 Welcome! Welcome to the 35th KS Communication Congress. It's good to see you. We have to start with two announcements. First off, the two of us want to make this opening as good as we possibly can, so we need to do it in German. Sorry to everybody who doesn't speak German. We do have live translations in English and in French, but if you look for translations in the wiki, you will find them and you will be provided with live translations by our awesome Translation Angels. The second announcement serves our legal insurance. We have learned in the last years, in the lectures, that your faces are biometric data. Because we can see some of your faces from here, I would say the first ten or something. We have to explain to you that we can also see your faces. That you forgot the right to delete and the right to delete this year's European Data Protection Foundation. If you want to make use of this right, I would like to ask you to enter the opening in two rows at the front of the stage. One for Rufus and one for me. If everyone is involved, we can guarantee that we will remember nothing more than your faces. Yes, it's nice that you are here. It's nice to be here. Now that the room is full, it's getting a little bigger. Yes, it's not bad. Welcome everybody. Also to the people who are at home, to those who are in the Hacker Space, in the RSAVR conference, who are at home. It's nice that you are here, even if you are not here. So we are going to do that as soon as possible. We are going to do it a little bit like removing a spider web. It's been a few years, but when you look at it, it's a little weird. We arrive in difficult times. For example, there is a new three-state, the police is buying tanks, who don't want to carry a tank. We also have our problem. At Dortmund and Augsburg, we had problems. And now it's what gives the new laws of the police in Germany. So we were even more happy. We were happy that there were a lot of people who didn't agree with this new police. So there is a force that formed. And it's important. And I must also say that it's a bit of a shame that the institutions that are in the last few years have placed themselves the most on the left, usually selling glue. But the year is over. And the repair of the computer at home is done. So now it's the congresses. It's there, it's good. And the motorcycle this year is Refreshing Memories. It would be a good moment to tell stories. Since it was already done last year, you can watch simply on the media, CCCDE, the last year. So the first congress was in Hamburg in 1984. And it was 200, 300 people. So now watch, just 200, 300 people. And now we are here, 35 years later, 18 years later. And we make it more diverse, we make it more colorful than before. It's always more different, more ideas with each year. And the community grows, families and ideas. And it's always done, it's handmade. No, it's always angels. It's always volunteers who do it in their free time. And without the congress, it wouldn't be possible. We make a congress on which, for four days, we do almost everything. And we always do it together. For you, it will hopefully be a very big congress. I hope it will be a unique congress, with unique memories. And now we will look at what we can focus on. For me, the congress is a big assembly of all these small and big things, completely crazy, that are gathered in a big building. And it's the most incredible, the most amazing, and the most amazing, that I've ever experienced. And it's a completely crazy assembly, and I've never seen it in my life. And we do it together. And together, we also grow. At the beginning, we were only 200, and now we are several thousand, and so we all grow together. We have new workshops, we have the Foundation Talks, the Foundation Conference, where people who have a very special skills in their field of experience share their knowledge with them. Correction, they share their knowledge with us. All those who are here know a lot of things, and we have the possibility to learn things from experts. And it's something unique. More than that, this year, there are themes that go well together. A few weeks ago, about a month and a half ago in Berlin, there was a conference where some people from the hacker community with activists, with ecologists found a kind of convergence of struggles to work together. They were able to think about how to make this world a better world, how to take care of our planet. And that's something I find really interesting. The fact that people sit together and wonder in what direction can we go to make this world a better world. We also grow in terms of stage. There are five large conference rooms today, like that, boom! It's incredible that we have been able to grow five conference rooms. You can see on the FAR plan, on the planning, there are five conference rooms, but that's not enough. We said that we were also going to make a sort of network of small decentralized scenes. At the moment, there are about five of them. I call them small scenes to distinguish them from the rest of the problem. For example, the West Chaos scene is not so small as that. It's incredible that the community is still able to find quality content and make sure that this scene can exist. It's great. In addition to that, we also grow in a more personal level. Within Chaos, in recent years, we have asked ourselves how to overcome conflicts. Some of them, who have been present for years, for decades, have decided to take care of the security of the participants. They have invested a lot of time, they have been motivated, they have made teleconferences which are of course the best way to communicate. They have done all this to ensure that the congress can continue. In addition to that, after that, different things have been released. There are arbitrations. There are no costs, no debt. We have put down our own depth. Before, but please... Moral calling is so slow, you can see a few stories. I have found that, depending on who you ask for this event, we have asked a hundred people. We have asked you without anyone, but it depends on who you ask about the event and the people tell a completely different story because you could think that they were in different places. A person said, for example, that her congress was that she brought a server and a friend used it to break the server and then saying that I think we have to cause another person to explain that there is the sandbag with the beamer on it. It's a really nice thing. And this thing and the one who does this and who explains to me exactly how it works with all the details and around three o'clock in the morning but otherwise, when you want to do this there are a lot of people who explain these experiences to look at conferences together, to hold conferences the process of getting to know other people and there are adults who say and it's to be to go to all the halls and to stop and to chat with whoever it is with a dollar person who gives you a drink and at one point, you always find yourself in your assembly, if you're lucky and there are a few times a friend told me that the exact time the time where you know exactly that someone else is there is 30 seconds if you go out 30 seconds 30 seconds further you can be at the bar in Karos West or you can be at the sky or you can be at Elbesque and I have no idea where you're going to be that's why I love this rule because I've really been looking for people and I've been looking and I haven't found them and especially people you're looking for that it's important but you always find someone else who could help me even if I didn't look for them and they always helped me and that's the case that's the thing with people who help I don't know how it started you're all ultra-social you like to be in big groups of people and it doesn't bother you but I think we can think that for someone between us it's not the case I remember my first congress which didn't take that long when the small rick was even smaller I met a lot of people who are completely different from what we know and who learn to know completely different life and we have we need time to understand them and so I learned a lot and explained things either for the next to explain to the next angle and actually do things in a completely different way from the way we used to do it and oh yes, why not and I learned a lot and I tried a lot of new things everything was legal and I did a lot of new experiences and and that came from me and I was there it was the first time I was just looking at the right and left I was asking myself questions to be impressed because it's a lot and the good thing is that people don't want to mess with you that's why I was able to talk to people people want to explain to you in what way they are in the Rackerspace what they have done before the whole year they also explain what they have brought and there are people who can't stop don't be afraid people want to talk with you and we hope that you want to talk to people because it's a congress we are all together and the worst is that people don't have time and it's not a problem and if someone conducts something with an automatic cocktail and that it looks very solid so ask hey tell me how did you do it can you explain it so we can explain the question is what didn't work the first time how many DCs did you do and it's something really impressive and very fun the time when the sofa burned so talk to another I mean if someone is ultra concentrated with your listeners the best moment but if not talk to others make new memories new memories and even if it's your first congress and it's a little bit difficult and you can't decide to go become an angel it's the best way to learn to know people go to engelsystem.de and try to do a and if you have 2 hours to control the hours and you will talk with someone who will be with you that you don't know yet and you don't want to mess I learned I met people like that who are still friends it's huge and people who go out they don't have a problem with you and as an angel we learn to know the congress from another perspective from another point of view so that's the moment when you say thank you to all the people who built it without you, it doesn't work every lecture needs this question who are you here for the first time ah yes you are a lot welcome everyone we are happy to see you I'm also a little jealous because it's your first congress and the first congress is always the best for me it was a completely incredible experience it was the first time I came out of this community I was quite new it was my first event and I have to admit I wasn't ready I had to concentrate to not lose myself at the CCH which was in Bourg and when I arrived for the first time I first stayed in Kuat I was immobile and I looked around me and I saw all these things everywhere there were things there, there, there I couldn't resist I was completely fascinated and I really asked myself several times what am I doing here who are all these people completely crazy at the end of the moment someone asked me to leave because I was young I really felt like a little child it never stopped every year there was something new every time I stay without a voice before something new the year after it was the same thing, I said to myself you are ready, you know very well what to expect and obviously it wasn't the case although I have this event in between although I now help to build this event and I go through all these big rooms several times for weeks every time, every year I see something new completely crazy and I am really like a child in a toy store there are all these things that you, the community, brought with you from home and all these things that you build are absolutely amazing and then you have to thank everyone for what you are doing and above all be open, talk to others forge new friendships build super cool things help us to build great memories and like the previous years let's start again this year let's make this congress something absolutely huge that gives us the same sensations as our first congress forge together memories that we will cherish all our lives have fun!