OSGeo Community Sprint 2020

Annual Code Sprint comes to Athens (Greece) in 2020!

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Purpose
Bring together project members to make decisions and tackle larger geospatial problems as in previous years:
 * Minnesota (2019)
 * Bonn (2018)
 * Daytona_Beach (2017)
 * Paris (2016)
 * Philadelphia (2015)
 * Vienna (2014)
 * Boston (2013)
 * Island Wood (Seattle) (2012)
 * Montreal (2011)
 * New York City (2010)
 * Toronto (2009)

Sponsors
Sponsoring  Find out about Sponsoring the Event.


 * Venue Sponsor


 * Gold Sponsors


 * Silver Sponsors


 * Bronze Sponsors

Dates and Times

 * Date: May 25-29 (5 days)
 * Time: 8:30am to 4:30pm each day

Other Events from January to September 2020

 * FOSS4G Europe 2020, July 13-18 in Valmiera, Latvia
 * FOSS4G 2020, August 24-29 in Calgary, Canada
 * please add your event

Location

 * City of Athens, Greece

Coding Venue

 * The Coding Venue is on the ground floor of Serafio - Sports, Culture and Innovation Center. It is located 800m from the Kerameikos metro station, in the "Gazi" neighborhood.
 * Serafio main hall, Municipality of Athens
 * OpenStreetMap

Parking

 * Serafio - Sports, Culture and Innovation Center provides free parking

Accommodation
Several hotels and apartments are close to the venue. The venue area is called "Gazi", while the nearby neighborhood closer to Acropolis is called "Thiseion". Using those search terms, you will be able to find lots of options within walking distance. Another option is to book at the city center (around Syntagma square), 2 metro stops (blue line) from the venue. Here are a few options:

How to get there
Travelling from Eleutherios Venizelos international airport

Metro
The airport is accessible via Metro Line 3 “Aghia Marina - Athens International Airport”. Stop at Metro Station: Kerameikos Walk about 9 min, 800 m Journey time: 60 minutes Fare: 10.00 euros

Suburban Rail
Athens International Airport is connected via the Suburban Rail with: • Athens Central Railway Station (Larissis Station) • SKA (Rail center of Acharnes) For further information regarding timetables, please call 14511. Stop at Station: Rouf Walk about 4 min, 400 m Journey time: 80 minutes Fare: 10.00 euros

Bus Services (OSY)
Four bus routes connect directly Athens and Piraeus with the airport. All buses set down passengers at the Departures Level and depart from the Arrivals Level, between Exits 4 and 5. [http://telematics.oasa.gr/en/#lineDetails_1025_%CE%A795%20:%20SYNTAGMA%20-%20AEROL.%20ATHINON%20(EXPRESS)_249-81 Χ95 ΣΥΝΤΑΓΜΑ - ΑΕΡΟΛ. ΑΘΗΝΩΝ (EXPRESS)] Stop at Syntagma terminal Take the Metro Line 3 “Aghia Marina - Athens International Airport” Stop at Metro Station: Kerameikos Walk about 9 min, 800 m For further information, please call 11185. Journey time: 120 minutes Fare: 6.00 euros

Taxi
Taxi from Airport to Serafio - Sports, Culture and Innovation Center Journey time: 45 minutes Fare: 35 euros

Project Plans
(i.e what do you wish/want/plan to work on during the sprint ?)


 * OSGeoLive:
 * Work towards 14.0 release in August


 * PostGIS:
 * Work towards PostGIS 3.1.0 in Sept/Oct

Participants
Please add your name and the projects you are planning to sprint and note the likeliness of your attendance.

Communication

 * Please join the mailing list: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/tosprint
 * IRC chat during the event: #tosprint Server: irc.freenode.net
 * Gitter channel: https://gitter.im/OSGeo/Sprint

Costs
Participants should plan for the following costs:


 * Travel to Athens
 * Accommodation for x nights

Individual preparation

 * Bring your own laptop
 * Bring your power connector adapter if needed (photo: Greece). See also http://www.power-plugs-sockets.com/
 * Install Git and compiler tools, and come with a working development environment

Sponsoring
The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) has a long tradition of organizing code sprints for developers of Open Source GIS software. (https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Code_Sprints).

An international community/code sprint for OSGeo will take place May 25-29, 2020.

We expect about 80 developers from all over the world to come from various OSGeo projects. Whether desktop application, geospatial library, metadata catalog or web mapping: be sure to find products in the list that you use. The sprint is also an opportunity for your developers to meet with the core developers of the projects, get a deeper insight into the software and participate in the development.

This years' sprint will take place in Athens and will be hosted by Municipality of Athens and organized by members of the local OSGeo Greek chapter.

In addition to the costs of providing the technical infrastructure and space, food and drink for the developers represents the main cost. Morning/afternoon meals and drinks during the day are planned. In addition, we hope to provide several evening meals and social events.

In order to cover these costs we would be overjoyed to accept offers of sponsorship!

What we can offer:
 * Your logo on top of the community sprint website as well as on all official documents used during the sprint
 * Acknowledgement in all sprint related emails
 * Our undying gratitude, which comes in handy when you least expect it (remember that feature you wanted?)

Our sponsorship levels:
 * Gold: >= 2500 USD
 * Silver: 1500 USD
 * Bronze: 750 USD

So...
 * get your company talking to the top project developers.
 * encourage your GIS developers to take advantage of this opportunity, there is no better opportunity to learn!
 * support the software you use - you benefit immediately.

Thank you very much!

Contact: To sponsor, please contact tzotsos@osgeo.org directly.

Event Owner

 * Angelos Tzotsos
 * Christos Iossifides

Press Release
We are looking forward to the next OSGeo Code Sprint!