This is the replacement event for X2Go: The Gathering 2023, which could not take place due to the Covid-19 pandemic and scheduling conflicts.

Location: 100% online

Date: 2023-12-10 for the orca e.V. meeting, expect 2023-12-11 to 2023-12-15 for the actual “The Spread” event

Event type: orca e.V. meeting on Sunday, followed by 5 evenings (starting probably around 20:00 CET, though we're open for suggestions to start earlier) with one or two short talks/presentations/demos per day, around 20-30 minutes each, followed by discussions, jointly working on open tasks, bug-squashing, “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, so if you have a few $$$/€€€/£££ to spare, you can find our donation forms here:

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

Watch this space for updates.

This is where the link to the Jitsi meeting room and the live stream(s) will be posted.

We're still using Jitsi, like in the previous years, but this time, with a “WorkAdventure” 2D virtual world wrapped around it.

If you've never used WorkAdventure, please try to log in a little early, so you can customize your avatar, check your Audio and Video settings, etc.

11:00 CET: annual orca e.V. meeting (see below)

20:00 CET: X2Go's “State of the Union” Talk (Stefan)

Afterwards:

1. “Open Coding” (i.e. bug-squashing, maybe getting a minor release out)
2. Updating our Gitlab instance/host system (Mihai/Mike/Juri)
3. Old Bugtracker “cleanup” (Stefan)

20:00 CET: KDrive Release (Mihai)

20:10 CET: Q&A

20:20 CET: (most likely) What's new in NX-libs? (Uli)

20:30 CET: Q&A

Afterwards:

1. “Open Coding” (i.e. bug-squashing, maybe getting a minor release out)
2. Old Bugtracker “cleanup” (De-Spamming) (Juri, Mihai)

20:00 CET: Meta-Presentation: How to use X2GoClient/Xinerama and a dual-screen setup for live presentations with LibreOffice in presenter mode

Afterwards:

1. “Open Coding” (i.e. bug-squashing, maybe getting a minor release out)
2. Migrating the Git Repo to Gitlab (Mike, Mihai, Juri)

20:00 CET: (most likely) Talk/Demo: Booting X2Go-TCE-Live with iPXE in EFI and legacy mode (Stefan)

Afterwards:

1. “Open Coding” (i.e. bug-squashing, maybe getting a minor release out)
2. Last cleanup in old bugtracker (Stefan, Juri)
3. Migrating the Bugtracker to Gitlab (Mike, Juri)

20:00 CET: Talk/Discussion: 18 months of using Betterplace as a donation platform - and what we could do to improve things further (Stefan, Mike)

??:?? CET: Official Goodbye

Unsorted list of topics/ideas (not final, open to suggestions)

1. KDrive Bug Triaging/Bug Squashing
2. KDrive support for various distributions/platforms
3. X2Go-TCE with KDrive support/Bookworm on various platforms
4. HowTo-Videos in English?
   1. PubApps
   2. Jump Host
   3. RDP Proxy
   4. …
6. TBD

• Date: 2023-12-10
• Time 11:00 CET/MEZ (10:00 UTC)
• Location: Online (Links will be posted below on the day of the event, probably 30 minutes before it starts)
• We'll try to stream this event and/or make a recording available afterwards.
• 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/X2Go: The Spread 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/X2Go: The Spread event.
• Current orca e.V. members have been invited to this event by individual e-mail.
• The language of this event item is German.

This event item has its own sub-agenda:

Hier wird der Link zum Meetingraum veröffentlicht werden (ca. 30 Minuten vor Beginn).

Vorläufige Agenda - Ergänzungen/Änderungen können bis zur und auch während der Versammlung per Antrag erfolgen!

Als Tagesordnung ist vorgesehen:

1. Eröffnung
   1. Begrüßung
   2. Feststellung der Beschlussfähigkeit
   3. Festlegung des Schriftführers für diese Versammlung (muss kein Vereinsmitglied sein)
2. Bericht der Vorstände
3. Entlastung des Vorstandes (gesamt; im Verweigerungsfall einzeln)
4. Bericht des Kassenwarts
5. Entlastung des Kassenwarts
6. Abstimmung über Höhe und Fälligkeit der Mitgliedsgebühren. Hinweise dazu:
   1. Es ist mittlerweile möglich, per Lastschrift zu bezahlen. Entsprechende Formulare wurden den Mitgliedern in der Vergangenheit bereits übermittelt.
   2. Der jährliche Reminder, dass Mitgliedsgebühren aufgrund der Anerkennung der Gemeinnützigkeit unseres Vereins in Deutschland steuerlich absetzbar sind.
7. Anträge: Aktuell liegen keine Anträge vor.
8. Neuwahl des Vorstandes:
   1. Kandidatenvorstellung:
   2. (wenn gewünscht) Fragerunde
   3. Wahl
9. Neuwahl des Kassenwarts:
   1. Kandidatenvorstellung
   2. (wenn gewünscht) Fragerunde
   3. Wahl
10. (Neu)wahl des Schriftführers (bislang vakant):
    1. Kandidatenvorstellung
    2. (wenn gewünscht) Fragerunde
    3. Wahl
11. Sonstiges
12. Ende