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Chaos Communication Congress Call for Participation

• lawl 12y ago
  > As a speaker, you will have free admission. That wasn't the case in the last years and i think it's a bad change. Congress had always had this kind of community feeling and you could always hit up speakers in the hall ways and they'd treat you as equals. I kinda liked the rule that everyone has to pay the entrance fee, but maybe that's just me. I hope this doesn't change too much, but the kind of "huge family" feeling was already kind of going away when the event scaled from 3k to 10k people. Probably unavoidable at this scale though. Nevertheless, looking forward to another awesome c3. It's still my highlight of the year.
  • stickac 12y ago
    It was the case for 30c3 at least. I'm not sure about previous years, though.
  • sneak 12y ago
    > That wasn't the case in the last years and i think it's a bad change. It's bad form to ask speakers to donate their research, time, and breath, and then also ask them to pay for the privilege. When I spoke at the CCC, this miffed me a bit.
    • NickWarner775 12y ago
      Paying for the privilege to speak could deter less qualified speakers from leading the discussions, though. It would keep the quality of conversation high I think. Thoughts?
      • sp332 12y ago
        If you're really interested in hearing someone, why not reduce the barriers to having them come speak? And if you're not interested, why let them speak at all?
        • wink 12y ago
          If I am not mistaken the ticket price was 80 EUR for four days. Believe me, I'm all for offering speakers travel reimbursement, but arguing about that ticket price is kind of out of place.
• th0ma5 12y ago
  Such an astounding event, and they do their online presence so well.