[aha] Chaos Computer Club SIGINT 2010 Call for Participation

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SIGINT 2010 Call for Papers

Saturday May 22, Sunday May 23, and Monday May 24, 2010

Location: Komed Im Mediapark, Cologne, Germany. Address: Im Mediapark 7, 
50670
Cologne, Germany‎

Important dates

     * Submission deadline for contributions March 26, 2010, 23:59 CET
     * Earliest acceptance notification March 29, 2010
     * Latest notification of speaker acceptance April 19, 2010
     * Schedule completed by May 1, 2010

SIGINT - the "facts"
What? 	A conference for hackers, Internet residents and activists.
Who? 	Organized by the Chaos Computer Club, one of the largest and most
influential hacker organizations in Europe.
Where? 	In Cologne. In western Germany, just south of the Ruhr area, 
just over the border for all residents of the Netherlands, Belgium, and 
Luxembourg, and easy to reach for the rest of the world.

SIGINT - with regards to the eavesdropping of signals (signal 
intelligence) - understood as shorthand by Unix Geeks as "signal 
interrupt"; you might want to look for SIGINT in 
/usr/include/asm/signal.h in your own Linux source. The conference 
searches to define itself between these two meanings. Therefore SIGINT 
is about finding the relevant signals in a stream of information, their 
relevance in their specific context, and what marks this information as 
valuable inside chaotic noise.

SIGINT is searching for lectures, keynote speeches and performances to 
create a common platform for detecting and reflecting such signals. 
Discussions and workshops should give all participants the opportunity 
to become actively involved.
What it is

The world of atoms and the world of bits operate on completely different 
levels. Where they come together (and that happens more often lately), 
there are tensions in society, opportunity and chaos that must be explored.

The importance of intangible things is growing while reducing production 
costs. Traditional markets expand in the virtual space, the music 
industry makes its money off ringtones and ideas materialize in physical 
form out of the 3D printer while popular modern sociological concepts 
such as the working class are completely exported to China. Identities 
are constructed in social networks regardless of nationality or gender, 
and yet there is still the world of things and the Internet printouts as 
contemporary counterparts. It is precisely this loss of barriers which 
on one hand breeds the total surveillance state and on the other allows 
the individuals offering hitherto unknown possibilities of development, 
to the horizon and much more.

It is about new and old spaces. In the digital counter gentrification, 
in the dispute over the boundaries of the city - where is the new and 
the old, a power struggle takes place. "Burn the land and boil the sea, 
you can't take the [Net] from me": It is that frontier and its spirit, 
the driving force behind progress and reaction that we employ at SIGINT. 
It is about hiding and ninjas, open seas and pirates, but especially 
about the console cowboys, cowgirls, whomever else, and to the limitless 
uncharted territory, where signals are not stopped and the sun is never 
reflected on the monitor.

We want to engage actively with events regarding the German speaking 
countries and in Europe, here we have the following issues of particular 
importance:

     * High-speed Internet and society - impact and motivation
     * Individual rights in the present
           o Social networks, phototagging
           o Does the Internet never forget?
     * Bitrot
           o Where is that stuff from five years ago?, The digital 
apocalypse
     * File sharing networks
           o ACTA, compensation models, copyright
     * Individual transport
           o License plate scanners, link controlled cars, GPS devices
     * Knowledge and education
           o Wikipedia, e-learning
           o Google Books: the last library
     * Biohacking
           o Who owns genetic data?
           o Bodyhacking, hearing aids and prosthetics
     * Critical analysis of elite groups or individuals in the digital space
     * The realities of CCTV
     * Man and information overload, man as a producer and consumer of 
information
           o Attention economy, paranoia
           o Signal to noise ratio
           o "Make public data available, protect private data"?
           o Media literacy and digital self defense
     * Retro futurism, historical ideas about the future
     * Encryption
           o Social areas of action and consequences of dual-use
     * Ubiquitous computing
     * Man and malware
     * GSM networks

This list is to be understood as a stimulus for your creative ideas. Our 
dialogue is to extend across a wide breadth of the digital landscape and 
we will examine each submission of interest with benevolence. We must 
however also make a selection. Surprise us!
Submissions

All entries must be via our online presentation submission system at 
https://cccv.pentabarf.org/submission/SIGINT10. Please follow the 
instructions given there. If you have questions about your submission, 
contact us at sigint10 at cccv.de, do NOT send your presentation proposal 
by email.

Please add the following information to your submission:

     * Your name or a nickname or a pseudonym, exactly how you want your 
name to appear on our website and in publications.
     * The title of your submission.
     * A short biography of you or your group, as far as it relates to 
your work.
     * A picture of you (optional).
     * A brief description / summary with what you will present or 
perform. 150 WORDS OR LESS. NO EXCEPTIONS.
     * A more detailed description of your topic.
     * Any additional Audio/Video requirements.
     * A reliable email address where you can be reached.

Conference languages are German and English. Register and submit in the 
language (German or English) in which you yourself feel most comfortable.
Location and Technology

SIGINT will be held at the conference center Komed in the Cologne Media 
Park, which is beautifully situated on a lake in the middle of the city. 
Two modern buildings provide space for presentations and room for ideas.

The main presentation rooms will contain at least the following equipment:

     * A laptop computer (you can also bring your own).
     * Video projector with a standard VGA connection (Note to Mac 
users: please bring your appropriate adapter to VGA).
     * Projection screen or canvas.
     * Whiteboard and pens, or other suitable writing surface.
     * Microphone and Audio Line-in and a small amplification system.
     * Video and audio recording of your presentation.
     * At least one power outlet at your disposal.

Should you need something that is not listed above, please include your 
needs in your submission. We can probably provide almost everything with 
regards to AV equipment.

We will record your talk and put it online. Please let us know in 
advance if you do not want your presentation recorded.
Notification and Reimbursement

Speakers will be notified of acceptance up to April 19, 2010.

SIGINT is a non-profit event; the lecturers are not paid. Financial 
assistance for travel and accommodation is possible. It must however be 
decided after submission. Do not hesitate to mention any need when 
submitting your lecture and we will think of something!

You can find the preliminary agenda and additional information on our 
website at https://sigint.ccc.de/.