Date: 2016-08-19 to 2016-08-21

Three-day event at http://www.linuxhotel.de (for conditions, see: https://www.linuxhotel.de/community.html / http://www.linuxhotel.de/community.en.html, Essen (“work and play” gathering; grid power, wifi, hotel style rooms, youth hostel-like service, recreational facilities available, group entertainment available in the evening)

• Carpool or Train rides? Train and subway prices up to date?
• Lunch@Sipgate?
• Check entertainment options
  • Railway Museum on Sunday?
  • Repeat of the Coal-and-Miners-Tour for first time attendees on Saturday?
  • Unperfekthaus tour vs. BBQ @ Linuxhotel?
• Check Lunch/Dinner options
• Topics that need to make it either into a talk or into a coding session:
  • Bugs 738/740, client-side printing/include PDF viewer with windows client
  • X2Go build environment overview w/ focus on non-intel platforms
  • State of X2Go Client on OS X - what has changed/improved since January, what's to be expected next
  • “Jumping” windows in Pubapp mode (annoyance e.g. with Iceweasel/Firefox) - Mike#2, Mihai, Alex?
  • Background local apps triggering on foreground Remote app actions and vice versa in Pubapp mode - Mike#2, Mihai, Alex?
• Work out conference timetable
  • CfP for talks
    • More 20 minute talks this time?
    • Separate user/dev tracks?
  • One day for talks, one day for coding, maybe?
• …

• planning and preparation - Stefan Baur
• carpooling option for the Karlsruhe-Frankfurt-Essen route - Mihai Moldovan, should the need arise
• liaison for Linuxhotel staff between 2016-08-19 and 2016-08-21 - Heinz-M. Graesing, should the need arise

As always, we are open to sponsorships, and one has already found its way to us. More is always better, though! Of course, all sponsors will be named on our sponsorship wiki page, unless they wish to remain anonymous.

All confirmed participants in alphabetical order:

1. Baur, Stefan (BAUR-ITCS) - Timemeister
2. DePaulo, Michael Swinick - Deep C Diver
3. Grabowski, Juri (LiHAS)
4. Graesing, Heinz-Markus - X2Go co-founder
5. Moldovan, Mihai (BAUR-ITCS) - Timegeselle and Endian-chasing Cowbyte
6. Oleksandr Shneyder (Phoca GmbH) - X2Go co-founder

Names in bold indicate that the particular person is one of the event organizers. Italics show nicknames and honorary titles.

Please send an E-Mail to X2Go-ML-1@baur-itcs.de if you would like to make a reservation.

We currently have 22 out of 28 beds available, for both nights (Fri-Sat and Sat-Sun).

Note that single rooms are always scarce and will be assigned by individual need (employer insisting on single room/heavy snorer), so please do let us know if:

• it is an absolute requirement for you to have a single room for yourself (valid reasons see above)
• it is not an absolute requirement, but you would prefer a single room if one is available
• you would actually prefer to share the room with at least one, possibly two other persons
• you don't have any preference at all and will just take whatever we assign you to

• arrival: TBD local time (CEST - Central European Summer Time AKA daylight saving time)
• option to order Pizza or start a BBQ/camp fire, bringing your own food is OK, too.
• get-together in the chimney room (there's Wi-Fi and power, so if you want to code away, feel free to do so)

Friday Coding Session

Saturday Coding Session

• we need to clean the rooms ourselves, that's one of the reasons why the rates are so cheap
• NEW! ROOMS MUST BE CLEANED OF TRASH AND CLEARED OF YOUR PERSONAL BELONGINGS BY 0900 hours/09am local time already! NEW!
• stowing of personal belongings in chimney room or conference room

• departure is around 1600 hours/4:00pm local time - possibly 1700 hours/5:00pm local time, this depends on travel plans that we still need to work out

• The nearest subway station is “Essen-Horst”
• This subway line is operated by Deutsche Bahn, so you can book your railway ticket to destination Essen-Horst and have the subway ticket included in your regular train ticket. Advantage: no need to figure out how the local ticket vending machine works (plus it's probably cheaper that way).
• It's a ~ 15 Minute walk from Essen-Horst to the Linuxhotel, please use the route as suggested here: http://goo.gl/maps/wJWrv
• NB: some navigation systems plot a shorter pedestrian route that leads through the woods, but from personal experience I (Stefan) can tell you that you do not want to use that path when carrying luggage, possibly in the dark, when you've never walked it before.

The following is an inofficial translation of Linuxhotel's house rules.

The original, German edition can be found here. Note that only the German edition is the legally binding one.

Guidelines for a good working relationship in the Linux Hotel

We want all our guests to remember the Linux Hotel as a friendly professional networking location. This includes ensuring that all guests treat each other in a respectful and kind way during their entire stay with us.

• Regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability, appearance, body size, origin or religion no one shall be harassed here.
• We simply do not tolerate harassment of guests of any sorts.
• It's plain and simple: be nice to others. Do not insult other guests and respect their personal dignity. Do not post photos of others without their consent. Remember that offensive, sexist, racist or similar jokes aimed at singling out somebody (or a group) are inappropriate.
• If participants violate these rules, we will take corrective action, which go up to expulsion from the event without refund of the cost.

We hold these rules to be self-evident. And we have the impression that all our guests share this belief. By publishing these rules, we want to prepare ourselves for those situations where it is necessary to defend them.