There will be a Hackathon / DevSummit 22 - 24th of April 2016 in the Linuxhotel in Essen/Germany.

The Hackathon's organiziers would like to thank the generous sponsors for the event.

Netzkommune covers hotel costs for all participants.

The FreeBSD Foundation sponsors some really nice swag for the event. You can help support the FreeBSD Foundation by donating.

April 22th (Friday)

April 23th (Saturday)

April 24th (Sunday)

TBD

If you would like to run a working group, please add your name below:

Large Working Groups

Map of Linuxhotel and surrounding area.

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.).

The Linuxhotel is located in the city of Essen. The next airports are Düsseldorf (DUS), Köln/Bonn (CGN) and Dortmund (DTM). From there you can reach Essen by train. Use this page (Google translate) to check how to get there.

The Linuxhotel offers a maximum of 27 beds for accommodation. There are some single rooms but there are also double rooms for share.

TBD

Non-exhaustive list of some non-FreeBSD activities (for families):

• 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

Wireless all around the hotel and park, wired Ethernet in all hotel rooms, seminar rooms and even in the park.

Germany uses CEE 7 standards and Europlug: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_power_plugs_and_sockets#CEE_7_standards_and_Europlug

Available at the hotel from 09:00 to 10:00.

On Saturday we can order a pizza and go to some nice restaurant for dinner.

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.

• Linuxhotel
• Ruhr Metropolis
• VRR - Train and Bus (bus)
• Düsseldorf Airport (airports)
• Dortmund Airport (airports)
• Deutsche Bahn (railway)

You can co-ordinate travel here:

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.

There are only a limited number of rooms, mostly twin and 3 bed rooms. The following is a preliminary room list.

https://pad.linuxhotel.de/p/FreeBSD_Hackathon2016