[Metalab-announce] 23C3 Call for Papers

[Paul Boehm]

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Deadline für Einreichungen dieses Jahr schon im September!

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23rd Chaos Communication Congress 2006: Call for Participation

23C3: Who can you trust?
23rd Chaos Communication Congress
December 27th to 30th, 2006
Berlin, Germany

http://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/



Overview

The 23rd Chaos Communication Congress (23C3) is the annual four-day 
conference of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) on technology, society and 
utopia. The Congress offers lectures and workshops on a multitude of 
topics and encourages a critical-creative attitude towards technology. 
Since 1984, the Congress has established itself as the "European Hacker 
Conference" bringing together the brightest heads from Europe and all 
over the world.

We want you to join and be a part of this unique event which serves as a 
public platform for cross-culture inspiration and borderless networking. 
23C3 is fun!

Topics

The 23C3 conference program is roughly divided into five general 
categories. These categories should serve as guidelines for your 
submissions and as a means of orientation for our visitors. However, it 
is not mandatory for your talk to exactly match the descriptions below. 
Anything that is interesting for our audience will be taken into 
consideration.

Hacking

The 'Hacking' category addresses topics dealing with technology, 
concentrating on current research with high technical merit. 
Traditionally, the majority of all lectures at 23C3 revolve around hacking.

Topics in this domain include but are in no way limited to: network and 
system security, programming, hardware hacking, cryptography, and 
creative use of technology.

Science

The 'Science' category deals with current or future objects of 
scientific research that have the potential to radically change our 
lives, be it basic research or projects conducted for the industry.

We are looking for talks and papers on the current state of the art in 
this domain, covering subjects such as nano technology, quantum 
computing, high frequency physics, bio-technology, brain-computer 
interfaces, automated analysis of surveillance cctv, etc.

Society

This category deals with the state of society itself. Anything about 
politics and sociology with a relevance for hackers would go in here.

Possible topics could include wire-tapping laws, voting computers, 
surveillance practices, net politics, intellectual property and 
copyright issues, data retention, software patents, effects of 
technology on kids, impact of technology on society in general and more.

Culture

Dealing with cultural mind expansion, this domain addresses the fringe 
of the technoverse. Examples are Discordianism, geek entertainment, 
video game culture, computer music, pixel art, and literature for hackers.

Community

The Chaos Communication Congress invites developers, projects and 
activists to present themselves and their topics at the Congress.

Developer groups are also encouraged to ask for support to hold smaller 
on-site developer conferences and meetings in the course of the Congress.

Publication

The Chaos Communication Congress Proceedings are published on paper and 
online on the Internet. Only reviewed and accepted talks and 
presentations will be published.

Audio and video recordings of the lectures will be published online in 
various formats as well. All material will be available under the 
Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Germany" 
(BY-NC-ND) license allowing free non-commercial redistribution of the 
material as long as the original credit to authors and publishers is 
retained.

Licence URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/de/

We encourage contributors to publish their work under a more liberal 
license; if you wish to do so, please state this with your submission. 
See below for submission guidelines.

Further Information

The Chaos Communication Congress is a non-profit oriented event and 
speakers are not paid. Financial help on travel expenses and 
accomodation is in principle possible but is to be agreed upon after 
acceptance of the lecture/workshop. Please state your requirements when 
submitting your lecture.

You can find the preliminary agenda and additional information on our 
23C3 website at http://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/.

For further information and questions please feel free to contact 
23c3-content at cccv.de

Submissions

All proposals MUST be submitted online using our online lecture 
submission system at http://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/submission. 
Please follow the instructions given there.

Please make sure you have read all information on what to submit below 
and send us everything in one go. If you have any questions regarding 
your submission, feel free to contact us at 23c3-content at cccv.de but do 
not submit your lecture via e-mail.

Language

23C3 is an international event and we want to have a lot of interesting 
talks in English for the benefit of our growing number of international 
guests. So we are looking for speakers who can give lectures and/or 
workshops in either English or German. While we are interested in 
maximum quality of presentation, the topic and its relevance to our 
community are our main concern. The chosen language is not a criteria 
for accepting or rejecting a proposed lecture.

If you feel insecure talking in English, have received criticism on your 
language skills from your audience before, or if you just fear that the 
value and understandability of your lecture might suffer, please offer 
your talk in German. Please tell us if you are a native speaker of 
English or have similar skills, when submitting your lecture.

Lecture Requirements

Lectures should not exceed 45 minutes plus up to 10 minutes for 
questions and answers. Longer timeslots are possible if we feel the 
topic demands it (please tell us if necessary). Workshops should include 
a talk on the basic principles and a practical hands-on section.

Required speaker information

Name: Full name of speaker
Public Name: Name you'd like to see published at 23C3
Other Names: nicknames, titles etc.
Contact information
Primary E-Mail address
Phone number(s)
Instant messaging address(es)
A photo in square format, min. 128x128 pixels or more (optional)
Public home page, weblog and other speaker-related websites
Abstract: Compact description of speaker (one sentence in the form "Hans 
Meier is a ...")
Description: Biography or other background information speaker
Postal address
Bank information (if financial help is agreed on)
Expected day of arrival and departure
Be assured that your contact information and other private data will be 
kept both secure and private: our dislike for spammers and obnoxious 
privacy invaders is hard to put into words to say the least.

If you already submitted or held a lecture at one of our former 
conferences there is a good chance we already have your contact data in 
our system. Please use the same e-mail address to contact us and in your 
lecture submission if possible.

Lecture information

Title: Name of event or lecture (max 40 letters)
Subtitle: Additional title description (a couple of words, optional) 
(max. 100 letters)
Abstract: An abstract of the event's content (max. 250 letters)
Description: A longer and detailed description of the event's content 
(250 to 500 words)
Please state if you are going to submit a paper to be included in the 
23C3 Proceedings
Please state if you are going to use slides in your talk and in which 
format you are going to provide a copy
Duration of your talk
Language of the talk
Links to background information on the talk
Target Group: Beginners, Advanced Users, Pros
Resources you need for your talk (Internet, digital projector, overhead 
projector, pens, assitant personal, presentation computer)
Related talks at 23C3 you know of (including previously submitted talks 
by yourself)
A lecture logo, square format, min. 128x128 pixels (optional)
You can provide papers and slides upon submission or at the latest 
before the given deadline.

Papers

Accepted speakers can optionally hand in a paper which will be published 
with an ISBN in the 23C3 Proceedings. Papers will be accepted in 
Portable Document Format (PDF) only and should be around 5 pages. The 
PDF file must not be password-protected or contain other restrictions. 
Paper size should be DIN A4 in portrait orientation. All margins must be 
set to at least 2 cm (0.78 inches). Pictures should be greyscale and up 
to 300dpi. Apart from that, you are free to use any layout you want.

Slides

Accepted speakers are asked to hand in slides used in their talks. 
Please use a well-known format for your slides.

Dates and deadlines

The deadline for submission is September 15th, 2006.
Notification of acceptance will be sent by e-mail on October 15th, 2006 
the latest. However, you may very well get your notification earlier 
than that if needed.
Final papers or slides are due by November 15th, 2006.