Arianne Project Meeting 2010

In order to celebrate the 5th birthday of Stendhal (and the 10 1/2 birthday of Arianne) we are going to have a meeting in real life.

It's for anyone who has contributed to Arianne and Stendhal, past and present. The activities will include a day of talks from key speakers from the project (past and present). Also there'll be some social events - dinner and a party.

When

13th and 14th of March, 2010

Where

Hannover, Germany

I'll be spreading the word on the forum, mail list, and so on - but if anyone is in touch with people from the project (past or present) who may not see the notices, do feel free to tell them. Of course, we'll need to know rough numbers to help plan, and so we'll be asking people to let us know if they will be attending (or might be attending). We will organise the meeting here on these wiki pages. But in order to protect your privacy we ask you to use this form to register and provide some contact data for us.

In case anyone is wondering why Germany and specifically Hannover was chosen - our developers (past and present) are spread wide across the world, though mostly centred around Europe, and Germany seemed to be a mid point. It's a place where one can get along fine without speaking the native language, English is ok, and there are developers local to there who can assist in organisation. Also Hannover is a central node on the high speed train network, so it should be very much accessible. For example if flights are cheaper to some other North German city, then flight + train may be a good option.

Please see below for ideas and plans, and if you'd like to chat about meetup generally, please feel free, as always to join #arianne on irc.freenode.net, or if you prefer, the forum.

Collecting of Ideas

• Planning type meetings? (e.g. on Administration, proposed features, how to promote the project, etc?)

Location

• city Hannover in northern Germany
• Maps: Google Maps / OpenStreetmap
• http://www.fhdw-hannover.de/en/node/34 (needs translation)

• from Hannover Central Station ("Hauptbahnhof")
  • walk out of the station building at the front side
  • then down the stairs
  • follow the road downstairs until the end (there is a supermarket there)
  • left hand side is the subway station "Kröpcke"
  • the right most stairs will get you down two levels to the yellow line plattform
  • take line 6 towards "Messe Ost".
  • the FHDW is located between the stops "Freundallee" and "Kerstingstraße". (that is the 1st and 2nd stop after the tram reaches daylight)
  • Picture of Front Building
  • There is a second building behind that (on the right side of that picture). I will tell you in time in which of those two building we will be.

• Public Transport Information in Hannover
  • Webpage
  • Unfortunately the English page is mostly German
  • the yellow box "Express Auskunft" is the interesting one
  • Ort (City) put in "Hannover" twice
  • Haltestelle (station name)
    • "von" (from) for example "Hauptbahnhof" (Central Station) or "Airport"
    • "nach" (destination): "Kerstingstraße"

Agenda

Daytime

• Have some talks during the day: See subpage Arianne Project Meeting 2010/Talks
• We can use a room at the FHDW, Hannover (the private University of Applied Science)
• We need to leave the building at 21:30 as the latest. There are timed movement sensors that will trigger the alarm afterwards. (but don't worry, we have something planned in the section "Night". And of course we can go to the party earlier, too)

Night

• Party!!!1
• There is a nice Greek restaurant next door to the FHDW.
• Alternatives: ...

Germany and Hannover

• Emergency phone number for police, emergency doctor, fire-fighters: 112
• Most people speak both German and basic English
• Currency: Euro
• Time Zone: UTC + 1 hour
• Note: If you arrive after 18:00 you should add a line on your hotel reservation about that.
• English - German
  • "central train station": "Hauptbahnhof"
  • "Airport": "Airport"

German

In Germany there is no problem with not speaking German. But if you did want to know some key words:

English	German
Hello	Hallo
Thanks	Danke
Sorry	Entschuldigung
I can't speak German	Ich kann nicht Deutsch (sprechen)
Please	Bitte
Yes / No	Ja / Nein
English please?	Englisch bitte?
(Can you speak) Spanish?	(Können Sie) Spanisch?
I am here to meet developers from an open source project which I work on. It's now 10 years old	Ich bin hier, um Entwickler zu treffen aus einem Open-Source-Projekt, das ich auf zusammenarbeiten. Es ist jetzt zehn Jahre alt.

Tip: When someone says 'Danke' or 'Dankeschön', it is nice and correct to say 'Bitte' or 'Bitteschön' in return. It means, roughly, 'you're welcome'.

TODO

• find a room with beamer for the talks during the day and if possible Internet access (done) (Hendrik is trying get one)
• Submit a patch for http://www.fhdw-hannover.de/en/node/34 translating that page into English.