36c3 part 1

For many years I wanted to go to a CCC and this year because of different reasons I was finally able to go, this blog post is going to cover my planning and following posts will hopefully follow.

Preparing

There is a log of coverage already how to prepare for a congress. Obviously, you need a ticket. I got my ticket thanks to a co-worker who is a pretty active member of a local chaos group, so was fairly easy (thx stean)

So after getting a ticket, a place to stay needs to be found. In most cases, I run with AirBnB, this time I was unable to find a cosy place nearby so I ended up doing a hotel reservation and I hope this was a good choice.

And last but not least, transportation. The way to go here for me is using german railway services, Deutsche Bahn. There is even a special page from Deutsche Bahn to get a special ticket for a lower price.

Stuff

Of course, going to a conference you need your basic stuff as for every conference/travel, so I will not go into that too much. Especially for the congress, I tagged most of my gear that I plan to bring to the venue with my twitter handle and my domain so that it is easy to find the owner.

In addition to my normal list I packed the following items:

  • permanent markers (white/black) – maybe I can help with those
  • Magic ties (Amazon link) – I love those things
  • Stickers (mostly for FIRST)
  • batteries (AA+AAA) because why not.

A water bottle, because @c3himmel asked for it:

Tech

The tech also needs some extra time, in particular, updating every service/application running is critical. As I do not trust the wifi (as with any other wifi) VPN and a backup VPN was tested/updated.

To be able to work on stuff I also freed up some space on the devices, just in case.

Power up batteries, external power supplies and co. I do not want to run out of power.

Further reading

CCC Event in Berlin + streams

Derzeit sind ja die 28C3 von CCC vom Chaos Computer Club und sind damit in aller Munde. Quasi alle Vorträge werden in den einschlägigen Medien wie heise etc. aufgegriffen und zu Artikeln verarbeitet.
Ich will hier nichts nachkauen sondern einfach auf die Seiten verweisen:

http://events.ccc.de/ die event seite
http://28c3.fem-net.de/ Streams zu den Vorträgen

Für alle Technik-afinen zu empfehlen, manche Vorträge haben es echt in sich und bieten eine Stunde unkonventionelle Ansätze zu IT Themen.

Stay tuned