Depends on when it was. Congress was less popular in the past so you could get a ticket.

Nowadays, most tickets go to hackerspaces and volunteers but the open sale sells out in seconds.

Camps are much easier to get to.

I did get my tickets volunteering for like a decade but last year I gave up - volunteering the whole event so I get a chance to go to the next event ... where I would volunteer the while event. That's not a good time.

Especially when there's more and more volunteers competing for work so they get a voucher - while the oldschoolers have no need for any of that because they can always get a ticket through backchannels.

Funny how CCC managed to recreate the worst aspects of capitalism as part of their leftist conference.