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.

• Accommodation 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

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 accommodation, 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: 4 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

Note that we're planning to found a “eingetragener Verein”, a non-profit legal entity under German law, with the intent of distributing donation money among all interested F/LOSS Remote Desktop/Remote Application projects. If you're interested in participating, make sure you can be around on Friday, September 22. You need to bring a photo ID and some means of proving your residential address (e.g. a utility bill), if it is not listed on your ID.

• Spa
• Model Railroad
• Tour of Treuchtlingen City, medieval themed

• Check carpooling options for Treuchtlingen
• Check dinner/lunch options for Treuchtlingen
  • Option to bring own food?
  • Option to BBQ?
• Stefan needs to bring:
  • Two plungers (don't ask …)
  • Two or more keyboards with built-in card readers
  • At least one USB card reader
  • RPi 1 + RPi3
  • preferably TC hardware as well
• h1 needs to bring:
  • OpenPGP cards
  • USB media (alternative to cards)

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

As always, we are open to sponsorships, and three 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!

University of Washington

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 accommodation 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.

And finally, CFD.direct, the sponsors of our cloud-based macOS build servers, have also agreed to sponsor this event with an additional 500 EUR.

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.

The following participants have been confirmed and have beds reserved for them:

• Stefan 'Stefan#1' Baur (BAUR-ITCS)
• Mike 'Mike#2' DePaulo
• Mike 'Mike#1' Gabriel (DAS-NETZWERKTEAM) - Note: Vegan food preferred, Vegetarian food required
• Juri Grabowski (LiHAS)
• Mihai 'ionic' Moldovan (BAUR-ITCS)
• Ulrich Sibiller

The following participants have been confirmed, but have their own accommodation:

• Franz Lückl (niuco/Next IT Level) - Note: Needs onion-free food
• Oleksandr 'Alex' Shneyder (phoca)

We're also expecting:

• Heinz-M. 'h1.org' Graesing → own accommodation

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

Undecided:

• Kjetil Fleten (fleten.net) - still making up his mind
• Walid Mohgrabi (TRAVAUX) - still needs to check back with his boss if it counts as business trip
• Hans-Hermann Redenius (DLR.de/ve) - needs to have his sign-up eMail sent through DLR's procurement department

… 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
• Florian Wicke

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

• arrival: 14:00h-18:00h 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)

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
• Heinz-M. Graesing, Stefan, Mike#2 re: EnterpriseLibre “resurrection”
• Mike#2, … - open issues with X2GoClient that need Fixing/Brainstorming?
• Heinz, Forming a registered association/foundation for Open Source remote desktop/remote application projects → Must become a Friday Topic

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

• departure is around 1800 hours/6:00pm local time for most of the participants.

Treuchtlingen Station can be reached with local as well as long-distance trains. Heinz-M. Graesing will be able to pick you up from the station by car, if you arrive by 16:00 CEST or later.

Partially pre-filled, English-language connection info for a connection TO Treuchtlingen on Friday: Click here

Partially pre-filled, English-language connection info for a connection FROM Treuchtlingen on Sunday: Click here

Note: Ulm and Augsburg are optional stops. If no one wants to be picked up from there, we'll take a route further North, bypassing these two cities:

The latter route, with an optional stop in Ludwigsburg:

Note that all these times are subject to change depending on where we pick up the rental car, Karlsruhe or Stuttgart.

TBD

TBD

• 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.