[Abbenay] Chaos Communication Congress, 26C3

[Viktor Lindberg]

On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 09:12:30PM +0100, scorch wrote:
> If you haven't heard of it; huge hacker conference (couple of thousand
> people go every year), arranged annually by one of the largest hacker
> spaces in the world, Chaos Computer Club. This year called 26C3, since
> it's the 26th conference. Tickets can be bought on place as of 17:00 on
> the 26th of December. 80 € for a ticket to all the four days. 5 € to
> sleep there per night.
> 
> Who else is planning to go?
>

I'm planning to go there, and i don't mind teaming up for the trip.
 
> Unruly udoprog and I are were both lazy enough to not buy tickets
> earlier when they didn't cost as much, and are now trying to find viable
> alternatives to get there (if nothing else, we'll hang out on Arlanda
> airport on the 25th and try to get a cheap last minute ticket).
> 
> If others wants to go to 26C3 but haven't figured out how to get there,
> we might try to find something together.
> 
> Some options we've come up with:
> 1) I have contact with some folks from Norway who are driving there in a
> kind-of-big van. They're taking the ferry from Oslo to Kiel, so we'd
> have to meet them there at 10 AM on the 26th, though the ferry prices
> are in the same class as buying a house.
> 2) Hiking always works, right? Go through Denmark and then to Berlin.
> Might arrive late though.
> 3) Flying there, though tickets are like twice the ferry costs at least.
> 
> We also thought about taking the train, but either SJ's booking site
> sucks a bit more than I thought, or they actually don't have any trains
> that go directly from Stockholm to Berlin during the days between
> Christmas and new year. They do go like... every day the rest of the
> year, but apparently not when we want to take it. I might be wrong
> though; I couldn't keep up with the sites increasingly user-unfriendliness.

Well, i have considered flying there with ryanair which is cheap for
being an airline, yet i would much rather prefere some more ecologically
substainable way to go there if you have any alterantive ways.

> More info: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2009/wiki/Main_Page
> 
> P.S.
> If we don't find a cool way of getting to Germany cheap (and in time)
> and I see any of you on the airport the 26th--sniping for a ticket--I
> will bring my machete, and, by the Great Old Ones, using any means
> necessary, dominate the king of the hill situation which surely will
> occur when tickets gets available.

I fear not the great old ones for i am protected by the elder gods.
Also, i'll bring a gun against your machete.

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