotations as in English: the situation is bad and you urgently need to start fixing it.
- madethemcry 9y ago
  Look at the introduction from the timetable. Tim talks about the current usage of computers only for surveillance, smartphones and cars. Believing that computers can be used for more useful things ending with the invitation of us computer freaks for the event: Damit wir als Komputerfrieks nicht länger unkoordiniert vor uns hinwuseln, tun wir wat und treffen uns am 27.12.17 in Leipzig, Seehausener Allee 1 (TAZ- Hauptgebäude) ab 11:00 Uhr "tun wir wat" translates to "let's do something". The word tuwat can be interpreted as "tu wat" which translates to "do something". Be aware this language is not German but more like Berlinerisch- the dialect spoken in Berlin.
- doener 9y ago
  "Tu wat" is Rhenish (Cologne area) German slang for "Do something." Wat = was = something.
based2 9y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/de/comments/7me52u/34c3_startet_in_leipzig/ https://www.reddit.com/r/de/comments/7me52u/34c3_startet_in_...

56 points by based2 9y ago

Don't miss the Fahrplan, the timetable: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2017/Fahrplan/ https://events.ccc.de/congress/2017/Fahrplan/ Talks will be streamed. German language will be translated... Plan some extended viewing time, because there are lots of interesting sessions.

tuwat 9y ago

FAQ: What is the meaning of tuwat?

d33 9y ago
The motto of this year's edition of CCC, as shown here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Communication_Congress#Congresses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Communication_Congress#C... It will probably be explained in the opening talk. EDIT: also, maybe this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuwat_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuwat_language
- lispm 9y ago
  German: Tu wat, tu was, mache was -> 'do what' -> do something, be active, change things 1981 the left/alternative scene in Germany was thinking about the use of computers in society (police, companies, ...). There was a TUNIX congress. The 'tuwat' note in the TAZ newspaper invited to a meeting, which was kind of the foundation of the Chaos Computer Club... which was the birth of the hacker movement in Germany. tuwat is the motto calling people into action and to change the society with projects, meetings, a club, a congress, ...
  - jojoo 9y ago
    And TUNIX has the double-meaning w/ unix and do nothing (nix is nothing in german slang)
ahartmetz 9y ago
It's a corruption of "do something" in German: "Tu etwas" -> "Tu was" "Tu wat" -> tuwat and an allusion to a very early conference announcement in the German hacker scene with the headline "TUWAT.TXT". https://berlin.ccc.de/wiki/TUWAT.TXT https://berlin.ccc.de/wiki/TUWAT.TXT "Do something" in German has ~the same connotations as in English: the situation is bad and you urgently need to start fixing it.
madethemcry 9y ago
Look at the introduction from the timetable. Tim talks about the current usage of computers only for surveillance, smartphones and cars. Believing that computers can be used for more useful things ending with the invitation of us computer freaks for the event: Damit wir als Komputerfrieks nicht länger unkoordiniert vor uns hinwuseln, tun wir wat und treffen uns am 27.12.17 in Leipzig, Seehausener Allee 1 (TAZ- Hauptgebäude) ab 11:00 Uhr "tun wir wat" translates to "let's do something". The word tuwat can be interpreted as "tu wat" which translates to "do something". Be aware this language is not German but more like Berlinerisch- the dialect spoken in Berlin.
doener 9y ago
"Tu wat" is Rhenish (Cologne area) German slang for "Do something." Wat = was = something.

based2 9y ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/de/comments/7me52u/34c3_startet_in_leipzig/ https://www.reddit.com/r/de/comments/7me52u/34c3_startet_in_...