 Wir haben fünf Translations in Englisch und Frisch. Wenn du für Translations in der Wickey schaust, dann findest du sie und wird mit live Translations mit unseren awesome Translation Angels beobachtet. Die zweite Ankündigung dient unserer rechtlichen Absicherung. Wir haben in den letzten Jahren in den Vorträgen gelernt, dass eure Gesichter personenbezogene biometrische Daten sind. Da wir von hier vorne einige eurer Gesichter erkennen können, ich würde sagen die ersten zehn oder was? Ja, zehn rein. Müssten wir euch darüber aufklären, dass wir euch halt sehen und eure Gesichter uns auch merken können. Und dass ihr uns gegenüber das Recht auf Löschung und das Recht auf Vergessen habt, gemäß der dieses Jahr in Kraft getretenen europäischen Datenschutz Grundverordnung. Wenn ihr von diesem Recht Gebrauch machen wollt, würde ich euch bitten, euch einfach nach dem Opening in zwei Reihen hier vorne an der Bühne einzufinden. Also die eine so hier in dem Gang, die andere da. Eine für Rufus, eine für mich. Nehmt dann die längere Reihe. Wenn alle da beteiligten, so einen Chunk mit nach vorne bringen, können wir euch garantieren, dass wir uns morgen an nichts mehr schon gar nicht eure Gesichter erinnern. Ja, schön, dass ihr da seid. Also jetzt, wo der Saal voll ist, wirkt der doch ein bisschen größer, oder? Quite big, isn't it? Ah, yeah, it's kind of big. Ein herzliches Willkommen an euch. A warm welcome to all of you to the ladies and gentlemen listening in through the streaming from home and to participants who are watching and listening from their desktop pieces at home or any hackerspace of the world. And we're gonna try to get this over with as quickly and painless as possible. Kind of like a band-aid ripper for the doctors. All right, so some of you had a brilliant year. We don't wanna take that away from you. I mean, but all in all. Oh well, if you kind of look at the modern broadcasting systems, this year kind of seems like another additional, that we're kind of, I'm gonna put this carefully, that we are in a bit of a difficult time. We had the state Trojan, the police is buying tanks. I mean, who doesn't want to drive a tank? We all had kind of our own personal pain points with the, that we had a few things happening in the chaos community that were happening under difficult circumstances and that we also had a bit of a taste. Of what the new police laws are actually going to be meaning when they're implemented. The protest right now, of course, is something that we are trying to, like that's very loud and that is very colorful and it happens in chaos meetings and everything. You did a great job on that and these reporters are seriously taking up creative shapes and forms and we love seeing that. And I have to say that I kind of was a bit sad that the institution that in the last year was the most public about their position against the right usually sells Coca-Cola. So now this year is over, thankfully. The family festival where we have to fix other people's computers is over now. Now it's Congress, great. This year's theme is refreshing memories. This would be a good point in time to start in a lovely lecture of history. But because Tim did that last year, we kind of want to give you an advice. How about you just look at it at media CCC and I'll just say this much. The first Congress happened in 1984 quite fittingly in Hamburg. We had about 200, 300 people participating. Now think about it and look around. Look around this room, 200, 300 people. And today we're here. 35 years later we are still doing it and above all we are doing it more colorful, more diverse than ever before. The Congress is becoming so much more diverse and so much more thoughtful with every year and the community is developing in the exact same way and the family and the thought and all that still exists and it's handmade with love and all the angels that are here and they're still volunteers that are all contributing their time and their free time and they're not getting paid and without them this Congress would not be possible and we're making this event happen where everyone for very crazy days are allowed to basically do almost everything and anything and we're still doing this together. For you, this will hopefully be a brilliant Congress with very unique experiences and memories that you're making. If with all the blinking lights you can focus for maybe five minutes that's at least what it is for me. The accumulation of fascinating, crazy, stupid people who gather in this one place, this space for four days will create the most crazy over stimulation that I've ever experienced and this is what we do every year together. And together we're growing. I mean obviously also we're getting taller no, I mean in size. We're obviously not 200 people anymore but we're also growing in really interesting directions. We have for this year new themes and topics, the Foundation Talks, which is a lecture series which gives a space to people who are absolute Professionals in their area and who will present in an understandable yet very deep way. For example, it starts with the Internet and it goes to the Hacker Ethics so I think it covers something for everyone and there's a lot of experts and then giving them a space and a stage to read the people who really know what they're talking about to give them a platform that was the goal and beyond that we also have other topics that we are growing into as a chaos family quite well. We had a couple of meetings weeks ago for about a month and a half ago we had a conference called Bits and Trees where parts of the Hacker community came together with environmental activists where we're trying to find the intersection between these two fields to work together and figure out how to create a society that's more sustainable, to create more sense for this world and how we can make this planet maybe a little bit away from Doomsday and I find it great that there's people that are getting together and who are looking into new direction and who can we talk to and maybe work with that is not within our bubble. We're growing in stages, I mean there's another stage, all of a sudden just grew last year for big stages, this year five poof where there's great talks in amazing, amazing contributions that were put in all these five stages. I mean you can see them in the Faplan and I mean that's just only the official program. I mean this wasn't enough this year so they kind of bypassed us on the right side. We have a selection of decentralized stages, maybe five, please don't admit that we've lost count in the overview. I only call them small stages so that you can distinguish them from the main stages. I mean like I was standing in front of the stage in front of Chaos West and that one isn't really very small and it's so impressive that from within the community there's so much quality that's being brought and content that's being put out that these stages were formed that's just brilliant to see. And I mean beyond that we're also growing and on a very personal level I mean obviously all of us are obviously growing personally but also as a Chaos community in the past year we took on the question how within the Chaos community we can deal with conflicts and people that have been part of the community for years got together to guarantee the security of the participants and they got together and contributed so much of their time and strength and discussion and telephone conference calls. Yes, conference calls, you know, they're the best way of communicating with one another and they worked out a plan of how we can go further from this point out and from all of these discussions and discussions in closed circles there's two things that came about there's a new team for the congress that's the Schietstelle or the arbitration board you can read up on it on the help.ccc.de it also introduces all the teams that for years have done a lot of work there's all sorts of teams who do a lot of work for conflict resolution just read up on it on the page if you want to get informed please inform yourself for your sake and for others for the people around you because if somebody next to you is all of a sudden collapsing it would be great to know what you should be doing next inform yourself it's a great way around informing you please and while we are on this subject of giving you information and rules we can also maybe tell you off a little bit please remember our photo policy if you don't know it you can find it in many many posters distributed we have a particular team that is plastering these posters everywhere before in time a manner before you take a picture ask the people that are in the picture that are visually recognizable in the picture if it's okay for them if it's a gigantic massive picture where there's lots of people in it maybe I don't want to talk to all of these maybe don't take that picture then we understand that you want to take pictures it looks great here I'm blown away by the aesthetics of this event but please remember this policy yes alright so the moral the moral swing was done we can move on I realized that whoever you talk to afterwards we asked a hundred people it wasn't a hundred but depending on who you ask about this event people tell you completely completely different things about congress that you could come to the conclusion that they've been at different events more like five than two stories one person told me that her congress most congress experience was that she brought a server and a friend of hers took it as an option to break into a saga and came up to her afterwards and said to her dude we got to talk about this and another person told me about the sandbox with the projector on top of it I don't want to spoil this too much you have to check it out and she told me that that thing and the person who created that thing and in miniature explained to me excitedly how this thing works at 3 am in the night that was I mean what else would you find time to do that that was great and a lot of people shared amazing brilliant stories it's about listening to talks about doing talks together learn from each other in this process and have fun together and there was another person that also told me that it's kind of about driving in the most crazy way through the halls and stop at all sorts of stopover and get a drink at another booth and then you kind of end back in your own assembly and a while ago a friend told me that the exact time frame in which you can be sure where another person is is exactly 30 seconds so if I were to leave I would be able to tell that you've left for about 30 seconds but then you might be in heaven getting your angel badge you could be at the bar in chaos west or in hall 4 at the lock help desk I wouldn't be able to tell and I love this rule so much because I have been so desperately looking for people so many times und unable to locate them for days at the times when I needed them most but the beautiful thing is that I always found somebody else who could help me just as well even though I hadn't been looking for them and they helped me at least as much and that's what makes congress for me now helpful people are one thing I don't know how you feel maybe you're all very social people who love interacting with others at large groups and that's no stress and no problem for you but I know that some or maybe even many of you don't feel the same way I remember my first congress not that long ago in fact and I met loads of nice people I'm sure you know the feeling when you meet people who are so different from yourself that you learn new concepts and new ways of thinking and it takes time to understand this and I learnt a lot from them because people always teach you things and they partly do that they simply living them because they do things in a way that differs from your own and you start to think maybe I should try that as well and I tried a lot of new things all of them of course completely legal and very few of them started at myself because at my first congress I was busy looking around feeling overwhelmed being a bit amazed but also being intimidated because it's a lot the nice thing is people want to talk to you that's how I got to know all those people all those years ago they want to tell you about the hacker space and what they do there what they've been doing for the past year what they brought with themselves some never want to stop talking but seriously they want to talk to you and you hopefully want to talk to them too because that's why we're here the worst thing that could possibly happen to you is that somebody has no time nobody has died of that either and if somebody drives past you on a sofa that's blinking and that has a cocktail bottle in the back looks robust enough to push aside the next police tank then maybe stop them and ask them hey, how did you build this what gave you the idea what inspired you because how many fuckups happened what went wrong which is the best question you can possibly ask somebody the day when my sofa burnt do it talk to people of course if somebody sits behind their computer with headphones then maybe take that very subtle hint they might be busy but in all other cases talk to each other and create memories that you can take along with you if you feel the same way to talk to people when you see something cool then become an angel it's the best way of getting to know people go to www.englises-team.de make an account, say hi at heaven look for a shift, it's not difficult it doesn't hurt two hours later you might be checking people's wristbands but you'll be doing so in a person you haven't met before and to whom you'll start talking I met some of my best friends that way it's an enormous help and people walk past because you'll get to know them as well because nobody's in a particular hurry here and you'll help volunteering you'll get to see congress from an Italian perspective and you help congress, what it is and this might be a good time to say thanks for all the angels that are here now and that have made all this possible it wouldn't have happened without you I think every opening needs the traditional question who of you is here for the first time alright that's quite a few nice to see you nice to see you and I'm a bit jealous of you because the first congress is something really special my first congress was amazing because I was quite new in the community it was my first congress it was my first chaos event and I can't tell you how unprepared I came I was struggling not to get lost at CCH and when I arrived at the hack center in hall 3 I felt the urge to just stand in the middle of the doorway and process what I was seeing and it was everything at the same time everywhere and there was something there I just I couldn't stop being amazed and being fascinated and thoughts ran through my head I started asking myself how did you end up here who are all these crazy people and I did this until somebody came along and told me to get out of the way I felt like a small child in a toy shop but this feeling didn't stop for the entirety of my first congress there was something behind every corner that caused me to stop and wonder and the year after that I came back and thought I was prepared you know what's going to happen I've never been this wrong in my life so it's been the same feeling essentially every year even though I helped build this event from the very first day and drive through these halls for weeks every year is so exciting and so crazy equally crazy as the year before and something new happens that excites me and overwhelms me like a small girl in a toy shop especially because of all the things you bring that's the thing we want we want you to do go through these halls and talk to people and have them talk to you make new friendships and create new awesome things let's create memories that we can return to next year and let us do that every year let's let's make our first congress incredible as the first one and let us make memories that we want to remember forever have fun