Plasma/Tokamak4
Tokamak 4 Oxygen 3 2010
The fourth Tokamak Plasma Meeting and the third Oxygen Gathering will take place in Nuremberg, Germany on February 19th to 26th.
Location
We will be hosted by Novell in the openSUSE offices in Nuremberg. The community space includes a large meeting room with AV infrastructure, a cafe-style area and a hacking bar. And of course you benefit from being only metres away from the KDE SVN server.
SUSE Linux Products GmbH
Maxfeldstr. 5
90409 Nuernberg
Germany
The tram stop is where it says 'Pirckheimer Straße':
Accomodation
Accommodation has been organised in the Berufsförderungswerk Nuernberg (Nuremberg Professional Training College) and the youth hostel in the historic Imperial Stables in Nuremberg's castle! Echoes of Nove Hrady...
Accommodation Friday + Saturday
(change to #2/depart on Sunday)
Kossebau Friedrich
Gladhorn Fredrik
Appelhans Lukas
Gräßlin Martin
Kügler Sebastian
Cavalcanti Adenilson
are staying in
Hotel Astoria
Weidenkellerstraße 4
D - 90443 Nürnberg
Tel. +49 (0) 911 - 208505
Fax +49 (0) 911 - 243670
Email: [email protected]
http://www.hotel-astoria-nuernberg.de
Everyone else is in
Berufsförderungswerk Nürnberg
gemeinnützige GmbH
Schleswiger Str. 101
90427 Nürnberg
phone +49 911 938-6
http://www.bfw-nuernberg.de
You can check in at any time, and there is free wifi in the reception area and most rooms.
Accommodation Sunday to Friday
Jugendherberge Nürnberg
Burg 2
90403 Nürnberg
phone +49 911 230936-12
http://www.jugendherberge.de/jh/bayern/nuernberg/
Map
Tokamak 4 Location Map shows where things are. Note that the accommodation for the first 2 nights (Friday and Saturday) is not the same as for the rest of the week.
Food, Drink, Shopping
Local services are marked on the map above. For anything specific, ask Will.
Travelling
Nuremberg is easily reachable by air or by train. The nearest airports for intercontinental flights are Frankfurt and Munich, and Nuremberg is served from other European hubs such as Paris Charles De Gaulle and Amsterdam. Nuremberg is only a few hours by train from most of the rest of central Europe.
You can reach the SUSE office in 6 minutes by tram from the rail station by taking the number 8 tram towards 'Thon' from the tram interchange in front of the railway station, follow the square 'Tram' signs. Alight at 'Maxfeldstr' as shown on the signs inside the tram and go to the SUSE office at Maxfeldstr. 5.
From the airport, a taxi will cost 10-14 EUR and takes about 10 minutes. Alternatively, take the U2 metro from outside Arrivals (any train), alight at 'Rennweg', leave the station by the south exit (in the direction of travel, go to the tram stop in the middle of the road on your right as you exit the metro, and get the number 8 tram towards 'Thon' as above.
Public Transport
Nuernberg has a pretty good general public transport information site that covers bus, tram, local trains and underground/metro with some info in English: Nuernberg public transport information. A single journey costs 2EUR, a 10er strip costs 9.20EUR. Buy tickets from multilingual touchscreen vending machines before you get on the bus/tram/underground, and single tickets are already validates. A 10er strip needs stamping, 2 units per single journey for an adult.
Airport -> BFW
You probably don't want to do this if you are tired after a long flight. Although it is short and easy you have to find the right stop for the 26 at the interchange at Thon. A taxi cab will be under 10EUR. About every half an hour until midnight:
Get the 32 bus towards Thon, get off at Thon (last stop). Then get the 26 bus towards Berufsförderungswerk (last stop). This drops you at the entrance to the BFW, take the side entrance to the Gaestehaus.
BFW -> Airport
Get the 26 bus towards Thon, get off at Thon (last stop). Then get the 32 bus towards Flughafen (the airport, the last stop).
BFW -> SUSE
Get the 26 bus towards Thon, get off at Thon (last stop). Then get the 9 tram towards Doku-Zentrum. Get off at Maxfeldstr. The SUSE building is the large blue building on the right.
BFW -> Rail station
Get the 26 bus towards Thon, get off at Thon (last stop). Then get the 9 tram towards Doku-Zentrum. Get off at Maxfeldstr. The SUSE building is the large blue building on the right.
SUSE (or Rail station) -> BFW
Get the 9 Tram towards Thon, get off at Thon (last stop). Then get the 26 bus towards Berufsförderungswerk (last stop). This drops you at the entrance to the BFW, take the side entrance to the Gaestehaus.
Airport -> Hotel Astoria
Get the U2 Underground (only one direction, Röthenbach). Get off at Opernhaus. Walk to Weidenkellerstr. 4 (see map above and hotel website).
Hotel Astoria -> Airport
Walk to Opernhaus underground, get the U2 Underground toward Flughafen (every 2nd train goes to the airport and have an aeroplane symbol on the destination board).
Astoria -> SUSE
Either print out the map and address, and walk through the city center (about 10 minutes), or get the U2 toward Flughafen or Ziegelstein, get off at Hauptbahnhof, follow the signs towards Tram at street level, get the 9 Tram towards Thon, get off at Maxfeldstr. The SUSE building is the large blue building on the right. (every 7 or 15 minutes until midnight, about 20 minutes)
SUSE -> Astoria
Get the 9 Tram towards Doku-Zentrum, change at Hauptbahnhof, get the U2 towards Röthenbach, get off at Opernhaus.
By Car
You have a navi, right? Or see the Novell directions. Address above, you can park in the basement garage, we'll get you a guest pass if you come to the office within opening hours, otherwise let Will know in advance.
Participants
Participants
| Name | Arrival | Depart | Cost | Sponsor? | Hotel? | Food | Work | Airport | Flights | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aaron Seigo | [email protected] | TBD | TBD | ~$1300? | yes | yes | vegetarian | Overall facilitation | In LH 924 14:15 / Out LH 921 07:00 | |
| Alexander Naumov | [email protected] | Local | Local | 0 | no | no | whatever | networkmanagement | n/a | |
| Marco Martin | [email protected] | 19 | 26 | 93€ | yes | yes | whatever | whatever coding and else, Plasma mobile | Nuremberg (NUE) | In ABB8403 19:20 / Out ABB8403 08:35 |
| Ivan Čukić | [email protected] | 19.2 | 26.2 | approx €250 | yes | yes | whatever | nepomuk activities merging, libfavorite... | Nuremberg (NUE) | In LH3405, LH938 12:05 / Out LH943, LH3402 12:45 |
| Artur de Souza | [email protected] | 20 | 26 | ~1000 euros | yes | yes | whatever | coding, mobile, bug fixing, etc... | ||
| Nuno Pinheiro | [email protected] | 19 | 24 | aprox 250€ | yes | yes | whatever | whatever artwork, mobile, planing, etc.... | ||
| Chani | [email protected] | 19 (20:16) | 26 (11:25) | ~$1300 | yes | yes | vegetarian | activity management / js / random bugs | In: train. Out: NUE | Out: Delta 9500 |
| Martin Gräßlin | [email protected] | 19. | 21. | 0 | no | yes | KWin on embedded devices | |||
| Lukas Appelhans | [email protected] | 19. - 18:24 | 21. - 17:33 | ~150€ | yes | yes | whatever | Quicklaunch-Applet, KGet-Applets, Shaman/Aqpm-Applets, Raptor? | ||
| Frank Karlitschek | [email protected] | 19 | 26 | 50EUR | yes | yes | whatever | Social Desktop | ||
| Dario Freddi | [email protected] | 19 | 22 | ~150€ | yes | yes | whatever | stuff that nobody wants to do, as usual | Nuremberg (NUE) | In ABB8403 19:20 / Out ABB8404 16:55 |
| Riccardo Iaconelli | [email protected] | 19 | 21 | TBD, I suppose ~150-200€ | yes | yes | whatever | plasmoids, art, ideas, fun :-) | ||
| Sebastian Kügler | [email protected] | 19th | 26th | ~100€ | yes | yes | whatever | Power- and networkmanagement, web integration, PIM stuff | ||
| Davide Bettio | [email protected] | TBD, probably 19th | TBD, I don't know | TBD, I suppose ~150-200€ | yes | yes | whatever | TBD | ||
| Will Stephenson | [email protected] | Local | Local | 0 | no | no | whatever | Keeping everyone else happy, networkmanagement | N/A | I can see the venue from my kitchen |
| Eugene Trounev | [email protected] | 19-11:15 | 26-11:50 | $1,126.97 CAD | yes | yes | no meat. fish, eggs, and milk are OK | various artowrk (like wallpapers), designs and more | Nuremberg(NUE) | In AC9268/Out AC9195 |
| Igor Trindade Oliveira | [email protected] | 18 | 26 | 900 euros | yes | yes | whatever | coding, animations, netbook etc... | Frankfurt | In JJ8070, arrival 14hs |
| Frederik Gladhorn | [email protected] | 19.2. | 26.2. | ~50 euros | yes | yes | whatever | opendesktop integration | ||
| Martin Zilz | [email protected] | 22.2. | 24.2. | ~150 euros | no | yes | whatever | arts, ux, freaky out of the box stuff | ||
| Luboš Luňák | [email protected] | 19 | 23 | ~100 euros | no | yes | whatever | KWin | ||
| Alexis Menard | [email protected] | 19 | 26 | Approved by Nokia -> 0 | no | yes | whatever | Plasma-Mobile and Qt | Nuremberg(NUE) | |
| Friedrich Kossebau | [email protected] | 19. - 16:28 (train) | 26. - 16:33 (train) | max. 100 EUR | yes | yes | whatever | Plasmoids (one of): Timeline, Khalkhi (Porting to KDE4), Network devices | ||
| Adenilson Cavalcanti | [email protected] | 18 | 26 | 900 euros | yes | yes | carnivorous | coding, animations, etc | Frankfurt | In JJ8070, arrival 14hs |
| Richard Moore | [email protected] | 19 | 24 | I'll pay for flight | accommodation only | yes | yes please | silky stuff, api review etc. | NUE | In LH4869, LH 0938. Out LH0939, LH4864 |
| Sandro Andrade | [email protected] | 20th 1825 | 27th 0955 | ~1000 euros | yes | yes | preferably vegetarian | plasmoids, data engines, and plasmate interest | Nuremberg (NUE) | In TP7784 / Out TP7795 |
| Kevin Ottens | [email protected] | 19 | 26 | ~200 euros | yes | yes | no seafood | mobile, api review, solid if times permit | Nuremberg (NUE) | In LH946 22:10 / Out LH929 14:45 |
| Harald Fernengel | [email protected] | 20 | 20 | 0 euros | yes | no | Qt on Maemo Q&A | Train | ||
| Mirko Vogt | mirko openwrt.org | 19 | 21 | 138 euros | yes | yes | yay! | OpenWrt | Train |
Special Needs
- Laptop/desktop for hacking with KDE trunk on it for: Lukas Appelhans
- Helpful for hacking on the 3 Intel devices (not vital, but would preed thing up especially the ethernet adaptor):
- usb hub (preferably powered)
- usb-to-ethernet adaptor (unreliable drivers for the internal wifi)
- extra storage/file transfer can be done with the ethernet adaptor of with microsd/thumbdrives
- usb keyboards and mice would ease things a bit too since it supports them
- For presentations a video camera would be nice, preferably with a remote microphone. (available in openSuse offices?). (It would be wonderful for those of us that cannot attend, so don't please don't forget us ;-) -sreich).
Topics
We will be focusing on the KDE SC 4.5 release of Plasma, with a particular attention on feature completion, polishing and quality improvements across the code base. Activities and Plasma Mobile will also be topics of interest.
Oxygen, finishing it up for 4.5 plans for the future.
Opening Day Presentations
- Plasma mobile: State of art (Alexis)
- Plasma netbook: State and road ahead - most important work still to be done (Marco Martin)
- Context: [Details later] (Chani and Ivan)
- Shaman - Bringing software management into the workspace and into 2010 [if time permits] (Dario and Lukas)
- Oxygen what it was, what it will be?
- Silk - Freeing the Web from the Browser
Development Topics
- ZUI replacement in plasma-desktop
- Plasma Mobile
- Plasma Netbook
- Plasma Media Center
- Plasmate
- Applet handles as plugins?
- Moving the toolboxes out of libplasma
- Plasma::Storage (data, passwords, ..?)
- Dataengines caching
- Plasma wallpaper scripting
- Focus and drag&drop issues
- Store/load containment layouts
- RTL
- use of configChanged() in widgets
- reusable widgets for groups of iconized items (like the entries in the taskbar)
- guidelines (with code support) for consistent looking rows of different widgets (e.g. like with bars on the top of the screen, as known from mobiles' UI or the Mac UI)
- Plasma OSD service
- GSoC
- application dashboards using View/Corona/Newspaper
- window types, focus styles
- screen edge management
- Containment, Wallpaper, Mouse Action scripting?
- welcome plasmoid, finally?
- website authentication
- continuing on with dejargonizing (inc kwin, with the use of "compositing" instead of "Desktop Efects", e.g.)
- javascript test coverage
Breakout Groups
Starting on day two we will split up into small groups to focus on specific topics and challenges. The breakout group tracks will start with short presentations designed to share important information about the topic of interest to get everybody up to speed. A schedule for each of the presentations will be posted closer to the start of Tokamak 4.
Some people will stay with a specific track for the duration of Tokamak 4, but everyone is welcome to drift between the different breakout groups to bring their needs and ideas to bear.
Plasma Mobile
- Topic
- Plasma shells on devices with small screens and designed for mobility. The focus use case will be touch screen driven smartphones.
- Duration
- All week
- Facilitator
- Marco/Kevin
- Presentations
- Moblin SDK, Marco, Day 2
- Maemo SDK, Alexis, Day 2
- Participants
- Marco
- Alexis
- Aaron
- Nuno Pinheiro
- Kevin
- Artur
- Aaron Seigo
- Eugene Trounev [it-s]
- Chani
- Sandro
- Dario
- Friedrich
Context and Activities
- Topic
- The behind-the-scenes orchestration of environment-wide Context as well as the UI presentation of them (and/or their activities?) to the user
- Duration
- Facilitator
- Presentations
- Participants
- Ivan Čukić
- Chani
- Marco (as much as the mobile one permits)
- Aaron Seigo
Oxygen
- Topic
- Desktop themes, widgets styles, window decorations, icons, coherent branding, sites, Plasma panels, how can we clean them?
- What is next? Helium? Fixing kde app's UI's one by one?
- Duration
- All week
- Facilitator
- Nuno Pinheiro (19-24)
- Presentations
- Participants
- Nuno Pinheiro
- Marco (as much as the mobile one permits)
- Aaron Seigo
- Eugene Trounev [it-s]
KWin
- Topic
- The present and future of the window manager component of the KDE Workspace.
- Duration
- All week
- Facilitator
- Presentations
- Areas In Which Plasma Desktop Should Get Out of the Way and KWin Should Step In, Aaron, Day ?
- Participants
- Nuno Pinheiro
- Marco
- Aaron Seigo
- Eugene Trounev [it-s]
Application Menus
- Topic
- Sharing Application Menu specific code, Nepomuk integration, new menu structure (TOM?)
- Duration
- Half-day
- Facilitator
- Lukas
- Presentations
- Participants
- Lukas
- Ivan Čukić
- Riccardo
- Dario
- Nuno Pinheiro
- Eugene Trounev [it-s]
- Friedrich
Network Management
- Topic
- Finishing the Network Management component in Plasma
- Goal
- Get very close to a first releasable version, make it ready for move into a released module
- Duration
- 4 days (?!?)
- Facilitator
- sebas
- Participants
- Will
- Kevin
- Aurelien (remote)
- Shantanu (remote)
- sebas
- Sandro
Socials
Saturday - thai buffet?
On Tuesday there will be a dinner sponsored by openSUSE at Herr Lenz restaurant
Thursday - End of Tokamak party at Downtown?
Open Tokamak
On Saturday we'll also plan the presentations, If there will be enough interests some talks could be redone/improvised for the public.
On Monday, we'll have an Open Evening at Tokamak. Visitors are welcome to join us that evening for presentations. See openSUSE News for details.