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I am conflicted whether to go, on one hand I have nothing better to do in that period, it's cheap, and it's the only time of the year I get to meet 'my people',
by hobo_mark 12y ago
I am conflicted whether to go, on one hand I have nothing better to do in that period, it's cheap, and it's the only time of the year I get to meet 'my people', on the other hand, last time I went (29C3) most of the talks were about privacy and ethics bla bla, rather than the hard technical stuff I went there for in the first place.
If even Ange Albertini has had all of his three proposed talks rejected, the rest this year better be damn good!
I hope they won't make again those ridicolous creepercards from two years ago, some people seem to never have grown out of highschool.
- lubilubilubi 12y agoYou should check out the Blogpost[1] by the Fahrplanteam. They put a lot of effort in producing a good schedule for everyone visiting the congress and please bear in mind, that your expectations arent the only one to consider. As they have only time for 1/4 of the submitted talks, they have to reject a lot of talks i would like to see :( [1]: https://events.ccc.de/2014/11/21/fahrplanplanungskomitee/ https://events.ccc.de/2014/11/21/fahrplanplanungskomitee/
- Bob_Sheep 12y agoThe creeper cards were not a CCC thing and people generally just took the piss out of them.
- phaer 12y agoI my experience, the talks at 30c3 were a bit more technical again than those at 29c3, at least some smaller ones. Personally, I like to discuss the implications of tech in society in bigger talks, because the most interesting technical discussions for me are happening at the assemblies.
- djcapelis 12y agoOne of his talks ended up being accepted: https://twitter.com/angealbertini/status/536219257177403392 https://twitter.com/angealbertini/status/536219257177403392
- raimue 12y agoI agree technical talks showing interesting hacking skills belong to the congress. However, the congress is the one event in the year where hackers in Germany or even Europe actually get any media coverage. Using this attention to also address general problems in society like privacy and ethics helps more than restricting the program to technical talks only. At 30C3, I felt the balance between the different tracks of the conference schedule was quite good.
- 1ris 12y agoI have ever actually attended a congress, but I watch the live streams passionately since the 25c3. 29c3 was IMO the worst congress, 30c3 was a way better.
- needusername 12y agoThe location made 29c3 so much better than be previous ones because for once it wasn't totally overcrowded.
- 1ris 12y agoI can't comment on that because I was not physically there, I only "attended" in a figurative meaning of the word.