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X2Go: The Gathering 2020 - AKA V/RUS, the Virtual/Remote User Symposium

Status: Date and Location (save for some last-minute Covid-19 related changes) confirmed.

Date: 2020-09-18 to 2020-09-20

Location: shackspace, Ulmer Straße 255, 70327 Stuttgart-Wangen, Germany (view on Google Maps)

Why not Linuxhotel: Due to Covid-19, we have limited the registration to participants from the DACH region. Carpooling for several hours in times of Covid-19 is a bad idea, plus it doesn't really make sense to ferry the team from southern Germany to Essen and back, when all participants are native to southern Germany and/or Austria/Switzerland.

While X2Go: The Gathering is a pretty small event with usually no more than 15 participants, it has had international visitors in the past, which brings a risk of spreading Covid-19 further. As the Covid-19 pandemic will bug us until spring 2021 at the very least, we kindly ask our international participants to stay at home and join us virtually instead. Thus, we will only allow registrations from Germany, Austria, Switzerland (DACH).

Reaching shackspace:

Current plan is to have a hybrid event:

  • Presentations online on Friday evening
  • “Hackathon”-like in-person meeting on Saturday, continuing into Sunday morning (roughly 4 people), with a live stream
  • ORCA annual meeting on Sunday afternoon (official invitation to follow), with most of the members attending via live stream

Sponsoring

Usually, this section would read “As always, we are open to sponsorships”, but Covid-19 changes that as well.

As this year's event is a hybrid event with minimal on-site participation, there is no need for event sponsorships.

However …

CFD.direct

CFD.direct, who also sponsor our cloud-based macOS build servers for 2020 - had already pledged to sponsor this event with 700 EUR (plus VAT), a 200 EUR increase over their usual X2Go event sponsorships in the previous years. Upon hearing about our change of plans, they decided to add another 300 EUR on top, so now we're at 1000 EUR (with no VAT incurring) - which we will now use to tackle the long-lasting clipboard issues in NX.

KLO Ingeniería Informática

KLO Ingeniería Informática had already made a 100 EUR donation a while ago, currently in escrow on the ORCA account, also aimed at fixing said NX clipboard issues, so we currently have a total of 1100 EUR at our disposal for this.

Friday Schedule

schedule/times are subject to change until this note is removed

Livestream can be found at: (Link TBA)

Time Slot Topic Speaker / Moderator
~18:00h Official Welcome Stefan
18:00h-18:05h today's agenda Stefan
18:05h-18:25h X2Go's State of the Union Address Stefan
18:25h-18:35h 10min break
18:35h-18:55h HTML5 Client for X2Go Mike#1
18:55h-19:00h 10min break
19:00h-19:20h libx2goclient/X2Go Plugin for Remmina Mihai / Mike#1
19:20h-19:30h 10min break
19:30h-19:50h Last year's changes and improvements to NX-libs Uli
19:30h-19:40h 10min break
19:40h-open end Open Coding/Bugsquashing - please remember to make sufficient “airing out” breaks

Saturday Schedule

schedule/times are subject to change until this note is removed

Livestream can be found at: (Link TBA)

Open Coding/Bugsquashing, exact times TBD; Stefan will be in charge of the “airing out” breaks

Sunday Schedule

Except for the ORCA meeting, schedule/times are subject to change until this note is removed

Livestream can be found at: (Link TBA)

Time Slot Topic Speaker / Moderator
08:00h-08:05h today's agenda Stefan
08:05h-09:50h Open Coding/Bugsquashing - please remember to make sufficient “airing out” breaks Stefan
09:50h-10:00h 10min break
10:00h-12:00h ORCA Annual Meeting, see below Stefan / Mike
12:00h-evening Open Coding/Bugsquashing - please remember to make sufficient “airing out” breaks / Lunch break around 13:00h Stefan
evening Cleaning Rage - tidy up the room - note that only one person should be in the room and windows need to be open when vacuum cleaner is being used Stefan
End of Event Official Goodbye Stefan

ORCA e.V. annual meeting

  • Date: 2020-09-20
  • Time 10:00 CEST
  • Location: Online/shackspace, Ulmer Straße 255, 70327 Stuttgart - Link to virtual meeting room will be posted HERE / Link zum virtuellen Konferenzraum wird HIER gepostet werden
  • This is the annual meeting (“Jahreshauptversammlung”) of ORCA e.V.
  • ORCA
    • stands for Open Remote Computing Association
    • has been founded at X2Go: The Gathering 2017
    • includes members of several open remote computing projects, like Arctica and FreeRDP, not only X2Go
  • We are required to have these meetings about once a year.
  • As X2Go: The Gathering is an event where the majority of ORCA members tends to take part in, it makes sense to hold the required annual meeting as part of the X2Go: The Gathering event.
  • The meeting is likely to take place on Sunday. Current orca e.V. members will be invited to this event by individual e-mail.
  • The language of this event item is German.

This event item has its own sub-agenda:

  1. Eröffnung
    1. Begrüßung
    2. Feststellung der Beschlussfähigkeit
    3. Festlegung des Schriftführers - (Anm.: muss kein Vereinsmitglied sein)
  2. Bericht der Vorstände
  3. Entlastung des Vorstandes (Anm.: gesamt; im Verweigerungsfall einzeln)
  4. Bericht des Kassenwarts
  5. Entlastung des Kassenwarts
  6. Abstimmung über Höhe und Fälligkeit der Mitgliedsgebühren (Anm.: Stefan/Juri prüfen, ob bisheriger Betrag ausreichend sein sollte; spätester Einzahlungstermin wieder 31.10.; Mahnung 30.11.; Ausschluss 31.12.)
  7. Anträge
  8. Sonstiges
  9. Ende

Core Team Members Availability Chart

            Sept 2020     Oct 2020
          Fr|18|25|      | 2| 9|
          Sa|19|26|      | 3|10|
          Su|20|27|      | 4|11|
Alex:       |  |  |      |  |  |
h1:         |N |V*|      |N |N |
Juri:       |  |N?|      |  |  |
Mike#1:     |  |  |      |  |  |
Mike#2:     |  |N |      |  |  |
Mihai:      |  |  |      |  |  | (currently no hard N's)
Stefan:     |  |  |      |  |  |
Uli:        |  |  |      |N |  |
Most likely  ^^ ^^

 * V = only via videochat

Note: October weekends should be avoided if possible; multiple issues (public holiday on first weekend, LinuxDay.AT on second weekend, general time constraints) with these.

Note for Stefan: Make sure shackspace has sufficient paper towels and disinfectant; also face masks if budget allows.

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