There will be a Hackathon / DevSummit 07 - 09th of July 2017 in the Linuxhotel Villa Vogelsang in Essen, Germany.

July 07th (Friday)

July 08th (Saturday)

July 09th (Sunday)

TBD

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

Large Working Groups

Interest in knowledge transfer

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 venue and surrounding area offers a lot of activities for partners and children, so consider bringing them along to spend the weekend there.

The Linuxhotel is located in the city of Essen. The next airports are Düsseldorf (DUS), Köln/Bonn (CGN) and Dortmund (DTM). Frankfurt/Main (FRA) is also an option, although a bit further south. From there you can reach Essen by train. Use this page (Google translate) to check how to get there. Contact lme@ for details.

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

Camping in the park is also possible for a small fee.

TBD

We're planning a Guided Tour on Saturday evening to the Zollverein (coal mine, industry museum), followed by a dinner there. If you are interested, please indicate that by adding yes in the appropriate column in the travel coordination table below. If you are not interested, you can stay at the hotel and have dinner there. Please indicate that as well, so we can arrange something for you.

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

• 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 and Sunday we can order pizza or Doener for lunch or have barbeque in the park if the wheather is good.

Depending on the arrival time of the participants we plan to do a welcome BBQ in the park when the weather is good on Friday 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 afternoon, but we'll make sure that you get some kind of lunch before leaving.

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

Deadline for registration is June 15th, 2017. 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.riseup.net/p/2017EssenHackathon