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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
Breakfastincl.incl.
Lunch14,99 EUR14,99 EUR
Dinner14,99 EUR14,99 EUR
Total85,98 EUR98,98 EUR

Additional costs: We have been provided a cost-free meeting room by the City of Treuchtlingen; if we don't have enough cars available, we might need to call taxis for the transfer.

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.

For those of you signing up for accomodation, the following rules are part of the deal:

  1. If you become sick, then please stay at home. Let us know ASAP so we can cancel your reservation/reassign your room.
  2. If you've had recent contact with someone that has some contagious disease, and you are not 100% sure that you're immune - please, stay at home as well, and let us know ASAP so we can cancel your reservation/reassign your room.
  3. If you know that someone has a contagious disease, and you've signed up for our event, please do not seek physical contact with that person before the event. If you have anything that needs to be discussed because you need it for the event, use e-mail, phone calls, whatever, but don't visit each other, the reason being rule #2.
  4. Reservations cancelled less than 10 days before the event may mean we still have to charge you, if we cannot fill your spot with someone else. Of course, we will do our best to avoid this.
  5. If you have any dietary requirements (vegetarian, vegan, no pork, no alcohol, …), please let us know when you sign up so we can prepare everything in advance. Same goes for any food allergies or other medical conditions that we should know of.

Sign-Up Deadline: 2017-09-08

Cost-Free Cancellation Deadline: 2017-09-12

Please sign up ASAP if you intend to attend - we only have a limited amount of beds reserved in advance - first come, first serve. If we're exceeding that number, we run the risk of being unable to accommodate you. Currently available: 7 out of 10 single rooms, 1 out of 1 double room.

To register, or to submit a talk/workshop proposal, simply send an eMail to: X2Go-ML-1@baur-itcs.de

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
  • rebates, local sponsors, recreational activites - Heinz-M. Graesing
  • carpool KA-S-UL-(A?)-Treuchtlingen - Mihai Moldovan

Sponsoring

As always, we are open to sponsorships, and two have already found their way to us.

We have again 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 repeating this very generous offer for the second year in a row! Hetzner Online

Another donation (not a new donation, actually, as we still have some money left from their last year's donation) came from the University of Washington - part of their money will be used to cover travel expenses and accomodation of our US-based core developer Mike 'Mike#2' DePaulo, if he can make it, with the remainder of the donation being used for paid code (and hopefully, documentation) improvements of X2Go.

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

The following participants have been confirmed:

  • Stefan 'Stefan#1' Baur
  • Mike 'Mike#1' Gabriel
  • Juri Grabowski
  • Mihai 'ionic' Moldovan
  • Oleksandr 'Alex' Shneyder (daytime only)

We're also expecting:

  • Heinz-M. 'h1.org' Graesing
  • Ulrich Sibiller

… but are still waiting for their official sign-up eMail.

Undecided:

  • Mike 'Mike#2' DePaulo - needs sponsorship and needs to get time off of work approved
  • Kjetil Fleten - still making up his mind

… if you happen to know them, feel free to give them a friendly nudge in the right direction. ;-)

Who can't make it this year:

  • The Qindel/QVD team

Folks, we miss you and hope to see you again in the future!

Schedule

Friday 2017-09-22

  • arrival: 16:00h-20:00h local time (CEST - Central European Summer Time AKA daylight saving time)
  • option to have Dinner/order Pizza or start a BBQ/camp fire, if the location allows it
  • get-together in the conference 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 Forming a registered association/foundation for Open Source remote desktop/remote application projects 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 slots for

  • Ulrich Sibiller, topic: Xinerama, esp. re: bugs #872 and #873
  • Stefan Baur, Brainstorming re: Improving Reliability of X2Go Services (DNS/IP issues, server migration, outage management, …)
  • Stefan Baur, Brainstorming re: https://github.com/OSC/Open-OnDemand/ and X2Go integration (a request from one of our sponsors)
  • Stefan Baur, Heinz-M. Graesing, Mihai(?), Brainstorming re: future of X2Go Online Dev meetings; X2Go-Minigatherings in Ulm
  • Stefan Baur, Mike#1, Alex, Ulrich Sibiller, Mihai, Heinz, Brainstorming re: release schedule, merging newer NX releases into X2Go, required Documentation for testers
  • Stefan Baur, Heinz-M. Graesing, Mike#1, Mihai(?), Brainstorming re: HTTPS for *.x2go.org
  • Heinz-M. Graesing, Mike#1, Brainstorming re: Server Migration DNT→h1.org for *.x2go.org

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 X2Go-TCE and X2Go-Broker-Demo-preseeds to Stretch Any volunteers?
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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