*music*
*startsound of an old mac (G3 or so)*
*laughter and applause*
*electronic music*
*applause*
Carina: Welcome
Linus: to 32c3
*applause*
Congratulations!
You have obtained access privileges to this community event.
Gated communities are the leading model of our societies
We all have seen and experienced them before, from the outside.
Communities that wouldn't let us in.
Communities that wouldn't accept us as who we are.
Communities that would exercise their power over us.
But we have overcome
we didn't even mean to do so
we probably didn't even realize it at first
but when we build our own first gated communities
we came to enjoy their advantages
insurmountable borders keep out what we don't know and hence fear
strong leaders and simple rules relieve us of the burden of thinking for ourselves
and we're shielded from the reverse side of our wealth, waste and wastefulness
with all of us being the same there is no inequality anymore
Or is there?
With all of us having the same opinions and beliefs
there is no dissent anymore.
Or is there?
Carina: And of course we like living in communities.
Living in the community is like living in one of those bottles
they contain perfect little worlds.
Where everything fits together
and everybody shares the same philosophy
and if you look outside,
the bottle glass distorts your view
and what you see looks strange
and might even scare you
so you decide to stay inside
where it's comfy and safe and really really boring.
we need to break the safety glass
there is so much out there to discover
there are new adventures waiting for us
new challenges to be mastered together
and new experiences waiting to be made.
this is what being a hacker, being a nerd
and being at Congress is about
to make new experiences
to start new challenges
and to learn something new.
Linus: So let us hereby release some steam
from the density and narrowness of our bottles.
*electronic rumbling and champagner cork popping sound*
And let us raise our glasses to the success
of the chaos expansion strategy.
*laughing* *applause*
the chaos mentors have been opening gates ever since 30c3
this year we have 42 mentors
and they are welcoming more than 200 mentees this year
and it's amazing!
*applause*
check out one of the introductions that we got
and we got 200 of them
but we picked this one
because we liked it very much.
Carina: So, I am a 50+ female but...
*laughing* *applause*
Yes, I might look young for that.
I am a 50+ female
but ad-networks keep categorizing me as a 25-year-old computer enthusiast.
At least they are not offering any anti age products
Linus: And the beauty of the chaos mentoring program is,
that most of the former mentees are now mentors themselves
and I think this is what would be called exponential growth
and that's usually a good thing.
*laughing*
So please welcome our chaos mentees!
*applause*
but our efforts for world domination are not limited to Congress.
The CMS project reaches out to schools to indoctrinate newcomers
and to recruit them as future hackers and freedom fighters
Thanks for their efforts
*applause*
speaking of freedom fighters
many of you are engaged in the freifunk community
and I am very happy to announce that the freifunk community
has equipped almost 100 refugee shelters
with free wireless Internet access.
Thank you guys!
*applause*
But what's all this infrastructure worth
if it is not used to build sustainable structures of empowerment.
And many of you maybe know the refugees emancipation project
a team that builds Internet cafés in refugee shelters
and offers computer workshops for the people living there
for refugees by refugees
and many of you have supported and donated to refugees emancipation
thank you for that
*applause*
Carina: This summer was a special summer for a lot of us
it was the summer of the camp
we met in the middle of nowhere to explore unknown territories
and live just for a few days
in our own perfect little world
some of you live this every day
and 27 local CCC chapters all of you not only share the fruits of our work
but also the work itself
of course this is also true for Congress here.
Over 1000 angels supported this Congress in the last year.
this year I am sure we will break this number
*applause*
angels are visitors like you and me
they volunteer to do all the jobs which need to be done to run Congress
they help you at the infodesk
they operate the cameras
they serve you Tschunk at the bar
and they even collect your empty Mate bottles
they do whatever needs to be done
even up to this moment
angels already dedicated hundreds of hours of work
to create this amazing state and this amazing space for us
*applause*
And if things don't go well for once
maybe you have to wait in line
always remember: at the end of the line
an angel is working and he's working hard
they are doing this for fun and not for profit
so instead of complaining
take the chance and thank them for their amazing work
*applause*
and you can always offer a helping hand
or even better become an angel yourself
go online, sign up, and grab some shifts
because Congress is a community event.
Do not come here to consume but to contribute
and to become a part of it
just like a lot of people already are doing
this results in the Congress as we know it
with so much to explore
Next to the amazing lecture program
which I think most of you have already noticed
there are assemblies where people from around the world come
and show their projects
they invite you to play with their toys
and to talk to them about what they have done
also there are workshops which cover all kinds of topics
take part in one
and learn something you haven't even heard of
or offer one yourself
everybody knows something or can do something, others don't
information about workshops and about Congress itself
can be found online in the Wiki
Linus: If you catch the Wiki when it's not down
*laughing* *applause*
create an off-line backup please - we are looking for one ourselves
*laughing*
with Congress being a community event
there is one thing that goes without saying
but I think I need to repeat it once more
leave your damn business at home
*applause*
I am sure your start-up is the next big thing
and there is a lot of fancy people to hire here
and there is a trade fair for your amazing business proposal
every other week of the year
but this is not one of them.
*applause*
Carina: speaking of your business:
this year we changed the gender-based binary concept of the bathrooms
The majority of them is simply for everybody.
But of course we also think about our minorities
so if you can't handle the new more fuzzy logic-concept
there's still some classic gender-based bathrooms for you available
over the conference area.
*applause*
Speaking of bathrooms please wash your hands regularly.
*applause*
viruses are a known threat to hacker conferences
Linus: but not only viruses can bring you hell!
You are at an acute risk of resource extinction
so please follow the 6-2-1 principle
Get six hours of sleep, two proper meals, and one shower
- and that is per day!
*applause*
And also drink more water.
you may have noticed this little logo that we have here
with this fancy animation
and you have seen one before
that had an even more fancy animation in it
and I know there is a couple of 3-D printers around
so speaking of new challenges I figured
that might be one for you.
with all that said
please be excellent to each other
become a part and not a consumer of this event
and explore the things, people and ideas you don't know yet
Carina: let us together approach the new adventures waiting for us
let us together master new challenges
and let us together make new experiences
we have not even dreamed of
let us together break the gates!
*applause* *electronic music*