The annual meeting of the Chaos Computer Club, Germany’s giant hacker group, is online again this year. While those of us here are sad that we don’t get to see our hacker friends in person, our loss is your gain — the whole thing is online for the entire world to enjoy.
This year’s Congress has gone entirely decentralized, with many local clubs hosting their own video streams and “stages”. Instead of four tracks, there are now six or seven tracks of talks going on simultaneously, so prepare to be overwhelmed by choice. You can find the overall schedule here, so if you see anything you’d like to watch, you’ll know when to tune in.
Like last year, there is also a parallel 2D simulation world, like Zelda with videoconferencing, but for which you’ll need a ticket, and they’re sold out. (Check out the demo video if you want to see what that’s about.) And what would a conference be without t-shirts, armbands, and even a sticker exchange? Or course, it all has to be done by mail, but you do what you can.
We’ll be keeping our eyes on the talks, and let you know if we see anything good. If you do the same, let us know in the comments!
The 2D Parallel World seems interesting.
Did it have an audio track?
(I heard nothing)
Holy Smokes! That is big schedule!
And it’s a pain to skim for potentially interesting talks. Is there an old-fashioned list or table available somewhere?
There are alternative time tables, but I am not sure if there are easy ways to access them without having event accounts (pre-order tickets required to create one).
The streaming site (ex: https://streaming.media.ccc.de/rc3/r3s ) does have a progress bar-like schedule at the bottom of the page, so you may want to check that out.
Here is another schedule without the video on top
https://rc3.world/2021/public_fahrplan
Dah, I am glad that I am not the only one who missing the “classical schedule”.