OSGeo Community Sprint 2022

Annual Code Sprint comes to Athens (Greece) in 2021!

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Purpose

Bring together project members to make decisions and tackle larger geospatial problems as in previous years:

• Virtual Event (2020)
• 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

https://www.cityofathens.gr/en/

Gold Sponsors

http://www.geocue.com/

https://www.safe.com/

http://www.riegl.com/

Silver Sponsors

https://hobu.co/

https://www.bhinc.com/

http://www.crunchydata.com/

https://gaia3d.com/en/

Bronze Sponsors

http://www.coordinatesolutions.com/

http://eox.at

https://www.pixel8.earth/

https://www.azavea.com/

https://greenwoodmap.com/

Dates and Times

• Date: Postponed due to COVID-19, new dates to be announced soon
• Time: 8:30am to 4:30pm each day

Other Events from January to September 2021

• 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:

Hotel Name	Price Range (Euros)	Distance	Notes
Arethusa Hotel Athens	70+	2 metro stops	Walking distance to Syntagma central metro station
Athens Diamond Hotel	90+	2 metro stops	Walking distance to Syntagma central metro station
Adrian Hotel	140+	1 metro stop	Walking distance to Monastiraki central metro station
O & B Athens Boutique Hotel	130+	1 metro stop	Walking distance to Monastiraki central metro station
hotel360Degrees Pop Art Hotel	170+	1 metro stop	Walking distance to Monastiraki central metro station
Innathens Hotel	160+	2 metro stops	Walking distance to Monastiraki central metro station
Electra Metropolis	250+	2 metro stops	Walking distance to Syntagma central metro station
Electra Palace Athens	300+	2 metro stops	Walking distance to Syntagma central metro station

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. 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

• GEOS:
  • Work towards 3.9.0 release

Participants

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

No	Name	Country	Email	Organisation	Projects	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Accommodation	Likelihood	Food Restrictions	social event
1	Angelos Tzotsos	GR	tzotsos(at)osgeo.org	OSGeo	pycsw, OSGeoLive, GeoNode, UbuntuGIS, pygeoapi, OTB	x	x	x	x	x	booked	Organizer :)	No	x
2	Tom Kralidis	CA	tomkralidis at gmail.com	self	pycsw, OWSLib, pygeoapi, GeoHealthCheck, MapServer, other geopython projects	x	x	x	x	x	booked	Certain	No	x
3	Michael Smith	US	michael.smith.erdc at gmail.com	US Army Corps	PDAL, MapServer, proj, GDAL	x	x	x	x	x	TBD	Likely	No	x
4	Daniel Morissette	CA	dmorissette at mapgears.com	Mapgears	MapServer, GDAL/OGR, MapML	x	x	x	x	x	TBD	Very Likely	No	x
5	Vicky Vergara	MX	vicky at georepublic.de	Georepublic, OSGeo	pgRouting, OSGeoLive	x	x	x	x	x	TBD	Very Likely	No fish	x
6	Markus Neteler	DE	neteler at mundialis.de	mundialis	GRASS GIS,...	x	x	x	x	x	TBD	Likely	No	x
7	Stephan Meißl	AT	stephan.meissl at eox.at	EOX IT Services GmbH	MapServer, EOxServer	x	x	x	x	x	TBD	Very likely	No	x
8	Paul Ramsey	CA	pramsey at cleverelephant.ca	Crunchy Data	PostGIS, GEOS	?	x	x	x	x	TBD	Very likely	No	x
9	Piero Toffanin	US	pt at uav4geo.com	OpenDroneMap	OpenDroneMap, PDAL, rio-tiler, DroneDB	?	x	x	x	x	TBD	Very likely	No	x
10	Howard Butler	US	howard@hobu.co	Hobu, Inc.	PDAL, Entwine, DroneDB, GDAL, PROJ	x	x	x	x	x	Booked	Booked	No	x
11	Connor Manning	US	connor@hobu.co	Hobu, Inc.	Entwine, PDAL	x	x	x	x	x	TBD	Very likely	No	x
12	Christos Iossifides	GR	chiossif (at) gmail.com	NTUA	GRASS GIS	x	x	x	x	x	booked	Very likely	No	x
13	Brad Chambers	US	brad.chambers at gmail.com	Grover Consulting Services	PDAL	x	x	x	x	x	TBD	Very likely	No	x
14	Nicolas Roelandt	FR	roelandtn.pro (at) gmail.com	self	OSGeoLive	x	x	x	x	x	TBD	likely	No	x
15	Olivier Courtin	FR	o (at) data.pink	DataPink	neat-EO.pink	x	x	x	x	x	Booked	?	No	x
16	Norman Barker	US	norman (at) tiledb.com	TileDB.com	TileDB	x	x	x	x	x	TBD	likely	No	x
17	Stavros Papadopoulos	US	stavros (at) tiledb.com	TileDB.com	TileDB	x	x	x	x	x	TBD	likely	No	x
18	Astrid Emde	DE	astrid_emde (at) osgeo.org	OSGeo	OSGeo, OSGeoLive	x	x	x	x	x	TBD	very likely	vegetarian	x
19	Luca Delucchi	IT	astrid_emde (at) osgeo.org	Fondazione Edmund Mach, OSGeo	GRASS GIS, OSGeoLive	?	x	x	x	x	TBD	very likely	No	x
20	Jérôme Boué	FR	jbo-ads (at) mailo.com	Akka, Airbus	MapServer, MapCache	x	x	x	x	x	TBD	Very likely	No	x
21	Regina Obe	US	lr (at) pcorp.us	Paragon Corporation	PostGIS, pgRouting, GEOS, OSGeo	x	x				TBD	Most definitely	No
22	Leo Hsu	US	lr (at) pcorp.us	Paragon Corporation	PostGIS, pgRouting, GEOS	x	x				TBD	Most definitely	No
23	Even Rouault	FR	even.rouault (at) spatialys.com	Spatialys	GDAL, PROJ, MapServer	x	x	x	x	x	booked	Confirmed	No	x
23	Andrew Bell	US	andrew@hobu.co	Hobu, Inc.	PDAL, PROJ, GDAL	x	x	x	x	x	booked	very likely	No	x
24	Vissarion Fisikopoulos	GR	fisikop (at) gmail.com	Boost C++ libraries, MySQL, Oracle	Boost.Geometry,...	x	x	x	x	x	booked	very likely	No	x
25	Weston Renoud	NL/US	renoud@qps.nl	QPS BV	PDAL, Entwine	x	x	x	x	x	TBD	very likely	No	x
26	Seth Girvin	FR/IE	sgirvin@compass.ie	Compass Informatics	MapServer, OSGeoLive, GeoExt	x	x	x	x	x	TBD	very likely	No	x
27	Joseph Miller	US	millerjoseph (at) gmail.com	Pixia	GeoTools	x	x	x	x	x	TBD	likely	No	x

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!