2015 Linuxhotel Hackathon
There was a Hackathon / DevSummit 24th - 26th of July in the Linuxhotel in Essen/Germany.
Schedule
| Day | Morning | Lunch | Afternoon | Dinner | Evening |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fr 24th | Developers arrive, Setup, Informal Dinner | ||||
| Sa 25th | Breakfast, Hacking Groups | Pizza | Hacking Groups | BBQ or Restaurant (weather dependent) | Hacker Lounge |
| Su 26th | Breakfast, Hacking Groups | On-site | Hacking Groups | On-site | Developers depart |
Detailed Schedule
July 24th (Friday)
| Track | General |
| 08:00-18:00 | Individual Arrival |
| 18:00-20:00 | Dinner, Setup, Get together |
| 20:00-Open End | Hacker Lounge |
July 25th (Saturday)
| Track | General |
| 08:00-09:00 | Setup / Late Arrivals |
| 09:00-10:00 | Breakfast (On-site) |
| 10:15-11:30 | DTrace impromptu introduction (Sean Chittenden) |
| 11:30-13:00 | Hacking Groups |
| 13:00-14:30 | Lunch (Pizza) |
| 14:30-19:30 | Hacking Groups |
| 19:30-21:00 | Dinner (Restaurant) |
| 21:30-Open End | Hacker Lounge with PGP Keysigning |
July 26th (Sunday)
| Track | General |
| 08:00-09:00 | Setup |
| 09:00-10:00 | Breakfast (On-site) |
| 10:00-13:00 | Hacking Groups |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch (???) |
| 14:00-16:00 | Hacking Groups |
| 16:00-16:45 | Summary / Wrapping up / Feedback |
| 18:00-20:00 | Dinner (???) / Individual departure |
Short Talks
TBD
| Title | Speaker | Description | Slides, Notes |
|---|
Working Groups
If you would like to run a working group, please add your name below:
Large Working Groups
| Title | Organiser | Brief description | Target |
|---|---|---|---|
| Documentation Hacking group | BenedictReuschling | Everything doc related: PRs, man pages, handbook, FAQ, translations, teaching and getting to know the doc toolchain. We'll coordinate on-site what we'll be doing. | People interested in documentation work, open for newbies and seasoned doc hackers alike. |
| Ports PRs Hacking Group | LarsEngels | There are lots of port related PRs many of them can be worked on and committed easily | People interested in ports related work. |
| Porting WantedPorts | LarsEngels | The WantedPorts wiki page has some interesting software to be ported | People interested in ports related work. |
| PGP/GPG Keysigning | BenedictReuschling | Sign keys, increase your web of trust. Bring some form of ID (passport, driver's license) | all attendees |
Maps
Linuxhotel
Linuxhotel Villa Vogelsang is a hotel inside of a historical mansion. It is regarded as “one of the most unusual hotels in the Ruhr area”. The nine guest rooms and suites as well as two meeting and seminar rooms are equipped with extensive technical facilities to conduct meetings and seminars on the topics of Linux and free software. The hotel and seminar rooms and the surrounding park are networked via Ethernet and wireless LAN.
During work days the Linuxhotel offers Linux and free software courses (e.g. FreeBSD, OpenBSD, pf, etc.).
Logistics
The Linuxhotel is located in the city of Essen. The next airports are Düsseldorf (DUS) and Dortmund (DTM). From there you can reach Essen by train. Use this page (Google translate) to check how to get there.
Accomodation
The Linuxhotel offers a maximum of 27 beds for accomodation. There are some single rooms but there are also double rooms for share.
| Item | Price |
|---|---|
| Single room | 35 € per person and day |
| Double room | 20 € per person and day |
| Breakfast | 5 € per person and day |
| Lunch | 15 € per person and day |
| Dinner | 5 € per person and day (but let's rather go to a nearby restaurant) |
| Leaving cleaning | 5 € per person |
| Sauna | 5 € per person |
Proposed room occupancy plan
| Rodrigo Osorio | |
| Christian Brueffer | Lars Engels |
| Florian Smeets | Benedict Reuschling |
| Alexander Leidinger | Celine Leidinger-Dato + Sara Eva |
| Kristof Provost | |
| Dru Lavigne |
Weekend activities
The wife and daughter of Alex will do/organize some non-FreeBSD activities. Non-exhaustive list of possibilities:
- Zoo Gelsenkirchen - Bleckstraße 64, 45889 Gelsenkirchen
- Kettlerhof - leisure park for kids - Rekener Str. 234, 45721 Haltern am See
- Grugapark - garden and animals - Virchowstraße 167, 45147 Essen
- Schloss Beck - leisure park - Am Dornbusch 39, 46244 Bottrop
Network access
Wireless all around the hotel and park, wired ethernet in all hotel rooms, seminar rooms and even in the park. 
Power
Germany uses CEE 7 standards and Europlug: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_power_plugs_and_sockets#CEE_7_standards_and_Europlug
Munch, Munch
Breakfast
Available at the hotel from 09:00 to 10:00.
Lunches
On saturday we can order a pizza and have a proper meal for dinner.
The hotel offers warm lunch on sunday.
Dinner places
Depending on the arrival time of the participants we will announce a dinner place for friday evening.
If the weather is nice we plan to have a BBQ in the hotel's surrounding park on saturday evening. In case of bad weather there's a restaurant which offers home cooking (i.e., solid, plain, but tasty meals like Schnitzel, etc.): http://www.hausgrossjung.de/
Most people seem to leave on sunday, so it is possible to have a simple bread and butter dinner at the hotel.
Links
- VRR - Train and Bus (bus)
- Düsseldorf Airport (airports)
- Dortmund Airport (airports)
- Deutsche Bahn (railway)
Travel coordination
You can co-ordinate travel here:
| Name | Login | 24th | 25th | 26th | Breakfast Sat. | Breakfast Sun. | Lunch Sun. | Dinner Sun. | Meal Requests | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BenedictReuschling | bcr | yes (afternoon) | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | →Hesse to Essen via car, no free seat | |
| ChristianBrueffer | brueffer | yes (evening) | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | →AB8047 | |
| Sean Chittenden | yes | yes | yes | guest (GroupOn), not staying at Linuxhotel | ||||||
| DruLavigne | dru | yes (evening) | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | leave on 27/07/2015 | |
| FlorianSmeets | flo | yes (evening) | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | no | → Dortmund to Essen by car, 3 free seats | |
| KristofProvost | kp | yes (evening) | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | ||
| LarsEngels | lme | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | ||
| RodrigoOsorio | rodrigo | yes (evening) | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | no | →AF1106 ←AF1407 |
| AlexanderLeidinger + Family | netchild | yes (afternoon) | yes | yes (afternoon) | yes (all) | yes (all) | alex only | no | →Saarland to Essen via car, 3 places free |
Developers are welcome to invite guests to attend the developer summit, subject to their tolerance for ceaseless hours of kernel-hacking, and availability of space at the venue.