Vienna Code Sprint 2014

OSGeo Code Sprint 2014 official web site: http://vienna2014.sprint.osgeo.org. Please contact us if you are interested in our sponsorship opportunities.

Gold Sponsors

http://www.airborne.aero/

http://www.austrospace.at/

http://www.tydac.ch

http://www.fossgis.de

Silver Sponsors

http://www.anachb.at/mehr

Bronze Sponsors

http://metaspatial.net/en/institute

http://www.oslandia.com

http://rapidlasso.com

http://www.azavea.com

http://gfoss.it

Venue Sponsor

http://www.wien.gv.at/

Other/in-kind sponsors

http://eox.at

Purpose

Get together project members to make decisions and tackle larger geospatial problems (as done last year at the Boston Code Sprint 2013 and previous years: Island Wood (2012), Montreal (2011), New York City (2010), and Toronto (2009)). This code sprint is targeting members of the "C Tribe" (e.g., MapServer, QGIS, GRASS, GDAL, Proj, PostGIS, MapGuide, OpenLayers). Other tribes are welcome to join the sprint, of course, but we hope that "C Tribe" members will give this event special consideration.

Venue

The City of Vienna MA 14 gladly provides the location for the Vienna Code Sprint for up to 60 sprinters in their very new office called STAR 22 located at Stadlauerstraße 56 (see also OSM map).

The venue is not far from the center of Vienna (~25min via train and subway) and can be reached easily from the Vienna airport via train.

Directions

Convenient route planning for public transportation: http://www.wienerlinien.at/ (both German and English)

From the airport take the train S-Bahn S7 going to Wien Floridsdorf and exit at Praterstern (~30min). Make sure to avoid the CAT as it doesn't bring you to Praterstern and I consider it too costly for gaining just 10 minutes.

From Praterstern take the subway U-Bahn U2 going to Seestadt and exit at Stadlau. Now either take a 15 minutes walk to the venue or take the bus Autobus 86A going to Breitenleer Straße/Arnikaweg or 87A going to Hermann-Gebauer-Straße and exit at Genochplatz.

From Praterstern instead of the U2 you can also take the subway U-Bahn U1 particularly when going to the Hotel Hillinger. Take the U1 going to Leopoldau and exit at Kagran. Now take the tram Straßenbahn 25 going to Oberdorfstraße or the bus Autobus 26A going to Großenzersdorf and exit at Polgarstraße for the Hotel Hillinger or continue to Konstanziagasse for the code sprint venue.

Dates and Times

March 24-28 2014

Note: March 19-21 FOSSGIS Berlin

Duration: Full week

Agenda

Sunday Ice Breaker

If you're in Vienna already on Sunday you're invited to join us for a small ice breaker starting from 7pm at Green - Cafe-Wok-Grill-Restaurant which is located next to the sprint venue. You will see the signs when you enter the plaza of Star22.

Evening plans

• Monday: Welcome party at venue starting at 19:30; doors close 12pm
• Tuesday: Pizza at venue starting at 19:00; doors close 10pm
• Wednesday: Guided city walk (see below) from 6:30pm to 8pm; meeting point: At entrance of St. Stephen´s Cathedral, subway U1 station Stephansplatz (http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/48.20872/16.37240); Dinner at Augustinerkeller, Albertinaplatz (http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/48.20479/16.36794) starting at 8pm; doors (at venue) close at 8pm but probably earlier to leave in time for the dinner
• Thursday: Dinner at Vorstadtbeisl zum Selitsch (walking distance from venue http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/48.22255/16.45246); doors (at venue) close 10pm
• Friday: End of sprint at 5pm; farewell dinner at Schweizerhaus (http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/48.21421/16.40161) starting at 6pm

Project Plans

On Monday we will start 9ish with some sort of "official" opening around 10.

GRASS GIS Agenda: See http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Community_Sprint_Vienna_2014

<add your agenda>

Hotel

Two blocks of rooms have been negotiated at the two hotels closest to the sprint venue, Hotel Hillinger (map) and Hotel Wiener Kindl (map). Please make your own choice.

The rooms are blocked for the sprint week i.e. 24.-28. March 2014 whereas +/- one day should be no problem.

Please find the lists of available rooms below. If you make a reservation for one of the listed rooms please indicate this by adding your name to the list. Thanks.

Don't hesitate to contact me if you need any assistance.

Hotel Wiener Kindl

Hotel-Wiener-Kindl

# Beds	Rate	# Rooms	Reservations	Notes
1	€ 65,-	3	Martin Isenburg (willing to share room with 2 or 3 beds)
2	€ 80,-	6	(Martin Dobias & Peter Wells), Even Rouault, (Anne and Stefano), (Richard Duivenvoorde (booked, offering to share)
3	€ 90,-	2

The rates include breakfast buffet, sat TV, direct dial telephone, ensuite bathroom with shower, minibar, and free WLAN.

Cancellation policy:

• Free cancellation until 7 days in advance
• 50% fee later

These rooms are blocked until 28.02.2014. Please make your reservation via mail to "wienerkindl@utanet.at" and indicate that you're participating at the "OSGeo Vienna Code Sprint" in order to get a room of the block.

If you really want to save on budget you might consider a room with shared bathroom and sometimes also shared shower. Note that these rooms are available at the hotel as backup rooms but not recommended. You have been warned.

Hotel-Wiener-Kindl-low-budget

# Beds	Rate	# Rooms	Reservations	Notes
1	€ 45,-	3	Radim Blazek
2	€ 50,-	2	<add your name>

Hotel Hillinger

Note, in case you've seen the previous note, that today I visited the hotel again and hopefully resolved all misunderstandings.

Hotel-Hillinger

# Beds	Rate	# Rooms	Reservations	Notes
2	€ 85,-	15 are blocked of up to 50	<add your name>	Most of the rooms have double beds and some twin beds. Ask for your preferred choice.
1	€ 65,-	Same as above but single use	Luigi Pirelli
3	€ 105,-	4	<add your name>	2 of the rooms can also be used as 4 bed rooms for € 125,-.

The rates include breakfast buffet, cable and pay-TV, air conditioning, direct dial telephone, ensuite bathroom with bathtub or shower, hairdryer, and free WLAN in the whole hotel. In addition they offer free usage of the climbing hall and fitness center on the other side of the street.

Accepted payment methods: cash or creditcard.

Cancellation policy:

• Free cancellation until 7 days in advance
• 50% fee from 7 to 3 days in advance
• 100% fee later

These rooms are blocked until 15.02.2014. Please make your reservation via mail to "hotel@hillinger.at" and indicate that you're participating at the "OSGeo Vienna Code Sprint" in order to get a room of the block.

Alternatives

If you don't feel comfortable with both options we recommend to look for alternatives around Kagran (map) which is just a couple of stops away from the venue with the tram and also close to the city center with the subway.

Costs

Participants should plan for the following costs:

• Travel to Vienna
• Accommodation for four nights
• Breakfast and dinner (partly)

Communication

• Please join the mailing list: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/tosprint
• IRC chat during the event: #tosprint Server: irc.freenode.net

irc://freenode/tosprint

Participants

We are planning for attendance of 50-60 participants. Please add your name and the projects you are hoping to sprint and note the likeliness of your attendance as well as any special needs.

Participants

#	Participant	Country	Arrival	Departure	Accomodation	Work on	Notes
1	Stephan Meissl	AT	first day	last day	home	MapServer	Definite - No special needs
2	Andreas Hocevar	AT	Mar 25	Mar 28	family	OpenLayers	Definite - No hotel needed
3	Paul Ramsey	CA	Mar 23 (AC6164)	Mar 30 (AC9159)	TBD	PostGIS	Booked
4	Michael Smith	US	Mar 23 (BA0700	Mar 30 (BA0701)		PDAL/MapServer	Booked
5	Jeff McKenna	CA	Mar 26 (AC6158)	Mar 31 (AC6159)		MapServer, ZOO-Project, pycsw	Booked
6	Daniel Morissette	CA	Likely Mar 23	Mar 31		MapServer, GDAL/OGR	Booked
7	Howard Butler	USA	Mar 22	Mar 29		MapServer, GDAL/OGR, PDAL	Booked
8	Olivier Courtin	FR				PostGIS, TinyOWS	Booked
9	Luca Delucchi	IT				GRASS GIS	Booked
10	Martin Landa	CZ	Mar 24 midday	Mar 28 evening	Hillinger	GRASS GIS, PostGIS, GDAL/OGR	Booked
11	Thomas Bonfort	FR	Mar 24 midday	Mar 28		MapServer	Definite
12	Tamas Szekeres	HU	Mar 24 midday	Mar 28	Hillinger	MapServer, GDAL/OGR, QGIS	Definite
13	Mateusz Loskot					PDAL	Likely No :-(
14	Paolo Cavallini					QGIS	Very likely
15	Markus Neteler	IT	Mar 23	Mar 28		GRASS GIS	Booked
16	Angelos Tzotsos	GR	Mar 23 (OS0802)	Mar 29 (OS0801)	Hillinger	OSGeoLive,pycsw,GeoNode,OTB,ZOO-Project	Booked
17	Anne Ghisla	DE	Mar 24	Mar 28	Wiener Kindl	GRASS GIS/QGIS/Translations	Definite
18	Jachym Cepicky					PyWPS/GeoPython (OpenLayers)	Likely No :-(
19	Jorge de Jesus					PyWPS/REST/GeoPython	Likely
20	Andreas Trawoeger					GRASS GIS	Definite - No special needs
22	Martin Paces					EOxServer	Very Likely
23	Fabian Schindler					EOxServer/MapServer	Definite
24	Gérald Fenoy	FR	Mar 23 (AF1738)	Mar 29 (AF7680)	Hillinger	MapServer, ZOO-Project	Booked
25	Marco Hugentobler	CH	Mar 24 (OS562) 11:40	Mar 28 (OS565)	Hillinger	QGIS	Booked
26	Mathias Walker	CH	Mar 24 (OS562) 11:40	Mar 28 (OS565)	Hillinger	QGIS	Booked
27	Pirmin Kalberer	CH	Mar 24 (OS562) 11:40	Mar 28 (OS565)	Hillinger	QGIS, GDAL/OGR	Booked
28	Paolo Corti	IT	Mar 23 (AZ190)	Mar 28 (AZ191)	Resonanz	GeoNode/pycsw/QGIS	Booked
29	Arnulf Christl - OSGeo, Geo for All	DE				Guest
30	Richard Duivenvoorde	NL	Mar 24 (KLM1845) 11:45	Mar 28 (KLM1848)	Hotel Wiener Kindl	QGIS, context help, vector tools	Booked
31	Tim Sutton					QGIS	likely
32	Marco Bernasocchi	CH				QGIS	Very likely
33	Martin Dobias	SK	Mar 23 20:45	Mar 28 20:45	Hotel Wiener Kindl	QGIS	Booked
34	Hugo Mercier	FR				QGIS, SFCGAL, PostGIS	Booked
36	Helmut Kudrnovsky	AT				GRASS GIS	Likely
37	Giovanni Manghi	PT/IT				QGIS	Likely
38	Luigi Pirelli	ES/IT	24(VY8710) 14:30	30(VY8711)	Hillinger	QGIS	Booked
39	Milena Nowotarska	PL	Mar 23	Mar 26		GRASS GIS/QGIS	Booked
40	Margherita Di Leo	IT	24 h11:50	28 h15:15	Arnes Hotel	GRASS GIS / INSPIRE	Booked
41	Werner Macho	AT				QGIS	Likely
42	Vasile Crăciunescu	RO	Mar 23	Mar 28	Hillinger	GRASS GIS / INSPIRE/ Open GeoData	Booked
43	Radim Blazek	CZ	Mar 24	Mar 27	Wiener Kindl	QGIS
44	Martin Isenburg	DE	Mar 24 (LH2324)	Mar 29	Wiener Kindl	LiDAR in QGIS, LAStools toolbox, light-weight data base	Booked flight
45	Johan Van de Wauw	BE				SAGA - QGIS processing, OSGeo live	Likely, probably not all days
46	Andreas Neumann	CH	Mar 24 08:30	Mar 28 18:00	Hotel Wiener Kindl	QGIS, QGIS Web Client	Booked
47	Denis Rouzaud	CH	March 23 22:00	March 27 14:00	Hotel Wiener Kindl	QGIS	Very Likely
48	Peter Wells	UK	Mar 23 20:45	Mar 28 20:45	Hotel Wiener Kindl	QGIS	Booked
49	Jürgen Fischer	DE	24(KLM1845) 11:45	28(KLM1848)	Wiener Kindl	QGIS, GDAL/OGR, OSGeo4W	booked
50	Yves Jacolin	FR	Mar 23	Mar 28	Hotel Wiener Kindl	QGIS	Very Likely
51	Stéphane Brunner	CH	Mar 23	Mar 28	Hotel Wiener Kindl	QGIS	Very Likely
52	Arnaud Morvan	FR	Mar 23	Mar 28	Hotel Wiener Kindl	QGIS	Very Likely
53	Alessandro Pasotti	IT	Mar 24	Mar 28	Wiener Kindl	QGIS, QGIS Web Client, QGIS Plugins repo	Booked
54	Even Rouault	FR	Mar 24	Mar 28	Wiener Kindl	GDAL, MapServer, QGIS?	Booked
55	Rob Emanuele	US	tbd	tbd	tbd	GDAL	Likely
56	Stefano Cavallari	DE	Mar 24	Mar 28	Wiener Kindl	GRASS/QGIS, Python	Definite
57	Anita Graser	AT	tbd	tbd	home	QGIS	Definite
58	Kenny Shepard	US	Mar 24	Mar 28	AirBnB	GDAL	Booked flight
59	Rafael Krucker	CH	Mar 24	Mar 28	budget or youth hostel	QGIS	Booked
60	Tobias Schmitz	CH	Mar 24	Mar 28	budget or youth hostel	QGIS	Booked
61	Dražen Odobašić	HR	Mar 26	Mar 28	Hillinger	QGIS	Booked
62	Stepan Turek	CZ	tbd	tbd	tbd	GRASS	Likely
63	Borys Jurgiel	PL	Mar 26 20:17	Mar 28 13:31	tbd	QGIS	Definite
64	Nikos Alexandris	GR	tbd	tbd	tbd	GRASS GIS	Likely
65	Ratko Vasiljević	HR	tbd	tbd	tbd	GRASS GIS, QGIS, ILWIS	Likely
66	Georg Ramler	AT	Mar 24	Mar 27		pycsw, QGIS Plugins	Definite - No special needs
67	Jürgen Zornig	AT	Mar 24	Mar 27		pycsw, QGIS Plugins	Definite - No special needs
68	Roberto Angeletti	IT	Mar 24	Mar 28		3D , QGIS Plugins	Likely
69	Stephan Bösch-Plepelits	AT	Mar 26, 28 (mornings)		home	pgmapcss (can it be used for MapServer?)	-
70	Igor Crnković	HR	Mar 26	Mar 28	Hillinger	QGIS	Booked
71	Sebastiaan Couwenberg	NL	Mar 28	Mar 28	Wiener Kindl	QGIS Deb packaging	TBD

Individual Preparation

• Bring your own computer
• Bring AC power connector adapter if needed (Austria File:Schuko_plug_and_socket.png)
• Install git, subversion and the compiler tools, and come with a working development environment if possible

FAQ

• Is the Vienna Code Sprint just a coding event?
  • Yes, a coding and documentation event. It is a working session for people who are already participants in open source projects.
• Will it be possible to present new projects during this event?
  • While this is not a presentation-oriented event like FOSS4G, there will be the possibility to have presentations. There are plans to get a dedicated room with beamer.

Social Activities

Welcome party

In the evening of the first day of the sprint we will invite all sprinters to a big welcome party. More details shall not be revealed yet but we try to make it a memorable event.

Guided evening walk - "The City of Vienna at a glance"

On Wednesday evening we invite interested participants to a guided evening walk - "The City of Vienna at a glance". An on-site registration will be needed due to a limit number of 25 places.

The downtown tour introduces the imperial city, Vienna´s great history, its unique architecture, and todays life-style.

Meeting in front of St. Stephen´s Cathedral, Vienna’s main 900 years old landmark, we will stroll along Graben and Kohlmarkt, passing former court confectionary Demel and the most exclusive shops in Vienna. Crossing the courtyards of the Imperial Palace "Hofburg" you will hear about the great times of former Austrian monarchy, see where Empress Elizabeth (Sisi) married Emperor Franz Joseph, where the Vienna Boys’ Choir sings mass on Sunday, and where the famous white Lipizzaner stallions of the Spanish Riding School perform. You will enjoy the great view from Heroes Square to some of the magnificent buildings of the famous Ringstraße. We will continue walking towards State Opera and the legendary hotel Sacher and will end the tour at Albertinaplatz.

Skiing

We will leave Vienna early on Saturday to go to Haus im Ennstal for skiing. In the evening we will visit an open air concert and return on Sunday.

Please contact Stephan Meissl if you're interested.

Media outreach

See Vienna_Code_Sprint_2014_Media_Outreach

Budget

• The 2014 budget is available online here.
• There is an accumulated surplus of € 9,826.03 including € 2,424.98 from previous years available for future code sprints.
• Receipts for the 2014 expenses are available online part 1, part 2, and part 3.