Discourse Meetup at CCC Congress in Hamburg?

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i am currently discussing with @mae about options for a “get-to-know” meeting for Discourse instance operators and supporters in Europe. An “official” international Discourse meeting needs planning effort and preparation time. But there is already a big event at the end of this year which could be used for some informal networking on a smaller scale:

The CCC congress in Hamburg 27.12 - 30.12.2025 is one of the biggest events for both professional and non-professional IT people in Europe, with about 15.000 international participants every year. Many folks, even from overseas, are already there. This could be a chance to meet colleagues who are operating either self-hosted or CDCK-hosted discourse sites - you just need to know about each other…

I am curious if there will be other “Discourse people” at the 39C3 Hamburg and if there is some interest here on meta. If so, I could speak with the CCC orga team and look for a room and time slot at the congress center.

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@mae Update: I checked options to have a Discourse meetup at the CCC Hamburg between 27.12 and 30.12. There are some larger rooms at the CCH (for 60 pers. or more) and also smaller locations. Before I make a final room reservation, I would like to know if there is some support from CDCK side. And we should discuss about a possible agenda.

See detailed infos about “self organized sessions” (SOS) at

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Have you had any interest from the community? Will people attend?

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There was no real discussion yet, but a number of likes for the idea of a meetup. As far as I could see, they come from different parts of europe.

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As for now, I would wait for replies in this thread from the community and from CDCK staff. I can make a reservation for a location at the CCH Hamburg, but this should be prepared in good time (before christmas). The 39C3 orga team (Infodesk) will assign a room for it and it will be published at

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Thanks for looking into this!

Before we commit any resources, it would be great to see confirmed attendees. That would help us with planning etc.

Even if we don’t move forward with a meetup at this particular event, we’re for sure interested in helping plan other ones where there are confirmed attendees.

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Too far for me this time (UK), but I’d be interested in future Discourse meetups or online hangouts.

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I just returned from Hamburg. It was a very nice meeting with a very big community of 16.000 to 17.000 “nerds” from all over Europe and beyond. All the talks from the central conference rooms are available online at

Most of them with translation (in cases where the talk was not already in english). Highly recommended!

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