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X2Go: The Gathering 2017 @ Adventure-Campus Treuchtlingen, Germany

Date: 2017-09-22 to 2017-09-24

X2GOBTTR - X2Go: Back To The Roots - Treuchtlingen, the Birthplace of X2Go

Three-day event at Treuchtlingen. This is a “work and play” gathering.

Treuchtlingen Info

  • Accomodation takes place at Treuchtlingen's Adventure-Campus
  • Pro: Site is a lot closer to quite a few core team members → We could extend the event by a few hours
  • Pro: New evening entertainment options for recurring visitors
  • Con: Travel situation for international travelers might be less convenient

Pricing Information

Treuchtlingen Single-Bed BedroomTreuchtlingen 1 bed in 2-bed bedroom
Accommodation56,00 EUR69,00 EUR
Event Location25,99 EUR25,99 EUR
Breakfastincl.incl.
Lunch14,99 EUR14,99 EUR
Dinner14,99 EUR14,99 EUR
Total111,97 EUR124,97 EUR

Still missing: Pricing for the meeting room, this goes on top of the above total.

Please note that the 2-bed bedroom is indeed more expensive per person than the single room, unlike in the previous years at Linuxhotel. This is due to the 2-bed bedrooms being newly renovated.

Entertainment Options

Important ToDos

  • Check carpooling options for Treuchtlingen
  • Check dinner/lunch options for Treuchtlingen
    • Option to bring own food?
    • Option to BBQ?

Responsibilities

  • planning and preparation - Stefan Baur
  • carpool KA-S-UL-(A?)-Treuchtlingen - Mihai Moldovan

Sponsoring

Thinking of becoming a sponsor as well? Let us know! The more, the merrier! :-) Of course, all sponsors will be named on our sponsorship wiki page, unless they wish to remain anonymous.

List of Participants

Schedule

Friday 2017-09-22

  • arrival: 16:00h-20:00h 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)

Arrival Plan

When Where Who
Time slot Topic Speaker / Moderator Comment
16:00h-18:00h Check-In starts Stefan Quick introduction to house rules/Code of Conduct, distribution of room keys
xx:xx informal get-together COMPUTERS VERBOTEN, Smartphones frowned upon! (except for showing holiday or family pictures and the like) - You're supposed to get to know the people behind the code
xx:xx setup of equipment for the coming days takes place in the conference room
19:15 Dinner preparations
19:45 Dinner; have a drink and get to know the other participants' X2Go-related work, BoF meetings
20:30 Official Welcome Stefan
xx:xx- until bedtime coding session

Friday Coding Session

Topic Participants

Saturday 2017-09-23

time slot Topic Speaker / Moderator
09.00h-10.00h Breakfast
10.00h-10.10h today's agenda Stefan
10.10h-10.20h X2Go's State of the Union Address, code quality/lack of useful comments Stefan
10.20h-10.25h 5min break
10.25h-10.45h Last year's changes and improvements to X2Go's Windows client and VcXsrv fork Mike#2
10.45h-10.50h 5min break
10.50h-11.10h Last year's changes and improvements to X2Go's Mac OS X client Mihai
11.10h-11.15h 5min break
11.15h-11.35h Last year's changes and improvements to NX-libs Mike#1
11.35h-11.40h 5min break
11.40h-11.55h Presentation of Python Broker Demo Envrionment Stefan
11.55h-12:00h 5min break
12.00h-12.30h Open Coding
12.30h-13:30h 60min lunch break
13.30h-13.50h current state of plans for an “open remote desktop computing” foundation Heinz
13.50h-13.55h 5min break
13.55h-14.15h Brainstorming: Update Wiki List of sponsorable features, add dependencies, “price tags” Stefan, everyone
14.15h-14.20h 5min break
14.20h-15.00h X2Go on POWER - Demo and current state Stefan, Mihai
15.00h-15.10h 10min break
15.10h-18.20h Coding session
18.20h-18.30h 10min break
18.30h-19.00h Dinner preparation
19.00h-open end Dinner
sometime later Return to $LOCATION
xx.xxh-bedtime Coding Session

ToDo: We need a slot for Ulrich Sibiller, topic: Xinerama, esp. re: bugs #872 and #873

Saturday Coding Session

Topic Participants
skimming over X2Go-user and checking what needs to be turned into a bug ???
Background local apps triggering on foreground Remote app actions and vice versa in Pubapp mode #1075 ??? someone from Qindel Maybe Mike#1 ???
Windows Client improvements/bugfixes - esp. when session disconnects due to timeout, high CPU load and crash on close #1077 Mike#2, Mihai?
General Bugsquashing/Triaging everyone else
Bugs #738/#740, client-side printing/include PDF viewer with windows client Mike#2
Updating Session Shadowing documentation Any volunteers?
General Bugsquashing/Triaging everyone else

Sunday 2017-09-24

time slot Topic Speaker / Moderator
08.30h-09.00h Room Cleaning Rage, if required
09.00h-10.00h Breakfast
10.00h-10.10h today's agenda Stefan
10.10h-12.30h Open Coding Session / Bugsquashing Everyone
12.30h-13.30h 45-50min lunch break immediately followed by Conference Room Cleaning Rage important: start dishwasher ASAP Everyone
13.30h-14.00h Open Coding Session / Bugsquashing Everyone
14.00h-14.10h conference room inspection w/ $LOCATION staff
14.10h / End of Event

Sunday Coding Session

Topic Participants
skimming over X2Go-user and checking what needs to be turned into a bug ???
Background local apps triggering on foreground Remote app actions and vice versa in Pubapp mode #1075 ???
Windows Client improvements/bugfixes - esp. when session disconnects due to timeout, high CPU load and crash on close #1077 Mike#2, Mihai?
General Bugsquashing/Triaging everyone else
“ADSL” mode causes issues with HTML5/non-flash audio/video, also bug #1055 ???
Bugs #738/#740, client-side printing/include PDF viewer with windows client Mike#2
Updating Session Shadowing documentation Any volunteers?
General Bugsquashing/Triaging everyone else
Mac OS X Client improvements/bugfixes - esp. keyboard layout Mihai, Mike#2
various editors like emacs, atom crashing via X2Go (see x2go-user ML) - why? ???
General Bugsquashing/Triaging everyone else

Room Cleaning Rage

  • (for the other locations, this is TBD)
  • stowing of personal belongings in $SAFEPLACE

Leaving Treuchtlingen

  • departure is around 1400 hours/2:00pm local time for most of the participants - 1700 hours/5:00pm local time for those wanting to stay longer
Departure time Participant(s)

Travelling

Info for train travellers

Carpool

From Departure To Arrival

Adventure-Campus house rules

TBD

Cost Overview

TBD

Free Beer List

  • Mike#1 gets one free beer from Stefan for a useful hint regarding x2gocleansessions and the loglevel setting. In case Mike#1 needs to drive, the beer will be replaced by a non-alcoholic beverage of Mike#1's choice.
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