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I have a vague memory from 2009 IIRC, walking past Alexanderplatz underneath the S-bahn towards the Berlin Congress Center. A somewhat "top-of-the-world-ma!"-mo
by sebcat 8y ago
I have a vague memory from 2009 IIRC, walking past Alexanderplatz underneath the S-bahn towards the Berlin Congress Center. A somewhat "top-of-the-world-ma!"-moment in retrospect. I think we drove there, the four of us, in my parents Mitsubishi SUV. We had parked the car in a nearby garage. It didn't meet the environmental requirements of the city instituted a year earlier, but no tickets were issued on it.
We slept at The Gym. We saw Assange on stage. My first quad-copter encounter was at that event. I had my first Club Mate. The curry-wurst was good.
The four of us who went there together knew each-other from IRC, but I don't think we met before that. One of us ended up working for Google, one of us ended up co-founding a startup. One of us disappeared, one of us started working for a European network camera manufacturer.
Good times!
- dijit 8y agoI managed to attend last year and the year before with my IRC friends. We even managed become an "assembly". I really love the CCC, I wish there was a predominantly english version of it though, I feel so invasive attending as an English native.
- metters 8y ago>I feel so invasive attending as an English native Why that. They actually try to be as open as possible. Volunteers type translations for the subtitles while the talk is ongoing. At least afterwards it is possible to understand what's going.
- aisofteng 8y agoWhy would you feel “invasive attending as an English native”?
- dijit 8y agoIt obviously caters to German speakers and bilinguals more than English natives. I can’t attend 30-50% of the talks and I have no right to expect them to speak English there. It’s their country and community, I am just a visitor.
- kerng 8y ago"Invasive" seems a bit strong of a word choice given that they have free translations volunteers for pretty much all talks (for multiple languages) and do a lot to welcome everyone.
- arendtio 8y agoActually, I think that might be a bit of an odd perspective. If the event was meant as a German event, there wouldn't be so many German speakers with English talks. For some German talks, they even provide simultaneous translated English audio tracks in the live stream portal. So while I appreciate your 'I am just a visitor' attitude, I don't think it is fair to assume that they don't welcome English natives (think about how much courage it takes to give a talk in a foreign language). I think the event culture is more along the lines 'Most visitors understand English, so we like English talks. But since the event is in Germany, German is okay too'.
- dbrgn 8y agoThere is simultaneous audio-translation of almost all German talks to English via DECT and in the stream.