OSGeo Hacking event

OSGeo Hacking event in a monastry near Bolsena (16-22 June 2008)

Event Owner

Jeroen Ticheler

When

16-22 June 2008

Where

Bolsena - Italy

We will have an OSGeo "hacking" event in an Italian monastry (here). The monastry is overlooking Lago Bolsena and offers space to about 25 people in small bedrooms :-) . Its probably one of the coolest places for such an event. Quiet, isolated, simple and serene. There's a good wireless and wired internet connection, although I wouldn't bet my hand on it if we all start to download satellite images. It should be perfect for SVN, IRC and mail. Have a look yourself, including looking at the photo gallery.

The cost will be about 200 Euro per person for the week.

For what the food concerns, there will be a cook who will serve breakfast, lunch and dinner for 30 Euro per person per day. There's a large dining space, but we will eat outside overlooking the lake if weather permits (very likely in June).

We'll discuss other technicalities as they come up, i.e. assistance if you need to rent a car, organize to travel together, public transport etc... Please feel free to use this WIKI page for that or create a sub page.

The event will take place during the whole week (7 days).

Please contact me if you have questions about this event (Jeroen Ticheler)

Interested? Sign up here

Those participating, you will need to make and advance payment of 100 Euro to me to guarantee your place. Please contact me privately by email so we can arrange that. I've no problems if you later need to change as long as you make sure there's someone taking your place :-)

Name	Projects	single/double room?	Should we organize a cook?	Outdoor activities? [1]	Confirmed/tentative?	Advance paid?
Jeroen Ticheler	GeoNetwork & Marketing	double	yes		confirmed	x
Lorenzo Becchi	ka-Map & OpenLayers	single	yes		confirmed	x
Heikki Doeleman	GeoNetwork	single	yes		confirmed	x
Arnulf Christl	Mapbender & Marketing	double	yes		confirmed	x
Francois Prunayre	GeoNetwork	still don't know	yes		confirmed	x
Simon Pigot	GeoNetwork	single	yes		confirmed
Kate Roberts	GeoNetwork	single	yes		tentative
Andrea Antonello	JGrass	single	yes		confirmed	x
Silvia Franceschi	JGrass & Marketing	single	yes		Confirmed	x
Daniele Andreis	JGrass	single	yes		Confirmed	x
6 * GeoServer devs	GeoServer	single	yes		Confirmed	x
Javier Carrasco	gvSIG & gvSIG Mobile	single	yes		Confirmed	x
Juan Lucas Dominguez	gvSIG & gvSIG Mobile	single	yes		Confirmed	x
Victor Olaya	SEXTANTE	single	yes		Confirmed	x
Martin Landa	GRASS GIS	single	yes		Confirmed	x
Giuseppe Onorevoli	JGrass	single	yes		Confirmed
Patrizia Monteduro	Geonetwork	no need	no		couple of days
Simone Giannecchini	GeoTools & GeoServer (& GDAL SWIG Java)	double (?)	yes		confirmed (not the whole week though)
Alessio Fabiani	GeoTools & GeoServer	single	yes		confirmed
Daniele Romagnoli	GeoTools (& GDAL SWIG Java)	single	yes		confirmed
Stefano Giaccio	GeoNetwork	single	yes		confirmed	x
Emanuele Tajariol	GeoNetwork	single	yes		confirmed	x
Mark Small	EDINA	single	yes		Confirmed	x
Michael koutroumpas	EDINA	single	yes		Confirmed	x
Diego Guidi	MapServer,GeoServer,GvSig		yes		tentative
Paolo Corti	MapServer,GeoServer,GDAL,FeatureServer		yes		tentative
José García	gvSIG	single	yes		Confirmed	x
Grant McKenzie	GeoNetwork	single	yes		Confirmed	x
Mathieu Coudert	GeoNetwork	single	yes		Confirmed	x
Andrea Giacomelli	GeoNetwork	not required - expected to show up on day trip			Tentative
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[1] there are options to do outdoor activities like tracking. A guide can be organized and the cost is very reasonable.

How to arrive to the Monastry

The closest airports are the Roma airports (Ciampino and Fiumincino).

From Rome to the monastry there is 135 km aproximately.

There is no railway to Bolsena.

From Rome you can take a bus (cotral http://www.cotralspa.it/ENG/capolinea.asp) to Viterbo and other bus from viterbo to Bolsena.

Monday to Friday there is a bus each hour but Sunday there are very few buses.

From Bolsena main street to the Monastry is aproximately 1 km.

It could be interesting to rent a private bus or several cars to move from Rome to the Monastry and from the Monastry to Rome.

If you are interested in share vehicle please add your name to the following table and the columns you need for new ideas.

Name	I prefer to rent a bus	I prefer to share rented car	I'll go with my car and I have free seats
Javier Carrasco	X
Juan Lucas Dominguez	X
José García	X
Michael Koutroumpas	X
Mark Small	X
Grant McKenzie	X
Heikki Doeleman	X	X
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