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+title: Chaos Communication Congress is moving to Leipzig
+date: 2017-05-13 13:01:00 
+updated: 2017-05-13 13:12:51 
+author: erdgeist
+tags: update, pressemitteilung
+
+The 34th iteration of the annual Chaos Communication Congress (34C3) will again take place in December, but at a new location: the congress and convention center in Leipzig. Congress had to find a new home because its former venue, the Congress Center Hamburg (CCH), will be undergoing a general makeover. The new venue in Leipzig will provide participants much more space to tinker with.
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+The CCH was home to the Congress since 2012. Over the years, we
+developed a strong  friendship with the team on site, so we’re sad we
+have to leave.
+
+Finding a new location was not easy. The large number of participants
+combined with special demands regarding technology, lecture halls,
+workshop spaces – as well as areas to party and hang out – pose a
+challenge to any convention center in Germany. Even the CCH would not
+have been able to accommodate any more than last year’s 12.000
+participants. „We’re not trying to grow at all costs, but expanding our
+cultural reach is very important to us. It’s always painful to be forced
+to reject more and more interested people at the door each year,“
+explained Dirk Engling, CCC spokesperson.
+
+With access not only to the main Congress Center Leipzig, but also to
+parts of the neighbouring convention halls, the CCC is confident to find
+the balance between a potential for moderate growth and a chance to
+maintain the event’s unique atmosphere. „Everything is on track for
+smooth cooperation,“ Dirk Engling hacker said about the team in Leipzig.
+„After all, that city can look back on over 850 years of tradition
+hosting trade fairs.“
+
+As usual, the gates will be open for participants on December 27th.
+Despite the challenges of moving to a new location, our goal is to keep
+ticket prices stable. And of course, we’ll continue to resist
+commercialization. On one hand, the new loation offers more space for
+some more participants. On the other, we’re going to need to depend more
+than ever on the solidarity of our community: By purchasing supporter
+tickets, one can directly enable others to attend at affordable rates.
+Just as last year, we’re aiming for a large black zero in profit. The
+start of presale is going to be announced at CCC’s events blog at
+<https://events.ccc.de/>.
+
+Planning content for the 34C3 has already begun, and there will be a
+launch of the call for participation soon. „Hacker assemblies in the
+‚Hackcenter‘ will be organized this year mainly around themes and
+interests rather by region. This should encourage even more
+interregional and international exchange between the communities,“ Dirk
+Engling explained. „And of couse, we’ll make every effort to tame the
+convention hall’s atmosphere and make it as cosy as our participants
+have come to expect over 33 years of congress history.“