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Rockbox Developer Conference - Euro Edition! 2008

Date and Location 

When: June 28-29 2008
Where: Berlin (HQ of VAMED Deutschland (www.vamed.de): Schicklerstr. 5-7, D-10179 Berlin)

Who

These people intend to show up. Please add your route/airport and expected time of arrival.

These people were planning to show up (please move your name to the above list if you intend to come:

Agenda

Since we can code and IRC at home, too, we should focus on helpful group activities.

Friday:

  • arrival of the "international" participants, get to know the people, learn the names, have a (Belgian) beer
  • setup web camera(s)
  • build towers of Rockbox

Saturday:

  • To be decided

Sunday:

  • To be decided

Ideas for discussion:

  • Finally have a release 3.0
  • SummerOfCode2008 (probably too late for decisions, so follow up)
  • Merging the GUI to viewports
  • Is the license GPLv2 or GPLv2 or later?
  • Should we go GPLv3?
  • The future of Rockbox: with more and more targets supported, how can we keep development fluid (multiple screen sizes and button layouts, testing): making sure a commit does not break a target
  • The basic structure of the UI, ensuring it's fully consistent and whether it could be more playlist-centric.
  • Release/testing of an updated H300 bootloader (if we have LinusNielsenFeltzing and PeterDHoye in one room, with the right equipment...)
  • Release an updated h100 bootloader (same as for h300 here ...)
  • Pluginlib actions (if there's no decision before DevCon)
  • Rockbox Steering Board

Infrastructure

Bring your own laptop and DAP devices of choice. We'd need enough power outlets for wall-wart chargers. A USB hub might be helpful. A webcam for friends who can't attend physically would be great.

Feel free to add extra things onto this list if you feel it is necessary (such as unported targets/etc)

  • Decent camera(s) for posterity - PeterDHoye brings his DSLR and a smaller camera for some fun movies (who brings the MP tapes?), FrankGevaerts will also bring his DSLR, AlexanderPapst has a DSLR and a real video camera too.

Beer

Peter & Frank will bring some Belgian beer along. Add your favorite here! (last year Peter brought tripel karmeliet, duvel, westmalle tripel, 3 chimay's (red/white/blue) and kasteelbier) I assume we will have some German beer as well (a Weizen always tastes good)

From Airport to The Location

Google Maps Link

International flights usually arrive at one of two airports: Schönefeld (SXF) or Tegel (TXL), both are quite ok to reach with public transportation.

Arriving at Tegel airport

  1. Taking the "TXL" busline (direction "Mollstr./Prenzlauer Allee"), getting out at "Berlin Hauptbahnhof" (central station) From there it is 4 more stations with the "S-Bahn" (in eastern direction, every line is possible) to the station "Jannowitzbrücke"
  2. Taking the bus "X9" to the station "Zoologischer Garten" (Zoo) and using the "S-Bahn" from there (also in eastern direction and every line possible) to "Jannowitzbrücke"

Arriving at Schönefeld airport

Walk to the nearby "S-Bahn" station and use the "S9" line (direction "Spandau") and get out at "Jannowitzbrücke". If you're lucky and catch the "RE7" (direction Dessau) regional train, it takes a few minutes less but you have a longer walk or you'd have to change trains and take the S-Bahn for one station from either "Ostbahnhof" or "Alexanderplatz" station.

More info

The Berlin public transport also has a nice routing planner - in English or Fahrinfo - in German. Specify date and time and fill out the "from:" and "to:" fields with the following:
  • from: '"Flughafen Tegel" or "Flughafen Schönefeld"
  • to: "Schicklerstr. 7" and uncheck the left 'station/stop' box below
Unfortunately it wasn't possible to link prepared queries directly because the sessions time out.
Seeing that there are a few other alternatives I'm also willing to help out with the route planning to find the best suitable for a certain time - or answer other questions regarding ticket price etc. MarianneArnold

Currency

Euro. If you need a currency converter, there's one here.

Language

Local language is German. Expect at least some people to speak English.

Carpool

PeterDHoye can drive and pick up (please confirm!):

Link to possible route

AlexanderPapst is also going by car and can pick up others too (Link to route).

Hotels and Room Sharing

A list with hotels can be found here: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2007/Accommodation The Berliner Congress Center (which the distances are measured to) isn't too far away from DevCon location.

There seem to be a number of locations offering rooms for 6 or more. Might be a good idea to look into.

People who will be willing to band together on a cheap hostel:

Post-DevCon

AustinAppel will be staying in Berlin until Thursday morning and will be in London until the next Monday. Is anyone else in Berlin staying after for a bit and want to "hit the town"?

Summary

To be filled out. Placeholder.

r82 - 08 May 2008 - 19:47:20 - DominikWenger
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