European Mage Meet / Source Mage European Meeting / Source Mage Rendezvous I

Date

17. - 24. August. 2008

Public Talks

* Introduction to Source Mage GNU/Linux

• Mon Aug. 18th, 14.00 - 15.30, Lecture Room 1 (ground floor)

* More about Source Mage GNU/Linux + Live Demos and Mini Talks

• Tue Aug. 19th, 14.00 - 16.30, Lecture Room 1 (ground floor)

Workshops

• Mon Aug. 18th - Fri Aug. 22nd, 10.00 - 18.00, Room N102

Social Events

* Acquaintance Warmup Meeting

• Sun Aug. 17th, 21.00, Babel, Breitestr. 67 (the bar with the babel fish logo)

* Farewell Party

• Fri Aug. 22nd 20.00 Location: PW-House, R"omerstr. 185

Venue

Institute of Computer Science, Bonn, Germany.

View from above

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&q=r%C3%B6merstr.+164&sll=50.752102,7.095687&sspn=0.065381,0.162735&z=16

Address

• Institut f"ur Informatik / P"adagogische Fakult"at, R"omerstr. 164

Transport from the central station

Bus line 638, direction Kranenweg, exit P"adagogische Fakult"at

Travelling

Here will be some info on getting to the meeting.

Train

If need to cross many countries, the interrail global pass (ticket) may be the cheapest you can get. It also covers the S-Bahn (metro): http://www.interrailnet.com/interrail_global_pass_order?currency=eur

Attendees

Below is a list of attendees, if you like to come please add your name and location here. Please sort by location so we have a clean overview of the distribution of people around the globe. If you have any periods you are not available please put them in Notes, but keep it concise.

Talks

If you'd like to do a talk about something, please put up your name here and a small description of what you wish to present. We'd all like to hear more about sorcery internals, cool things we can do in spells, some more info on castfs, what you are doing with your SourceMage, anything else that's interesting or maybe you just want to show of your magic tricks.

It would especially be nice to have a couple of introductory talks for a wider audience, maybe IT students.

Topics for public Talks:

• General introduction to Sourcemage GNU/Linux

• General bash scripting introduction

• Sorcery and grimoire, technology and architecture

• other ideas...?

Thomas has opted to do the SMGL introduction, based on http://thomas.orgis.org/talks/sourcemage.pdf ... needs some extension still.

Mathieu proposes to do a flash presentation/howto on how one makes a simple spell in one's personal grimoire (without quill), to highlight the simplicity of the internals of a basic spell. It could be completed by a git commit of said spell.

Jaka would like to do a presentation of quill (unless everyone attending is familiar already), underused spell files (POST_*, PRE_*, REPAIR^*, ...), grimoire QA (workflow) presentation, (grimoire) QA hackathlon with the goal of reaching a total bug count under 1000 (now at 1100, some 60 are quickfix+), have a sorcery Q&A session ...

PGP/CAcert/Thawte session

If you want to take part in a PGP/CAcert/Thawte session to exchange and sign PGP keys or do/receive identity assertions for CAcert and/or Thawte X.509 SSL certificates please add your name here. Please indicate in the Interested column in which programs you are interested by their initial letter, and if you are a CAcert assurer and/or Thawte notary please specify how many points you can issue.

Unfortunately it looks like I (Remko van der Vossen) will not be able to attend, so unless there is someone else who wants to organise a session it looks like this won't be happening.

Organisation

• Event organiser: Robert Figura (takes care of the accomodations, help people with travel plans, general schedule, etc.)

• Talks organiser: Jaka Kranjc (takes care of a talks schedule, beamer, etc.)

• Infra organiser: open position (takes care of some network infra; a large switch, wireless access, maybe internet access.)

• Certi organiser: open position (takes care of the PGP/CAcert/Thawte session, compile a keychain, provide forms, etc.)

Now please note that this is an informal thing, while it is important that some things are taken care of, it doesn't have to be perfect and you won't be held accountable for the odd mishap or anything. It's more that people know who to turn to when something needs taking care of. Schedules don't have to be tight, take some leeway and allow for some runoff.

Also we do not necessarily need all of these organisers, the most important is the event organiser.

Bits and Pieces

If we have internet or he has good transportation, BP can provide his server, bringing quad-core goodness with 4G ram and countless VMs to the table. Ditto, but would much prefer internet to lugging my 2nd most expensive possession half-way across Europe. -- eekee

Hackathlon goals

• total bug count under 1000 (vs 1120 as of 19.4.08)

  • no more quickfix+ bugs (60)

  • no more cleanse --fix bugs (bug #13512 is a good start - 20)

  • free picks

• bug fixing competition (count, bug age)?

• review of all submitted spells (80) and patches (50)

  • application of the worthy