I managed to attend last year and the year before with my IRC friends. We even managed become an "assembly".
I really love the CCC, I wish there was a predominantly english version of it though, I feel so invasive attending as an English native.
I really love the CCC, I wish there was a predominantly english version of it though, I feel so invasive attending as an English native.
Why that. They actually try to be as open as possible. Volunteers type translations for the subtitles while the talk is ongoing. At least afterwards it is possible to understand what's going.
If the event was meant as a German event, there wouldn't be so many German speakers with English talks. For some German talks, they even provide simultaneous translated English audio tracks in the live stream portal.
So while I appreciate your 'I am just a visitor' attitude, I don't think it is fair to assume that they don't welcome English natives (think about how much courage it takes to give a talk in a foreign language). I think the event culture is more along the lines 'Most visitors understand English, so we like English talks. But since the event is in Germany, German is okay too'.