OSGeo Community Sprint 2022
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 2020, August 24-29 in Calgary, Canada
- FOSS4G Europe 2020, July 13-18 (?) in Valmiera, Latvia
- 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 |
| 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
Participants
Please add your name and the projects you are planning to sprint and note the likeliness of your attendance.
| No | Name | Country | 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 | TBD | Likely | 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) datapink.com | DataPink | Neat-EO.pink, PGStrom | x | x | x | x | x | Booked | very likely | 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) laposte.net | 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 |
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
Press Release
We are looking forward to the next OSGeo Code Sprint!