Date: 2015-06-19 to 2015-06-21

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)

• planning and preparation - Stefan Baur & Mike Gabriel
• carpooling option for the Karlsruhe-Frankfurt-Essen route - Mihai Moldovan
• liaison for Linuxhotel staff between 2015-06-19 and 2015-06-21 - Mike Gabriel

We have received a 450 EUR donation from Hetzner Online, which we will be using to sponsor the accommodation costs of a few participants, as well as BBQ ingredients, carpooling costs, …

Thanks to Hetzner for this very generous offer!

All confirmed participants in alphabetical order:

1. Alonso, Nicolas Arenas (Qindel/TheQVD)
2. Baur, Stefan (BAUR-ITCS) - Timemeister
3. DePaulo, Michael Swinick - Deep C Diver
4. Fandiño, Salvador (Qindel/TheQVD)
5. Fleten, Kjetil Andre (fleten.net)
6. Gabriel, Mike (DAS-NETZWERKTEAM)
7. Heinold, Henning (tarent)
8. Martinez, Nito (Qindel/TheQVD)
9. Moldovan, Mihai (BAUR-ITCS) - Timegeselle and Endian-chasing Cowbyte
10. Pedersen-Cook, Mark (fleten.net)
11. Wicke, Florian (Hetzner)

Names in italics indicate that the particular person is one of the event organizers. Bold shows nicknames and honorary titles.

• arrival: 16.40h 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
• ROOMS MUST BE CLEANED OF TRASH AND CLEARED OF YOUR PERSONAL BELONGINGS BY 1000 hours/10am local time!
• stowing of personal belongings in chimney room or conference room

• departure is around 1600 hours/4:00pm local time

• 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.