This is the replacement event for X2Go: The Gathering 2021, which had to be cancelled due to illness of several core members.

Location: 100% online

Date: 2022-11-28 to 2022-12-02

Event type: 5 days, but evening-only - starting around 18:00 CET, with one or two short talks/presentations (around 20-30 minutes each), followed by discussions, jointly working on open tasks, bugsquashing, “open coding”

Sponsorship: As this is a purely virtual event, we are not in need for event sponsors. However, X2Go could still use some more donations to cover hosting costs, so if you have a few $$$/€€€/£££ to spare, you can find our donation forms here:

• English-language donation form
• German-language donation form

What's that name all about? As our idea of running an annual hacktrain had to be cancelled permanently back in 2014, we chose the name “X2Go: The Gathering” for the new type of annual event we hosted since then. This year, the spread of the of the Corona virus around the globe and across Germany makes it impossible for us to gather safely, which is why we are meeting virtually instead, while being physically spread out across the real world. Also, for everyone actively taking part in the event, please be prepared to show your favorite breakfast spread while on camera. ;)

Note: A separate, virtual event called X2Go: The Spread 2022 will take place from 2022-12-12 to 2022-12-16 (i.e. roughly two weeks from 2021.5). Details for that event can be found here.

Join us here: Link will be published here shortly before 18:00 CET (Jitsi Meet, requires Chrome/Chromium/Brave, please do not use Firefox unless you really have no other choice)

Recordings Monday - Day 1

1. Try out/set up streaming and recording equipment (Stefan, Juri)
2. probably either work on X2Go-TCE/X2Go-TCE-Pi or discuss hosting options, depending on who actually shows up

1. Stefan/Ionic: Continue updating POWER Machine #2
2. Stefan: Perform Test Builds of X2Go-TCE for Bullseye
   1. Investigate possibly broken “cheat” for compression options (Did they change from Buster to Bullseye?)
3. Juri/Ionic: Get mellum (one of our Hetzner hosts) back into working order

• Migrate to Gitlab
• Work on / Release X2Go-TCE on Raspberry Pi
• OSUOSL POWER Systems upgrade (virtual hardware as well as software)
• X2Go Broker Demo Environment/LDAPS
• Fixing some IPv6 and Tor oddities in the client
• Finally review/merge pull requests
  • https://gitlab.x2go.org/x2go/x2goclient/-/commits/x2go_drop_maemo
  • https://gitlab.x2go.org/x2go/python-x2go/-/merge_requests/1
  • https://gitlab.x2go.org/x2go/x2goclient/-/commits/mxe

• buster and bullseye feature branches should be copied to code.x2go.org (ToDo Juri: Done)
• We should agree on a new branch structure for it, but this doesn't really make sense before we're on Gitlab

• needs to be discussed with h1, m#1, ionic and Juri present

• mellum (host for gitlab repo) seems to be down? Investigating the cause. (Juri, ionic) → Opened ticket with Hetzner
• mellum hardware was replaced by hetzner
• mellum in vkvm mode works
• minimized network konfiguration and reboot → doesn't work right now.

• clemens still has an OpenStack account, but hasn't really been active lately
• Juri would love to have access
• Maybe we could turn clemens' account into one for Juri?
• Updates/Upgrades:
  • Snapshots in Progress (Done)
  • Next: Update p8 box to p9 (Done)
  • Run Update/Upgrade
    • Update/Upgrade complete on debian-11-le-n-demobox, snapshot done as well
    • Update/Upgrade complete on debian-11-le-s-demobox, needs test (X2Go-NX) and snapshot

• scaleway.com 8c16g256SSD macOS 12 Monterey. €0.10/hour
• hetzner.com 8c16g256SSD €64,02 per month + €58,31 setup
• macincloud.com 4c4g50SSD macOS Ventura 13.x (Supports the latest Xcode 14.x) for €589.88 EUR + 8GB RAM - €94.28 EUR or 16GB - €188.68 EUR per year