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.fossgis.de
Silver Sponsors
Bronze Sponsors
Venue Sponsor
Other/in-kind sponsors
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.
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.
Dates and Times
March 24-28 2014
Note: March 19-21 FOSSGIS Berlin
Duration: Full week
Agenda
TBD
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
| # Beds | Rate | # Rooms | Reservations | Notes |
| 1 | € 65,- | 3 | <add your name> | |
| 2 | € 80,- | 6 | <add your name> | |
| 3 | € 90,- | 2 | <add your name> |
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.
| # Beds | Rate | # Rooms | Reservations | Notes |
| 1 | € 45,- | 3 | <add your name> | |
| 2 | € 50,- | 2 | <add your name> |
Hotel Hillinger
For the time being, please wait a bit before making a reservation at Hotel Hillinger as a strange message arrived me just upon hitting save here and sending the mail. Sorry, I'll update this statement ASAP.
| # Beds | Rate | # Rooms | Reservations | Notes |
| 2 | € 85,- | up to 50 | <add your name> | Most of the rooms have double beds and some twin beds. |
| 1 | € 65,- | up to 10 of the above | <add your name> | |
| 3 | € 109,- | 4 | <add your name> | 2 of the rooms can also be used as 4 bed rooms for € 129,-. |
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 27.01.2014. 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)
Project Plans
TBD
Communication
- Please join the mailing list: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/tosprint
- IRC chat during the event: #tosprint Server: irc.freenode.net
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.
| # | Participant | Country | Arrival | Departure | Accomodation | Work on | Notes |
| 1 | Stephan Meissl | Austria | first day | last day | home | MapServer | Definite - No special needs |
| 2 | Andreas Hocevar | Austria | first day | last day | family | OpenLayers | Definite - No hotel needed |
| 3 | Paul Ramsey | Canada | Mar 23 (AC6164) | Mar 30 (AC9159) | TBD | PostGIS | Booked |
| 4 | Michael Smith | PDAL/MapServer | Very Likely | ||||
| 5 | Jeff McKenna | CA | Likely Mar 26 | Likely Mar 30 | MapServer, ZOO-Project, pycsw | Very Likely | |
| 6 | Daniel Morissette | CA | MapServer, GDAL/OGR | Very Likely | |||
| 7 | Howard Butler | MapServer, GDAL/OGR, PDAL | Very Likely | ||||
| 8 | Olivier Courtin | PostGIS, TinyOWS | Very Likely | ||||
| 9 | Luca Delucchi | IT | GRASS GIS | Very Likely | |||
| 10 | Martin Landa | CZ | GRASS GIS, PostGIS, GDAL/OGR | Very Likely | |||
| 11 | Thomas Bonfort | MapServer | Very Likely | ||||
| 12 | Tamas Szekeres | MapServer, GDAL/OGR | Very Likely | ||||
| 13 | Mateusz Loskot | PDAL | Likely | ||||
| 14 | Paolo Cavallini | QGIS | Very likely | ||||
| 15 | Markus Neteler | IT | GRASS GIS | Likely | |||
| 16 | Angelos Tzotsos | GR | Mar 23 (OS0802) | Mar 29 (OS0801) | TBD | OSGeoLive, pycsw/GeoPython/GeoNode, OTB, ZOO-Project | Booked |
| 17 | Anne Ghisla | GRASS GIS/QGIS | Likely | ||||
| 18 | Jachym Cepicky | PyWPS/GeoPython (OpenLayers) | Likely | ||||
| 19 | Jorge de Jesus | PyWPS/REST/GeoPython | Likely | ||||
| 20 | Andreas Trawoeger | GRASS GIS | Very Likely | ||||
| 21 | Jeffrey Johnson | GeoNode/ GeoPython | Very Likely | ||||
| 22 | Martin Paces | EOxServer | Very Likely | ||||
| 23 | Fabian Schindler | EOxServer/MapServer | Definite | ||||
| 24 | Gérald Fenoy | FR | MapServer, ZOO-Project | Likely | |||
| 25 | Marco Hugentobler | QGIS | Very Likely | ||||
| 26 | Mathias Walker | QGIS | Very Likely | ||||
| 27 | Pirmin Kalberer | QGIS, GDAL/OGR | Likely | ||||
| 28 | Paolo Corti | GeoNode/QGIS | Very Likely | ||||
| 29 | Arnulf Christl - OSGeo, Geo for All | DE | Guest | ||||
| 30 | Richard Duivenvoorde | NL | tbd | tbd | tbd | QGIS, context help, vector tools | Very likely |
| 31 | Tim Sutton | QGIS | likely | ||||
| 32 | Marco Bernasocchi | QGIS | Very likely | ||||
| 33 | Martin Dobias | SK | QGIS | Likely | |||
| 34 | Hugo Mercier | QGIS, SFCGAL, PostGIS | Very Likely | ||||
| 35 | Vincent Mora | QGIS, SFCGAL | Very Likely | ||||
| 36 | Otto Dassau | DE | QGIS | Likely | |||
| 37 | Larissa Junek | DE | QGIS | Likely | |||
| 38 | Helmut Kudrnovsky | AT | GRASS GIS | Likely | |||
| 39 | Giovanni Manghi | PT/IT | QGIS | Likely | |||
| 40 | Luigi Pirelli | ES/IT | TBD | QGIS | Booked flight | ||
| 41 | Milena Nowotarska | PL | GRASS GIS/QGIS | Likely | |||
| 42 | Margherita Di Leo | IT | GRASS GIS / INSPIRE | Likely | |||
| 43 | Werner Macho | AT | QGIS | Likely | |||
| 44 | Vasile Crăciunescu | RO | Open GeoData | Very Likely | |||
| 45 | Radim Blazek | CZ | QGIS | ||||
| 46 | Martin Isenburg | DE | QGIS, LAStools, light-weight data base | Definite | |||
| 47 | Johan Van de Wauw | BE | SAGA - QGis processing, OSGeo live | Likely, probably not all days | |||
| 48 | Andreas Neumann | CH | tbd | tbd | tbd | QGIS, QGIS Web Client | Very Likely |
| 49 | Denis Rouzaud | CH | tbd | tbd | tbd | QGIS | Very Likely |
| 50 | Peter Wells | UK | tbd | tbd | tbd | QGIS | Very Likely |
| 51 | Jürgen Fischer | DE | tbd | tbd | tbd | QGIS | Very Likely |
| 52 | Yves Jacolin | FR | tbd | tbd | tbd | QGIS | Very Likely |
| 53 | Stéphane Brunner | CH | tbd | tbd | tbd | QGIS | Very Likely |
| 54 | Arnaud Morvan | FR | tbd | tbd | tbd | QGIS | Very Likely |
| 55 | Alessandro Pasotti | IT | tbd | tbd | tbd | QGIS, QGIS Web Client, QGIS Plugins repo | Very Likely |
Individual Preparation
- Bring your own computer
- 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?
- No, this is not a presentation-oriented event. People will get together in small groups and work on areas of mutual interest within their projects.
Social Activities
TBD
Ideas
- Skiing: The idea is to find a not too far away place the weekend after the sprint. Please add your name if you're interested: Stephan Meissl
Isn't it a bit late for skiing at this time of the year in eastern Austria?
Budget
TBD