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

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.

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

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.

Hotel-Wiener-Kindl-low-budget

# Beds	Rate	# Rooms	Reservations	Notes
1	€ 45,-	3	<add your name>
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	<add your name>
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)

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.

Participants

#	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	USA	Mar 22	Mar 29		MapServer, GDAL/OGR, PDAL	Booked
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	France	Mar 24 midday	Mar 28		MapServer	Definite
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	DE	Mar 24	Mar 28		GRASS GIS/QGIS/Translations	Definite
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	Helmut Kudrnovsky	AT				GRASS GIS	Likely
37	Giovanni Manghi	PT/IT				QGIS	Likely
38	Luigi Pirelli	ES/IT	24(VY8710) 14:30	30(VY8711)	tbd	QGIS	Booked flight
39	Milena Nowotarska	PL				GRASS GIS/QGIS	Likely
40	Margherita Di Leo	IT				GRASS GIS / INSPIRE	Likely
41	Werner Macho	AT				QGIS	Likely
42	Vasile Crăciunescu	RO				GRASS GIS / INSPIRE/ Open GeoData	Very Likely
43	Radim Blazek	CZ				QGIS
44	Martin Isenburg	DE				QGIS, LAStools, light-weight data base	Definite
45	Johan Van de Wauw	BE				SAGA - QGis processing, OSGeo live	Likely, probably not all days
46	Andreas Neumann	CH	tbd	tbd	tbd	QGIS, QGIS Web Client	Very Likely
47	Denis Rouzaud	CH	tbd	tbd	tbd	QGIS	Very Likely
48	Peter Wells	UK	tbd	tbd	tbd	QGIS	Very Likely
49	Jürgen Fischer	DE	tbd	tbd	tbd	QGIS	Very Likely
50	Yves Jacolin	FR	tbd	tbd	tbd	QGIS	Very Likely
51	Stéphane Brunner	CH	tbd	tbd	tbd	QGIS	Very Likely
52	Arnaud Morvan	FR	tbd	tbd	tbd	QGIS	Very Likely
53	Alessandro Pasotti	IT	tbd	tbd	tbd	QGIS, QGIS Web Client, QGIS Plugins repo	Very Likely
54	Even Rouault	FR	tbd	tbd	tbd	GDAL, MapServer, QGIS?	Likely
55	Rob Emanuele	US	tbd	tbd	tbd	GDAL	Likely
56	Stefano Cavallari	DE	Mar 24	Mar 28	tbd	GRASS/QGIS, Python	Definite
57	Anita Graser	AT	tbd	tbd	home	QGIS	Definite
58	Kenny Shepard	US	tbd	tbd	tbd	GDAL	Very Likely
59	Rafael Krucker	CH	tbd	tbd	tbd	QGIS	Very Likely
60	Tobias Schmitz	CH	tbd	tbd	tbd	QGIS	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