[FYI] Chaos Communication Congress

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                                   updated 3:00 a.m.  1.Jan.99.PST 


Chaos Club Hosts Fun and Games
by David Hudson 

2:00 p.m.  30.Dec.98.PST
BERLIN -- If the first two days of the Chaos Communication Congress
were overshadowed by two of the darkest episodes in the history of the
Chaos Computer Club, Tuesday was all about looking ahead to the
future. 

[...]

The open-source movement fueled a good deal of buzz at this year's
event, including an all-day Linux installation party. Volker
Grassmuck, a computer scientist at Humboldt University, presented
something of an open-source extravanganza. 

With Wizards of OS, scheduled for next July in Berlin, Grassmuck plans
to devote three days to exploring the parallels between operating
systems and social systems. 

"This could be the most important event in years," said Chaos Computer
Club co-founder Wau Holland. The last day of the congress was poised
to end on a somber note, with discussions of the death this fall of
club member Tron, a screening of the hacking thriller film 23, and a
reassessment of hacker Karl Koch's death 10 years before. 

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