 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, so 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 documentation. We have learned in the previous 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 what? Ten in. That's good. We have to clarify that we can see you and can also see your faces. And that you have forgotten the right to delete and the right to forget, as of this year in power, in the European Data Protection Foundation. If you want to make use of this right, I would like to ask you to enter the stage after the opening in two rows here in front of the stage. One here in the hallway, the other there. One for Rufus, one for me. If everyone is involved, we can guarantee you that we will remember nothing more than your faces. Yes, nice that you are there. Now that the hall is full, it seems a bit bigger, right? Yes, yes. Do you have something? Yes. A warm welcome to all of you, also to the ladies and gentlemen, to the Rundfunk-Geräten at home and to the participants and participants in the Congress Everywhere, to watch their Hacker Spaces or maybe to your computer at home. It's also nice that you are there, even if you can't be here. Yes, we do it best as quickly as possible, painlessly, maybe with the doctor. The best chance. Yes, this year wasn't that cool, right? A few of you had a great year. We don't want to take you. So overall? Yes, when you look at the modern Rundfunk-Geräten, this year it seems a bit like a further proof that we have arrived in rather difficult times. The BKA had a few new state trojans at the start. The police are buying tanks. Tank driving. Yes, we all had our personal pain in the case of the chaos this year also had to do with several house investigations in Dortmund and Augsburg, for example, which took place in a rather inconspicuous context. Well, in doing so, we actually offered a pre-taste of what the new police officials in the individual municipalities can do from now on. But to be so enthusiastic, we were actually aware that the protest against these police officials was also very loud and loud from the chaos meeting of the Air Force that formed the HECA Space. That was great and that was super important. That was really great. And I have to say, I also found it a bit of a shame that the institutions that took place in the last years, in the last years, were usually selling cola against the right-wing politicians. Yep. But now it's the year around, isn't it? We have it behind us. We even brought the highly fixed computer repair to the house behind us. Now it's Congress. Yes, now it's Congress. We're here. Awesome. And the motto of this year is Refreshing Memories. That would actually be a good time to get a little history lesson. But Tim, who did that in the last opening year, we just want to advise you, so maybe you can just take a look at MediaCCC.de and I'll just say so much. The first Congress took place in 1984 in the Adelsstetter-Bürgerhaus in Hamburg and had about two or three hundred participants. Now let's go through the head and take a look at this fair. Take a look around the hall. Two or three hundred people. And now we're here. 35 years later. We're still doing that. And above all, we're doing it more colorful and diverse than ever before. The Congress is becoming more diverse, the Congress is becoming more ideas-rich every year. And the community, the family, and the common idea are also developing. And this event is still doing quite a lot of work, most of the time. And all the Engels who are here are still volunteers who do all this in their free time and without them this Congress wouldn't be possible. And we're creating a event where all participants and participants for four crazy days can almost do everything. And we're still doing that together. For you, it will be a hopefully very large congress with unique experiences, unique memories that you create. At least if you can concentrate for five minutes with all the glimpses. That's at least a bit for me. For me, the Congress is a huge collection of all these tiny, wonderful, fascinating, crazy things and people who come together in one building and in four days the most extensive, the most extensive, the most extensive and the most complicated river flow I've ever experienced. And we're still doing that together. And we're growing together, too. I mean, of course in size, we're no longer 200 people, but size is not everything. We're growing in much more exciting directions. We have this year, for example, new topics and exhibitions. We have the Foundation Talks this year, which is a series of lectures where everything falls into place, where people really don't know about their area, who understand and at the same time go deeper, present. It starts with the Internet. You could just explain that here once more. And it goes on to topics like hacker ethics. I think there's something for everyone here because everyone who's here is really familiar with some things, but not everywhere. And to have this opportunity here simply from the people who really, really know what they're saying, to let them talk about it. That's cool. Yeah. We also saw this year that we grew into other topics very well, as a Chaos family. We had a couple of weeks ago, about a half a month or so, in Berlin the Bits and Bäume Konferenz, where some of the hacker community, hacker and hacker, together with environmental activists, environmental activists, where they actually looked and found this interface to work with each other how we can make our society more sustainable, how we can simply make this world meaningful, useful things, how we can maybe even roll this planet away from the background a little bit. And I think that's impressive, isn't it? That people still sit together and say, let's take a look at a new direction. With whom can we work together outside of our own little world and create awesome things? We grow on stage. Yeah, there's just one more platform this year. Last year, four big stages this year, five of them, where great talks of incredible amounts from even more incredible enrichments were pulled out. And these five stages, that's how it is, as you can see, five stages, but that's just the official project. Yeah, the assemblies simply weren't enough. They then took us to the right and said, let's play with them now. Right. We don't have a very specific number of decentralized little stages. Let's say five, house number. Now there's nothing to it that we've lost the overview. But I also call them only little stages to be able to distinguish them from the contract program, right? If, for example, you're standing in front of this stage from Chaos West, it's not that small. And that's really impressive that from the community so much quality and content came out that I found these stages. Really great. Besides that, we also grow on a very personal level. I mean, apart from you and me, and hopefully everyone grows somewhere personally over the years, but also as a Chaos environment. In the past year, over the past year, we've taken the question how we can deal with conflicts in the Chaos environment and want to. There have been people who, for years, and partly for decades, have set themselves completely apart from the Shine Weaver here in the Chaos environment, especially at the congress, to take care of the security of the participants, and they have incredible amounts of time, of effort, of effort, and discussion, and background. Telephone conferences. And telephone conferences that are known as the best means of exchange, thrown on it and, out of these many, still very, very, in the closed city, work, there are two things that came out. One is a new team for the congress, that is the shooting place. I will now put it here in two places on the big stage, not be justified. That's why I say, I'd rather say the other thing that came out. That is the website helpt.cc.de. Not only the shooting place is presented, the new team, but also the teams that have been there for us for years. The CELT, the awareness team, everything is possible. It's a great site. Take a look at it. Take a moment, read through it. It doesn't take long and then you have a good overview. Please, don't just do that for half of you, but also for the people around you, right? If, if suddenly someone around you in hall three, then it's really good to know what you do next. Just inform yourself, that's a nice way. I mean, you can also read the various references on the site. That's certainly a good idea. And if we are already there, you have the information and the rules to throw it in your head. Then you can still do it, right? Yes, let's do it. Please call our photo policy into your memory. If you don't know it yet, then you will find it frequently on the site. We don't have costs, fines and death penalty. Yes, we have set up C3Sign, but it's great. Yes, she says before, temporarily before you take a photo, ask the people who are visible on the photo if that's okay for them. If it's a huge picture where maybe many people are on it and think, I don't want to ask all of them now, then maybe it's not the best time to take a photo. Exactly. We fully understand that you want to take pictures. Yes, we are totally flashed. But please, please respect this policy and take it with you. It's important for all participants here, I think. Exactly. Yes, now the moral coil is so slow, right? Now you can tell a few stories, right? Of course. I noticed that depending on who you ask after this event, so I have a little bit, we have asked a hundred people, so a hundred people weren't, but depending on who you ask after this event, tell the people completely, so completely different things about the congress, that it could be of the opinion, they were at different events. More like five than two. Yes, exactly. And one person said to me, for example, that her most congress-like experience was that she brought a server to the congress and a friend then took it to this server to break in and then came afterwards with so, listen, we have to have a serious conversation. And another person told me from this sand box with the beamer over there, this installation, I told her so much, because you can all look at it yourself, it's a cool part. I mean, this thing and the original of this thing, the next to it and me completely, minutely, accurately, and totally enthusiastic about telling how this part works, and it's about three o'clock in the morning. When else? When else, right? Exactly. And many others have told me quite a lot about it. So it's about to look at talks together, it's about to keep talking together and to learn from each other and to exchange fun. Someone else said, actually, it's also about to drive on every other that you find through this hall and to keep it everywhere and then from a dollar of another person who is just standing there accidentally to get their new, self-made drink offered and then at some point you end up at his assembly again. Good luck. Yes, good luck. And a while ago a friend told me that the exact time space where you can safely go, where another person is right now, exactly 30 seconds are. So you mean, if I go away now? Yes, yes, then I could say about 30 seconds that you go out the door, but then you could maybe be in the sky get your angel badge, you could stand at the Bar by Chaos West or in hall 4 at the Lock Help Desk. So I could not say it. And I especially like these rules because I have so often so doubtful to people on the Congress searched and they just not found for days. When I just especially needed them. Of course, of course. As always. But the nice thing about it is actually that I always found another person who could help me as well as if I did not and she at least helped me as well as I want. And I think that's what it does. Now it's with the helpful people that one. I do not know how it is for you maybe you are all total social people who like to with other people like to make big foreign groups no problem. But I think we can assume that at least for a few of you maybe even many are not like that. And I remember my first Congress not even that long ago. When the little rick was still small. When the little rick was still smaller. There I met a lot of great people. So you probably know if you know people who are so different than you know that you get to know new life concepts and new thinking colors for a while to let it come. Yes, a lot of it at once. And I have learned a lot from them of course, because you go around and the one thing is that people bring things so be it at the next corner because you are at a workshop. But the people of course bring things to life as they live in this community and do things maybe differently than you are used to and then you start to think why do I always do it like this and not differently that could and I have a lot of new experiences and very few of them came from me because as Rufus said first congress I was actually busy to get into the area a little bit to gaffe to feel a little bit overwhelmed a little bit to admire Yes, also there and just to be a story because that's a lot. The beauty is that people want to talk to you. So I also met people who want to tell you in which Hacker Space they are and what they do in this Hacker Space they want to tell you what they've been doing for the last year. What they've brought with them they want to tell you what they've brought with them some of them don't even want to stop. Now the people don't get scared. No, but honestly they want to talk to you and hopefully you want to talk to them because that's the worst thing that can happen is that no one has died yet. But now the next person drives past you on your sofa and lights up in all colors of the rainbow and you discover from the back that it seems there is a cocktail board and a fog horn and a fog horn and possibly also looks so robust that it could push the next police officer to the side then stop this person and say hey how did you build it? How did you get the idea? How did you build it? How many f**ks are there? What went wrong? That's the best question at all. People tell us that incredibly willing and that's fun. Help my sofa burn again. Exactly the day when my sofa burns and do that talk to each other I mean of course if someone is sitting with a headlight behind the computer and looks very concentrated then maybe this very decent social indication and really creates these new memories that you can continue with. If that works like me at my first congress and you find it rather difficult if you see something awesome but you can't go over there and say wow, what is this? Who is Engel? Is the best way to meet new people here? Go to engelsystem.de make an account go to heaven say hello and then look for a layer that's really doesn't hurt and if you check two hours somewhere at the back door then you do it first with a person you don't know yet ideally with whom you then somehow squatch for two hours I met people who are partly my best friend today so that really helps and also there are still people there you also know because they also help you at Engel you learn the congress from a completely new perspective and you make sure that this congress can take place that's maybe for us the time thank you to say thank you to all the Engels who are here who built it and who made it possible without you it doesn't work yes yes come you can do it I mean it's still I think a traditional question who of you is here for the first time please raise your hands please okay that's a lot of people wow welcome welcome nice to have you here and I'm also a bit jealous of you I have to say first congress something really special first congress is the hammer and my first congress was a very special experience because I was pretty new in the community and I was also it was my first my first congress it was my first chaos event and I can't even say how unprepared I was so I had to concentrate in the CCH and I was running with all the stairs and half-itages now we have a bit more relaxed and when we when I arrived in hall 3 then I had to stay standing so beautiful in the middle of the door and had to work for the first time and then I looked and it was almost everything at the same time everywhere and there was something and there was something and I came out of the astonishment and stood and looked and was completely fascinated and then I thought to myself somehow where are you actually landed who are these crazy people and I did that for so long someone told me and and I felt like a little child in such a toy shop and that didn't stop the whole congress so my very first congress and behind every corner was something new that made me have to stand speechless and I had to wonder and I thought when I come back a year later yes, now you are prepared now you know what will come to you I have never been so wrong since then the same feeling although I this event from the first day to build up and for weeks through these halls is every year for me actually so exciting and so hurried like that before and every year something new happens what I think and that's why I'm overwhelmed like a little child in a toy shop especially because of all these things that bring you and all these things bring you and that's now our challenge for you and the challenge goes out in these halls talks to each other and exchange new people tells you from your projects and let you tell new friendships and create new cool things and let us all together build really cool new memories next year and let us do it again every year on the new current congress so great like our first experience and every year create a congress that brings us memories to which we always want to remember Have fun Have fun